Indigeneity 1
This is a percentage of genetics that gives Indigenous people the right to land and small payments from the federal government.
What is blood quantum?
A statement that recognizes the Indigenous people were the original inhabitants of a specific area and honors their relationship with the land
What is a Land Acknowledgement?
The assimilation, enslavement, and forced labor of Indigenous peoples all along the CA coast.
What is the CA Mission System?
These are specific portions of land that the US government allocated to tribes
What are reservations?
According to Indigenous peoples we are all _____ on this earth.
What are Guests?
This Native American tribe alongside environmental groups, succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention center built on their ancestral lands
Who are the Miccosukee?
These are formal agreements between 2 or more states or nations
What are treaties?
This was the Second Wave of colonization of Indigenous people in CA.
What was the CA Gold Rush?
During the 1830's, an estimated 100,000 Native Americans were forced off of their ancestral lands and forced to move west, which resulted in approximately 15,000 Native Americans losing their lives.
What is the "Trail of Tears"?
Indigenous people see themselves as this______ rather than owners of the land.
What are stewards of the land?
MMIWG stands for
Who are Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls?
This is a system of oppression based on genocide and colonialism, that aims to displace a population of a nation, specifically indigenous people, and replace it with a new settler population.
What is Settler Colonialism?
This historical event is known as the mass murder of indigenous women and children during the CA Gold Rush, the area is now known as Clear Lake.
What is Bloody Island?
Addiction and domestic violence are examples of ____________ ________ that has been passed down to the families that survived the Native American Boarding Schools.
What is Generational Trauma?
This is known as the Indigenous relationship to the land where both the person and the environment take care of each other.
What is a symbiotic connection?
This is a movement that supports the idea that Indigenous groups should be granted rights to open land to help return the land to its natural state, free from pollution and destruction.
What is the Land Back Movement?
A state or government's supreme authority- The ability to make and enforce its own laws.
What is Sovereignty?
This body of water, known to the indigenous groups as ____ ________, was twice the size of Lake Tahoe and is facing drainage for monied interests though it is replenishing the environment and wildlife.
What is Pa' Ashi?
A practice where a government forces a minority or indigenous group to give up their cultural identity, language, and customs to fit into the dominant group
What is forced assimilation?
These people are known as veterans, tribal and community leaders, memory keepers, holders, and messengers of Indigenous Tribes' traditional values, and are living examples of courage, perseverance, and modesty
Who are Elders?
This was a Native American Movement that fought to have the US government honor its treaty obligations with native nations.
What was the American Indian Movement?
The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
What is Genocide?
***Daily Double***
These 3 Indigenous groups are native to Stockton.
Who are the Miwok, Yokuts, and Confederated Villages of Lisjan (Ohlone)?
The primary objective of these schools was to "civilize" or assimilate Native American children and youth into Anglo-American (white) culture.
What are Native American Boarding Schools?
Lake Tahoe, Moklumne, or Yosemite are known as
What are "Place Names"?
After thousands of unmarked graves of Indigenous children were discovered at Native American Boarding Schools in 2024, the idea of __________ was considered for reconciliation for all the harm done at these schools.
What are Reparations?