Healthcare
Education
Acts/Treaties
Economy
Historical Figures/Battles
100
3
Suicide and Cancer rates among Native Americans are how many times higher than the national average?
100
70%
The school drop out rate is around what percentage?
100
Indian Removal Act
The Trail of Tears was a result of this act in 1830
100
30%
What percentage of the Native American population lives below the poverty level?
100
Battle of Little Big Horn
1876 Battle of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho against the 7th Calvargy in Montana. Native American victory.
200
3
Infant mortality rates are how many times higher than nat’l average?
200
Indian Reorganization Act
This Act, signed in 1934, introduced the teaching of Indian history and culture in BIA schools (until then it had been Federal policy to acculturate and assimilate Indian people by eradicating their tribal cultures through a boarding school system)
200
the Dawes Act
What is the 1887 act that authorized the President to survey Indian tribal land and divide that land into individual allotments, destroying Native American communal landholdings?
200
15%-20%
What percentage of the population has no access to running water or electricity?
200
Sitting Bull
Who is the Lakota Sioux tribal chief who led his people in resistance to the US gov during the Battle of Little Big Horn
300
40-55 years (lower than any country on earth if you take aids, malaria, war out of the statics)
What is the life expectancy of the average Native American male?
300
25%- 50%
Across the 10 largest reservations, what is the percentage that does not graduate high school?
300
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
Signed in 1975, this act gave gov depts the authority to enter into contracts with, give grants to, and federally recognize Native American tribes. The tribes would have authority for how they administered the grants. Gave them greater control over there own wlefare. Act reversed 30 years of gov policy of severing treaties and obligations to tribes.
300
The 3rd White House Tribal Nations Conference
This conference occurred December 2nd at the Department of the Interior. The conference brought together leaders from the 565 federally recognized tribes to hear from President Obama and meet with senior federal officials.
300
Leonard Peltier
the AIM movement has been calling for the release of this person for decades. He is currently serving two life terms in prison for the alleged murder of two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge reservation.
500
Wasi'chu
Native American (Lakota) name for American settlers meaning "a stranger" or "one who take the fat part of the meat" or "greedy person.
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