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Who am I? 1
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Who am I? 2
100
This term refers to living life like an Indian would: walking with the Earth, not upon it. Treating the Earth with respect. It does not refer specifically to a race issue, but rather how a person chooses to conduct his/her life.
What is Walking the Red Road?
100
This term refers to a Native American performance of the late 1800s, that illustrated a savior/liberator belief. It was an attempt by the Indians to separate themselves from the religious influence of the white man. White men were afraid of this performance and tried to have it outlawed.
What is the Ghost Dance?
100
We are the military unit who was responsible for slaughtering nearly 200 Native Americans, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
Who are the US 7th Cavalry?
100
In 1869 this territory's legislature became the first to allow women to vote. In 1890 this territory became the first state admitted into the Union that women the right to vote in state elections.
What is Wyoming?
100
This man was an ancient Greek philosopher who insisted that laws should be applied equally to all free citizens of a society.
Who is Aristotle?
200
This term refers to a group of Native Americans living in the Great Plains area -- mostly North and South Dakota.
Who are the Lakota Sioux?
200
This man was a Native American medicine man who had a vision that the white man would disappear from the earth in a natural disaster, and the ghosts of dead Indians would return from the grave and bring back the old ways of life. Indians were encouraged to reject alcohol, weapons, and technology.
Who is Wovoka?
200
I am the leader of the US 7th Cavalry, responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre.
Who is John Forsyth?
200
This term refers to the right to vote. In 1920 the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution allowed this for women.
What is suffrage?
200
We are an American military unit in World War II. Our unit was made up of Japanese-American men and was the most decorated unit in the American military. Many of our soldiers had family members who were being held in internment camps in the US.
Who is the 442nd Infantry?
300
This person is the famous leading of the Lakota Sioux.
Who is Sitting Bull?
300
The Sioux Indians created this idea, in connect with the Dance. The idea is that the clothing, made of buckskin or cloth, makes the wearer immune to bullets or other harm.
What is a Ghost Shirt?
300
I am the Massachusetts senator who sponsored a law, passed in 1887, that redistributed land from Indian tribes to individual tribe members. My goal was to "whitefy" the Indians, and make then farmers in the image of white farmers.
Who is Henry L. Dawes?
300
This woman was an advocate for the rights of women, the poor, and minorities. She served as First Lady of the US from 1933 to 1945.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
This man was a Mexican-american who fought and died in World War II. When his body was sent home to his hometown in Texas, the white people there would not alow it to be buried in a "white" cemetery.
Who is Felix Longoria?
400
This region was sacred ground to the Lakota Sioux and was protected for them by treaty. When gold was discovered in 1874, the whites wanted to get back into the area.
What is the Black Hills?
400
This incident happened in 1890 near the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. 500 US soldiers rounded up 350 Indians (mostly women and children) who were performing the Ghost Dance off the reservations. The next day the soldiers tried to disarm the Indians, and then the soldiers killed nearly 200 Indians.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
400
I am a famous industrialist who founded a automobile company. I was the publisher of the anti-semitic newspaper the Dearborn Independent.
Who is Henry Ford?
400
This term refers to a prestigious organization for women in the US. Members of this group can trace their ancestry back to an ancestor who helped America gain its independence.
What is the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution)?
400
This man was a young Jewish man who was wrongly convicted of murdering a young girl in the early 1900s. He was eventually taken from his jail cell and lynched.
Who is Leo Frank?
500
This legal agreement was made in 1868 to protect the sacred Black Hills regions for the Lakota Sioux. However, when gold was discovered in this region in 1874, the whites wanted to get back into the area.
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty?
500
This is the place that the Indians were brought during the massacre when they were rounded up by the US soldiers.
What is Wounded Knee Creek?
500
I am a racist Mississippi politician who suggested that black citizens of the US should be rounded up and sent to Africa.
Who is Theodore Gilmore Bilbo?
500
This term refers to a group of young black men (ages 12 to 21) who were accused of raping two white girls on a train in 1938 in Alabama. Despite overwhelming evidence that they were innocent, they were convicted. All were eventually released, but some spent up to 15 years in jail for a crime they did not commit.
Who are the Scottsboro boys?
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