People
Terminalogy
Terminalogy
What are the correct terms for the Inhabitants of what is now called the United States?
what is Native American and/or American Indians?
This European concept justified colonization by claiming non-Christian lands were “empty” and available for conquest.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
Indigenous spirituality often emphasizes this kind of relationship between humans, nature, and all living things.
What is Interconnectedness?
This law gives federal courts jurisdiction over major crimes committed by Native people on tribal land.
What is the Major Crimes Act?
The crisis refers to the epidemic of violence and disappearances of Native women and girls.
What is the Missing and Murder Indigenous Women?
A term to describe all Native peoples of the world.
What is Indigenous?
The belief that U.S. expansion across North America was both inevitable and divinely sanctioned.
What is Manifest Destiny?
In many Indigenous cultures, women are seen as sacred because they carry this power.
What is the power to give life?
This 1978 case ruled that tribal courts do not have criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians.
What is Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe?
This federal law requires the Department of Justice to review, revise, and develop law enforcement protocols for missing and murdered Indigenous people.
What is Savanna's Act?
Term for any other race or ethnicity (singular)
What is non-Native?
This 1831 Supreme Court case declared that Native Nations were “domestic dependent nations.
What is the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
Many Indigenous people say healing from MMIW requires addressing this pain passed through generations.
What is Generational or Historical Trauma?
This act affirms tribal control over child welfare and placement of Native children.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)?
This phrase, often seen on posters and art, emphasizes that Indigenous women deserve justice and safety.
What is 'No More Stolen Sisters'?
The term for Canadian Native Populations.
What is First Nations?
The process of taking Native lands and forcing assimilation through policy and education.
What is Colonization?
Colonization and forced Christianity often suppressed these gender roles by enforcing this type of system.
What is the binary gender system (male/female hierarchy)?
The 1953 law transferred criminal jurisdiction in Native territories to certain states.
What is Public Law 280?
Indigenous women are how many times more likely to be murdered than White women in the United States?
What is 10 times more likely?
The preferred way to address an Indigenous group.
What is using their specific community names?
This policy era began in the 1970s and emphasized self-determination and tribal sovereignty.
What is the Self-Determination Era?
Many Indigenous Nations connect the red color of MMIW to women’s blood, sacrifice, and the powerful concept of life.
What is renewal or creation?
The Supreme Court said federal courts had no jurisdiction over crimes between Natives on tribal land
What is Ex Crow Parte?
This Secretary of the Interior, and the first Native Woman in a presidential cabinet, has prioritized MMIW initiatives.
Who is Deb Haaland?