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 |
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 |
Ethnocide | elimination of an ethnic group |
Wounded Knee | possibly seen as the "last battle of the Indian Wars" |
petroglyph | rock art etched into "desert varnish" on stone walls and cliffs |
pictograph | rock art painted on to stone walls and cliffs |
Pueblo Bonito | Beautiful Town -- D-shaped townsite in Chaco Canyon |
Sun Dagger | solar and lunar calendar atop Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon |
Wintercount | Lakota pictorial history |
Deganawidah | Huron "profit" who brought the Great Law of Peace to the Iroquois |
Sachem | Iroquois council leader; selected to run for the office by female elders |
Great White Pine | Iroquois symbol; center piece for wampum belt |