A | B |
Indian Country | wherever the Indian spirit, pride, and community reside |
Assimilation | a smaller culture takes in some of the values, beliefs, or behaviors of another one fully or partially |
Mestizo | someone who is of a mix of European (Spanish) and Native descent. |
Statistical Genocide | where the government is using blood identification to slowly eliminate all of them |
Ethnic Fraud | where people claim ethnicities that aren’t theirs, causing harm to the people who are of that ethnicity |
Relocation | program that sent Natives into big cities to learn a trade or find jobs. |
New Indian Movement | to unite all indigenous people and uplift the communities. |
Blood Quantom | where one’s Native identity is proven with the amount of Native descent (blood) one has |
Bridge Theory | Native Americans populated the Western Hemisphere solely by crossing a land bridge from Siberia |
Urban Indians | proportion of the Native American population residing in large cities and away from the reservation |
Hunter Gatherers | People rely on vegetation and game |
Pastoral | Societies whose lives are based on the pasturing of animals |
Horticultural | Societies in which people plant gardens for subsistence |
Agricultural Revolution | The Second Social Revolution which was ushered in by invention of the plow |
Industrial Socieities | Rely on machines powered by fuels |
Theocracy | form of government in which a deity is officially recognized as the civil Ruler |