First Nations Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Something supplied by nature (wood,water,animals.)
  2. 4. Self governing.
  3. 9. To absorb one group completely into the culture of another.
  4. 13. Usually a wooden object wielded by a member of the group to indicate who's talking.
  5. 14. Knowledge passed down from geration to generation via the spoken word.
  6. 17. A Chinook term meaning "give."
  7. 18. A story of a specific culture blending the real and the supernatural.
  8. 19. Spring,Summer,Fall,Winter.
  9. 20. A social and ceremonial intertribal gathering to celebrate music and dance.
Down
  1. 1. Schools created by the Catholic church and the government to house the indigenous.
  2. 3. Living or occurring in a region.
  3. 5. A person of French and Aboriginal descent.
  4. 6. Ceremonies that mark a critical transition in the life of an individual from one phase of the life cycle to another.
  5. 7. Aboriginal teaching strategy for passing culture, knowledge, and beliefs.
  6. 8. "respect your..."
  7. 10. Based on tradition.
  8. 11. Sum41
  9. 12. Family lineage followed equally on both sides of the family.
  10. 15. "And they'll,f__,f__,f___,f__."-Grinch
  11. 16. The philosophy of life of a cultural community.