Identity
The amount of "Indian blood" a person has
What is blood quantum?
The number of reservations in Montana
What is seven?
Totem poles are a common art style typical in this culture area
What is Northwest Coastal?
A common symbol in Native American spiritual beliefs
Circles
The practice of marrying outside of ones kinship group
What is exogamy?
This theory proposes that there 3 waves of migration into the Americas
What is the Bering Strait theory?
The number of tribes in Montana
What is twelve?
Algonquin, Siouan, and Uto-Aztecan are examples of this
What are language families?
Ceremonies that happen at approximately the same time each year
What are calendrical rites?
A type of kinship system which traces lineage through matrilineal or patrilineal lines
What are clans?
They set the criteria for tribal citizenship
What are tribal governments?
This Montana tribe does not have a reservation
What is Little Shell?
The era before horses was called this
What are the Dog Days?
All My Relations (Lakota)
What is “Mitakuye Oyasin”?
Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota are divisions of this tribe
What is the Sioux?
True or False:
An American Indian is someone who speaks a Native language
False
This Montana tribe resides on two reservations
What is the Assiniboine?
Engravings or carvings on rocks
What are petroglyphs?
A complex understanding of the nature of the universe.
What is Cosmology?
A type of cousin that would be considered siblings
What are parallel cousins?
What is the number of federally recognized tribes today?
574
Apsaalooke is the traditional name of this Montana tribe
What are the Crow?
A historical record kept on a buffalo hide
What are winter counts?
The belief in the existence of spirit beings
What is animism?
A local group of people jointly engaged in seasonal movement in search of subsistance
What is a band?