Famous Native Americans
Who is the Lemhi Shoshone woman guided the Lewis and Clark expedition and appears on a U.S. golden dollar coin?
Sacagawea
What did the Inuit and other Arctic peoples invented that is a narrow, covered boat, whose name comes from an Inuit word?
Kayak
What is the name of the state that came from a word meaning "at the great hill" in the language of the Massachuset people?
Massachusetts (it referred to the Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts, which is an ancient volcano that was last active over 400 million years ago)
When Pocahontas was seized by the English and held as a hostage in 1613, what was the English name she had to adopt?
Rebecca
When the colonists arrived at Plymouth in 1620, who taught them how to grow corn and other crops and assisted them in negotiating a peace pact with the Wampanoag?
Squanto
Known as the "Creator's Game," what sport was played by the Haudenosaunee and other nations long before it became a modern team sport?
Lacrosse
What is it called to burn sage, cedar, or sweetgrass for cleansing and prayer, which is used in many Native traditions?
Smudging
What is the name of the deadly journey that took place when the US government forced southeastern nations, including the Cherokee, to relocate?
Trail of Tears
Who is the Powhatan princess who notably assisted English colonist John Smith and served as a go-between for her tribe and the colonists?
Pocahontas
What crop was originally cultivated by Native Americans and is now one of the world’s most widely grown grains, and was a staple of the Three Sisters?
Corn (maize)
What was passed in 1978, to protect Native Americans' right to practice their traditional religions?
American Indian Religious Freedom Act
What was the propaganda phrase that captured the belief that Americans were divinely destined to expand across the continent, and that was used to justify taking Native lands?
Manifest Destiny
Who is the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation?
Wilma Mankiller
What Cherokee-developed medical plant (also used by many nations) is the source of a compound later used to make aspirin?
Willow bark
What is the name of the documentary that is the only recording of the Sun Dance -- a sacred tradition that is about intentional sacrifice, with underlying themes of offering and communion with the divine?
CIRCLE OF THE SUN from the National Film Board of Canada (on YouTube)
In 1832, in Worcester v. Georgia, what was the status that the Supreme Court gave the Cherokee Nation to make it a distinct political community (meaning Georgia had no authority over it)? The ruling was ignored.
Sovereignty/sovereign nation
Who is the Osage ballerina who became the United States' first Native American prima ballerina?
Maria Tallchief (1925-2013)
Maple syrup
What is the name of the animated movie about a Kiger mustang stallion, who is captured during the American Indian Wars by the United States Cavalry?
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
What is the name of the sacred hills that was promised to the Lakota in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 that exempt it from all non-indigenous settlement “forever”? These hills were later seized by the US after gold was discovered there in the 1870s.
The Black Hills, located in western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming