Regions & Cultures
Creation Myths
Trickster Figures
Nature & Animal Spirits
Heroic Journeys
100
This region is cold and home to the Inuit & Aleut 
What is the Arctic?
100
This is the work of a god or goddess.
What is to create?
100
This is the most common trickster character in Native American mythology.
What is the Coyote?
100
This is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol for a tribe, clan, family or individual.
What is a Totem?
100
They aren't always good characters, but they are always outstanding, a cut above the rest.
What are heroes?
200
This culture area is a huge desert region in present-day Arizona and New Mexico (along with parts of Colorado, Utah, Texas and Mexico).
What is the Southwest?
200
The Earth was formed on this, in the Iroquois creation myth.
What is the Great Turtle's back?
200
This was the trickster character in the Quileute myth about the creation of daylight.
What/who is the Raven?
200
This is the religion in which ancient indigenous Americans adhered to. It states that every object, living and non, has an individual spirit that is part of the bigger world.
What is Animism?
200
Many heroic characters are featured in this type of tale, where an important lesson is learned.
What are morality tales?
300
This region is home to 100 different tribes who spoke more than 200 different DIALECTS.
What is California?
300
"In the beginning..."
How do most creation myths start?
300
A quality of most trickster figures, other than being male, is this (hint: they usually only do this if it suits their purposes).
What is shape-shift?
300
This permeates all aspects of Native life.
What is the natural world?
300
These characters in Native mythology represent duality and have opposing character traits.
What are Twins?
400
This culture area was mostly composed of swampy, piney forests (called TAIGA) and waterlogged tundra, stretched across much of inland Alaska and Canada.
What is the Subarctic?
400
This is a character in creation myths that falls from the sky and into a vast sea.
What is an Earth Diver?
400
Coyote stole a piece of the sun from them, to help the humans during the winter months.
What/who are the Fire Spirits?
400
This is a "plant spirit" legend that describes one of the most important Native food systems involving corn, beans, and squash.
What is "The Three Sisters"?
400
One popular type of folk hero in Plateau and Plains traditions, who is mistreated but grows up to become a great chief.
What is the Poor Boy?
500
This region's peoples mostly spoke Shoshonean dialects.
What is the Great Basin?
500
The Hopi creation myths centers on this creator.
Who is Spider Woman?
500
The Raven changed himself into this, so he could get close to the River Chief.
What is a hemlock needle?
500
This animal symbolizes a love of home, community, joy, being easy-going and patience.
What is the cow?
500
In the Story of Poia (or Star Boy), if this was removed, "terrible ills would be unleashed."
What is the Great Turnip?