Tribes
Chiefs
American Indian Wars
Treaties
Traditions
100

The 3 subsets of the Sioux

What is Dakota, Lakota, & Nakota?

100

The famous Lakota Sioux chief

What is Chief Sitting Bull?

100

The general that was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn

What is Gen. George A. Custer?

100

The land promised to the Sioux in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868

What is the Black Hills?

100

The animal that was used for everything by the Great Plains Native Americans

What is buffalo?

200

The traditional name of the Winnebago tribe

What is Ho-Chunk?

200

The Ponca chief who promised to bury his son in his homeland

What is Chief Standing Bear?

200

The name of the final "battle" of the American Indian Wars

What is Wounded Knee?

200

The discovery made in the Black Hills, which caused the Treaty to be broken

What is gold?

200

The spiritual movement that encouraged people to dance in order to eliminate whites from the Earth and bring back the old way of life

What is the Ghost Dance?

300
The tribe native to the Pacific Northwest, which heavily relied on salmon for food

What is the Nez Perce?

300

The Cheyenne chief present at both the Sand Creek and Washita massacres

What is Chief Black Kettle?

300

Chief Black Kettle was attempting to do this before the Sand Creek massacre happened

What is make peace with the nearby fort?

300
Chiefs and other Native Americans would do this if they did not know how to actually sign a treaty

What is touch the pen or make an "X"?

300

The main animal in the Sioux creation story

What is the turtle?

400

The tribe that traveled up and down the Missouri River, with a large settlement in present-day Homer, NE

What is the Omaha?

400

The most well-known Nez Perce chief

What is Chief Joseph?

400

The number of Native American men that were executed in a mass hanging in Mankato

What is 38?

400

The word in the Sioux language meaning to "own the Earth"

What is there is none?

400

The reason Native Americans would traditionally cut their hair

What is mourning?

500

Oldest recorded Native American tribe in the Great Plains

What is the Pawnee?

500
The Dakota chief that was scalped by white men after the Dakota Wars

What is Chief Little Crow?

500

The most successful two-year "war" for the Ogallala Lakota

What is Red Cloud's War?

500

The act that divided up reservation land into 160 acre-lots and each lot was given to individuals to farm

What is the Dawes Allotment Act?

500

The 7 symbolic colors and their meanings

What is black:South, white:North, yellow:East, red:West, green:Mother Earth, blue:Father Sky, purple:Your Conscience