Indigenous People's Day Native American History Review

Native Contributions

100

Native groups in the Eastern woodlands are often credited with inventing this fast-paced game played with sticks with webbed baskets 

Lacrosse

200

What are three common ingredients that originated in the Americas?

Many possible answers including: Tomatoes, Corn, Beans, Peppers, Squash, Turkey, Potatoes, Chocolate

300

Many acknowledge that this group's Great Law of Peace influenced the Constitution of the United States.

The Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) 

400

DAILY DOUBLE:  Native names are part of our landscape, including the name for this city which is sometimes translated as "stink onion."

Chicago

500

This pain-relieving compound, originally derived from willow bark by Native Americans, led to the creation of a common over-the-counter medication used today.

Aspirin

Native Scramble

100

Group: 

L A C N

Clan

200

Cultural Belief: 

M M S A I I N

Animism

300

Type of Name:

Y M X O N E

Exonym

400

Region:

S M O M E R A C A E I 

Mesoamerica

500

Adjective

N E C I R C O N T E H T

Ethnocentric

Comparing Culture

100

This common ingredient in early Native diets is also common in American diets today, although today it's commonly found in sodas and candy.

Corn

200

Unlike the common system today where the family status follows the father, many Native American groups were this, a system where the status follows the mother.

Matrilineal

300

This modern term for a Native American who is nonbinary recognizes that some early Native groups recognized more than two genders.

Two-Sprited

400

The Ho-Chunk one of these includes a description of oceans, lakes and streams started by the creator's tears.

Origin Story

500

Gift-giving was a part of Native culture, particularly at these elaborate gift-giving feasts held by tribes in the American Northwest.

Potlatches

Early Native Groups

100

This group of Native Americans who once occupied the land where we now stand gave their name to two US states.

The Dakota

200

This settlement, the most powerful city-state created by the Mississippians, was located in present-day Illinois near St. Louis.

Cahokia

300

This exonym for the Ancestral Puebloans means "ancient enemies" in the Navajo language.

Anasazi

400

This exonym developed by the French for the Nimiipuu means "pierced nose," even though the Nimiipuu didn't practice piecing

Nez Perce

500

DAILY DOUBLE: This group celebrated Shalako, a festival related to the winter solstice

The Zuni

After European Contact

100

After 1492, smallpox, measles and the flu all travelled this direction across the Atlantic Ocean (west or east?).

West

200

This person wasn't anything like the Disney princess version, and her actual name was Matoaka.

Pocahontas

300

When this European first met the Arawaks in 1492 he wrote in his journal, "They would make fine servants."

Christopher Columbus

400

DAILY DOUBLE: One theory about the Roanoke colony is that they went to live with this group of Native Americans after etching their name on a tree.

The Croatoans

500

The first Native American to greet the Plymouth colonists was Samoset who walked into the camp and spoke to them in what language?

English