You Are On Indigenous Land
The land that is now called Chicago has been a gathering place for Indigenous people for thousands of years due to the intersection of several waterways including the rivers and this large lake.
What is Lake Michigan?
This country used apartheid to control people of color.
What is South Africa?
Also home to the Simpsons, laws for the state of Illinois are made in this city.
What is Springfield?
This organization was created by a diverse group of people including W.E.B DuBois in 1909 and is the oldest civil rights organization in the United States.
What is the NAACP?
Some people say there are seven of these landmasses, including North America and Australia.
What are continents?
Through her marriage to Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, Kittihawa helped her husband join trade networks of this tribal nation.
Who is Kittihawa?
This 20th century war is nicknamed “The Forgotten War”
What is the Korean War?
The Chicago government is separated into fifty wards and each is represented by this person.
What is an alderman/alderwoman/alderperson?
This city was home to the famous Bus Boycotts of 1955.
What is Montgomery?
Greenland is an autonomous region of this European country.
What is Denmark?
In the Myaamia emergence story, the first ancestors are said to have pulled themselves out of this element by grabbing onto tree limbs along the banks of the St. Joseph River.
What is water?
This anti-apartheid leader was jailed for 27 years.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This Senator from Illinois lost both of her legs in combat in Iraq.
Who is Tammy Duckworth?
This was an organization that was led by young, black people people to push for civil rights in the 60s. They organized peaceful protests like sit-ins and the Freedom Rides.
What is SNCC?
This is the largest island in the Caribbean, had a revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
What is Cuba?
In this historic confederacy, the Ojibwe are the "Keepers of the Faith," the Odawa are the "Keepers of Trade," and the Potawatomi are the "Keepers of the Fire."
What is the Council of the Three Fires?
This leader of Venezuela was recently captured by the United States for drug trafficking
Who is Nicholas Maduro?
Word that means to have the ability to govern one’s self.
What is sovereignty?
This influential activist was known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" and helped students found SNCC in 1960.
Who is Ella Baker?
This South American country (where Che was killed) has the highest (elevated) capital in the world.
What is Bolivia?
The Council of the Three Fires was forced to sign a series of this type of formal agreement in Chicago, ceding millions of acres of land to the United States.
What are treaties?
This formerly enslaved person helped lead the Haitian Revolution in 1791.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
Each year, aldermen receive over $1million dollars to spend on these type of projects in their ward.
What is infrastructure?
On March 7, 1965 peaceful protesters planned to march from Selma, Alabama but were stopped by state troopers on this bridge.
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
This peninsula is home to the world’s most heavily fortified border, the DMZ, which has separated two sovereign nations since an armistice was signed in 1953.
What is the Korean Peninsula?