Midterm

Question 1

kennewick man

Answer 1

Scientists wanted to run tests on a skeleton exhibiting caucasion (european features)
Indians wanted the bones returned for burial
Courts ruled that scientists had the right to perform the examination and run tests so long as it was done respectfully
The man ended up being mostly native american and the scientists had to pay reparations to the tribes that wanted him buried

Question 2

northwest ordinance of 1787

Answer 2

served as a means for the US to acquire native lands
policy provided a path to US statehood
stated that Indian nations be observed but really provided the path for the loss of native land

Question 3

Indian trade and intercourse act of 1790

Answer 3

extended the British rule of
preemption to the United States
illegal for Native tribes to
sell land to anyone other than the United
States government,

Question 4

Administrative Colonialism

Answer 4

Colonizers interested acquiring
a geographical space as a way to access land for crops, goods
for trade, and geography from which to exert regional contro

Question 5

Extractive Colonialism

Answer 5

Colonizers interested in specific
resources or raw materials and cooperate with, push away, or
conquer Indigenous peoples as a means of accessing those
resource

Question 6

Settler Colonialism

Answer 6

Colonial strategy by which foreigners
move into a specific region, claim territory, and reproduce
with the goal of erasing and replacing prior inhabitants
“everywhere except in nostalgia”

Question 7

cherokee self determination

Answer 7

the creation of a written syllabary
the adoption of a tribal constitution
modeled on the US constitution
Cherokee newspapers
desired self determination and true sovereignty

Question 8

indian removal act of 1830

Answer 8

deport native peoples west of the Mississippi in the south
north used land cession treaties from violence

Question 9

Louisiana purchase

Answer 9

1803
doubled the size of the US
purchased the right of preemption
US was to honor existing treaties

Question 10

Declaration of the proclamation line of 1763

Answer 10

Established the right of preeumption for the British government
shows the power of the native nations (too expensive for British government to be engaged in conflict with them)

Question 11

the marshal trilogy

Answer 11

Native people did
not actually own land, but merely occupied it, and that as a “conquering nation,”
the US retained ultimate authority
Tribes are not foreign nations, but “domestic dependent
nations,”

Question 12

seasonal round

Answer 12

native groups moved between semi permanent settlements depending upon plants and animals

Question 13

Chaco canyon and double ditch village implications

Answer 13

city complexes up to hundreds of thousands of people
sedentary agriculture allowed for civil advancement
natives were not savages
lots of organized people

Question 14

violence captivity and kinship

Answer 14

violence was a part of life in native north america just as it was in Europe
slave raiding were used as kindship bonding exercises and other forms of violence were part of the culture
should be considered different not primitive for their violence

Question 15

emergence of tribes and confederacies

Answer 15

formed social and political structures generations before first contact
caused by climate violence and disease

Question 16

comancheria

Answer 16

Comanche dominated area of the south west

Question 17

king Philips war

Answer 17

The breakdown of peaceful relations between english and indians
English were forcing indians to pertain to their laws
Led to the death of 30% of the english and 60% of the indigenous populations of Massachusetts
Used as evidence as to show the natives as savages deserving of being conquered

Question 18

pontiacs rebellion

Answer 18

natives pissed about being treated like a conquered nation after the 7 years war