Chapter 33 RQ 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 termination | the withdrawal of the recognition of tribes, and the working to assimilate individual Indians |
| National Congress of American Indians | organization that condemned termination, called for review of federal policies and returned to self determination |
| Declaration of Indian Purpose | manifesto stressing Indian's right to choose their own way of life |
| Custer Died for Your Sins | a book made by Deloria stressing Indian's right to choose their own way of life |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | a book made by Brown Indian's right to choose their own way of life |
| Deloria | author of Custer Died for Your Sins |
| Brown | author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
| National Indian Youth Council | promoted the idea of nationalism and intertribal unity, formed after the Chicago conference |
| American Indian Movement | led by Dennis Banks and Russell Means; purpose was to obtain equal rights for Native Americans; protested at the site of the Wounded Knee massacre |
| Indian Civil Rights Act | passed by Congress in 1968, guaranteed reservation Indians many of the protections accorded other citizens by the Bill of Rights, but which also recognized the legitimacy of tribal laws within the reservations |
| Occupation of Wounded Knee | AIM seized this place and demanded radical changes |
| U.S. v. Wheeler | declared that termination was unconstitutional |
| Country of Oneida v. Oneida Nation | awarded acres of New York land to the Oneida tribe |
| pan-indianism | idea of connecting the Indian tribes together to create the Greater Indian America, opposed to individual tribal autonomy |
| Greater Indian America | creation of this sought by pan-indianism |
| Marielitos | 125,000 people who fled Cuba to America during 1980, a period of economic and political turmoil in Cuba |
| Hispanics | the number one fastest growing minority |
| Chicano Activism | likened to black pride felt by Mexicans |
| La Raza Unida | a Latino political organization founded in 1970 by José Angel Gutiérrez |
| Cesar Chavez | created the United Farm Workers, staged a strike that eventually won |
| United Farm Workers | a union grouping together migrant farmers, especially Hispanics |
| Cultural Pluralism | a condition in which many cultures coexist within a society and maintain their cultural differences |
| multiculturalism | the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can co-exist peacefully and equitably in a single country, goes along with cultural pluralism |
| Alger and Whitman | two famous homosexuals |
| Stonewall Riot | - New York city @ a bar called Stonewall Inn - Triggered activist protests among gays and lesbians - police raided gay bar - people fought back - became symbol of oppression of gays, began the gay pride movement |
| Gay Liberation Front | organization for gays |
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