Indigenous History Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. The total number of Native people that lived in the Americas before colonization
  2. 6. Telling the truth about history against the dominant narrative that protects those in power.
  3. 8. A genocidal forced march of 6 Native Nations to reservations by president Andrew Jackson
  4. 9. An agreement between two nations in conflict. The US has broken every one with Native people
  5. 13. Concentration camps where Native people were enslaved by the Spanish colonizers
  6. 14. The first US president, who burned down over 1000 Native villages
  7. 15. A word describing the intentional killing of a group of people.
  8. 16. Native boats that were used to travel across the entire continent.
  9. 19. Sacred burial grounds of the Ohlone people
  10. 20. A native woman who translated for Louis and Clark as they explored the Americas.
  11. 21. A national holiday that disguises the truth about the US genocide of Native people.
  12. 23. The Indigenous name for America based on an origin story about the land being on a turtle's back
  13. 24. Famous native leader of the Lakota Nation who fought the Battle of Little Bighorn against the US
  14. 25. Religious schools Native people were forced to go to by colonizers so they would become "white"
Down
  1. 1. These carry oil, and are being fought against by Native Nations today to protect the land
  2. 2. The movement to give back stolen resources and land to Native nations
  3. 3. Sacred animals to Native people of the Plains that can be found in Golden Gate Park
  4. 4. A practice of acknowledging the land and native people
  5. 7. the indigenous people of San Francisco
  6. 10. The first Indigenous people to come into contact with Columbus
  7. 11. A special art created by Ohlone people, woven so tightly they could hold water
  8. 12. A US army general killed by Native resistance in the Battle of Little Bighorn
  9. 13. The real name of a native woman who Disney misrepresented in a movie called Pocahontus.
  10. 17. A theory that white colonizers have the right to live on Native land and take it over.
  11. 18. A famous native craft that involves making jewelry out of porcupine quills, shells, and other materials.
  12. 22. Places that the US government forced Native people to live instead of their traditional lands.