Indigenois Flashcards

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Indigenous

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More positive way to say those existing in a land first

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2
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Metis

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Indigenous but from the french

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3
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Inuit

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Artic indigenous

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4
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Worldview

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Ecological and wholistic

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5
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(W)holistic

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Interconnected

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6
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Oral tradition

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Inheritance of beliefs and traditions through mouth

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7
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Elder

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Not old experienced leaders

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8
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Colonization

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Process of settling and establishing control

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9
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Assimilate

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To absorb one culture to another culture by force

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10
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3 sisters

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Balance and sacrifice connected

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11
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Residential schools

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Used to assimilate, funded by government operated by catholic church

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12
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Truth and reconciliation

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Fix it bud

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13
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Sacred

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Respected and divine

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14
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The great spirit

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Unites everything

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15
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Mother earth

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Teaches us how to interact with the environment

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16
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Trister

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Not creator but plays roles of shaping good and evil in creation

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Circle

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Represents everything on earth in connected

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Drum

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Heartbeat of mother earth

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Hoop dance

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Storytelling

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Medicine wheel

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4 interconnected worlds

21
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Smudging

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Holy act, smoked is brushed over body for purification

22
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Tabacoo

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Offering to give thanks

23
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Sage

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Prepares one for ceremonies and takes away negativity

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Ceder

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Healing and restoration

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Sweetgrass
Hair of mother earth
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Sacred pipe ceremony
Involves all four elements and unity
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Sweatlodge
Restore harmony pike a mothers womb
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7gft
Humility, bravery, honesty, wisdom, truth, respect, love
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Vision quest
Comes to an elder from the creator
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Powwow
A dance of renewal with huge crowds
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Harvest feast
Celebrates harvest from the fields
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Potlach
Redistributed wealth give away gifts
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Sundance
Annual and dance for 4 days renews everything
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7 fires
World is for the future
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Intergenerational trauma
Trauma passed down from hardships and effects the next generation