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Indigenous People's Day
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Who went on a voyage to find India in 1492?
Who is Christopher Columbus
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Island in which Columbus landed in 1492.
What is Hispaniola?
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Christopher Columbus began white settlement of the Americas in this year.
What is 1492
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This group of people thought the land to be sacred and a part of themselves.
Who were the Native Americans?
100
US Cities that have adopted Indigenous People's day
What is Albuquerque, Denver, Portland, St. Paul, Amherst, Olympia, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Seattle, and, most recently, Salt Lake City
200
Indigenous people subsiding on the island of Hispaniola
Who are the Taino people
200
In the early 20th century, while indigenous people were being greatly mistreated, sports teams began doing this.
What is naming themselves after the indigenous population?
200
Sports teams began to adopt Native American team names and mascots in the beginning of this century.
What is the 20th century
200
This group of people viewed the the land for how much money it could provide them or how it could be used to glorify their Christian God.
Who were the European Settlers?
200
Group of people fighting to keep Columbus Day alive and not change the name because of ethnic culture.
Who are Italian Americans?
300
Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown (think Disney movie).
Who was Pocahontas
300
Sports teams with Indian mascots.
Who are the Blackhawks, Redskins, Cleveland Indians
300
When Columbus landed how many Tainos did he slaughter.
What is thousands?
300
Religion that was forced upon the Tainos
What is Christianity?
300
What did Columbus presume the people he encountered on the island to be?
What is Indian?
400
President who issued a proclamation encouraging Americans to mark the day with patriotic celebrations.
Who is Benjamin Harrison
400
Where was the first official celebration of honoring the 300th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the Americas.
Where is New York City?
400
The year Columbus day became an official federal holiday.
What is 1937?
400
What did Columbus crew steal
What is gold and other riches
400
When was the idea of Indigenous People's Day conceived.
What is 1977?
500
5. Names of 2 famous Indian tribes.
Who are Iroquois, Cherokee, Apache, Souix, Cheyenne, Navajo, Lakota, Suak?
500
Legal designation of land given to Native American tribes under the US Bureau of Indian Affairs.
What are Indian reservations?
500
The amount of Tainos Columbus shipped back to Spain as slaves.
What is 500?
500
Besides celebrating Columbus' voyage why else was Columbus Day celebrated.
What is celebrating Italian-American heritage.
500
Which ethnic group caused the population to decrease to 250,000 by the 20th century when they colonized the Americas.
Who were the Europeans?