Home & Family Ties
The kinship systems many Indigenous communities utilize.
What is the Clan System?
This award winning 2021 television comedy drama series set in Oklahoma concluded in 2023.
What is "Reservation Dogs?"
The number of US federally recognized tribes.
What is 574?
This cuisine is a staple in various Indigenous communities and some consider this as “bread of resilience.”
What is Frybread and/or Bannock?
This animal is usually featured as a trickster.
What is a coyote?
A term of endearment and respect for older women and men.
Who are Aunties & Uncles?
The name of the Indigenous character played by Johnathan Joss on King of the Hill.
Who is John Redcorn?
The law that provided federal funding and support for Native American education.
What is the Indian Education Act of 1972?
The three main ingredients for Three Sisters Soup.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This creature is seen as a guardian of nature (who watches over the land and its creatures) and is often depicted as an elusive creature meant to be found.
What is a Sasquatch?
The Zuni word for my maternal grandmother.
What is Hotda?
This person is the first Native American to be nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award.
Who is Lily Gladstone?
This revolt took place in 1680 and resulted in keeping the Spanish out of New Mexico for 12 years.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This is the preferred flour brand to make frybread by members of the Navajo Nation.
What is Blue Bird Flour?
This place is often depicted within creation stories as the location where we live.
What is Turtle Island?
In the Ojibwe language, this word means “the great mother.”
What is Nokomis?
This film ends with the main protagonist throwing paint on Mount Rushmore.
What is "Skins?"
This national day of remembrance acknowledging the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system.
What is Orange Shirt Day or Truth & Reconciliation Day?
This restaurant was co-founded by Shawn Sherman (Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe) in Minneapolis.
What is Owamni?
This hooved spirit is found in multiple tribal communities sometimes depicted in animal form, in human form, and sometimes a mixture between the two.
What is the Deer Woman/Lady?
This podcast is hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Temryss Lane (Lummi Nation) to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our cultural relatives, and to one another.
What is "All My Relations?"
This 501(c)3 literary organization run by and for Indigenous peoples that hosts free youth workshops, author talks, sends out free Native books, etc.
What is the NDN Girls Book Club?
This organization, founded in 1944, is the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities.
What is the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI)?
This online cooking website focuses on Native health through cooking videos, speaking engagements, and school meal programs.
What is IndigiKitchen?
This individual taught the Diné how to weave.
Who is Spider Woman?