By:Brittany,Sammatha,Kyle,Austin

Circle Justice

Circle Justice is a restorative justice. What it does is that it helps “heal” an offender, and basically help the person live a better life. Judges can sometimes use Circle Justice, but only if the police and the community can tell about the person’s actions.

Native American uses

Many Native Americans used Circle Justice as a form of healing and forgiveness to make the wrongdoer a better person. It is mainly used in a each tribe, but it was alright for other tribes to join the circle.

Circle Justice Facts

Banishing someone to an island was not usually the case for the Native Americans.

The only way a criminal would get circle of justice would be if the police or the community stepped in.

Circle Justice is a form of restorative justice.

Spirit bear/kemodo bear The Spirit Bear is a black bear that has white fur due to a rare genetic trait.Some People mistake the spirit bear for polar bears but it is just the genetic geens.

Where they live.

The greatest concentration of Spirit Bears are found on the Central Coast and North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, but have been documented in northeast British Columbia and as far east in North America as Minnesota.

Some fun facts

1) pirit bears can run up to 55 km per hour.2)The Spirit Bear, like most black bears, weighs about half a pound when born and generally between 150-300 pounds when fully grown.3)pirit bears can live for more than 25 years in the wild.

4)The bear’s body length, measured from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, averages between four and six feet. Its height, measured from the bottom of the paw flat on the ground to the highest part of the shoulders, is between two-and-a-half and three feet.5)The spirit bear is recognized as a prominent Native American symbol and is designated as the official animal of British Columbia.

The Native Americans, live along the pacific ocean, from southern of Alaska. To the Indians of the Pacific Northwest Coast, the sea was not a way of life.The coast gave rise to many different cultures each with their own languages, beliefs, designs, and routines.

To Native Americans, fire was a important tool to them.Trees often have “fire scars”,which give them a direction where the fire came from.Fire, provides food source, and warfare.Trees were important for building structures and canoes.

● There are more than 4.5 million Native Americans living in Canada and the United States

● Indians do not speak one language; English is the primary language of Native Americans. However, nearly 250 tribal languages are still spoken as a second language.

● Native American land contains an estimated 10% of all energy resources in the United States.

Maps of Alaska

Wildlife and climate

Some of the wildlife in southeast alaska are the bald eagle, whales, the big brown bat, the california myotis, mountain lions, the sitka deer, mountain goats, the southern red backed vole, and the snowshoe hare.

Southeast alaska is warm and rainy. They have a lot of rainforest too. It can also be cool, damp and in the 70’s. Even in summer you have to wear at least 2 layers of clothing. Same for spring and fall. But even more in winter

Terrains and tides

A terrain is mountainy and hilly. It is also just another word for a piece of land. A tide is water that is very powerful. A tide can pull you out to sea whether or not u wanna go. In alaska over the last 10 years a lot of people died in boating accedants.