Every Child Matters
Across
- 1. An Indigenous language spoken by the author's family.
- 5. What needs to continue being shared to provide healing for survivors and their families.
- 6. A harsh alkaline substance (soap used as punishment).
- 7. Occurring across or affecting multiple generations.
- 8. a type of school in which Indigenous people were forced to live in
- 11. Deep emotional or psychological injury caused by distressing events.
- 13. The process of adopting the culture of a dominant group, often forcibly (implied by "civilizing" policy).
- 14. Payments or goods given periodically (rations and clothing withheld as punishment).
Down
- 2. an institution meant to provide skills and knowledge
- 3. A female leader (who enforced discipline).
- 4. Relating to physical punishment of the body (as in "corporal punishment").
- 6. Assimilation and boarding school practices often targeted this aspect of Native life and culture.
- 9. Land set aside by the government for Native American tribes.
- 10. the boarding school in southern California that impacted many California Native children.
- 12. a mix of Cree and French languages.