Vocabulary
This was an early variation of corn. (Hint: It came from southwestern Mexico.)
What is maize?
This tribe was from the southeast. They originated in Florida.
What is the Seminole Tribe?
How many states have Native American names
What is 26?
Number of Native Americans in the US today?
2,600,000. 500,000. 10 million
What is 2,600,000?
This was a military conflict between the Dakota and settlers supported by US soldiers in the state of Minnesota.
What was the Dakota War of 1862?
Minnesota is a Dakota word that means?
What is "sky-tinted" or "cloudy" water?
Mni means water. Sota means sky-tinted or cloudy.
Minnesota is named after the MInnesota River.
This tribal group comes from the Arctic region, in the geographic area of Alaska.
Who are the Inuit?
This native empire dominated northern Mexico from 1300-1521
Who were the Aztecs?
Tribes in the US today?
a.250. b. 374. c. 574
What is 574?
The Dakota 38 + 2.
What was the largest mass execution in US history. 38 Dakota hung in Mankato in 1862 after The Dakota War. Two more hung in 1863.
A sun-hardened clay building material made from straw, dirt, and water. It was used by the Pueblo peoples to make their homes.
What is adobe?
This tribal group is from the southwestern area of North America and has reservation land in Arizona?
What is the Hopi tribe?
This native empire existed in the 1500s in South America in the Andes Mountain region
What were the Incas?
Number of NA languages spoken today in the US?
What is 175?
The forced removal of approx. 100,000 NAs from southeastern US to Oklahoma in 1831 Approx. 6000 died.
What was the Trail of Tears?
A narrow boat with pointed ends.
What is a canoe?
What are the two main tribal groups in Minnesota?
What are the Dakota and Anishinaabe tribes?
Native Americans had this idea about the possession of land.
Did not believe in the private ownership of land.
What percentage of Native American languages are in danger of disappearing?
Nearly 98% of them are in danger of disappearing within in 2 generations.
Congress enacted this law in 1924? What did it do?
What was the Indian Citizenship Act? Granted US citizenship to NAs born in the US.
A ceremony in which Pacific Northwest coast tribes would give away or destroy possessions as a way to display wealth or prestige.
What is a potlatch?
The three major tribal groups of Wisconsin.
What are Ho-Chunk, Oneida, and Menominee?
A NA spiritual movement around 1890 that was banned by the US government.
What was the Ghost Dance? proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits to fight on their behalf and end American Westward expansion.