Verbs (Actions)
Nouns (person, place or thing)
Adjectives (descriptive words)
Native Language
Comprehension Questions
100

This word means to cut or shave, usually associated with sheep. 

What is Sheared?

100

You'll experience this if you're having an unlucky day. 

What is Misfortune? 

100

Winter in Buffalo brings a lot of gray clouds. Another word to describe that boring weather would be...

What is Drab?

100

A kind of shoe. We still see them today!

What are Moccasins?

100

What conflict is happening in the novel? 

What is World War II?

200

Not only a fish, but something you do when you're nervous. 

What is Flounder? 

200

If you break these, you are definitely a rulebreaker. 

What are Regulations? 

200

This could describe something uncool, but this could also be the way someone walks after an injury. 

What is Lame?

200

Kii Yazhi stepped out of this in the first chapter, leading us to believe this was a house of some kind. 

What is a Hogan? 

200

How old was Kii Yazhi when he had to attend his first boarding school? 

What is 6 years old?

300

Locate the verb in this sentence: The military conducted an amphibious landing to launch their attack. 

What is conducted?

300

If you need something translated, this is who you would need to find. 

What is an interpreter? 

300

If someone is ragebaiting or annoying you, then you may not be feeling this. 

What is Tolerant?

300

This was a Navajo word used to describe the white individuals. 

What is a bilagaana?

300

There were two different punishments for people speaking Navajo at the mission school. What are they? 

What is washing their mouths out with soap and being beaten? 

400

This is what you do when you try to translate something. It is one of our vocab words with a tense changed!

What is interpret?

400

If you have a fight with the stairs, you're likely to get some of these.

What are Lacerations?

400

To do something with purpose, or on purpose. 

What is Deliberately?

400

The Navajo word "Woo-La-Chee" represents the letter A in English. In the Navajo language, this represents which animal?

What is an ant?

400

What country was Ned Begay interested in when he was going to school? 

What is Japan?

500

This is what happens when applies and gets hired for a job. In the army, this is someone who is asked to join. In our vocab, we describe this as a person.  

What is recruit? 

500

This is a heavy military attack. Most likely uses bombs. 

What is bombardment?

500

Top secret! Need to know!

What is confidential?

500
What do the Navajo call Battleships?

What is a whale?

500

What happened to the Navajo Marines after they graduated? 

What is they had to go to Code School?