of what is now referred to as the United States Native Peoples of what is now referred to as the United States
Terminology Always preferable to refer to a Native person by their tribal affiliation Native American- an indigenous person of the Americas American Indian Native (person/peoples) Indigenous (person/peoples) Aboriginal (person/peoples) Indian (person/peoples)
Terminology Continued Indian Territory/Country Reservation
They’ve all vanished though, right? No. There are more than 550 Federally recognized Native nations throughout the United States, and dozens more which are without federal recognition There are approximately 250 diverse indigenous languages spoken today
California Ramona band, Paiute-Shoshone, Cahuilla band of Mission Indians, La Jolla band of Luiseno Mission Indians, Morongo, Karuk, Hoopa Valley Tribe, Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, Pit River Tribe, Ohlone
California Ordeals The Spanish Mission system, inaugurated by Father Junipero Serra in 1769, and lasting until 1834 when Mexico won independence. This mission system saw the forced incarceration, religious indoctrination and enslavement of California Indians and effectively decimated the indigenous population 300,000 before contact to less than 16,000 by 1900. UC Berkeley continues to occupy sacred Ohlone land and deny the repatriation of ancestral remains
Language Map
Language Continued Muskogean: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek-Seminole Algonquian: Blackfoot, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Narragansett Athabaskan: Eyak, Navajo Siouan: Lakota, Dakota
Geographical/Cultural Regions I.e., California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Plateau, Southwest, Southeast California: Ohlone, Chumash, Pomo Great Basin: Paiute, Shoshone Great Plains: Crow, Comanche, Sioux, Chippewa, Omaha, Ponca Southeast: Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole Southwest: Hopi, Dine Northeast: Iroquois, Ho-Chunk
Largest Nations
Internal Diversity Mississippi Choctaws; 10,000 members Farmers; corn, beans, squash, fruit, deer, fish, bear, nuts Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; forcibly relocated to “Indian Territory” during Trail of Tears in 1830s Jena Band of Choctaws, in Louisiana Resisted removal along with Mississippi Choctaws 241 enrollees Dying reeds, basketmaking
Historical Issues Trail of Tears Trail of Broken Treaties AIM Dawes Roll Sioux Act