Across
- 2. Native ______; This term considers time as an intermingling and flowing together of the past, present, and the future, similar to a water current. Allows authors to reclaim Indigenous portrayals and space in the past, bring it up to readers, and ultimately, create a better future.
- 6. The process through which the United States strived to incorporate and reform Indigenous people into mainstream American society, forcing them into an erasure of their Indigenous identity. In general terms, this is the process by which individuals of different ethnic heritages are absorbed into the dominant group of a society.
Down
- 1. The process by which those affected by colonialism undergo “returning to ourselves” as they discard the adversities from its impact, and reclaim ancestral traditionals that allow them to adapt in a post-Native Apocalypse World; the commonly referred-to term for an Anishinaabemowin word, “Biskaabiiyang.”
- 3. _____ Schools; Institutions implemented where Indigenous children who were usually forcibly taken from their families were sent to with the goal of assimilation into the dominant Western culture; In these places, Indigenous children were often neglected, punished if they spoke in their Native languages, forced to dress in Westernized clothing, and almost “brainwashed.”
- 4. An area of time that the sci-fi genre in cinema attempts to place Indigenous people within; With an emphasis on the possibility and sense of permanence accompanying reaching a period of time where Indigenous people can be located
- 5. The _____; Short film in which the father figure prayed, lit sweet grass and sang a Cree song- to which as a result “that thing started getting brighter and brighter.”