Native American Identity
In the reading "The Big Game," what tribes were the two basketball teams from?
What is Lakota and Navajo Nation
What act moved Native Americans from reservations to urban cities across America?
What is Indian Relocation Act of 1956.
The "Chicagoland" Indian Relocation Act poster is advertising for _________?
What is jobs.
What are the names of the main characters in the film?
What is Daisy, Gracie, and Daisy?
Who was the main developer of Native American Boarding schools?
Who is Henry Richard Pratt.
In the reading "The Big Game," what physical characteristics did the teams to determine the player's tribal identities?
What is facial hair and skin color.
Name two major U.S. cities where Native Americans relocated under the Indian Relocation Act of 1956.
What are: Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Cleveland, Seattle, and San Francisco,
Name two tribes that the "Chicagoland" posters was advertising too?
What are: Souix, Menominee, Navajo, Chippewa, Sac & Fox, Zuni, Cherokee, Apache, Onieda, Omaha, etc.
Why is the rabbit-proof fence important?
What is: it is the longest fence in the world.
How many boarding schools were there across America?
What is 523.
In the reading "The Big Game," what did the two teams use to prove their tribal identities?
What is tribal enrollement card and display of Indigenous language skills?
What types of assistance were Native Americans offered to move to urban cities?
What are: Transportation for relocation and household goods, food per diem, Funds for tools, equipment, and work clothing, Grants for household goods and furniture, Tuition for vocational night school training and Funds to help purchase a home.
On the "suburbs" poster, what is the name of the river mentioned near the Elgin suburb?
What is Fox River.
Who was the Chief Protector of Aborigines?
What is Mr. Neville
Compare before and after boarding schools using a T chart.
Before: long hair, regalia, native jewelry, spoke language, knew cultural teachings, living on the land.
After: short hair, no native regalia, uniforms, perfect posture, lost language, living in boarding schools, assimilated.
The concept that was created by the U.S. government to define Native American identity or membership.
What is blood quantum?
What type of hardships did Native Americans face when relocating to urban areas?
What are: Racism, discrimination, bad living conditions, joblessness, substance abuse, violence, jail, homesickness, loss of language, loss of culture, loss of prayer or sacred places.
List three jobs the that "Chicagoland" poster is advertising for.
What is: Grinder, baker, machine operator, packer, stock man, car loader, dockman, general factory worker, assembler, welder, etc.
Why are Aboriginal children being removed from their homes?
What is They were being trained to be domestic servants and farm laborers.
What was the main goal of Native American Boarding Schools?
To Assimilate Native Americans into American culture.
Draw one of the symbols used in the annotation chart?
In the reading "Downtown Oklahoma City, 1952" what stereotype did the author reference when the girl forgot her shoes?
What is "dirty indians."
Draw the diagram of the "small towns" near Chicago shown in the Indian Relocation Act suburb posters.
What is: show your drawing.
What was the main point of the film Rabbit Proof Fence?
What is: to show the struggles faced by Aboriginals and that the girls successfully escape from the settlement.
What are three main impacts of boarding schools?
Loss of language/culture, substance abuse, depression, domestic violence, abuse, broken family structure, death, poverty, lateral violence, trouble parenting, and suicide.