totem

Which Means:

A sacred symbol or animal, representing a family or clan, or containing a religious spirit.

Some Native American peoples believe that their totem protects them, and they cannot kill the kind of animal it represents.

Although the end of this word sounds like um, it is spelled EM!

To move from one place to a new one.

Every fall, northern birds migrate south for warmer temperatures.

The noun of migrate is migration, and the person is an immigrant!