Week 5 — Indigenous Survivance and Self-Determination

Why this matters

A nursing student serving a city's Native families and a museum major handling collections both meet this week's nations of the present.

In plain language

This chapter follows Native nations through the twentieth century, from the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 to a 1990 law that requires the return of ancestors' remains and cultural items. The federal government tried to end its tie with tribes through termination (ending the government-to-government relationship with a tribe). It also moved families into cities through relocation (a federal program that sent Native people from reservations to city jobs). Native people answered with organizing, occupation, and new laws for self-determination (tribes running their own programs), and the chapter ends with survivance (survival joined with resistance), a word for nations that are still here. You will learn to read one family's account beside the dated record and say, in one plain sentence, what each one shows.

• Already covered: Week 4's sovereignty, treaties, and settler colonialism.
• This week: citizenship, termination, relocation, Alcatraz, self-determination, survivance.
• How they connect: this week shows how nations answered and what came next.
• Where we're going next: Week 6, African American Experiences I.

Focus

How have Native nations governed, resisted, and endured since 1924?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• [ ] explain what the 1924 act did and did not do for the vote
• [ ] define termination and relocation as federal policies
• [ ] read the E4 excerpt against the dated record
• [ ] define survivance and use the present tense for Native nations

To-do

Plan your week

1. Read Chapter 5 (about 30–40 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
2. Work the lecture tutorial (60–90 minutes).
3. Try the practice set (15–25 minutes).
4. Do the workshop (about 90 minutes), the discussion, and the assignment, then the quiz.

This week's checkpoint: explain why "We are still here" is survivance, not survival alone.

You've got this

Take it in order, and ask your instructor if a step snags.

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