Indigenous words
This word for a marsupial animal that comes out at night came from the word "opassum" which means “white dog” or “white beast” in the Powhatan language.
Opossum
Who were the first people to live in North America?
Native Americans, Indians, Inuit, Indigenous peoples
Native Americans lived in North America before countries existed, like the "United States".
true
This Washington NFL Football team changed their team name from a slur to what?
The commanders
Land was always taken from Indigenous Americans fairly and legally.
False, the U.S. government broke a treaty agreement with the Seneca Nation in Pennsylvania to build the Kinzua dam in the 1960s. 700 people lost their homes.
This word for a kind of yellow/orange gourd comes from the Narragansett tribe word "askútasquash"
squash
How long did Native Americans live here before Colonizers arrived from Europe?
a. decades
b. hundreds of years
c. a thousand years
d. thousands of years
d, thousands of years
Christopher Columbus discovered America.
False, there were already people living here.
How many Indigenous Women will be on Canadas hockey team this Olympics?
1,2,3, or 4?
3 women
Indigenous American tribes have beautiful languages and cultures that are unique from one another.
true! Each tribe has its own food, dress, and culture!
This mushy green fruit with a pit in the middle originally got its name from the Nahuatl name for the fruit, "ahuacatl".
avocado
1. 1
2. 30
3. 75
4. 100+
4. 100+
False, they face systemic racism that affects their healthcare, their access to education, and puts them in danger.
The Navajo- Gallup water project is under way in 2022 in New Mexico! How many Navajo households did not have access to clean water in 2020?
a. 700
b. 1,000
c. 4,000
d. 9,000
d. In 2020, the Indian Health Service estimated that more than 9,600 homes on the Navajo reservation did not have access to clean water
Many Tribes lost their languages because colonists forced them to speak English.
True, there are at least 109 languages that have no speakers left in North America
This small boat gets its name from the Arawakan word "canaoua"
canoe
What does "Indigenous" mean?
1. born in a country
2. racially native to a place
3. moved to a new place
2. racially native to a place
True, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study, men rape and sexually assault Native American and Alaskan Native women more than 2.5 times than any other ethnicity.
The federal Indian Boarding School Initiative started in 2021 has begun investigating "residential schools" that were used to force assimilation of Indigenous Americans. In Canada and the United States, the graves of many children have been found that died of neglect and abuse in these schools. When did these schools close in the United States?
A. 1800s
B. 1920s
C. 1960s
D. 1990s
D. The 1990s. That may feel like a long time ago to you, but that's when I was born. Can you imagine if your parents had experienced that trauma? How do you think that affects Indigenous children your age?
Thanksgiving is celebrated by Indigenous Americans and is respectful of their role in history.
False, Thanksgiving, as the United States celebrates it, leaves out painful truths about the nation’s history of violence against Native peoples.
This boat get's its name from the Inuit of present-day Greenland, who call the long boat "qajaq".
Kayak
Why did Christopher Columbus call indigenous Americans "Indians"?
Because he thought he had sailed to India
True, their land is still taken to build pipelines, and other building projects.
In 2021, Deb Halland was sworn in as the first Native American ________.
1. Vice President
2. Cabinet Secretary
3. Judge
2. Cabinet Secretary
plays "a critical role in managing the flow of information between the White House and the federal departments"
95% of Indigenous Americans were murdered
True, its estimated more than 12 million people were killed