Art and Education
Name the artistic celebration that takes place annually at The American Indian Center.
What is a Powwow?
This road runs is close to Portage Park and was once a Native American Trail.
What is Milwaukee Avenue?
This tribe established trading relationships with French traders.
What is the Potawatomi?
Local tribes helped change Columbus Day to this day through working with Chicago leaders.
What is Indigenous People's Day?
Name the number of grandfathers that were included in our class reading.
What is 7?
Name the museum in our neighborhood that serves as an interpretive center for previous Native American activity where the Des Plaines and the north branch of the Chicago River met.
What is Northwest Portage Walking Museum?
This river in our city is named after Native Americans and is always dyed green on St. Patrick's Day.
What is the Chicago River?
A member of this tribe tried to teach others that mascots should not be based on human beings, which could lead to racism.
What is the Spokane tribe?
Under pressure from tribes and the public, this NFL team changed their name.
What is the Washington Commanders?
Name the quality that all oral tradition stories had in common.
What is respect for nature?
This school located on Native American land became an art school.
What is Portage Park Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster School?
Under this treaty, Native American tribes lost nearly all their land in Chicago.
What is The 1833 Treaty of Chicago?
This tribe built thousand of earthen mounds that we studied in class. One complex is located in our state in the city of Cahokia.
What is the Mississippians?
This MLB team faced criticism for having a mascot that was Native American. They changed their name this season.
Who are the Cleveland Guardians?
What characters were most often used in oral creation stories?
Stories often involved people, animals, and nature.
This museum in Chicago announced in 2020 that they would be collaborating with tribes to help with their exhibits.
What is the Field Museum?
This fort built in Chicago led to tension between Native Americans and our government in 1803.
What is Fort Dearborn?
Native American tribes preferred this country during the war of 1812. This may have been because they thought it as a way to recover the land they once inhabited.
What is Britain?
This university in our state stopped using Chief Illiniwek as their mascot.
What is the University of Illinois?
In The Modoc, this was the punishment for the grizzly bears that had angered Spirit Chief.
What is they could no longer talk or walk on two legs?
This company turned Pocahontas, a real human being, into a cartoon. This led to a stereotype that based her existence on fantasy, which is dangerous.
What is Disney?
This airport in our city was once a busy trading crossroads for Native Americans.
What is O'Hare Airport?
This tribe led a revolt against the Americans, eventually burning Fort Dearborn to the ground.
What is the Potawatomi?
This President tried to support Native Americans that were being relocated to Chicago.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
In the Seven Gifts, what was the story trying to teach about the world?
What are the most important qualities in a human being?