We Are Still Here!: Criss Cross

Answer clues based on the content and vocabulary words from We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell. Look for hints in the Word Bank. Print the puzzle or use it on your tablet, phone, or computer.

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Across

  • 4. Extremely bad
  • 6. Belonging to
  • 7. The system that controls our money
  • 9. The growth of something popular in the past
  • 11. The act of dividing shared tribal lands owned into plots and assigning them to individual owners
  • 13. Together
  • 16. Values and beliefs of a culture
  • 17. Willing to achieve a goal no matter what
  • 18. A legal agreement made and signed by two or more sovereign governments
  • 19. A federal program to force Natives to leave and live with White people
  • 20. ___ people or things have always been in the place where they are

Down

  • 1. To control
  • 2. Someone who works hard for change
  • 3. Country
  • 5. The people of the same age
  • 8. Health provided for individuals with challenges
  • 10. Authority and control over people, land, and resources
  • 12. Relatives that lived long ago
  • 14. Policies that the US government made to make Native people part of the dominant white culture
  • 15. Becoming strong

Word Bank

native
nation
indigenous
sovereignty
treaty
ancestor
assimilation
harsh
allotment
govern
relocation
activist
collective
determination
welfare
generation
economy
revival
heritage
resurgence