Montana: A History of Our Home - Chapter 5

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  1. 3. The sixth thing that the tribes want people to know is that a person’s _______ ___ _______ shapes the way they understand and explain history.
  2. 6. In 1972, Montanans decided to write a new state ________.
  3. 7. The ______ thing that the tribes want everyone to know is that Montana has twelve tribes.
  4. 8. The lands they _______ are called reservations.
  5. 10. Montana is the only state out of all ______ states that recognizes the importance of American Indians in its constitution.
  6. 11. The state asked each Montana tribal nation to choose a ________ to help decide the best way to teach students about Montana Indian history and culture.
  7. 14. In 1999, the _________ passed a law they called Indian Education for All.
  8. 15. In 2020, about one out of ______ Montanans was a tribal member.
  9. 16. Every tribe has ______ _________ that are older and are as good as written histories.
  10. 17. The constitution sets out big ideas, or ________.
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  1. 1. The seventh thing they want people to know is that tribes are sovereign (_____ ________).
  2. 2. The fourth thing that the tribes want people to know is that the U.S. __________ did not give them land.
  3. 4. Sometimes the U.S. government respected tribal _______ (self rule).
  4. 5. The state recognizes the ______ (separate) and unique (not the same) cultural heritage of American Indians and is committed in its educational goals to the preservation of their cultural integrity.
  5. 9. Some of these traditions _________ (come before) the arrival of Europeans on this continent.
  6. 12. The state asked these representatives to come up with a list of the most important( or ________) ideas that they wanted all Montanans to understand.
  7. 13. Some Indians may participate in tribal celebrations or __________ (old) ceremonies.