Identity
Montana Tribes
Culture
Spirituality
Social and Political Systems
100

The amount of "Indian blood" a person has

What is blood quantum?

100

The number of reservations in Montana

What is seven?

100

Totem poles are a common art style typical in this culture area

What is Northwest Coastal?

100

A common symbol in Native American spiritual beliefs

Circles

100

The practice of marrying outside of ones kinship group

What is exogamy?

200

This theory proposes that there 3 waves of migration into the Americas

What is the Bering Strait theory?

200

The number of tribes in Montana

What is twelve?

200

Algonquin, Siouan, and Uto-Aztecan are examples of this

What are language families?

200

Ceremonies that happen at approximately the same time each year

What are calendrical rites?

200

A type of kinship system which traces lineage through matrilineal or patrilineal lines

What are clans?

300

They set the criteria for tribal citizenship

What are tribal governments?

300

This Montana tribe does not have a reservation

What is Little Shell?

300

The era before horses was called this

What are the Dog Days?

300

All My Relations (Lakota)

What is “Mitakuye Oyasin”?

300

Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota are divisions of this tribe

What is the Sioux?

400

True or False:

An American Indian is someone who speaks a Native language

False

400

This Montana tribe resides on two reservations

What is the Assiniboine?

400

Engravings or carvings on rocks

What are petroglyphs?

400

A complex understanding of the nature of the universe.

What is Cosmology?

400

A type of cousin that would be considered siblings

What are parallel cousins?

500

What is the number of federally recognized tribes today?

574

500

Apsaalooke is the traditional name of this Montana tribe

What are the Crow?

500

A historical record kept on a buffalo hide

What are winter counts?

500

The belief in the existence of spirit beings

What is animism?

500

A local group of people jointly engaged in seasonal movement in search of subsistance

What is a band?

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