Education and Culture

5. The political goal allowing Native American tribes to assume control over federal programs, giving them greater decision-making power.
8. The movement to affirm and celebrate Native customs, languages, and traditional ways of life.
10. The psychological and social distress resulting from historical trauma (like boarding schools) passed to subsequent generations.
11. The policy of forced adoption of U.S. customs, dress, and language.
12. The 1887 law that broke up communal tribal land into individual allotments, causing massive land loss.
13. The refusal to accept or comply with forced assimilation or governmental control.
14. The general term for the supreme and independent authority of a nation over its territory.
15. The federal policy period (1950s-60s) that sought to end the government's responsibility to tribes and their status.
16. A self-governing people or tribe that is original to a particular land.
17. The process where a group adopts some practices of a new culture but retains major elements of its original one.
18. The first off-reservation Indian boarding school, established in 1879. (4 words, no spaces)
20. A sense of belonging to a distinct group based on shared traditions and values.

1. The US government agency managing federal relations and services to Native American tribes.
2. The founder and first superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. (3 words, no spaces)
3. The complete and often forced absorption of a minority group into a dominant culture.
4. The systematic loss or destruction of a group's culture, language, and memory.
6. The traditions, achievements, and beliefs that are passed down from one generation to the next.
7. The guiding philosophy of the boarding school system. (4 words, no spaces)
9. The right of a tribe to govern itself; their authority as a political entity.
19. A group of people sharing common descent, history, and culture, residing in a particular territory.