NC Natives
As of today, the state of North Carolina officially recognizes this many tribes.
What is eight?
What year was CIC founded?
What is 1974?
This is the name of UNC’s fight song, played by the Marching Tar Heels.
What is Hark the Sound?
This hit FX/Hulu show follows four Native teenagers growing up on a reservation in Oklahoma.
What is Reservation Dogs?
This cartoon mouse has a theme park named after him.
Who is Mickey Mouse?
This NC tribe is based in Orange County.
Who are the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation?
Founded at UNC–Chapel Hill in 1994, this was the first Native American greek letter organizational in the nation.
What is Alpha Pi Omega?
This UNC men’s basketball coach, known for his time from 1988–1997, led the Tar Heels to the 1993 NCAA championship.
Who is Dean Smith?
This Native actress became the first Indigenous woman to win a Golden Globe for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Who is Lily Gladstone?
This toy has colored squares that players twist to solve a puzzle.
What is a Rubik’s Cube?
Members of this tribe drove out the Ku Klux Klan in the “Battle of Hayes Pond.”
Who are the Lumbee?
This Lumbee singer, a proud Tar Heel, gained national attention when she competed on American Idol.
Who is Charly Lowry?
This building was the very first one built at UNC and is the oldest on campus.
What is Old East?
This model and activist is known for her traditional face tattoos and has appeared on the cover of Vogue.
Who is Quannah Chasinghorse?
This Pixar movie follows a family of superheroes with powers like strength, invisibility, and speed.
What is The Incredibles?
This NC tribe is known as “People of the Fallen Star.”
Who are the Waccamaw Siouan?
This Lumbee physician, a UNC graduate, became the first Native American pediatrician in North Carolina.
Who is Dr. Joseph Bell?
This UNC women’s soccer player won the FIFA World Cup with the U.S. national team and is one of the sport’s most famous alumni.
Who is Mia Hamm?
This leader made history in 2018 as one of the first Native American women elected to Congress, and in 2021 became the first Native American Cabinet Secretary.
Who is Deb Haaland?
This soda is known for its bright red color and cherry flavor, popular in the South.
What is Cheerwine?
In 1957, this tribe in opened its own school so their children could have a place dedicated to Native education.
Who are the Haliwa-Saponi?
Who is the artist that created The Gift, outside the UNC Student Union?
Who is Senora Lynch?
This UNC alum went on to become U.S. President in the 19th century.
Who is James K. Polk?
This 1998 film, was the first film fully written, directed, and acted by Native people.
Smoke Signals?
This drink mix’s mascot would burst through walls yelling, “Oh yeah!”
What is Kool-Aid Man?