Word List First Nation 405 words

First Nation Vocabulary Word List (405)

• A

  activity, administer, adobe, aid, alcohol, alliance, allure, ammunition, ancestors, ancient, anhinga, answer, arms, arrest, arrow, arrowhead, art, artifact, artisan, atrocity, attack

• B

  ballgames, bands, barrier, barter, baskets, battle, battleground, beads, beadwork, belief, bells, BIA, birch bark, bitterness, blood-brother, blow, bluff, bone, bow, brave, bravery, breastplate, breech-cloth, bribe, buffalo, buffalo grease, Bureau of Indian affairs, burial, butte

• C

  calumet, campaign, campsite, canoe, captive, capture, carvings, casino, casualty, cause, ceremonial, ceremony, chief, choice, claim, clamor, clash, clinic, club, colonists, colorful, communal, communication, community, condition, confederation, constant, corn, counting coup, courage, crafts, crops, cruel, crush, cultural, culture, custom

• D

  dance, dart, dawn, decoration, deeds, deer, deer toes, defeat, dependence, desperate, destruction, determination, differences, different, disease, disobey, dispute, doom, doubting, dreams, drum

• E

  eagle, earth, economics, education, eek, elders, embroidery, encounter, enemy, entertain, escape, expansion, expedition, expire, exploitation, exploration, expression

• F

  farming, Father Sun, fear, fearless, feathers, federal, fierce fighter, fishing, flight, flute, footrace, forage, fortify, freedom, frighten, frontier, frustration, fur, futile

• G

  gallop, games, garb, garment, gathering, gods, gourd, government, grease, ground, guardian, guns

• H

  hallowed, hammock, hand-to-hand, happy hunting grounds, harvest, hatchet, headdress, health, heavens, heritage, heroic, hide, historical, history, Hogan, homeland, honor, horseflesh, horsehair, hostile, hostilities, hunter, hunting, husk

• I

  illness, incantation, independence, Indian corn, inferior, initiation, injustice, insufficient, interests, isolation

• J

  jewelry, job, justice

• K

  killing, kindness, kinship, knives

• L

  lands, language, lean-to, leasing, leather, legacy, legend, leggings, liquor, livestock, lodge, long house, lure

• M

  maize, massacre, mayhem, medicine, missionary, moccasin, Mohawk, mortar, murder, mystical, myth

• N

  national, native, nature, needs, negotiation, noble

• O

  opponent, option, origins, ornament, outpost, outrage, outsider

• P

  paint, painting, pale face, palisade, papoose, peace, peace Pilgrims, pipe, pit, plentiful, pony, potlatch, pottery, poverty, pow-wow, prayer, pride, prophet, prospect, protection, pueblo, pursue, pursuit

• Q

  quail, quake, quality, quarrel, quill, quiver

• R

  raid, rampage, rattle, redskin, reluctant, remarkable, remote, rescue, reservation, reserve, resistance, resource, respect, responsibilities, retreat, reverence, rhythm, rite, ritual, roam, roots, royalty

• S

  sachem, sacred, sacrifice, safety, savage, scalp, searching, season, seize, settlement, shaman, sheath, shells, shelter, shield, sickness, silver, skill, skunk, sling, smoke signal, snowshoe, solitude, spear, spirit, spirits, squaw, starvation, storytelling, strength, stronghold, struggle, subdue, substandard, success, succotash, sufficient, superior, supreme, surprise, surrender, suspicion, suspicious, swap, symbolize

• T

  tactic, target, tension, tepee, terrain, territorial, territory, terror, terrorize, threaten, toboggan, toil, tomahawk, tool, totem pole, tourism, trade, trading post, traditional, traditions, transformation, travois, treachery, treatment, tribal, tribe, tribute, troops, turquoise

• U

  unemployment, unfamiliar, unique, unusual, urgent

• V

  values, variety, vast, vegetables, victor, victory, vigil, village, villain, vision

• W

  wampum, war, warpaint, warpath, warrior, wary, ways, weapon, weary, weather, weave, westward, whites, whoop, wicker, wickiup, wigwam, wild, wilderness, wildlife, wily, winter, wipe out, wisdom, wooden, woodland, worthy

• X

• Y

  yield, youth

• Z

  zeal