Native Agriculture
One of the most common advancements practiced by Native Americans was this term for moving which crops are grown in a given area, often leaving a portion of the land wild.
What is Crop Rotation/Shifting Crops?
The name the Sioux give to their singular god, whom they consider to be a "Great Mystery".
What is Wankhan Thanka?
Originally, the Sioux come from this state and east of the river that gives the state its name.
What is Mississippi?
Supposedly it was an apple that fell on Sir Isaac Newton's head that led to him discovering this Law of Nature.
What is the Law of Gravity?
Derived from the poisonous fruit of the nightshade plant.
What is a tomato?
The Coast Salish do not allow stepparents to have any familial responsibility or privilege with children from the original marriage, also known as...
What is bilateral kinship?
Before the Hopi lived in Adobo Houses and the Mexica lived in Tenochtitlan, they lived in Arizona and New Mexico as this people.
Who are the Anasazi/Ancient Pueblos?
Founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637, this is considered America's Oldest College.
What is Harvard?
Derived from the poisonous root of the nightshade plant.
What is potato?
The Hopi believe in many gods, specifically Masauwu, whom they believe did this.
What is Create the World?
It is believed that these natives invented corn because they lived along this River Valley, where corn was developed.
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
This famous hockey player not only has the most scored goals in his career, but possibly more telling he is Number 1 in Career Assists.
Who is Wayne Gretsky?
In Three Sisters' Farming, corn is able to readily grab this elemental nutrient from the soil, because beans pull it from the air.
What is nitrogen?
In this tribe, a mother's brothers take on the role that in western cultures is considered the responsibility of a biological father.
What is Lenni Lenape?
This tribe ruled an empire from southern Guatemala all the way down to modern-day Chile, the largest in the Americas.
Who were the Inca?
Even though Organized Crime is always racist in structure, one of the most famous Italian Mafia Bosses in American History, Lucky Luciano, wouldn't become famous without this Jewish mobster as his best friend and ally.
Who is Meyer Lansky?
In order to irrigate their farms, this native group used terrace farming, which looks like a staircase up the side of a mountain.
Who are the Inca?
In almost every culture, their personal name for their ethnicity or tribe means this...
What is the People/the Real People?
The Norse believed these people were possibly Draugr, zombie-like creatures and servants of Hel, when they attacked Viking camps at night, which may be another reason they referred to these people as "dried skins".
Who are the Inuit?
On January 6, 2025, Triple H opened Monday Night Raw claiming the beginning of 'this' new era of the WWE, especially since it was the new platform the show was broadcast from.
What is the Netflix Era?