Nasx 205 1st EditionExam # 1 Study Guide Lectures: 1 - 12Native American Review - 1492-1820 Colonial Period Direct dealing between natives and non-natives (governmental level)- 1820-1850 Removal Period Balance of power shifted Native removed from east Ethically cleansing the land Indian Removal Act- 1850-1887 Reservation Period Federal move of Indians to reservationso 1885- Major Crimes Act Minor crimes on reservation are under tribal jurisdiction and 7 major crimes would be under the federal government jurisdiction o 1871- USA stopped making treaties with Indians (Canada still makes treaties)- 1887-1934 Allotment Period/ Dawes Act Shrinkage of reservation, Quasi-private ownership of reservations Creation of census role (enrollment of the tribe) This still dictates identity o 1890 Wounded knee- US Calvary kills 300 Indians o 1924- Indian Citizenship act o 1928- Meriam report reports the problems Indians are experiencing - 1934-1968 Termination and Relocation Period No-Longer exist as a tribe; done by congress Special grants provided if an Indian relocatedo 1934 Reorganization act stops allotment, Indians have opportunity to reorganizeo 1942 Felix Cohen handbook for federal Indian law o 1950’s- Dillon Myer Relocation of Indians Removal of tribes Legal issues went to state No longer federally recognized tribes Public Law 280- Caused state to come into Indian country- Both tribe and state shared civil and criminal matters- 1968- Present Self Determination Period o 1968- Richard Nixon announced to congress that the wrong doing would stopo Indian Civil rights act 1968 Limits power of tribal government Rights and protection against tribe government Tribes don’t have to separate court and state Don’t have to appoint attorney o 1970 Self determination Change services to Indian tribes Tribes over look serviced being provided o 1971 Alaskan native claim act Gave land to tribes 231 federally recognized tribes o 1978- Suquamish tribe V. Oliphant Changed the jurisdiction Indian V Indian- tribe Indian V Non-Indian- federal and Tribe Non-Indian V Non-Indian- Federal and stateo 1988 regulatory act States limited, state can regulate gaming o 2010 Tribal Law and Order Act- Oliphant fixo 2013 Violence Against Women act-Oliphant fix Other notes:- Idle no more movemento Canada basedo Protect lando Based on 1666 treaty - Highway of tears o Canadian highway, murdered native women- Two spirited - Always remember all tribes are different, when we discuss Native Americans we are generalizingFilmIdeas and Stereotypes- The Nobel savageo Child of nature, primitive, seen as a thinker Ex. Iron eye of Cody - The blood thirsty savageo Evil, cruel Ex. Last of the Mohicans - The vanquisher o Seen as a conquered group of people Trail of tears, end of the trail, E.S. Curtis- The vanishing Indian o A group of people that are disappearing Artists- George Catlin- Karl Bodmer Photo and Filmmakers- D.W. Griffith- E.S. Curtis- Robert Flaherty Anthropologist - Alfred Kroeber Ishi (the last of his kind) Inventor and Author- James Fenimore Coopero The leather stocking taleso Tells tales of the new world Most famous is the last of the Mohicans - Henry Wordsworth Lonfellowo The song of Hiawatha Shows the ‘Good Indian’ - Helpful to the whites- Counsels peace and forgiveness- Introduces agriculture to natives- All of the bad stereotypes vanish at the end - Thomas Edison o Presented the ‘Indian’ as spectacle through the “kinetoscope” ( 1894)- Buffalo Bill Codyo Presented the Indian as a spectacle in dime novels traveling shows and movies - D.W. Griffitho Filmmaker - Thomas Ince o Filmmaker - Cecil B. DeMilleo First native filmmaker to be in Hollywood Characters - In Theater o Pocahontaso Metacomet(King Phillip) o Hiawatha- In books/ dime novel and magazineso Mauao Buffalo BillGenres- The Indian storyo “Pre-western” Indians Indian- Indian relationships Plains tribes are the only one seen o Films Hiawathao Filmmaker James Young Deer D.W. Griffith - The western o Cowboys and Indian (guns and arrows) o Stagecoacheso Heroic white guyo Bloodthirsty Indiano Helpless women, being put in danger by Indiano Themes “we brought Indians civilization”- The anti-western o Same as traditional western o Change in themes to “we are just as blood thirsty and savage as Indians were”- The liberal westerno Also known as “Vietnam Western”o Themes “Indians should bring civilization to us” - The Post western o Black and whiteo Bleak landscapeso Industrialization/corruption/ killing - Documentary/ Ethnographic o Pre- contact environmento Native stuffo Shows the real Indians - Native- made filmso Destabilizing stereotypeso Indians start to tell their own story
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