Music/Holidays
This is the October holiday that honors Native American cultures and serves as a counter-celebration to Columbus Day.
What is Indigenous Peoples' Day?
This 1995 Disney animated film features a Native American woman and is loosely inspired by a historical figure from the Powhatan people.
What is Pocahontas?
These designs use animal figures carved into towering cedar logs to record family histories.
What is a totem pole?
This sport was originally played by indigenous peoples of North America using sticks for bonding, training, and resolving disputes.
What is lacrosse?
This Native American tribe has historical ties to southern Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay region.
What is the Piscataway tribe?
This is the month when Native American Heritage Month takes place.
What is November?
This actor played Jacob Black, a member of the Quileute Tribe in The Twilight Saga movies.
Who is Taylor Lautner?
This art form sews these together to create patterns and designs on clothing, accessories, and other objects.
What is beads/beadwork?
Indigenous peoples in the Amazon developed this sleeping invention to protect them from damp soil and insects.
What is a hammock?
Name 1 (There are 20) U.S. state that derives its name from a Native American Tribe
Utah, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Michigan, Tennessee, Alabama
This is a popular North American Indigenous celebration where many Native Americans meet to sing, dance, and honor their ancestors' traditions
What is powwow?
This Rick Riordan character in the book series Heroes of Olympus is Half-Cherokee.
Who is Piper McLean?
This type of artwork often features patterns and designs on baskets, blankets, and rugs.
What is weaving?
Indigenous peoples used natural materials to help deliver medicine. Today, doctors often use this tool to inject medicine into the body.
What is a syringe (tool that administers shots)?
This Native American nation was known for its skilled horseback riding and controlled large areas of the Southern Plains, including parts of present-day Texas and Oklahoma.
What is the Comanche Nation?
This is a local annual festival taking place in Patuxent River Park in Prince George’s County that celebrates Indigenous heritage and culture.
What is the Annual American Indian Festival?
In her namesake American Girl book series set in the 1760s, this Nez Perce girl from the Pacific Northwest is known for her deep bond with horses.
Who is Kaya?
Navajo artists are world-renowned for their intricate geometric designs woven into these textile items.
What are rugs?
Before modern baby bottles, some Indigenous peoples used containers made from natural materials to feed babies. What is the most common material they used?
What is an animal horn?
This U.S. state takes its name from an Indigenous word commonly interpreted as meaning “great river,” referring to the river that forms much of its western boundary.
What is Mississippi?
Observed on the Friday after Thanksgiving, this day recognizes the history and resilience of Indigenous peoples and is marked by some Native communities through protests and remembrance rather than celebration.
What is the National Day of Mourning?
This actor made history as the first Native American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon in 2024.
Who is Lily Gladstone?
This traditional Indigenous art form uses dyed parts of a porcupine to decorate clothing, bags, and other objects with intricate designs.
What is quillwork?
Indigenous Peoples planted corn, beans and squash together because they helped each other grow. This method is still used today.
What are the Three Sisters?
This 1830 federal law authorized the forced relocation of many Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?