Coastal Native Americans
Natives and white settlers
Conflict and wars
Plateau Native Americans
Mix of everything
100
What side of Washington State did the coastal Native Americans live?
West side of the state
100
What is a treaty
Written agreement between two states / sovereign countries
100
What were the native American boarding schools like?
Schools meant to take children natives and teach them the ways of being white.
Overcrowded, strict, forceful, unsafe
100
What side of the state did plateau native Americans live?
The eastern side
100
What is a totem Pole ?
Tall pole decorated with figures of animals and other religious symbols
200
What is a tribe ?
group of Native Americans who speak a common language, share similar cultural practices, and who recognize one another as belong to the same people.
200
What was it called so that natives could govern themselves?
tribal sovereignty - the right to the native Americans to govern themselves
200
What was the first group of people to ignore the laws of not trespassing into the reservations?
Gold miners who were trying to find gold
200
What is a native American band?
Part of a tribe that operated and lived in a specific region in the tribes territory
200
Why did white settlers want natives to move to reservations
Settlers wanted the land for themselfs.
300
What is a Shaman and what does this person do?
Tribes spiritual leader, worked as tribes doctor and religious leader
300
Why was moving to a reservation and having to stay there especially dumb and difficult for plateau tribes?
They were nomadic people who moved where the food was
300
Why did chief Joseph surrender to the US troops ?
They were out numbered, they were freezing, they were hungry, many natives had already died
300
What were the homes that most plateau would live in during most of the year?
Tepees
300
How did the chief get chosen in the Coastal tribes?
born into the position
400
What's a potlatch
Big celebration put on by the chief with the whole village, many gifts were given out
400
Because reservations have their own tribal laws what are the only laws we have that apply to the reservation as well?
Federal Laws
400
What did the Indian Homestead Act do for native Americans?
Meant to give land to individual native Americans.
400
How did the decisions of the tribe get made?
The tribes councils would work together to come up with the decision
400
What did the Dawes act do for native Americans?
Divided land into induvial portions so that each native American could have their own land area. Natives did not like this because it was against their traditions to own the land.
500
List the four social classes that coastal tribes had in order from most important to least.
1.Cheif
2.Nobels
3. Commoners
4.Slaves
500
What was the name of the treaties' that forced Native Americans to relocate to reservations ?
The Stevens treaties
500
What was the native American name for Chief Joseph
HINT* his name meant thunder traveling
Hinmaton Yalatkit
500
What device did plateau Native Americans use to haul their belonging on horse back or the backs of dogs
A tavois
500
What types of homes did the plateau Native Americans live in during the winter?
Pit homes