A | B |
Border Conflict | problems resulting from European encroachment and dislocation |
Columbian Quincentennial | celebrated in 1992 |
Doctrine of Discovery | any place you find can be claimed due to "God-given rights" |
Genocide | elimination of a group, especially with violence |
Hawaiian bayonet constitution | resulted when missionaries forced King Kalkaua to relinquish power |
Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946 | required NAs to file claims on disputed lands |
Termination policy | elimination of reservations and redistribution of NAs to urban areas |
Spanish California mission system | designed to convert NAs to Catholocism and use tribes to further economic aims |
Sovereignty | holding power over a group or place |
Fr. Junipero Serra | priest who administered abusive mission system |
Religious Freedom Act | passed in 1978 so that ceremonies could be openly practiced |
American Indian Movement | protest group advocating restoration of sovereignty and cultural heritage |
Anti-Indianism | traditional prejudice based on racism and enforced colonialism |
Courts of Indian Offenses | prosecuted NAs for religious practice and other offenses deemed non-Christian |
Ethnocide | elimination of an ethnic group |
Eugenics | promoted compulsory sterilization of those seen as genetically inferior |
Indian Health Services | bureaucratic health care delivery to enrolled tribal members |
mascots | Braves; Seminoles; Redskins; Chiefs |
Squaw | pejorative term for NA woman |
Stereotype | overgeneralization about a whole group based on isolated, often erroneous, information |
Prejudice | attitudes and beliefs that promote social distance |
Red Savage | sterotype of wild, violent Indian warrior |
Sterilization | surgical cancellation of ability to reproduce |
Wounded Knee | possibly seen as the "last battle of the Indian Wars" |
discrimination | unequal treatment of groups and individuals based on membership in the group |
ethnocentrism | using one's own group as a standard against which to measure others |