Native Americans in Illinois

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Across
  1. 1. A local law or city regulation.
  2. 3. Institutions where Native children were taken to erase their language and culture.
  3. 4. The act of outsiders settling on and controlling Indigenous lands.
  4. 6. Gradually taking over or crossing into someone else’s land or rights.
  5. 8. To adopt the customs of the dominant culture and lose one’s own.
  6. 11. 1968 Native-led group demanding civil rights, treaty recognition, and cultural pride.
  7. 12. 1830 law that forced Native tribes east of the Mississippi to move westward.
  8. 14. 1887 law that broke tribal land into private plots to push assimilation.
  9. 16. Animal that Plains tribes relied on for food, clothing, and shelter, nearly wiped out in the 1800s.
  10. 17. To completely destroy or remove something by the roots.
  11. 19. Apartment building with no elevator access.
  12. 20. Place where Japanese Americans were confined during World War II.
Down
  1. 2. Run-down, falling apart, or in poor condition.
  2. 5. To severely reduce in number or strength.
  3. 7. An urgent or heartfelt plea.
  4. 9. Law that made all Native Americans born in the U.S. legal citizens.
  5. 10. People who are native to a region before outsiders arrived.
  6. 13. Admission or recognition of something, often about past injustices.
  7. 15. Something that sparks or speeds up change.
  8. 18. Cultural gathering featuring Native music, dancing, and traditions.