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Indians Flashcards

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Wahpekute

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Wahpe “leaves”
Kute “shooters”

Hunt trees south of Mde Wakan
1st to split

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Wahpetonwan

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Came among leafy trees
Next to move from original group and move south

More Village oriented than Wahpekute

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Sisitonwan

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Villages strewn with fish/fish eaters

Moved further west to MN River

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Ihanktonwan and Ihanktonwana

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Placed to end of camp circle

Moved into eastern South Dakota
aka Western Dakotas

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Titonwan

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From Tihte “plains and prairies”

Subdivided seven bands (Lakota)

Traveled furthest west from homeland in central MN to prairies in the Dakotas

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Dakota first contact with Europeans (when & where?)

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1600’s

French explorers and traders entered Dakota land in Duluth MN

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Fur Trade

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Lasted 200 years

Dakota traded wth French, British, and Americans

Euro Americans got furs and Indians got manufactured goods (glass & metal)

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Cultural change

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Dakota culture changes after 200 years of trade

Wildlife decreased and Indians became more dependent on manufactured goods and farmed food

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Treaties

Why does the US government want Indian land?

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Late 1850’s Dakotas gave up original homeland except narrow strip along MN River

(Lost 98%)

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1862 US-Dakota War

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Wildlife gone, crops failed, treaty money late
>Dakotas are starving

Attacked MN settlers & US military in MN to remove whites and take back their land

result: Dakotas lost war

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Exile After War

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Dakotas fled MN and went to Canada or far west

Some went to South Dakota

Dozens imprisoned in Iowa

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Hanging in Mankato

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Ordered by Lincoln

Mankato “blue earth”

If participated in war were hung

Occurred December 26th (day after Christmas)

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Dakotas today

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4 communities in MN (7 square miles total)

Granite falls, Morton, Shakopee, and Prairie Island

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American Indian view of nature

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Foundational belief:
Humans are NOT essentially different

Humans have no special place

Perfect environmentalists/ecological saints

Indians use all of natural world

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Euro-American science view of nature

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Foundation belief:
Humans are essentially different in science

Inert (doesn’t move) and non conscious

Instinct determines animals actions

Animals: lower, summer form of consciousness

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Euro-American mechanical view

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Humans are DIFFERENT than the rest of non human world

We are not mechanisms; things

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Euro American Religious view of nature

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Humans image of God

Non-humans: created for humans

NO VALUE (for itself)

Wilderness is demonic

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Euro-American moral view of nature

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Only humans have moral standing

Non humans are property

Humans are not property

Animals are property, we can buy/sell/kill them

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Mdewakantowan

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Sacred lake
“Village or composite”
Original Dakota

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Environmental Ethics

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Plants and animals are part of the same ecosystem and are dependent on each other

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Sioux

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Anishinaabe

French called them Ojibwa then later known as Chippewa

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Iroquois

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Pushed Sioux (anishinaabes) west

Called them nadowe-large dangerous snake

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Nadowaig

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Smaller dangerous snake

Group encountered further west

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Dakotas

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“Allies/friends”

Originally from Mde Wakan
Sacred lake “Mille lacs” central mn

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Euro American moral view of nature

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Only humans have moral standing

Non humans are property

Humans are not property

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Panpsychism/ Nagi Oyasin

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All spirit/ personality

Everything in nature had spirit and consciousness

Includes animals and ALL natural objects (rocks, water, wind)

EVERYTHING MATTERS

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Analogy

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You cannot experience others consciousness

Similarities between you and non humans behavior, anatomy, physiology

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Visions

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Dreams provide special access to reality

You are not unconscious when you are sleeping

Isn’t it a different form of consciousness?

Direct experience of reality “spirit world”

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Lucid dreaming

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Control over dreams to make things happen

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Faith

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Trust

You trust what is told to you on scripture is true

31
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Mitakuye Oyasin

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All my relatives

We all have the same origin, not just human beings but everything is the same

“WE are all relatives”

Humans have no priority
You are just as important as your sister, etc

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Kinship terms

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Grandmother, sister, etc

Moral significance: behaviors and feelings toward that person

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Affective

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Emotions and attitudes are emotionally loaded

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Oyate/Community

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Social relationships

“Society is equivalent to community” (Oyate)

Community includes natural world

Moral rules and principles regulate interactions

Morality organizes society so we live together in groups

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Communitarianism

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Focus community as the fundamental group

1st well being is the MOST important

2nd individual well being is secondary lower standard of living to help others

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Iyopeya /Reciprocity

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Trade

Mutual/beneficial exchange

When you receive a benefit, you give a benefit back

Regards to EE when you take from the natural world you give something back

Obvious duty for Indians means to be civilized DECENT human being

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Righteous hunter

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Worthy, gratitude

Morally good: prayer, respect
No mutilation or scattering bones

Hunter needs food
No trophy hunting
Must approach hunting in morally appropriate way

Not random if hunter fails, failure is a moral failure, hunter or family has not demonstrated respect against nature.

Hunter isn’t worthy, animal GIVES themselves to hunter

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Makoce na Wicasa

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Land and identity (person)

Who are you? =where you are?

What defines your identity as a person?

“Sense of place” vitally important

Particular locations mean a lot to you

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Identity crisis

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Land is important to who you are

Who are you if you are no longer a part of that landscape anymore?

40
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Wakan Tanka

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Great sacred/ holy/ divine/ mystery

41
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Nagi

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Spirit; soul

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