Choctaws

stickball

Makeshift urban baseball variant

• storytellingRecounting events aloud
• clan systemAncestry-based social organization
• beadworkStrung ornament craft
• basketryArt of weaving containers

pottery · traditional dress · regalia · hymns · gospel singing · warrior traditions · harvest festival · naming ceremonies

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania's largest metropolis

• Pearl RiverSouthern US waterway
• mound buildersThose who construct earthen piles
• homelandOne's native land
• ancestral landsFamily territory through generations

federal recognition · stickball · casino · reservation · Tucker

Chickasaw

Muskogean-speaking Native nation

• endangered languageSpeech risking complete extinction
• eldersSenior community members
• vocabularyOne's word collection
• grammarLanguage's structural rules

pronunciation · language preservation · bilingual education · oral tradition

Hugo

Science fiction award

• capitalWealth used for investment
• healthcareOrganized provision of treatment
• tribal councilIndigenous community's ruling body
• citizenshipStatus as state member

Indian Territory

Trail of Tears

1830s forced indigenous relocation

• Indian Removal ActLaw authorizing tribal expulsion
• treatiesFormal agreements between states
• relocationPermanent change of residence
• allotmentDesignated share or portion

Civil War · assimilation · removal · sovereignty · self-government · reservation · federal recognition · annuities

clans

Related family groups

• matrilinealDescended through maternal line
• moietyOne of two parts
• eldersSenior community members
• familyRelated people together

ancestry · lineage · descendants · bloodline · genealogy · tribal membership · enrollment · intermarriage