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English Exam 1
Exam 1
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English
Undergraduate 3
01/21/2011

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Term

 

 

1772

Definition

 

 

Sermon release

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1824

Definition

 

 

Bureau of Indian affairs established in the WAR dept

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1830

Definition

 

 

Indian removal act

Term

 

 

1887

Definition

 

 

 

General allotment Act or DAWES act-

 

provided for the division of tribally held lands into individually-owned parcels and opening "surplus" lands to settlement by non-Indians and development by railroads.

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1924

Definition

 

 

Indians gain citizenship

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1928

Definition

 

Meriam Report-

a narrative and statistical criticism of the ineffectiveness of the Dawes Act as well as conditions on reservations and in boarding schools

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1934

Definition

 

 

John Joseph Mathews Sundown


-semi autobiographical Chal no longer feels at home when he returns to his tribal community. The novel portrays Chal's feelings of alienation and hopelessness as his life takes a downward turn.

Term

 

 

1950

Definition

 

 

 

Relocation probal begins

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1953

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Termination policy resolution passed in congress

 

subject to state and federal taxes as well as laws, from which they had previously been exempt. (indians better as citizens)

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1968

 

3 answers

Definition

 

 

1. House made of dawn

2. American Indian movement es

3. Indian civil rights act

 

60= hippi consciousness--> civil rights

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1978

Definition

 

 

 

religious freedom act

Term

 

 

 

1985

Definition

 

 

Wilma Mankiller- First women chief of cherokee

Term

 

 

 

1988

Definition

 

 

 

Indian gaming regulation- provided money for indian schools and communities

Term

 

 

 

1992

Definition

 

 

 

First "returning the Gift" gathering in

Norman OK

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2004

Definition

 

 

US vs Lara

- rec tribes legal power over non-indian on their territory

Term




2010

Definition




Cobell Settlement- 1.5 billion to individuals for mismanagement of royalties also funds for dept of interior to purchase fractionaded land

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Louise Owens

work

influence

 

Definition

owen sings with wolves; which have sharp vision for hunting for bones  @ night around the dark river

 

1. wolfsong

2. the sharpest sight

3. the bone game

4. Nightland

5. Dark RIver

 

choctaw _cherokee influence

Term

 

 

Gerald Vizenor

3 works

Definition

1. Woodarrows: indian and whites in the new fur trade

2. darkness in st. Louis bearheart

3. ***The last lecture on the edge- Anishinaabe

 

Chippewa

 

V in Vizenor has several edges- last lecture

 

Term

 

 

Simon Ortiz

2

influence

 

Definition
  1. howbah indians
  2. fightin

O in Ortiz = hOwbah, simon cal lights to "fight"

 

pueblo influenced

 

Term

 

 

Louise Erdrich

3 + 4 others

influence

 

Definition
  1. Love medicine
  2. the beet queen
  3. tracks
  4. ***Last Report on Miracles at Little No Horse

Chippewa reservation, lots of contemp ref

 

Rich in Erdrich--> rich people likes horses (in title), and they

Term

 

 

Paula Gunn Allen

1 work

influen theme

Definition
  1. the woman who owned the shadows

Pueblo

 

paula gun, guns are used for outlaws who live in the shadows (women)

 

Term

 

 

 

Linda Hogan

3 works

 

Definition
  1. mean spirit
  2. ***solarstorms
  3. power

Chikasaw

 

Hogan- strong women who causes a solar stom out of anger

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Sherman Alexie

4 works

Definition
  1. ***the lone ranger and tonto fist fight in heaven
  2. smoke signals movie

Spokane

 

very anti romantic dark

alexie- from NSCS, looks like she always gets into first fights, espically with heaven (lack morals)= depressing

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Thomas king

5 works

influence

Definition
  1. Medicine river
  2. green grass
  3. running water
  4. truth and bright water
  5. one good story, that one

canadian first nation inspired

chinese king (yellow emperor)= medicine ricer, ideas of herbs and green grass with running waterfalls, speaks of truth and light, great story

Term

 

 

Diane Glancy

 

 

Definition
  1. Aunt Parnetta's Electric blisters

Cherokee

 

Term

 

 

 

Momaday

Definition

House Made of Dawn

 

Cherokee

 

mom a day--> fixes house @ dawn

Term

 

 

 

Leslie Marmon Silko

Definition

 

 

Ceremony

 

pueblo

 

silk is work @ Ceremonies as sacred right

Term

 

 

widely read american indian author of 20th century

 

Definition

 

 

 

#37 Will Rogers

Mr. rogers- 20th century watched childs television show

 

Term

 

 

"american indian" author's responsibilities from the responsibilities of a "white" author?

Definition

 

 
#38 It American Indian authors have the responsibility of representing their nation/tribe/reservation especially when they allow that info to be published in their bios.  The readers & publishers expect the American Indian authors to write only about their personal experiences in regards to their tribe and nothing else.  The white authors dont have that sense of responisbility because they have always been able to write about whatever they wanted to.
(mediator b/w culture and tradition, representor, advocator)


Term

 

 

2 non-ficture prose writing that have been published by american indian writers since 1472?

Definition

1. journalism

2. essays

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