Native Groups
What is the Aztec empire/Mexica?
Battle during which the Lakota Sioux defeated General Custer of the US Army.
Massacre caused by an altercation between the US Army and a group of Lakota Sioux dancing the Ghost Dance, in which over 250 native men, women, and children died.
What is Wounded Knee Massacre?
War in which the Navajo Code Talkers served.
What is WWII?
The three sisters.
What is corn, beans, and squash?
A powerful nation whose homeland was in Georgia. They sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is The Cherokee?
1680 revolt in which native peoples in New Mexico overthrew Spanish rule for 12 years.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Forced migration of Navajo and some Apache people to Bosque Redondo.
War between the French and the British, involving their respective native allies, which also was fought in Europe.
What is the 7 Years War?
Land mammal around which many Great Plains tribes based their lifestyle.
What is bison/buffalo?
The native peoples that the earliest Dutch colonists and the Jamestown colonists interacted with.
The British sold natives along the Mississippi weapons with which they aggressively resisted US expansion, which was one reason for this war.
What is the War of 1812?
What is the Trail of Tears?
Conflict between the colonists and a group of native allies. Also known as King Philip's War.
What is Metacom's war?
The three main empires of the Americas pre-Columbian exchange.
What is the Aztec, Inca, and Maya?
The group of native Americans who had an extensive trading system along the Mississippi, as well as thriving metropolitan center.
What is Hopewell/Cahokia?
Shawnee leader that resisted US expansion into native lands and established Prophet Town.
What is Tecumseh?
In response to natives from a specific pueblo killing a few Spaniards, the Spaniards killed 800 people from the pueblo.
What is the Acoma massacre?
Conflict between the Pequot people and the Rhode Islanders that lead to the colonists killing around 400 natives.
What is the Pequot War?
Name of the federal bureau that holds native lands (reservations) in trust.
The native group that the Pilgrims interacted with, many of whom had been killed off by European diseases.
What is the Wampanoag?
Name of the chief of the Nez Perce who went to Washington and spoke eloquently in favor of his people being able to return to their native land.
Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the US military in Colorado.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
Conflict between US military and a native Floridian group as well as some formerly enslaved people that had joined them in fighting US attempts to displace them.
What is the Second Seminole War?
Name of the president who marketed himself as an Indian Fighter.
What is Andrew Jackson?