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| term used as a convenient way to gloss over the diversity of cultures, languages, religions, kinship systems, and political organizations that existed |
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| This common term tells us more about the Europeans who explored North America than it does about the nativ people. The label reflects the initial explorers' confusion in believing that they had arrived in "the Indies" of the Asian continent. |
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a view of the global economic system as divided between nations that control wealth and those that provide natural resources and labor |
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| created in 1824 to coordinate the government's relations with the tribes |
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| religion that included dances and songs proclaiming the return of the buffalo and the resurrection of dead ancestors in a land free of Non-Indian people |
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Movements, such as the Ghost Dance that prophecy a cataclysm in the immediate future, to be followed by collective salvation |
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The treatment of subordinate peoples as colonial subjects by those in power. |
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| Intertribal social movements in which several tribes, joined by political goals but not by kinship, unite in a common identity |
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| Tribes’ protests over government interference with their traditional rights to fish as they like |
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| The National Congress of American Indians |
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| founded in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, was the first national organization representing Native Americans |
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| founded in 1968/ radical pan-Indian group |
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| Alaskan Federation of Natives |
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| major native Alaskan group, organized in 1967, moved quickly to stop "the biggest land grab in the history of the U.S." |
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| Native American gatherings of dancing, singing, music playing, and visiting, accompanied by competitions |
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Native American school dropouts who leave behind an unproductive academic environment |
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| An effect that appears as previously high-scoring Native American children score as below average in intelligence when tests are given in English rather than their native languages |
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| hallucinogen used by Native americans for religious or spiritual purposes |
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| efforts to ensure that hazardous substances are controlled so that all communities receive protection regardless of race or socioeconomic circumstances |
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