Across
- 4. an official, written agreement made by sovereign nations. Think of it as a legal contract between countries.
- 5. means that something has been happening for a very long time, so long that no one can remember when it didn’t happen.
- 7. focus on the death, disappearance, and/or absence of Indigenous peoples. Erases Indigenous resilience and continued existence.
- 8. an independent country that gets to make its own laws and manage its own affairs. Examples: the United States, the Nisqually People.
- 9. legal rights that Native nations reserved and protected when signing treaties with other sovereign nations.
- 10. 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.
Down
- 1. stories that detail the experiences and perspectives of those who are historically oppressed, excluded, or silenced. Offer an additional or different way of looking at a situation or story.
- 2. stories that shape a culture and its concept of reality. They're the most known stories that therefore have the most power.
- 3. when someone takes elements from a culture not their own and remakes and reduces them into a meaningless pop-culture item.
- 6. ________ sovereignty is a phrase that reminds people that tribes have the right to govern their own communities, keep their cultures alive, and manage their own economies. These are rights that tribal nations have had since time immemorial, not rights that any other nation had to give them.