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Present day body of water crossed by Paleolithic Native Americans to get to the Americas from Siberia
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Bering Strait
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Year Christopher Columbus came to the Americas while looking for India
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1492
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Native American group in the Caribbean, the first to be encountered by Columbus
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Taíno
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US President who signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing all Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River
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Andrew Jackson
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The forced removal of Native Americans from their homes in the Southeast to Oklahoma, causing thousands of deaths
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The Trail of Tears
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A similar forced removal of the Navajo, also killing thousands
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The Long Walk
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Procedure performed by the Indian Health Service on Native American women without their informed consent, primarily during the 60s and 70s
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Sterilization
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A millenarian religious movement founded by the prophet Wovoka (Jack Wilson), who said that proper practice of this dance would bring peace, among other things, to the region
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Ghost Dance
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The deadliest mass shooting in US history, where about three hundred Lakota were killed by American soldiers. Later the site of a protest by the American Indian Movement.
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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Traditional shell beads important to the Eastern Woodlands tribes. Used as gifts, currency, and made into belts which could be used as memory aids for storytellers
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Wampum
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US President who signed the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, giving all Native Americans US citizenship if they didn't have it already.
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Calvin Coolidge
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The Native American language used as basis for a code language used by Ally forces during WW2. It was never cracked by the Axis.
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Navajo
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Year that the American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed, which protected Native Americans right to their traditional religious and cultural practices, which were previously illegal in many places
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1978
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Psychoactive plant only legal for use by members of the Native American Church, which combines elements of Christianity and various traditional Native American religions
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Peyote
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1972 cross country caravan from the West Coast to Washington DC, protesting for Native American rights and demanding to negotiate with the federal government
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Trail of Broken Treaties
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A 1928 investigation into the conditions experienced by Native Americans in the US
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Meriam Report
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One of the biggest and most important Indian boarding schools in the US, which were dedicated to assimilating Natives into white Christian society and involved much abuse. Located in Pennsylvania, and designated as a national monument in 2024.
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School
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US President who ended the practice of Indian boarding schools in 1968
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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19th century American belief that the US was destined to expand across North America, causing the displacement and deaths of many Native Americans
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Manifest destiny
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Prehistoric culture discovered in modern day New Mexico during the late 1920s
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Clovis culture
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Taking place during the Cold War, the Canadian government relocated 92 Inuit further north, to modern day Nunavut
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High Arctic relocation
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Constitution of the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee Confederacy (the Six Nations), estimated to originate from the late 12th century. Influenced the American Constitution.
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Great Law of Peace
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Tooth or tusk shells used by Natives in western Canada and the US for jewelry and currency. Also found in the Middle East.
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Dentalium
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Celebrated as an alternative to Columbus Day on the second Monday in October
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Indigenous Peoples' Day
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A name used by the US government to refer to the following Native nations: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee/Creek, and the Seminoles
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Five Civilized Tribes
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The current most populous Native tribe in the US, with over a million self-reported members
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The Cherokee
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