Native Nation
This is the total population of people who identified as American Indian and Alaskan Native Population in 2020 (within 1 million margin of error)
What is 9.7 million?
This is the total number of Native American languages spoken in the United States today
What is over 150?
This 1763 treaty resulted in the containment of Catawba lands into a 144,000-acre reservation on the border of North and South Carolina near Rock Hill
What was the Treaty of Augusta?
This term refers to the practice of breaking up Native American reservation land into individually assigned plots (which has historical led to the sale and loss of vast territories)
What is allotment?
Some members of this tribal group are descended from native people who escaped the forced removal of their people to Oklahoma
What is the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians?
This is one of the states with the highest percentage of AIAN population (alone and in combination)
What is Alaska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Dakota, Montana, North Dakota
They were the largest tribal group represented in a majority of counties in the southeastern united states (as of 2010)
Who are the Cherokee?
This 1830 act of Congress resulted in the Trail of Tears
What was the Indian Removal Act?
This 1887 Act divided tribal lands into individual portions with the goal of assimilating Native Americans and breaking up tribal communities
What was the Dawes Act?
This is the largest AIAN population group in the Carolinas. It has state recognition but not Federal Recognition
What is the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina?
This is the largest AIAN population group in the United States
What is the Navajo Nation? (Alternatively, Mexican American Indian)
This is the language group of the Catawba Indian Nation (and others in the Carolina Piedmont and Great Plains)
What is Siouan?
This was the name given to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole people who were removed from the southeastern U.S. to Indian territory across the Mississippi River in what is now Oklahoma
Who were the Five Civilized Tribes?
This act, passed in 1934 during the FDR administration, sought to reduce federal control of indigenous communities, limit forcible assimilation efforts, and increase tribal self-government
What was the Indian Reorganization Act?
This boarding school operated from 1879 until 1918 with the goal of forcible assimilation of indigenous children. Native children from across the United States attended, including Cherokee and Catawba. The school required students to speak English and no longer dress in tribal clothing, among other things. In 2009 the Obama Administration signed a written apology on behalf of the United States government for the mistreatment of Native American children at the school
What was the Carlisle Indian School?
This is the total number of Federally recognized tribes in the United States
What is 574?
This is the language group of the Cherokee Indians (and others in the northeastern United States)
What is Iroquoian?
This 1868 treaty relocated the Sioux, Arapaho, and others to the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was broken by an act of Congress in 187 7 that unlawfully took away native rights to the land
What was the (second) Treaty of Fort Laramie?
This was the policy of ending federal recognition of tribal status for many Native American communities after World War II. It was intended to end separate and special designation of indigenous people as tribal citizens. Over three million acres of tribal lands were lost as a result, along with federal recognition for many tribal groups
What was Termination?
This broad cultural term refers to a large group of native people who constructed urban centers on mounds near rivers and practiced the Three Sisters agriculture across the Midwestern and Southeastern United States prior to European colonization of North America
What was the Mississippian Culture?
At 27,000 square miles, this is the largest Native American reservation in the United States
What is the Navajo Nation?
This is the name of the traditional agricultural practice of growing corn, beans, and squash together in many Native American communities
What are the Three Sisters?
First founded as a committee of the Continental Congress in 1775, this office of the federal government manages Native American assets and oversees U.S. policy toward American Indian communities
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)?
This 1975 Congressional Act ended the Federal Termination policy
What was the Indian Self-Determination Act?
She was the leader of a sophisticated indigenous civilization south of Charlotte near present-day Camden, South Carolina at the time of the Spanish expedition through the Southeast led by Hernando de Soto
Who was the Lady of Cofitachequi?