Native American History Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• clackamas : another one of the many tribes that first inhabited the pdx area.
• kalapuya : another one of the many tribes that first inhabited the pdx area.
• genocide : the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
• turtle : _ island is a name for north america used by many native american and first nations peoples and by indigenous rights activists
• reservation : an area of land set aside for occupation by north american indians
• termination : revoking tribal sovereignty and government responsibilities to native peoples, as well as claims to reservation land and unique identity.
• indigenous : originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
• inequity : lack of justice.
• ninth : portland has the _ largest urban native american population in the u.s.
• racism : a variety of practices, beliefs, social relations, and phenomena that work to reproduce a racial hierarchy and social structure that yield superiority, power, and privilege for some, and discrimination and oppression for others.
• molalla : another one of the many tribes that first inhabited the pdx area.
• kathlamet : another one of the many tribes that first inhabited the pdx area.
• culture : the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
• chinook : another one of the many tribes that first inhabited the pdx area.
• assimilate : to become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture.
• sovereignty : the authority of a state to govern itself or another state.
• colonization : the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
• resilience : the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
• chemawa : a boarding school for pnw indian children that opened in 1880
• urban : a word that describes a town or city
• treaties : a formally ratified agreement between countries...the u.s. government has broken countless in their relationships with native americans.