History
What is the common name for the teachings and growing techniques of corn, beans and squash?
What are the Three Sisters?
Adopted into the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan, this singer-songwriter is known as a star in the 60's Greenwich Village scene, an Academy Award winner and a regular guest on Sesame Street in the 70s.
Who is Buffy Sainte Marie?
Characterized by tundra, ice, dense northern forests, and the Mackenzie and Yukon river basins, communities from this region relied on marine mammals, caribou, and fish, spanning from northern Alaska, across Canada, to Greenland.
Who are the Inuit?
This song from an Indigenous singer-songwriter from Saskatchewan, originally came out in 2001. Often known as a hurting song.
What is Love Me Strong by Chester Knight?
This renowned artist of Cree and Métis descent is celebrated for their extensive acting career, breaking barriers for Indigenous representation in film, television, and theatre. With a career spanning more than five decades with over 120 film, television, and theatre credits, they are best known for roles in "Dances with Wolves", "Legends of the Fall", and "Smoke Signals".
Who is Tantoo Cardinal?
Known as the Oka Crisis, how long was the land dispute and armed standoff between the Mohawk of Kanesatake, Quebec police, and the Canadian military?
What was 78 days?
Who was Iron Eyes Cody?
This nation is part of a powerful confederacy—also known as the People of the Longhouse—united six nations in the Great Lakes region. Because of their geographic position, they are traditionally referred to as the "Keepers of the Eastern Door," responsible for defending the confederacy against invasions from the east.
Who are the Kanien'kehá:ka? (Mohawk)
What is Dirt Roads by Tia Wood?
This prominent Cree interdisciplinary artist is a citizen of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5, best known for critically examining Western European and American art history, exploring colonization, Indigenous resilience, loss, and the complexities of queer and Two-Spirit identity. Often recreating sweeping 19th-century romantic North American landscapes, inserting Indigenous peoples, histories, and critiques that colonial painters omitted or stereotype.
Who is Kent Monkman?
This Anishinaabe lawyer, judge, senator, and leading advocate for Indigenous rights and reconciliation in Canada was the first Indigenous judge appointed to the court of queens bench.
Who was the Honourable Murray Sinclair?
Best known for his acclaimed novels and nonfiction books exploring Indigenous themes and storytelling, this famous author is one of the most referenced writers in university-level Indigenous Studies despite having no Cherokee ancestry.
Who is Thomas King?
Characterized by temperate rainforests, rugged coastlines, and rich salmon rivers, these communities are known for cedar-plank houses, totem poles, and rich fisheries that supported permanent villages and ceremonies like the potlatch.
Who are the Coast Salish?
A song from 2019 that comes from the belief that everyone is an artist in their own way, a hip hop duo.
What is Boujee Natives by Snotty Nose Rez Kids?
Also known by their Anishinaabe name Copper Thunderbird (Miskwaabik Animiiki), this pioneering artist was a central member of the Indian Group of Seven and founded the Woodland School of Art. Nicknamed "Picasso of the North", they are internationally renowned for their vibrant, colourful paintings combining traditional Anishinaabe oral histories, spiritual beliefs, and personal experiences.
Who was Norval Morrisseau?
This trailblazing multi-sport athlete and a citizen of the Peepeekisis Cree Nation in Saskatchewan is celebrated as the first Indigenous person in Canada to win an Olympic gold medal.
Who is Kenneth Moore? (Ice hockey)
This U.S. Senator publicly referenced her "Native American" heritage for years, drawing criticism from tribal nations and observers regarding DNA testing and lack of community citizenship.
Who is Elizabeth Warren?
Known for their quillwork, birch bark canoe building, intricate ash-strip basket making and language reclamation, this Eastern nation's native name means "People of the Beautiful and Bountiful River".
Who are the Wolastoqey?
What is Orange Blossom Special?
This celebrated Abenaki filmmaker, singer, storyteller, and Indigenous rights activist has directed approximately 65 films in their impactful career -- best known for giving an authentic voice to First Nations experiences through their influence at the National Film Board of Canada.
Who is Alanis Obomsawin?
The oldest surviving artwork, excluding stone tools, from an Indigenous nation in Canada is this many years old.
What is 5000 years?
This author's work heavily focuses on Indigenous history and First Nations culture, and has publicly claimed Métis, Ojibwe, and Anishinabe roots. 2016 investigations into his heritage raised significant scrutiny, proving a lack of documented evidence could not confirm his lineage claims.
Who is Joesph Boyden?
Descendants of nomadic hunter-gatherer populations who inhabited northern Scandinavia for thousands of years, this nation is traditionally known for semi-nomadic reindeer herding, fishing, and hunting.
Who are the Sámi?
A 'reinvention' of a popular pop ballad in the 80s, this artist debuted their album in 2023.
What is Taimangalimaaq (Time after Time) by Elisapie?
This globally acclaimed Inuk throat singer is also an avant-garde composer, author, bestselling author and visual artist from Cambridge Bay, NU. Known for their influential and experimental music, they blend traditional Inuit solo throat singing with electronic, rock, and classical music -- not to mention a collaboration with Icelander Björk.
Who is Tanya Tagaq?