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100

Largest state in the United States.

Alaska

100

Largest river in the United States. It begins here in Minnesota at Lake Itasca and ends in Louisiana at the Gulf of Mexico (America).

Mississippi River

100

What is the most important animal to Great Plains Native Tribes?

North American Bison
100

Largest Native American city in North America before the arrival of Europeans.  It was located outside modern day St. Louis, Missouri.

Cahokia

100

Who were the first Europeans to reach North America around the year 1000 AD / CE.

Vikings

200

Smallest state in the United States.

Rhode Island

200

Largest mountain range in the United States.  It is located in Western US States like Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

Rocky Mountains

200

Identify the 2 Native Tribes in Minnesota.

Anishinaabe / Ojibwe / Chippewa

Dakota / Lakota / Sioux

200

Name the religious belief that all things in nature have spirits or souls (including people, plants, rocks, winds and waters).

Animism

200

Which European kingdom hired Christopher Columbus to sail across the Atlantic Ocean?

Spain

300

Most populated state in the United States.

California

300

Mountain Range in the Eastern United States.  It crosses states like Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Appalachian Mountains

300

Famous Native American guide to the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Corps of Discovery).  She was born to the Shoshone Tribe in Idaho but had been captured by the Hidatsa Tribe in North Dakota.  Today North Dakota's largest lake is named after her.

Sakakawea or Sacagawea or Sacajawea

300

Which territory in Canada is completely governed by the indigenous Native tribe (the Inuit).

Nunavut

300

What year did Christopher Columbus sail across the Atlantic Ocean?

1492

400

Least populated state in the United States.

Wyoming

400

What is the Native American name of the tallest mountain in the United States? It is located in Alaska and its English name is Mount McKinley.

Denali

400

What terrible event were the "5 Civilized Tribes" forced to endure while being removed from their lands by the US Government?

Trail of Tears

400

What is Blood Quantum?

A persons percentage of Native ancestry (or "Native Blood")
400

Name the modern island country where Columbus first landed after crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Bahamas

500

Name the 5 inhabited U.S. Territories.

Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa.

500

Name the 5 Great Lakes.

Superior, Michigan, Huron, Eerie, and Ontario.

500

Which Native tribe helped inspire the United States to become a Democracy after the American Revolution with Hiawatha's Great Law of Peace and a Tribal Confederacy form of government.

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)

500

Chief of the Lakota who defeated the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) in 1876 and has a large monument still under construction in South Dakota.

Crazy Horse

500

The first Europeans to reach Minnesota were from which country?

France

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