All the Real Indians Died Off Myth#1 Chapter

  
Vocabulary and Concepts
  
American   Exceptionalism

 
Assimilation

 
Genocide

 
Indian   Problem

 
Manifest   Destiny

 
Master   Narrative

 
Postcolonial   Studies

 
Settler   Colonialism

Questions about the Text
  
1.   Where does Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz say myths about Native peoples originate (8)? Who creates them? Why?
 
 
2. What is one example of a master   narrative you have learned about the United States? Who do you think created   it and what purpose or motive does it serve? 
 
 
3. What is the “Vanishing Indian” (9)? How does it enforce the Indian Problem?
 
 
4. What is the primary difference   between colonialism and settler colonialism (10)? What is the primary goal of the settler state?
 
 
5. Dunbar-Ortiz explains that   genocide doesn’t always mean war or even killing people (11). What are the more “insidious” examples she provides to   explain the United States’ genocidal policies against Indigenous people?
 
 
6. How do settler ideas and   standards of authenticity hurt Indigenous people and contribute to their   erasure (12)?