Native Studies Essential Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group:
  2. 8. truly honors our nations’ arts and cultures. You take the time to learn and interact, to gain understanding of a culture, or cultures, different from your own.
  3. 9. is an independent country that gets to make its own laws and manage its own affairs. The United States is a sovereign nation. So is the Nisqually Indian Tribe.
  4. 10. a phrase that reminds people that tribes are sovereign nations. It means that tribes have the right to govern their own communities. Tribal sovereignty also includes a tribe’s power to keep their culture alive and manage their own economy. These are rights that tribal nations have had since time immemorial, not rights that any other nation had to give them.
  5. 11. an Indigenous-led effort to return ancestral lands and restore Indigenous sovereignty. It aims to correct historical injustices and strengthen Indigenous control over their lands and resources, using methods like legal processes, government-supported returns, and land purchases.
Down
  1. 1. an American Indian or Alaska Native tribal entity that is recognized as having a government-to-government relationship with the United States. Federally recognized tribes are recognized as possessing certain inherent rights of self-government (i.e., tribal sovereignty) and are entitled to receive certain federal benefits, services, and protections because of their special relationship with the United States.
  2. 2. an occupying force coming to a land with the intention of destroying whatever societies are already there and building a new country on top of what already exists. The idea is “destroy in order to replace.”
  3. 4. members of the group
  4. 5. means that something has been happening for a very long time, so long that no one can remember when it didn’t happen.
  5. 6. when someone takes elements from a culture not their own and remakes and reduces them into a meaningless pop-culture item.
  6. 7. an official, written agreement made by sovereign nations. Think of it as a legal contract between countries.
  7. 10. legal rights that Native nations reserved and protected when signing treaties with other sovereign nations.