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100

The Taino word "huracan" gave us this English word.

What is "hurricane"?

100

Name an Indigenous language of a Turtle Island native group.

so many

100

This is the name commonly used by Native so-called "North American" groups to refer to the continent.

Turtle Island

100

This common crop was first domesticated from teosinte by native farmers in modern-day Mexico and Guatemala. 

What is corn?
200

This modern-day Florida native group is the only one in the US that never signed a peace treaty with the US government.

Seminole People

200

This tribe is the largest formally recognized native group in the US. 

Navajo/Dine

200

The ancestors to modern Native Americans arrive in the Americas approximately this long ago.

23,000 years

200

This material, used now in many products, from car tires to the soles of our shoes, was invented by native Mesoamericans.

What is rubber?

300

Eckerd sits on these peoples' unceded ancestral land.

Primarily, the Miccosukee and Seminole peoples and their ancestors (as well as the Tocobaga).

300

Code talkers speaking this language were key to US military victories in WWII.

Navajo

300

This percentage of biodiversity is stewarded by Indigenous peoples.

Over 80%

300
This type of boat (rentable at the Waterfront) is easy to flip back over and was invented by the Inuit people.

What is a kayak?

400

Many of the Seminole people were forcefully and violently removed from Florida to this state, where descendants of those that survived the torturous process still live. 

What is Oklahoma?

400

At this battle, 250-300 Lakota Sioux were massacred, including women and children, by US soldiers who thought one of their traditional dances was going to incite violence. 

Wounded Knee

400

There are this many federally recognized tribes (which we acknowledge to not be fully representative of actual native groups).

What is 575?

400

This essential tool used to feed babies was invented by the Iroquois. 

What are baby bottles?

500

Name any language traditionally spoken by the Seminole or Miccosukee peoples of Florida.

Hitchiti-Mikasuki, Muscogee

500

This was the real name of the first MMIW of what is now the US.

Matoaka

500

This Lakota leader fought genocidal government policies for many years, even inspiring his people to fight in the battle that defeated Custer.

Who is Sitting Bull?

500

This invention, commonly found attached to trees by the seawall, was created by Indigenous Caribbeans.

What is a hammock?