Culture
Began as a way for nations to come together to celebrate success in hunting or battle. Today, they are an opportunity to share tradition and reconnect to culture and family; dance and drum music play a big role in this.
What is a Pow Wow?
The city with the largest Native American population.
Where is New York City?
America's first major prima ballerina who danced at the Paris Opera Ballet and Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 1960
A: Who is Maria Tallchief?
Ben Franklin and the founding fathers modeled this document from the Iroquois Confederacy’s regulations.
A: What is the Constitution?
Irene Bedard is best known for voicing this Disney character.
A: Who is Pocahontas?
A ritual where herbs like sage are burnt and placed in a smudge bowl. This is a way to offer a blessing and to spiritually purify an area or gathering.
What is smudging?
The city where the First Americans Museum opened in September of this year.
Where is Oklahoma City?
The first Native American band to reach the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 who sang the hit “Come and get your love”
A: Who is Redbone?
In World War II, the Navajo men recruited by the U.S. Marines to transmit top secret combat communications using Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language.
A: Who are the Code Talkers?
She was the 54th Secretary of the Department of the Interior and the first Native American cabinet secretary in U.S. history.
A: Who is Secretary Deb Haaland?
A four ingredient dish made from flour, baking powder, salt, and water with a complicated history.
What is Fry Bread?
This state is named after the Quapaw, a tribe whose name means “downstream people".
A: What is Arkansas?
19 year old climate activist, land protector, and model
A: Who is Quannah Chasinghorse?
The act was passed, in part, to recognize the more than 8,000 Native Americans who fought in World War I and granted US citizenship to all of the country's Indigenous people.
A: What is The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924?
This member of the Sac and Fox Nation’s Olympic record of 8,413 points would stand for nearly two decades.
A: Who is Jim Thorpe?
The social media platform that has become popular for fostering important conversations around Native American issues and identities through a mixture of humor, education and the sharing of dancing, beadwork, poetry, storytelling and other art forms sacred to Indigenous people.
What is Native TikTok/RezTok/Indigenous TikTok?
The largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure, built by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples (also called the Anasazi), is located in Mesa Verde National Park in the southwest corner of Colorado
A: What is Cliff Palace?
Her work as a policy advocate, writer, curator, human-rights activist against stereotypical Native mascots in sports, earned her a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.
A:Who is Suzan Harjo?
The Dakota Access Pipeline Protests began in early 2016 as a grassroots opposition to the construction of Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern United States
A: What is the Standing rock protest?
This TV series is the first to feature an all-Indigenous team of writers, directors and series regulars.
A: What is Reservation Dogs?
A beaded belt that serves as both a work of art and a recording of history. The belt is not to be worn, it is instead a symbol of events, treaties, and union between two nations.
What is a wampum?
the state where Rincon Reservation Road Brewery, also known as 3R Brewery, the first and only Native American-owned and operated brewery on tribal land is located
A: What is California?
The founder of The Sioux Chef, a company devoted to Indigenous foods, created recipes to showcase tribal diversity across the lower 48 states.
A: Who is Sean Sherman?
the 19-month occupation of an island that had been declared surplus federal property and established a precedent for Indian activism
A: What is the Occupation of alcatraz?
This project features a sampling of work by 47 Native Nations poets through a Story Map and a newly developed Library of Congress audio collection.
A: What is Living Nations, Living Words?