State Symbols
It's the official metal of the State of Nevada
What is Silver?
"Queen of the basket makers"
Who is Dat-So-La-Lee
This treaty allowed the United States to build railroads on Western Shoshone Land
What is the Ruby Valley Treaty of 1863?
What is the Old Mormon Fort?
This was traditionally used to remove chaff from seeds
What is a winnowing tray?
Its Nevada's State Artifact
What is the Tule Duck Decoy?
This Paiute woman used her writing and public speaking to amplify the voice of her people and to urge the American government to recognize indigenous rights
Who is Sarah Winnemucca?
Notable 1931 laws enacted in Nevada legalized what two things?
What is gambling and divorce?
The city where Dat-So-La-Lee lived with her sponsors
What is Carson City, Nevada?
A traditional type of Washoe patterned basket, with a narrow base and opening and a larger middle
What are degikup baskets?
It's not the Bristlecone Pine, but the other State Tree
What is the Single-Leaf Pinyon Pine Tree?
The "First Lady of Las Vegas"
Who is Helen J Stewart?
Helen Stewart sent a letter to this person to wish them a Happy Birthday, for them to tragically die later that year
What is Archie Stewart?
Mormon missionaries in Nevada were stopping through on their way to which state?
What is California?
This is the material which makes up the Las Vegas Old Mormon Fort
What are adobe bricks?
Its Nevada's State Grass
What is Indian Ricegrass?
It's Dat-So-La-Lee's married name
What is Louisa Keyser?
This was the first book to be written by a Native American woman in the English language
What is Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, by Sarah Winnemucca?
This project spared Southern Nevada from the clutches of the Great Depression
What is the Boulder (Hoover) Dam?
It's a stretch of the imagination in advertising for Nevada in 1940
What is 'Semi Tropical Nevada'?
This song was originally written for the Nevada Native Daughters picnic in 1932
What is 'Home Means Nevada'?
This person took Dat-So-La-Lee to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, where her Art Baskets were a tremendous hit
Who is Abe Cohn?
This law officially named Neon as the official state element for Nevada
What is Assembly Bill 182?
This is where Helen Stewart's husband, Archibald, was murdered
What is the Kiel Ranch?
This tool was used by early Mormon settlers to harvest grain
What is a bow cradle scythe?