Native Americans & Geography
OPTIC Analysis of Little Big Horn
Oppression, Removal. and War
Language
Modern Impacts
100

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Native Americans to this current-day state


What is Oklahoma?

*Toss Up: Oklahoma is a Choctaw word that translates to "Land/home of the ____ _____."

100

The man seen here; he is often portrayed in heroic poses despite him graduating from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class. 


Who is General George Armstrong Custer?

100

Pictured below, it pitted the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne Tribes against the U.S. Army's Seventh Cavalry. It resulted in the U.S. Army's defeat and the death of Custer.


What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?

*Toss Up: One of the Native American names for the battle was the Battle of the _____ ______

100

_______ ideas are those that require little to no interpretation while _______ ideas rely more on figurative language and its connotations.

What is explicit; implicit?

100

On June 6, 197, group of Native Americans, led by AIM, occupy _______ to demand the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie be honored. Twenty Native Americans—nine men and 11 women—are eventually arrested.

 

What is Mount Rushmore?

*Toss Up: What is the name of the national park and geographical area on which Mt. Rushmore resides; it has historically been home to the Lakota Sioux and other tribes.

200

In our novel, Junior's home state is this one.


What is Washington?

200

Pictured here, Custer's Last Fight primarily portrays _____ as the aggressor and _____ as the victims


Who are Native Americans (or similar answers); who are whites (or similar answers)

200

"Ever-shrinking" plots of land where Native Americans were forced, by treaty, to relocate.

What are reservations?

200

Choctaw Indians became renowned _____ _______ who helped the U.S. fight Germans in WWI, confounding the enemy with difficult-to-decipher hidden messages.

Who were Code Talkers?

200

This team recently changed its logo after decades of fights by activist groups against its racist imagery


Who were the Washington Redskins?

*Toss-Up: The current team's name is the _______.

300

The Trail of Tears forced southeastern tribes to cross this river on the way to the newly formed Indian Territory


What is the Mississippi River?

*Toss Up: The Mississippi River begins in this state and ends in this state?

300

Pictured below, this Lakota Sioux leader had visions of "soldiers falling from the sky like grasshoppers" during a Sun Dance ceremony.


Who was Sitting Bull?

300

In 1836, more than 3500 Muscogee Indians and 5,000 Cherokees die as they forced to the Indian Territory during this tragic event.

What was the Trail of Tears?

300
Government-run _____ _______ had the task of stamping out the culture of Native Americans who were separated from their tribal families

What are boarding schools?

300

In New Haven and other municipalities, Columbus Day has been replaced by this holiday.

What is Indigenous Peoples Day?

400

In 1918, Choctaw Code Talkers were used in this country during WWI after they were overheard talking in their native language in the Meuse-Argonne campaign


What is France?

400

This portrait by Earl Biss, member of the Crow Nation, was the grandson of a Crow member White Man Runs Him, who was hired, ironically, to track Lakota for Custer. His painting below continues what is now considered to be the _____ of Custer's heroism.


What is myth (or legend)?
400

He signed the 1830 Indian Removal Act


Who was Andrew Jackson?

*Toss Up: Name any three states covered by the Trail of Tears


400

Perhaps the most famous Code Talkers were from this N_______ tribe from the southwestern US. They "developed the most complex code, with over 600 terms, for use in the Pacific Theater, compared with about 250 terms for the World War II-era Comanche and under 20 terms for the World War I-era Choctaw."

Who were Navajo?

400

Chief Wahoo, logo of the team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians, was replaced by the second logo, rebranding the Major League baseball teams as the Cleveland ____________


Who are the Guaridans?

500

On December 15, 1890, Sitting Bull is killed during a confrontation with Indian police in Grand River in this state.


What is South Dakota?

500

Works of art like this one below often relied more on a____________ imagery, like those of horses.


What is abstract?

500

In 1622, The Powhatan Confederacy nearly wipes out Jamestown colony. This famous Powhatan woman married white settler John Smith.

Who is Pocahontas? 

500

In 1613, Pocahontas is captured by Captain Samuel Argall in the first Anglo-Powhatan War. While captive, she learns to speak English, converts to Christianity and is given the name “Rebecca.”

This would be an act of a common practice of forcing Native Americans to a_____________ to white culture.

What is assimilate?

500

Though associated commonly with equal rights for African Americans, Lyndon B. Johnson's A______ C____ R____ A___ of 1968 guarantees rights found in the Bill of Rights to Native Americans.

What is the American Civil Rights Act?

*Toss Up: The Bill of Rights are the first ___ amendments to the _____ ______________.

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