Pre-Contact
This is how archeologist try to explain how the Americas became inhabited but goes against creation stories.
Land Bridge Theory
Water route across North America from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean for trading purposes.
Northwest Passage
People in MT who took law into their own hands during population increase in MT territory.
Vigilantes
People who are native to a particular land.
Indigenous
An agreement between two governments.
Treaty
Age of the dinosaurs.
Mesozoic
This killed as much as 90% of some tribes in the Americas.
Disease
Beavers & Bison
A way of recording history on a bison hide in a circular timeline.
Winter Count
A group of people who live in a particular place and share some commonalities.
Society
Region of MT that has mountains, forests and a lot of rain.
Western
Tribes were pushed this direction when Europeans first came over.
WEST
Europeans belief that they had a God given right to inhabit the west.
Manifest Destiny
An area of land that is reserved for a tribe to be able to self govern and practice their culture, typically through a treaty.
Reservation
A shared system of behaviors, attitudes, and understandings as well as shared government, economic, beliefs, and language .
Culture
People who would hunt using a bow and arrow for the animal that almost went extinct, and the time was 1,300 to 300 years ago.
Bison Hunters
With more Europeans coming to MT due to Mining, what else did you see more of?
Battles or wars
List two things the Europeans would mine for in MT.
Gold, Siler, Coal
A primary source in which is a story that is passed down from generations but typically not recorded.
Oral History
Powers or authority of self-government.
Sovereignty
Name 2 things the Native Americans did not have in the Pre-Contact period.
Guns & Horses
This is the amount of reservations and tribes there are in MT.
7 reservations
12 tribes
Cause ghost towns, changes or waves in population in MT due to mining.
Boom-and-bust system
An ethnic group/tribe descended from European-French and Native American fur trappers
Metis
When one culture is absorbed into typically the mainstream or majority culture sometimes forcefully.
Assimilation