Vocabulary
A group that included several families with a common ancestry is called a what?
Clan
The dominant language
Muskhogean
They developed their own breed of what?
Horse
All Mississippi Native Americans believed in some kind of religion and what?
Afterlife
The long, dangerous journey killed so many Indians that it eventually became known as what?
Trail of Tears
A storehouse for grain is called a what?
Granary
The first European to encounter the Choctaw
Hernando de Soto
This tribe is remembered for it's what?
Proud warriors
What nation was the "little brother" to the Choctaw and Chickasaw groups?
Chakchiuma
Which side did the Chickasaw side with during the Civil War?
The South
The most popular sport among Mississippi Indians is what?
Stick Ball
The nickname of the Choctaws
"long hairs' or "flat heads"
True or False- This tribe did not receive any money from the sale of their land.
True
Which tribe's name meant "people at the source of a stream"?
Ibitoupa
Where did the Bureau of Indian Affairs buy land for the Native Americans to live a life where they can preserve their traditions?
Philadelphia
A ritual held in late August in anticipation of a bountiful harvest is called what?
Green Corn Ceremony
The majority of white settlers who moved to Mississippi were what?
Farmers
What was the southeastern Indians staple crop?
Maize
The French called this tribe the bread people and they lived close to their Biloxi neighbors.
Pascagoula
Who bought the land for the Native Americans to have a reservation?
Bureau of Indian Affairs
What is another word for a peace pipe?
Calumet
What did the Choctaw buy from the money they made when they sold their land?
An area in the Indian territory
Which state did the Chickasaw Tribe move to after they were forced to sell their land?
Oklahoma
The name for this small tribe is derived from the frequency of the two syllables "gri" and "gra".
Grigra
The federal state law that pushed the Indians from their homeland is called what?
Indian Removal Act