The Coen Brothers created this film about modernity and violence in the American West, which we watched.
What is No Country for Old Men?
100
She kept a memoir of her trip along the Santa Fe Trail.
Who is Susan Shelby Magoffin?
100
His character was a Civil War veteran searching for a lost/abducted relative. We never did see his teeth, though.
Who is John Wayne?
100
He was one of the signers of the Treaty of Greenville.
Who is Chief Little Turtle?
200
This place.
What is the Coming Out Story?
200
This type of "Gun" was used to cause mass casualties at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
What is a Gatling Gun?
200
Frontier women often engaged in this craft as a way of forming community among far-flung neighbors.
What is quilting?
200
His publications challenged Spain's Black Legend, as did the writings of Cabeza de Vaca.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
200
The Miami originally called this state home.
What is Indiana?
300
He was massacred along with his entire family for spreading religion and disease among the Cayuse Indians.
Who is Marcus Whitman?
300
For him, scalping was a source of great pride, when justified.
Who is Black Hawk?
300
This group of women originally had the ability to pass down lands to their daughters. After 1848, all of this changed.
Who are Mexicans / Mexican-Americans?
300
Like Zitkala-Sa, he vested much meaning in the cutting of his hair as he came to terms with his father.
Who is Victor?
300
The Miami were removed to Kansas in this year.
What is 1846?
400
The hanging pictured here was in response to the Dakota War of 1862, which transpired in this state.
What is Minnesota?
400
The Major Crimes Act was in response to this crime committed on an Indian reservation.
What is murder?
400
Women and families often traveled on this trail, as opposed to the Santa Fe Trail, which was more for commerce.
What is the Oregon Trail?
400
This series of novels by James Fenimore Cooper portrayed the early frontier past.
What are the Leatherstocking novels?
400
The Miami Tribe is federally recognized today and is located in this state.
What is Oklahoma?
500
The artwork seen here was painted by this famous landscape artist.
Who is Albert Bierstadt?
500
This rebellion, in this year, pitted country farmers against Virginia Colony rulers in the first instance of agrarian revolt.
What is Bacon's Rebellion of 1676?
500
These camps seldom had any women present in their early days.
What are mining camps?
500
This artist painted "Westward the Course of Empire" that hangs in the U.S. Capitol.
Who is Emmanuel Leutze?
500
The Miami Tribe and Miami University first established links in this decade, and conversations between the two eventually led to the university changing its mascot in 1997-1998.