Fire
The name of mascot created by the US Forest Service to promote fire safety and stop widespread Forest Fires.
Who is Smokey the Bear?
A type of fish that was harvested by indigenous people. It is quite popular even today as a staple of the Pacific Northwest.
What is salmon?
A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
what is a Treaty?
a roughly 2,000-mile historic route from Missouri to Oregon, used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s for westward expansion
What is the Oregon Trail
Songs or dances are a form of ____ for the indigenous people of Oregon
What is prayer?
Plants or ecosystems that need fire to stay healthy or grow properly.
A large depression in the earth, in the shape of a bowl.
What is a Basin?
A community of people connected by shared culture, traditions, and history
What is a tribe?
The slow and difficult foot journey that Native people from the Rogue Valley were forced to walk in winter - over 265 miles.
The Oregon Trail of Tears
This mythical figure is said to have connect with and is sacred to some of the indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest.
Who is Bigfoot?
The study of organisms and their relations with their physical surroundings.
What is Ecology?
A place where humans breed and hatch fish.
What is a Fish Hatchery?
A phrase meaning "so long ago that no one knows when it started"
What is Time Immemorial
Act of Congress that gave settlers free land in Oregon and led to the violent removal of Native people from their lands.
Oregon Land Donation Act (1850)
Several dams were removed from this river and a group of indigenous youth rafted the whole river over the course of thirty days.
What is the Klamath River?
A practice by indigenous people to help promote healthy growth of certain plants.
What is a controlled burn? (Also will accept What is a cultural burn?)
A type of eel that indigenous people harvested from rivers.
What is Lamprey?
A volunteer army that does not have to follow the dame rules as the US Army.
What is a militia?
Passed by Congress under the Andrew Jackson presidency, this act removed all Indians east of the Mississippi to an "Indian Territory" where they would be "permanently" housed.
The Indian Removal Act (1830)
a Native American cultural and linguistic group whose original territory encompassed the Willamette Valley and areas southward to Yoncalla and the Umpqua River.
Who are the Kalapuya people?
This endangered eco-system relies on fire to prevent the encroachment of conifer trees.
What is an Oak Savanna?
The type of purple flower that can be found in muddy meadows. It's roots were harvested to be roasted and eaten by indigenous people.
What is Camas?
The right of a group to make rules for themselves without outside interference
a violent conflict in Southern Oregon between U.S. forces (Army & militia) and Indigenous peoples of the Rogue River watershed (like the Takelma, Shasta, Athapaskan groups) over land, resources, and escalating tensions from settler encroachment
The Rouge River War
Name 3 of the 9 federally recognized tribes of Oregon. (Hint: there is a poster on the wall of the classroom)
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Burns Paiute, Kalamath, Confederated Tribes of Siletz, Confederated Rives of Warm Springs, The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw, Coquille, Cow Creek Band Of Umpqua, (I will also count Chinook)