Florida
The Taino word "huracan" gave us this English word.
What is "hurricane"?
Name an Indigenous language of a Turtle Island native group.
so many
This is the name commonly used by Native so-called "North American" groups to refer to the continent.
Turtle Island
This common crop was first domesticated from teosinte by native farmers in modern-day Mexico and Guatemala.
This modern-day Florida native group is the only one in the US that never signed a peace treaty with the US government.
Seminole People
This tribe is the largest formally recognized native group in the US.
Navajo/Dine
The ancestors to modern Native Americans arrive in the Americas approximately this long ago.
23,000 years
This material, used now in many products, from car tires to the soles of our shoes, was invented by native Mesoamericans.
What is rubber?
Eckerd sits on these peoples' unceded ancestral land.
Primarily, the Miccosukee and Seminole peoples and their ancestors (as well as the Tocobaga).
Code talkers speaking this language were key to US military victories in WWII.
Navajo
This percentage of biodiversity is stewarded by Indigenous peoples.
Over 80%
What is a kayak?
Many of the Seminole people were forcefully and violently removed from Florida to this state, where descendants of those that survived the torturous process still live.
What is Oklahoma?
At this battle, 250-300 Lakota Sioux were massacred, including women and children, by US soldiers who thought one of their traditional dances was going to incite violence.
Wounded Knee
There are this many federally recognized tribes (which we acknowledge to not be fully representative of actual native groups).
What is 575?
This essential tool used to feed babies was invented by the Iroquois.
What are baby bottles?
Name any language traditionally spoken by the Seminole or Miccosukee peoples of Florida.
Hitchiti-Mikasuki, Muscogee
This was the real name of the first MMIW of what is now the US.
Matoaka
This Lakota leader fought genocidal government policies for many years, even inspiring his people to fight in the battle that defeated Custer.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This invention, commonly found attached to trees by the seawall, was created by Indigenous Caribbeans.
What is a hammock?