Indigenous Terms

3. claim to declare ownership of an area of land
4. worthy of worship
6. tradition passing of knowledge, history and culture from one generation to the next through spoken words
7. beads made from shells that are strung together in patterns to make belts
10. the child of a parents who is Aboriginal and a parent who is of French ancestry
12. a group of culturally related Indigenous people: Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oji-cree, Chippewa and Algonquin peoples
13. indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists
15. a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth
16. a group of First Nations people who live in an area and share ancestry/culture
18. a union of alliance between groups; an agreement to work together
20. a person or group who works with others
22. aboriginal people in Northern Canada, nunavut, Northwest territories and northern Quebec and Labrador
23. a member or inhabitant of a colony
25. areas of land set aside by Federal government for First Nations people
27. Nations refers to the original inhabitants of Canada, except the Inuit

1. family groups in First Nations societies
2. a person in their community who is respected for their great wisdom- teacher
5. people who have been living in a land from the earliest times
7. a dome or cone-shaped dwelling
8. a society in which women are the decision makers
9. people of the long house, Six nations or Iroquois
11. relating to the indigenous peoples of America
14. or Chippewa are an Anishinaabeg group of Indigenous peoples
17. People original peoples of a land
19. to create settlements in a new land to control the land and trade
21. a person who arrives, especially from another country, in a new place in order to live there and use the land
24. a formal agreement between groups of people
26. Indian refers to a specific legal identity of an Aboriginal person in Canada