NATIVE AMERICANS
This practical Native art form often depicts animals and and figures from the spirit world.
What is pottery?
French explorers Marquette & Joliet coined this name after the Illinois word for Quapaw.
What is Arkansas?
This ancient tool is a throwing stick that makes a spear fly farther.
What is an atlatl?
After the War of 1812, two million acres of Arkansas land was set aside for this group of people.
Who are veterans?
This Native American tribe reluctantly fought alongside the Confederates in the Battle of Pea Ridge.
Who are the Cherokees?
This Mississippi River Valley location was claimed by Robert de La Salle and named after his French king.
What is Louisiana?
The presence of this revolutionary means of travel and transport could make or break small towns in the United States.
What is the railroad?
The name “Jim Crow” refers to a character from this type of show.
What is minstrel?
This Native American tribe lived along the Mississippi River and were the first to greet European explorers who arrived by boat.
Who are the Quapaw?
This 16th century era of art and exploration was instrumental in the age of navigations that brought Europeans to the New World.
What is the Renaissance?
During Reconstruction, this epistolary service allowed citizens to correspond from a distance.
What is the U.S. Mail?
This legal act of 1820 served to balance the number of slave- and free-states in the Union.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Native American tribes forced to leave their lands walked along this harsh and solemn route.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Legend says the ancestors of this animal were originally turned loose in Arkansas by Hernando De Soto.
What is the Razorback?
Slaves in the South created an underground communication system by embedding codes in sung spirituals and this art form.
What are quilts?
The prison-industrial complex was created as the government’s way of continuing this abolished and inhumane practice.
What is slavery?