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What happens when a group is invaded?
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A high level of conflict and rejection of assimalation into the dominant group.
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What are the four major conditions for the emergence of ethnic stratification in the case of Indian-white relations?
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Contact, ethnocentrism,competition, and differential power.
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What produced an ethnocentric white view?
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Physical and cultural distance from European standards.
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What won't contact and ethnocentrism among ethnic groups create?
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Dominant-subordinate relations.
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What did land provide?
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The necessary ingredient for competition over valued resources.
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Who were the major colonial powers?
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Britain, France, and Spain.
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What were the major colonial powers concerns?
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Spain, exploititng the mineral wealth of possessions; France, focused on furs; Britain, fur and alliances.
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According to Cumberland, 1968, what happened to Indigenous people?
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They were brutally exploited as a labor force, first through enslavement and later through debt peonage.
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What led to deadly conflict among the Indian nation?
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The british-french rivalry in the fur trade.
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What were the objectives at the beginning of the 19th century?
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To dispossess Indians of lands they were occupying.
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What were the paths of gaining the land from the indians?
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assimilation, encouraging them to abandon communal patterns in favor or private property, removal
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What is depopulation?
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Physically reducing indian societies through exposure to diseases, armed conflict, starvation, and breakup of cultural systems.
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What were the 3 aspects that Stephen Cornell suggested of the Indian problem for Euro americans?
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Economic, how to secure resources, cultural, how to assimilate indians into the dominant culture, political, how to control them by solving the first two.
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What was the solution to the Euro-americans indian problem?
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Displacement and depopulation
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What was the Indian removal act of 1830?
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The relocation of all tribes living in the east to the west
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What was the Dawes Act/General Allotment Act?
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The breaking up reservation lands and given to individual tribal members.
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What was the Red Power movement?
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Pressure put on the federal gov't to address indian issues and needs and to reassert Indian rights.
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What was the Indian self determination Act?
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Permits tribes to take control of numerous federal programs on reservations.
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What is the official population of Indians today?
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2.5 million less than 1 percent of u.s. population
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What are the best indicators of societal power?
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Number and level of top ranking positions held by members of the ethnic group.
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What can the tendency to ignore the political world be seen as?
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A product of the distrust of gov't that so characterized the contadini(peasants) of southern italy
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What have discriminatory actions been limited to?
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Derogation and denial of access to certain jobs, schools, and neighborhoods.
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What proved to be the crucial element in establishing dominance and subordination
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Differential power between Indians and settlers.
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What produced an ethnocentric white view
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The Native americans physical and cultural distance from European standards.
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What proved to be the crucial element in establishing dominance and subordination
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Differential power between Indians and settlers.
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What produced an ethnocentric white view
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The Native americans physical and cultural distance from European standards.
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What two considerations did policy makers place on the relation with Native americans?
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1. the extinction of native title in favor of white exploitation of native lands and resources.
2. transformation of native lifestyles into copies of approved white models. |
Chapter 6
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