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| American Indian Religious Freedom Act | Created and enacted in 1978 - preserves the traditional rights and practices of Native American religions |
| American Indian Movement | Founded by Dennis Banks; militant civil rights organization; organized Wounded Knee occupation |
| Anti-Indianism | prejudice and discrimination against Native Americans |
| Eugenics | set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population |
| Ethnocide | deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group |
| Indian Sports Mascots | condemned for "degrading activity [and stereotypical portrayal] conducted by non-Indians of Indian culture!" |
| Institutional Discrimination | unjust and discriminatory mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals through unequal selection or bias, often unintentional |
| Prejudice | Categorical, irrational like or dislike; applied to all members of a group |
| Discrimination | Acting out prejudice |
| NAGPRA | Addresses the rights of descendants and/or tribes to repatriation of cultural items, including human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, etc. |
| Kennewick Man | 9000 year old skeletal remains of a Paleoamerican man found on a bank of the Columbia River in 1996 |
| Leonard Peltier | Controversial activist serving two life sentences for murder of FBI agents |
| Pocahontas Perplex | Defining Native American women along one of two paths—the princess savior or the Squaw whore |
| Stereotype | oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or group |
| Sterilization | surgery to make a person unable to produce offspring; relates to eugenics movement |
| Noble Redman Stereotype | myth of viewing Indians as stoic wise men or as imbecilic with inability to converse in anything more than grunts and monosyllables |
| Red Savage Stereotype | myth of viewing Indians as ruthless murderers |
| Wounded Knee 1973 | AIM-led standoff between civil rights activists and federal officials at battlefield on Pine Ridge reservation |
| Squaw | pejorative term for women based on the "Algonquin word meaning vagina" |
| Courts of Indian Offenses | Designed to to prosecute Indians who participate in traditional ceremonies such as the Sun Dance. The U.S. seeks to replace these ancient spiritual practices with Christianity. |
| Doctrine of Discovery | Cabot (Europeans) was/were authorized to take possession of the land;" notwithstanding the occupancy of the natives" who were heathens |
| historic trauma | refers to the cumulative emotional harm of an individual or generation caused by a traumatic experience or event. |
| cultural genocide | According to Pratt, Indians should "renounce their tribal way of life, convert to Christianity, abandon their reservations, and seek education and employment " |
| assimilation | taking on the traits of the dominant culture to such a degree that the assimilating group becomes socially indistinguishable from other members of the society. |
