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Republican Governor of Oklahoma who is a member of the Cherokee Tribe.
Who is Kevin Stitt?
This Act granted full citizenship to Native Americans. It was partially done to recognize the thousands of Native Americans who served in WWI.
What is the Snyder Act of 1924?
A portable tent made of skins, cloth or canvas on a frame of poles which is used by North American Native Americans of the Central Plains and Great Lakes Region.
What is a tepee?
Pow Wow Life and All My Relations are these and can be a great source to learn more about Native American life today.
What are podcasts?
Native Americans ate this traditional soup to survive harsh winters. The three "sister" foods of corn, squash and beans were the main ingredients.
What is 3 Sisters Soup?
Deb Haaland (D)of NM and Sharice Davids (D) of Kansas.
Who are the first two Native American women elected to Congress?
This was invented by Native Americans thousands of years ago when they domesticated the strain of maize which produces corn kernals used for this?
What is popcorn?
A Disney movie was made about this famous Native American woman who was notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown Virginia.
Who is Pocahontas?
This famous American institute has exhibits and online events during Native American Heritage month. It is located in Washington D.C.
What is the Smithsonian Institute?
The Shakopee Mdewakanton tribe members of Minnesota are in the business of casinos and online gambling which makes them known to be this.
What is the richest Native American tribe?
6.79 million Native Americans.
According to the U.S. Census there are this many Native Americans living in the U.S. today?
This is the name given to the relocation of Native Americans from their ancestral lands which were then replaced by white settlements.
What is the Indian Removal Act also known as The Trail of Tears?
In this book a young Native American girl finds a lone fawn in the forest and helps in the search for it's mother.
What is Zoe and the Fawn?
Many contemporary artists such as Bunky Echo-Hawk use their art for more than just artistic expression they also use it to show the plight of the Native American which is a form of this.
What is activism?
On 2/27/73, 250 Sioux Indians launched a 71 day occupation at Wounded Knee to call global attention to unsafe living conditions and generations of mistreatment from federal and local agencies.
What is the most successful protest of the American Indian Movement?
This book chronicles the life of a Comanche activist and civil rights leader and the role she had played in Native American and mainstream American history since the 1960s.
What is LaDonna Harris: Indian 101?
This battle was fought in 1876 and was won by the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes led by Crazy Horse defending their land in South Dakota and Wyoming.
What is the battle of Little Big Horn?
A modern game that uses a sack that is made out of cloth, stuffed with rice and beans and is kicked by the ankle has origins in Native American culture.
What is Hackey Sack?
This is how many of the historical traditions and ways of the Native American people have been passed down through the centuries.
What do stories and ritual reenactments mean to Native Americans?
Dream Catcher
What is a toy made by Native Americans that was used to prevent nightmares by catching them before they could reach the dreamer?
72% of Native Americans.
What is the percentage of Native Americans that live in urban or suburban environments?
Beaver furs.
What was traded by early Native Americans to white explorers and also used as a reason for early expeditions that led to the discovery of trade routes in North America.
The leader of a Native American tribe was called this.
What is Chief?
This is the only Native American owned and operated arts institution in the state of Illinois. It is located in Schaumburg.
What is Trickster Gallery?
Award winning movie about a Civil War soldier who lives with a band of Lakota Indians.
What is Dances with Wolves?