Visibility & Erasure
This term describes being overlooked or treated as if a group does not exist.
What is invisibility or erasure?
This author wrote *There There*.
Who is Tommy Orange?
MMIP stands for this.
What is Missing and Murdered Indigenous People?
Blue was adopted and raised by people of this racial background.
Who are white people?
Dressing up as a culture you do not align with is called what?
What is Cultural Appropriation?
Native people may be highly visible in stereotypes but invisible in...
What is in modern media?
Native people have often been shown in movies and through these oversimplified ideas.
What are stereotypes?
This can affect how authorities respond to reports involving missing Indigenous people.
What is racial bias?
Blue says she needed one of these to connect with her Native identity.
What is an Indian name?
Instead of believing stereotypes in movies, you should learn about Native culture from these reliable sources.
What are Native authors, tribal websites, and Indigenous educators?
Orange connects the public display of Native bodies to this larger history of harm and domination.
What is colonial violence?
This type of story is passed down through generations and connects Native people to their culture.
What is a traditional story?
When Native victims receive less attention or are not taken seriously, this larger problem is reinforced.
What is the erasure of Indigenous people?
Blue's experiences show that a person can feel disconnected from their identity while still being judged based on this.
What is their racial appearance or how others perceive them?
This means judging someone unfairly based on assumptions about their race or culture.
What is racial bias?
This contrast describes how Blue feels white because of her upbringing but is treated as brown by others.
What is the difference between personal identity and racial perception?
In the novel, Orange shows that Native people have often been misunderstood because other people tell their stories. This is an example of whose voices being left out.
What are Native voices?
Like Orange's Prologue, 'Voices Unheard' challenges the audience to reconsider this.
How Native people are represented and whose voices are heard?
This Oakland community gives Blue a sense of recognition and belonging.
What is the Indian Center?
In Kelly Terbasket's ted talk this means having biases without realizing you have them.
What is unconscious bias?
The novel challenges the idea that Native identity depends entirely on returning to this place.
What is ancestral land?
Both There There and the “Voices Unheard” video encourage people to do this instead of judging Native people based on stereotypes.
What is listening to Native people and learning their stories?
Both the novel and the video challenge audiences to do this rather than accept stereotypes or ignore missing people.
What is listen to Indigenous voices and recognize their experiences?
The older woman who helps Blue at the end of the chapter demonstrates this theme through a small act of protection.
What is compassion
The main lesson of Kelly Terbasket’s talk is that people should recognize their biases and do this to better understand Indigenous people.
What is challenge their assumptions and learn about Indigenous cultures?