NDN History
The movement that emerged in 2016 to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline
What is No DAPL?
The first Native American Oscar Nominee for Best Actress
Who is Lily Gladstone?
The tribe that lacrosse originates from
What is the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)?
The US Tribe with the largest reservation
What is the Navajo Nation?
The year of the last Gathering of Nations Powwow
What is 2026?
The year the American Indian Movement was officially founded
What is 1968?
The first television series where every writer, director, and series regular was Indigenous
What is Reservation Dogs?
This NBA guard's mother, Elizabeth Ann Larson, was a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Who is Kyrie Irving?
This structure in Seattle, built by United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, was established in 1970 following a peaceful takeover and reoccupation of the former military base
What is the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center?
The Native American currently running to be their state's governor
Who is Deb Haaland?
The year NCAI was founded
What is 1944?
This annual, highly competitive event in Santa Fe (New Mexico) is the premier showcase and market for contemporary and traditional Native American arts
What is the Santa Fe Indian Market?
N7 has collaborated with various athletes, but this Umatilla female WNBA star, known for her record-breaking career and numerous titles, has been a key N7 ambassador
Who is Shoni Schimmel?
The three agricultural products traditionally planted together by many tribes as companion crops
What are the Three Sisters (corn, beans, and squash)?
The current total number of federally recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native entities
What is 574?
The first Native American Woman in space
Who is Nicole Aunapu Mann?
This drumming and singing group from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has been nominated for 9 Grammys
Who is Northern Cree?
The first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics
Who is Jim Thorpe?
This traditional vocal competition, shared between Inupiaq women, often involves face-to-face performance and ends when one participant can no longer suppress laughter
What is Throat Singing (or Katajjaq)?
The most recent tribe to receive full federal recognition
What is the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana?
The Supreme Court's 2023 ruling on ICWA was based on Congress's plenary power over this type of classification
What is political classification?
The first Native American to hold the title of esteemed title of Prima Ballerina
Who is Maria Tallchief?
The only American to win the 10,000-meter run at the Olympics
Who is Billy Mills?
The method of language preservation where elders fluently speak the traditional language to young children in a preschool setting
What is a language nest?
The largest dam removal project to date occurred on this river
What is the Klamath River?