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🌽Native American Studies
Key Terms

457 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Native American Studies exam

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A

Acculturation
Adoption Practices
Affordable Care Act
Affordable housing options on tribal lands
Age-grade systems
Agricultural Calendars
American Indian Education Act
American Indian Higher Education Act
American Indian Movement
American Indian Movement (AIM)
American Indian Religious Freedom Act
Ancestral lands
Ancestral Puebloans
Animal spirits
Anti-indian laws
Apache
Apache Wars
Art as resistance
Athabaskan
Atlatls

B

Bears Ears National Monument
Black Hawk
Black Hawk War
Black Hills
Boarding school era
Boldt Decision
Brackeen v. Haaland
Buffalo soldier
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Burke Act
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

C

Canoe Building Techniques
Canons of Treaty Construction
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Cayuga
Ceremonial art
Ceremonial gifting
Ceremonial leaders
Ceremonial pipes
Chaco Canyon
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Cherokee Tribe
Cherokee Women
Cheyenne
Chickasaw
Chief Joseph
Chief Seattle
Chilkat Weaving
Choctaw
Chumash
Circular time
Circular view of time
Civilization Fund Act of 1819
Clan exogamy
Clan Structures
Clan Systems
Climate justice
Clyde Warrior
Co-management agreements
Coast Salish
Coastal migration theory
Coastal Salish Tribes
Code talker
Coil technique
Colorado River Indian Tribes
Comanche
Coming of age ceremony
Communal values
Community-based participatory research
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Connection to land
Consensus decision-making
Consensus-based decision-making
Controlled burning