How Indigenenity is Defined, Understood, and Presented

Question 1

White Messiah Formula:

Answer 1

The plot in stories where the Native people in question need a white individual to eapf or them and lead their crusade against their oppressors

Question 2

Salvage Anthropology:

Answer 2

the attempt to learn as much as possible about native cultures and customs before they “disappear”

Question 3

Ethnographic Taxidermy:

Answer 3

Native communities that are “frozen” in place by the anthropologists for the purposes of reconstructing their culture to an idealized pre-contact society

Question 4

Pan-indianism:

Answer 4

a generalized grouping of all Native American peoples under oen central image and description regardless of their differences, origins, etc…

Question 5

What were complaints that Indigenous groups had towards anthropologists

Answer 5

They focused too much on the ritual and mythical elements of their culture and not the mundane