Indigenous People
The name of the famous native woman, daughter of the Powhatan chief, noted for her association with the Jamestown settlement
Hint: Think Disney
Who is Pocahontas?
(Pocahontas was much younger than depicted during the events of the Disney movie, she was actually probably 11 or 12)
The day designated as Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States every year
What is the second Monday of October?
Another term for the Indigenous people of the Americas.
What is Native American or American Indian?
The day designated as Columbus day in the United States every year
What is the second Monday of October?
The year Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue
What is 1492?
Member of the Patuxet tribe who taught the Pilgrims how to grow crops
Who is Squanto?
The first city to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day
What is Berkeley, California?
(It was instituted in 1992 on the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus)
The main reason so many object to the celebration of Columbus Day
What is the genocide of indigenous people as well as their continued struggles that resulted from Columbus and the subsequent colonization of the Americas?
This ethnicity has a stronger connection to Columbus and Columbus Day than most other Americans.
Who are Italian Americans?
(Columbus Day started gaining popularity during a time when Italian immigrants in the U.S. were being discriminated against and even lynched)
Christopher Columbus' place of birth. Double points for naming the city and country.
What is Italy?
(The Republic of Genoa)
Scholars estimate that indigenous populations decreased by up to this percentage within the first centuries of European colonization.
What is 90%?
(The majority of these deaths were due to the diseases that colonizers brought with them)
The number of states in the U.S. that recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day as a state holiday
What is 19?
(Wisconsin is one of the 19 as of 2019, Washington DC also recognizes it)
(8 of these 20 celebrate it instead of Columbus Day)
The number of voyages that Columbus made to the Americas
What is 4?
(Columbus only made it to mainland Central and South America on his third and forth trips)
Where Columbus actually landed at the end of his famous journey.
What is the Bahamas?
(Guanahani to the natives; now San Salvador. Christopher Columbus never set foot in present day USA and spent the rest of his life claiming that he had reached Asia on his journey)
Where Columbus was trying to get to on his famous journey.
What is India (Asia)?
Kidnapped woman who guided Lewis and Clark along their expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
This U.S. President was the first to formally commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day with a presidential proclamation
Who is Joe Biden?
(He issued the proclamation in 2021)
The estimated percentage of the current population of the United States with at least partial Indigenous ancestry
What is 2.9% (around 9.6 million people)?
(An estimated 1.1% of the U.S. population are full blooded Native Americans)
The city that has the largest Columbus Day celebration in the world.
What is New York City?
Christopher Columbus' reasoning for why his journey would be possible (which most people did not believe at the time).
What is the Earth was much smaller than had been theorized (and therefore he could cross to Asia by sailing directly West)?
Law signed by President Andrew Jackson that gave him the power to force tribes off their land; broke many treaties between US government and Native Americans
What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
The deadly relocation journey that Native Americans were forced to take in the 1830s?
What is the Trail of Tears?
This name refers to one of the Indigenous tribes of New Jersey
What is the....
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians, Powhatan Renape Indians, Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation, and Inter-Tribal People
The date that Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas
What is October 12th, 1492?
(Initially the holiday was celebrated on the 12th each year but it was later changed)
The name for the cultural exchange of crops, plants, animals, and ideas between the Americas and the "Old World"
What is the Columbian Exchange?