Pop Culture
A food that is always at powwows
What is frybread?
The first Native American women to be elected to the U.S. Congress. (two names)
Who are Deb Haaland and Sharive Davids?
The name of the displacement of the Cherokee people off of their lands by Andrew Jackson in 1838.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The month that Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in the U.S.
What is November?
The year that a NFL team changed their mascot from a racist one to the Washington Commanders.
What is 2022?
This bogus story is still taught in elementary schools as a peaceful first encounter between the pilgrims and Indians that led to the bogus creation of its celebration as a November holiday by a bogus president with a tall hat.
What is the “First Thanksgiving”?
The Hunkpapa Lakota leader who is known for leading the Sioux warriors in destroying General Custer’s force in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
MMIWG2S is an initialism for this.
What is Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People?
The tribe whose land that UCLA occupies.
What is the Tongva tribe?
The years that consisted of the Native American occupation of Alcatraz.
What was 1969-1971?
The phrase popularized by the company Urban Native Era that is on a lot of their hats with the intention of calling out settlers’ place on stolen land.
What is “You are on Native Land”?
This Native American actress went on stage to deny Marlon Brando’s Oscar award in 1973 in order to gain awareness about the standoff at Wounded Knee.
Who is Sacheen Littlefeather?
The name of the civil rights movement during the 1960s and 1970s inspired by the Black Power movement and attributed to Vine Deloria, Jr.
What is Red Power?
The Lakota name for the sacred land mass that was violated into becoming what is presently called “Mt. Rushmore.”
What is the Black Hills?
The year Native Americans were granted citizenship in the U.S.
What was 1924?
This Canadian-American film released in 1998 included a main character named Thomas Builds-the-Fire.
What is Smoke Signals?
The first recognized female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Who is Wilma Mankiller?
This color is part of the name of a movement that started in 2013 called “_____ Shirt Day” to honor survivors of as well as those who died from Indian residential schools in Canada.
What is the color orange?
The tribe whose red sun symbol is on the flag of the state of New Mexico.
What is the Zia tribe?
The year that the state of California banned race-based affirmative action policies in education and employment.
What was 1996?
A growing artistic movement that reflects on the richness of Indigenous cultures where artists reimagine alternative histories and futures through science fiction and sub-genres in a variety of mediums.
What is Indigenous Futurism?
This Han Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota model went to the MET Gala for the first time this year in a beautiful blue dress wearing dentalium shells, porcupine quills, and a feather hairpiece as representation of her Native culture.
Who is Quannah Chasinghorse?
Though it is a myth that this land was annexed in 1898 and is now considered a U.S. state, it was actually illegally occupied and the status of this government is still in effect.
What is the Kingdom of Hawaii?
The traditional Lenape name for the peninsula that is now referred to as Manhattan.
What is Manahatta?
The year the Indian Child Welfare Act was enacted in the U.S., which was to protect Native children, protect the stability of Native tribes and families, and essentially to end the process of stealing Native children and sending them to Indian boarding schools.
What is 1978?