TRIBES
ACADEMIC
NATIVE PLANTS
LANGUAGE
POLICY
100
Currently, how many federally recognized Indian tribes are there according to NCAI?
567
100
Name one of the Bureau of Indian Education controlled tribal colleges in the United States?
Haskell Indian Nations University or Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute
100
Name the three Sisters of the Iroquois.
Corns, beans, squash
100
Mni Wiconi in English.
Water is Life.
100
The United States ended Treaty Making with Native nations in the year____.
1871
200
What is the standard blood quantum requirement for enrollment for most tribes?
1/4 or 25%
200
Name one U.S. university that offers a Ph.D. program in Native American, Indigenous, or American Indian Studies or a related Ph.D. program with a concentration in Native American, Indigenous, or American Indian Studies.
University of Arizona, University of California-Davis, or University of California-Berkeley
200
Name one herb Indigenous peoples smudge.
Tobacco, sage, cedar, or sweet grass
200
What does Damoo biiskani mean in Dine Bizaad?
Monday
200
NCAI is an acronym for ________.
National Congress of American Indians
300
Name the one Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca, Tuscarora
300
Name the first college in U.S. history to serve Native Americans.
Harvard College
300
Which state officially recognized peyotism as a bona-fide religion in 1908?
Oklahoma
300
Name two Keres speaking Pueblo Nation.
Laguna, Acoma, Zia, Santa Ana, San Felipe, Santo Domingo (Kewa), Cochiti
300
Congress granted themselves ultimate rule over decision-making and Indian policy. This doctrine is known as ______.
Plenary Power
400
How many Indian-U.S. treaties did the U.S. Senate ratify?
370; some sources state 371
400
Which Native writer won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969?
N. Scott Momaday
400
What Comanche leader supported peyotism at the 1907 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention?
Quannah Parker
400
Name two Tewa speaking Pueblo Nations.
San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Nambé, Pojoaque, Tesuque, and Ohkay Owingeh
400
The true origins of the Doctrine of Discovery are rooted in ______.
Catholicism (or Christianity or Church or The Pope or the Papal Bulls)
500
What treaty brought the Freedmen into the Cherokee Nation?
July 19, 1866 Reconstruction Treaty extended Cherokee citizenship to Freedmen and their descendants
500
According to various scholars, what Indian stereotype did French writers create in the 1600s?
Noble Sauvage/Noble Savage
500
How many Indigenous faculty and staff currently serve in the Native American Studies program at the University of New Mexico.
9 Nine
500
Name three Tiwa speaking Pueblo Nations.
Isleta, Sandia, Picuris, and Taos
500
This law was reauthorized in 2013 by President Obama to include greater protection for Native women and greater recognition for tribal sovereignty.
VAWA or Violence Against Women Act
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