Native American Nation
The Agua Caliente is a band of ____________ Indians.
Who are the Cahuilla?
A formal statement that recognizes and respects Indigenous Peoples as traditional stewards of land and the enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories.
What is a land acknowledgement?
The Agua Caliente lived throughout this desert valley, also famous for music festivals.
What is the Coachella Valley?
The Cahuilla people shared a common ancestry and territory in three geographical zones, Mountain, Pass and _ _ _ _ _ _.
What is desert?
True or False - The early treaties between settlers and Native Americans were positive and beneficial to both sides.
This tribe, prominent in the early Southeastern US before being forcibly removed to the Oklahoman "Indian Territories" in what became known as the Trail of Tears, is now the largest Native Nation in the US!
Who are the Cherokee?
A binding agreement between nations which in the US have the force of federal legislation, forming part of what the Constitution calls ''the supreme Law of the Land".
What is a Treaty?
These songs of the Cahuilla, often accompanied by dancing, help keep their traditional stories alive.
What are bird songs?
This Lakota warrior, whose name refers to working with spirited horses, lead his band to victory of Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn also known as Custer’s Last Stand and the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
Who is Crazy Horse?
Treaties were made to address the issues created by colonization and advancing settlements. The American government harshly referred to this situation at the _____________ problem.
What is the Indian problem?
We learned about preservation of the Native Spirit through The Sundance Way and efforts of tribal historian, Joe Medicine, and this Montana tribes revitalization of their customs and heritage.
Who are the Crow?
Area of land reserved for Native nations under treaty or agreement with the US
What is a reservation?
The Agua Caliente Reservation boundaries are in a checkerboard pattern. A large section of land was set aside for this transportation.
What are the railroads?
This mineral, found in CA and surrounding states, caused a frenzy of interest in the west coast and complications for the Cahuilla.
What is gold?
This description of treaties references what they were written on and describes the quality of the interactions and outcomes of the treaties.
This Confederacy was one of the most powerful and influential Native American alliances in North America and included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and later the Tuscarora
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
What is assimilation?
The Agua Caliente are known for making a variety of these useful items that are also beautiful!
What are baskets?
This group was the first Europeans that the Cahuilla encountered in their native lands.
Who are the Spanish?
The early Europeans and the Onondagan Nation, the Haudenosaunee, signed this treaty which is symbolized by a belt.
What is the Two Row Wampum treaty – Gaswéñdah - Treaty?
Fill in the blank - IAA land acknowledgement Idyllwild Arts respectfully acknowledges the __________ ____________ (also known as Cahuilla Band of Indians) and all nine sovereign Bands of Cahuilla people who have stewarded this land throughout the generations and continue to steward this land for all future generations.
What is Qawishpa Cahuillangnah?
This is essentially the power of self-government. Native American nations have it over their reservations.
What is sovereignty?
How many acres of land were finally included in the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation?
How many Native American Nations are recognized in the US today?
What is 574
This treaty was made between the United States and the Cahuilla.
What is the Treaty of Temecula?