Native Americans Set 1

A study of genetics that says a person's genes can store memories of horrible events, which can then be passed down across future generations through the genes.

• trauma

• indigenous

• epigenetics

• reservation

A nickname for the Wabanaki tribes of Maine

• Wabanaki

• Indigenous

• sovereignty

• People of the Dawnland

permission for a state or group, like a tribe, to govern itself

• indigenous

• reservation

• sovereignty

• Wabanaki

A US agency which handles U.S. policy toward Native Americans

• reservations

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Native lands

• Wabanaki

emotional and mental pain; a sad or scary experience that can make you feel awful for a long time

• sovereignty

• trauma

• indigenous

• People of the Dawnland

The Maine government people who listened to the Wabanaki and heard their stories. Maine admitted to “cultural genocide” of the Wabanaki after these meetings.

• Native Lands

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Epigenetics

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission

The place where someone is born; in America, these are the areas where Native Americans lived before Euro-American contact.

• epigenetics

• reservation

• native lands

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

An area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs.

• Native lands

• epigenetics

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• reservation

Maine tribes: the Maliseet, Micmac, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy,

• Wabanaki

• Native lands

• indigenous

• trauma

Native. Something that comes naturally from a particular place.

• indigenous

• epigenetics

• Wabanaki

• reservations