Read the following sentences from the text. “Each tribe suffered tremendously and lost many lives as they were forced to relocate. They also lost their ancestral homelands. The tribes had spent thousands and thousands of years learning about their land, building on it, and making it part of their ways of life.” As used in this excerpt, what does the word “ancestral” most closely mean? calming and free from distractions belonging to relatives from long ago likely to have extreme cold weather surrounded by large bodies of water