General History
What is the name of the belief that white Americans had a God-given right to expand across the continent?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Almost one third of all native Americans are living in poverty
True. According to data, approximately 25-30% of Native Americans live in poverty, which is significantly higher than the national average
Native children were forced to attend schools run by what kinds of organizations?
What are religious organizations?
What is a reservation?
What is land set aside for Native American tribes, where they can make their own laws?
Name a fruit or vegetable whose name comes from a Native American language.
What is squash / persimmon / pecan?
What event forced the a Native American tribe to relocate, causing thousands of deaths?
What is the Trail of Tears?
The majority of Native Americans live on reservations.
False. While many Native Americans live on reservations, the majority actually live outside of them. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of recent data, more than 70% of Native Americans live in urban or suburban areas.
Were these schools designed to help Native communities preserve their culture?
What is no?
Who is in charge of laws on a reservation?
What is the tribe?
How many Native languages are estimated to exist in North and South America?
What is 750–1,000?
In 1492, who sailed to America thinking he was in the Indian Ocean?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Disease wiped out an estimated 80% of Native American populations
True. Diseases brought by European colonisers, such as smallpox, had a devastating impact on Native American populations, wiping out portions of their numbers
What part of Native culture was especially targeted in boarding schools?
What is language?
Name one major social issue many reservations struggle with.
What is alcoholism / suicide / poverty / missing and murdered women?
Name a U.S. state with a name from a Native American language.
What is Missouri / Iowa / Illinois / Massachusetts / etc.?
Which 1830 law forced many Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson, the President under which the Trail of Tears genocide occurred, is still on the American $20 bill
True. Andrew Jackson is still featured on the $20 bill, despite his controversial role in the forced relocation of Native American tribes
Name one kind of abuse or punishment that children faced in these schools.
What is physical punishment or forced separation?
What tribe went on the Trail of Tears?
What is Cherokee?
Name an animal that gets its name from a Native American language
What is moose / skunk / raccoon?
What do some U.S. cities and schools now call Columbus Day?
What is Indigenous Peoples' Day?
5.2 Million Native Americans live in the USA
True. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 5.2 million people in the United States who identify as Native American or Alaska Native, either alone or in combination with another race
Book title that sums up the cruel goal of assimilation at boarding schools?
What is “Kill the Indian, save the man”?
Who is the president who overrode the Supreme Court's ruling that the Trail of Tears is unconstitutional.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
What kind of event, common today in Indigenous culture, is also a word that comes from a Native language?
What is a powwow?