Treaty of Medicine Creek Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. When given up land, these leaders reserved the rights to fish, hunt, and gather ceded land forever.
  2. 8. a period beyond memory. The native tribes were on the land since time immemorial but they got most of it taken away.
  3. 11. Thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars was the promised amount to the tribes that gave their land to the U.S. Government. A lot of money then, but not as much now.
  4. 13. Stevens’ treaty reflects on some understanding of the culture, knowing that fishing was central to their lives.
  5. 15. to give up power and authority to someone. Like in the treaty
  6. 16. This is a refusal to summit to authority, in which the citizens in this treaty was against governor Issac Stevens
Down
  1. 1. Representing the tribal delegates that attended the treaty, expecting to negotiate the terms of the agreement but Stevens did not have in plan to negotiate
  2. 2. This broke out due to the dissatisfaction with the treaty terms and assigned reservation lands, giving up fear among the settlers.
  3. 3. A chief of the Nisqally tribe. He didn’t really sign the treaty, so the US government forged it. He also got accused of killing someone and got hung.
  4. 4. The day the tribes signed the treaty of medicine creek . This shows when conflict started, also is the first Washington Treaty that got signed.
  5. 6. Issac Stevens forced the Nations to sign the treaties.
  6. 7. Billy Frank is relevant to the crossword because Billy led the activist group that fought for fishing Rights to fish in the Nisqally tribe. Originally the tribes had rights but they were slowly taken away by the US government.
  7. 9. the setting of where the treaty was signed, In present day Thurston.
  8. 10. The descendants of the Medicine Creek Treaty signers embrace the old agreements. They consider it as a source of Indian rights.
  9. 12. the governor of Washington Isaac Stevens wrote and signed not only the treaty of medicine creek he went around washington to sign treaties with native americans from those places.
  10. 14. Over 2.5 million acres of land was taken away from the U.S government, but in return the tribes and bands were assigned to three 1,280 acre reservations and tribal members were to be paid $32,500 over 13 years—a trade.