STATES
This state is a tropical island. Its name comes from a local language and may mean "homeland."
Hawaii
If you're chewing it now, profe is going to make you spit it out!
Gum
Native Americans in New England introduced the European colonists to chewing gum made from the spruce tree. The Mayans, on the other hand, were the first people to use latex gum; better known to them as chicle.
Nicole Aunapu Mann is a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes. She is the first Native American to go on a "spacewalk." What is her job?
Astronaut
This word means "people living in a place from the earliest times - or before colonists came."
Indigenous
A green fruit that we use in guacamole.
Avocado
Indigenous Americans were the first to domesticate and cultivate avocados.
Yeehaw cowboys and cowgirls! The name of this state comes from the indigenous word "tejas" meaning "friends."
Texas
Two teams play this game, by pulling on a rope until one team falls down.
Tug of war
The Mohave people sometimes used tug-of-war to resolve disputes.
Also known as "Aquaman" his indigenous ancestry is Native Hawaiian and Pawnee.
Jason Momoa
Even though this name for Native Americans comes from a mistake, some people prefer to be called __________.
Indians, or American Indians
Without this vegetable we wouldn't have bravas!
Potato
Andeans grew potatoes first in what are now Peru and Bolivia.
The city of Boston, Harvard University, and the Celtics basketball team are in this state. Its name comes from an Algonquin word meaning "great-hill-small-place."
Massachusetts
If you have a headache you may take this indigenous medicine.
Aspirin
Indigenous Americans have been using willow tree bark to treat pain for thousands of years. It has the main ingredient in aspirin.
Many people think he is the greatest guitar player of all time. His grandmother was Cherokee.
Jimi Hendrix
Another country in North American uses the term "First Nations" to refer to indigenous people. What country is it?
Canada
Pancakes are a very American food. What we put on top of them was first made by indigenous people.
Maple syrup
"That's so weird, that's so _______." This state is named for an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful river."
Ohio
This sport has a stick with a net, a goal, and a hard ball.
Lacrosse
Indigenous people in North America have been playing lacrosse for nearly a thousand years.
Jim Thorpe was the first indigenous American to win a gold medal at the Olympics. He is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and had a career playing these two very American sports.
American football and baseball
The Inuit people were once called "Eskimos." That is no longer the right name for these people who live way up north, around the _________ Circle.
Arctic
This red berry is part of a traditional Thanksgiving sauce. We also drink its juice.
Cranberries
This state is featured in "The Wizard of Oz." Its name means "wind people" in Sioux.
Kansas
If you share a bedroom, you may use these beds that are stacked on top of each other.
Bunk beds
Bunk beds were invented by the Iroquois people, since multiple families lived in a single "longhouse."
Princess Nokia is known as a New York rapper. But her family has Taíno heritage, from this Caribbean island.
Puerto Rico
The Taíno were the main people in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas before colonisation.
If you don't know how an indigenous person talks about their heritage, what do you do?
Ask them what words they would like you to use!
The "three sisters" are three vegetables that are grown together. What are they?
Beans, corn and squash
The beans grow up the tall stalks of the corn, while the squash spreads to protect the roots.