Fires, Floods and Frontiers! Week 9

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Across
  1. 3. Region of Southeast Europe that has endured decades of disasters.
  2. 4. The most recent disaster for the Balkans - when rivers leave their banks.
  3. 5. A word from Siberia, it is now used to describe religious leaders in tribal communities.
  4. 6. The capital of Wyoming, named after this famous Native Nation.
  5. 8. Related to Spanish "Caballo", it's soldiers on horses (nowadays attack copters).
  6. 9. A portable house used by Native peoples on the Great Plains.
Down
  1. 1. Southern California has been fighting them lately, saving houses and lives.
  2. 2. In this use, it means "seeing something not visible to the eyes, but to the heart".
  3. 5. A (hopefully) temporary obstacle.
  4. 6. The last name of the U.S. Cavalry commander who lost at Little Bighorn.
  5. 7. The language spoken most in American homes, after English and Spanish.