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This refers to the right to establish their own government and establish their own laws also to decide membership requirements. This connects to our unit because of how long native Americans have wanted to be able to govern themselves. Native Americans are punished under federal law so they want to be able to make their own decisions about what affects them.

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1) Indigenous land reclamation is the act of wanting the stolen land taken by the colonizers back and being able to continue practicing clan or tribe traditions and ceremonies.
2) This word connects to our unit because we are discussing the original inhabitants of the land where we live in now, on the land that was stolen from them and it connects to our unit because Indigenous people still haven't received back the land they are entitled to
3) this word is essential because it proves that there is still ongoing injustices against indigenous people.
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1)discrimination based on culture or ethnicity differences among different groups.
2) During colonization the colonizers would justify their actions by saying that the indigenous people where savages and that they had divine right to do what they did in order "save" them or educate them.
3) This term is important because sometimes it can still be seen among the youth depending on parenting and if noting is done to correct these views they can keep going on through time.
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This was the forced displacement of 60000 native Americans from Mississippi to Oklahoma.
This is important to know about because it had consequences that are still very relevant.

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1) Genocide is the mass killing of an ethnic group or any group with the intention of wiping them out completely.
2) This word wasn't born or recognized till after WW2 after the attempted genocide of Jewish people during WW2 meaning that it took hundreds of years till the mass murders of indigenous people where given a name.
3)This term is important because many Indigenous groups of the Americas, of the places where we live in now, were killed by the masses weather by disease or through war. The countless battles fought by the colonizers and the indigenous people of the land lead to the genocide of dozens to hundreds of indigenous groups.
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1) A confederacy is a league or alliance of different groups. These groups could be states, or in the case of Native American confederacies, tribal nations.
2) The most historically significant confederacies include those of the Iroquois / Haudenosaunee and the Northwestern Confederacy. The Haudenosaunee leagues existed as a diplomatic decentralized league that promoted peace between five tribal nations. When colonizers arrived it became known as a confederacy. The Northwestern confederacy formed in an attempt to resist westward movement of American colonists. Other confederacies existin across North America.

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1) A clan is a group of close-knit and interrelated families. Often it is associated with a local animal.
2) Clans act as extended families. People in the same clan consider each other brothers, sisters, nephews, aunt, etc. It is important for our unit because it is important to know Indigenous social structures. it was also a way to designate who was of what lineage. To relate it to something familiar, it is like our last names.

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1) It is a story or account that details how something or someone came to be.  Often they explain some natural phenomenon or tradition.
2) These stories are important to the cultures of the indigenous people that perpetuate them. They explain how and why they must respect the environment and how the environment helps them in return. Clans and their animal spirits relate to this because the animal spirit is believed to protect all of the people in its clan.