test 1 Flashcards
first peples/Paleo-Indians
20,000-11,600 years ago, Bering land bridge, 1st, large game. Folsom site
Clovis first
not first people, 13,000 years ago
archaic
6000 bc, desert culture, small game and plants. Galt site, dependant upon knowledge of food
Farming
4,000-1,000 bc, maize domesticated, mississipians-squash, maize and beans, social/govt order
Algig
FIRST WAVE Central, south of here, from siberia
Nadene
SECOND WAVE Northwest Canada, Alaska, Northern Cali, Arizona, and New Mexico
Eskimo Aliute
THIRD WAVE Alaska to Greenland
cultural area
a geographical area who’s people show greater similarities to each-other than with the people in other areas
Arctic culture area
aleut, Eskimo; caribou, copper, mackenzie, netselic, pacific. ESKIMO and ALIUT
Subarctic culture area
Beaver, Chipewyan, dogrib, eastern cree, han, hare, ingalic, naskapi. NADENE and ALGIC in the west
treaty
1778-1871
BIA
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1824
the Dawes act
1887, designed to break up native land and sell surplus to euro-american settlers
the Indian Reorginization Act
1934, reversed the Dawes act and encouraged tribes to form governments
Indian Claims Commission Act
1946, settle outstanding claims from indians as a way of ridding the federal responsibility
Indian gaming act
1988 launched indian casinos
carlisle indian school
1879 boarding school created for acculturating children rapidly
indian self determination act
gave indians self govenment and transferred many functions of the BIA to individual tribes
peace policy
1871-1885 made staying on the reservations mandatory and native were not allowed to leave
religious freedom act
1978
native american graves protection act
1990
chipewea
western woods Cree, algig, sub arctic, men rule
mistassini
east Cree, algig, share resources, division of labor
netsilik
arctic Eskimo, northwest of Hudson bay, matrilineal, eldest male is leader,
