Rez Geography
This Montana reservation lies on 1.2 million acres of land that touch the southern part of the Flathead Lake, the Mission Mountains and the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge.
What is the Confederated Salisha and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT)?
The 4-letter name for this southwestern tribe translates to “The People”.
Who are the Dine (pronounced dih-neh) for the Navajo Tribe?
A member of the Amskapi Piikani Nation, she was a female activist who successfully led a class action lawsuit against the Federal Government. The lawsuit lasted 13 years for mismanagement of Native American Trust Funds with a final settlement of $3.4 Billion.
Who was Eloise Cobell (Yellow Bird Woman)?
How many Federally Recognized Tribes are there?
574
These 2 clans of the Apsaalooke Tribe “died out” or were absorbed into larger clans like the Uuwatiishe (Greasy Mouth).
What is Brings Home Game without Shooting and Sore Lip?
This Wyoming Tribes reservation spans 2.2 million acres established by the 1868 Fort Bridger treaty and sits along the Wind River basin.
What is the Wind River Indian Reservation in Central Wyoming which is shared with the Northern Arapaho?
There are 2 names for this northern plains tribe.
1 to describe the southern sect which translates to “Morning Star People” and the other name to describe the northern sect which translates to “The Real People”.
Who are the 1: Tsetsehestahese pronounced Tsitsistas and 2: Sotaeo’o pronounced Suh-tai for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe?
This Apsaalooke man counted coup on his enemies during WWII against the German forces. He served in the US Army from 1943 to 1945. In 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama.
Who was Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow?
Approximately 300 years ago, this band split from its mother tribe to become what was the “our side” band; later settling at the base of a mountain after many, many years of migration.
Who is the band that became known as Biiluuke meaning our side people who split from the Hidatsa people in present day North Dakota?
After their migration they settled at the base of the Big Horn Mountains near present day Buffalo, Wyoming and are now known as Apsaalooke or Crow Tribe.
This tribe does not have a clanship system but a society system. The societies are as follows; Elk Horn Scrapers, Kit Fox, Crazy Dogs, Bow Strings, Chiefs and Red Shirts (died out).
Who is the Northern Cheyenne People?
This tribe's reservation spans 2.2 million acres, has 3 mountain ranges, a Hutterite colony and one of the rivers is call “Little mean River” in it’s tribal language.
Who are the Apsaalooke Tribe or Crow Tribe of Indians?
The name for this tribe translates to children of the large beaked bird.
Who are the Apsaalooke (Crow Tribe of Indians)?
This member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe served in the U.S. Senate for the state of Colorado, he was a decorated veteran serving in the U.S. Air Force and served in the Korean War. He was a 3-time U.S. National Judo Champion and won a gold medal at the 1963 Pan American Games and was the first Native American Olympian in Judo. He also was a well-respected jewelry designer.
Who was Ben Nighthorse Campbell?
Out of the 12 tribes located in Montana, this tribe is the only tribe recognized by the Federal Government but does not have a dedicated reservation.
Who was the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe (they operate their programs out of Great Falls, MT.)?
This southwestern tribe has roughly 30-34 living clans that a child is born into and belong to on the matrilineal side such as Snake, Antelope and Butterfly clans.
What is the Hopi People (Tribe)?
This Tribes reservation is only 1,456 square miles and has 3 natural boundaries including the Missouri River, Porcupine Creek and Big Muddy Creek.
What is the Fort Peck Indian Reservation?
The name for this plains tribe refers to the 7 council fires. This tribe is split linguistically into three bands which translates to “friends” or “allies” and 7 subtribes.
Who are the Oceti Sakowin (7 council fires) or Lakota, Nakota and Dakota for the Sioux Tribe?
This young award-winning actor is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes (MHA) in North Dakota. He starred in The Revenant alongside Leonardo Dicaprio in which he won Young Artist Award for best Performance in a feature film. His other films include The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Indian Horse.
Who was Forrest Goodluck?
This event started in 1904 as a farmers market where tribal members would bring their crops for sale. It has now grown into a large summer festivity.
What is the Crow Fair Tipi Capital of the World?
This clan of the Apsaalooke Nation is said to be very messy travelers. When it was time to move camp, members of this clan would simply gather all their belongings together and wrap into a big messy bundle in their rush to pack.
Who were the Ties the Bundle Clan?
This reservation is 690 square miles located near a famous battleground. It has 5 districts. On its northern tip is where a famous sundance occurred in which a warrior saw soldiers riding upside down.
What is the Northern Cheyenne Tribe?
This confederacy tribe consists of 4 mains groups found in northern Montana and Cananda along the Rocky Mountains.
Who is Niitsitapi “The Real People” or Blackfoot Tribe?
This Native American athlete had his shoes stolen before a race, so he dug in the trash and found 2 mismatched shoes and wore them in his race and won during the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.
Who was Jim Thorpe of the Sac and Fox Nation ?
This famous jump site in Alberta, near the Montana borer, is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
What is Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump?
This Clan of the Apsaalooke Nation derives its name from the story of a young Crow man who flirted with a young Crow woman near the bank of the river. Members of this clan are said to have a gift of storytelling as an attribute and their flaw is that they can lie or tell tall tales.
Who are the Biilikóoshe (Whistling Water Clan)?