Across
- 1. A local law or city regulation.
- 3. Institutions where Native children were taken to erase their language and culture.
- 4. The act of outsiders settling on and controlling Indigenous lands.
- 6. Gradually taking over or crossing into someone else’s land or rights.
- 8. To adopt the customs of the dominant culture and lose one’s own.
- 11. 1968 Native-led group demanding civil rights, treaty recognition, and cultural pride.
- 12. 1830 law that forced Native tribes east of the Mississippi to move westward.
- 14. 1887 law that broke tribal land into private plots to push assimilation.
- 16. Animal that Plains tribes relied on for food, clothing, and shelter, nearly wiped out in the 1800s.
- 17. To completely destroy or remove something by the roots.
- 19. Apartment building with no elevator access.
- 20. Place where Japanese Americans were confined during World War II.
Down
- 2. Run-down, falling apart, or in poor condition.
- 5. To severely reduce in number or strength.
- 7. An urgent or heartfelt plea.
- 9. Law that made all Native Americans born in the U.S. legal citizens.
- 10. People who are native to a region before outsiders arrived.
- 13. Admission or recognition of something, often about past injustices.
- 15. Something that sparks or speeds up change.
- 18. Cultural gathering featuring Native music, dancing, and traditions.