NAS Final Exam

Vine Deloria Jr

Author and activists for Native American rights. Born in Martin, South Dakota. Standing Rock Sioux is where he is from. Critiques of anthropology.

Sovereignty

Native Americans governing themselves. Disassociate with an American government

Lewis H. Morgan

Anthropologists best known for studying kinship groups within Native Americans

Theory of Cultural Evolution

Idea that all civilizations go through 3 stages: Savagery→ Barbarism → Civilization (Herbert Spencers ideas)

William Fenton

Scholar and writer known for extensive writings on Iroquois culture

Archeology

Study of prehistoric humans and modern humans through artifacts

Salvage Anthropology

Collecting and documenting artifacts for a culture believed to be in decline

Frans Boas

Father of modern anthropology. Known for cultural relativism

Baffin Island

Franz Boas spent 1 year with the Inuit here

Ethics of Anthropology

Protect and respect the people that are being studied

IRB

Instructional Review Board: Applies ethics to research before it is approved

Informed consent

Patients are given information about a study before they choose to participate

Alfred Kroeber

Anthropologists who was friends with Ishi

Ishi

Last member of the Yahi people. When he was found he lived in a museum and preformed shows and exhibits

NAGPRA

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Protects remains and cultural artifacts associated with graves

Tommy Orange

Author of There There. Native American activists

Sand Creek Massacre

Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the US army on Nov. 29 1864

Reliable/ Unreliable Narrators

A narrator who is telling the truth. A narrator who isn’t telling the truth, or may not know the whole truth

Intertextuality

A different text format in a book. Ex: texting, emails, letters,,,

Dense Oxendene

A Native filmmaker recording the stories of Indigenous peoples for a documentary. Dene is committed to capturing the experience of Urban Indians, but he also worries because the film was his uncle’s idea, not his own

Tony Loneman

A young man of Cheyenne descent. Tony narrates the first and last chapters of the book. Physically imposing and gifted with street smarts, Tony scores poorly on intelligence tests and is sometimes prone to violence because of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Thomas Frank

A Cheyenne man who drums with a group called Southern Moon. Thomas works at the Indian Center until he is fired. He has a fundamental connection to drumming, linked from his infancy to his heart’s arrythmia, and finds in it a way to pray.

Calvin Johnson

young man; Native; down on his luck and staying with his sister, Maggie. Owes drug money to his brother, Charles (who works with Octavio).

Octavio Gomez

the drug dealer for whom Tony and Charles (Calvin’s brother) work.

Bill Davis

boyfriend of Edwin’s mother, Karen. Lakota. Longtime maintenance worker at the Oakland Coliseum. Vietnam veteran who spent five years in San Quentin for stabbing a man. Read almost the whole time he was in—Raymond Carver and William Faulkner, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Zeta Acosta and Ken Kesey.

Edwin Black

biracial young man: his mother, Karen, is white, and his father, Harvey, whom he has never known, is Native. Once dreamed of becoming a writer; earned a master’s degree in comparative literature with a focus on Native American literature. Loves the Internet. Recently started an internship assisting with the Big Oakland Powwow.

Blue

head of the powwow committee at the Indian Center.

Jacque Red Feather

half-sister of Opal; a substance abuse counselor who is herself newly sober. Gave a child up for adoption in her youth (Blue); raised another daughter, Jamie, who passed away. Now has three grandsons for whom Opal is caring.

Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield

woman in her fifties of Cheyenne descent. At age 11 in 1970, her mother took her and her half-sister, Jacquie Red Feather, to Alcatraz to participate in the Native American occupation of the island

Orvil Red Feather

fourteen years old; one of Jacquie’s grandsons. Cheyenne. Is deeply interested in his heritage and plans to dance at the powwow.

Daniel Gonzales

Octavios Cousin