| 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" |
| Battle of or Massacre at Wounded Knee | December 29, 1890 |