US States
Largest state in the United States.
Alaska
Largest river in the United States. It begins here in Minnesota at Lake Itasca and ends in Louisiana at the Gulf of Mexico (America).
Mississippi River
What is the most important animal to Great Plains Native Tribes?
Largest Native American city in North America before the arrival of Europeans. It was located outside modern day St. Louis, Missouri.
Cahokia
Who were the first Europeans to reach North America around the year 1000 AD / CE.
Vikings
Smallest state in the United States.
Rhode Island
Largest mountain range in the United States. It is located in Western US States like Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Rocky Mountains
Identify the 2 Native Tribes in Minnesota.
Anishinaabe / Ojibwe / Chippewa
Dakota / Lakota / Sioux
Name the religious belief that all things in nature have spirits or souls (including people, plants, rocks, winds and waters).
Animism
Which European kingdom hired Christopher Columbus to sail across the Atlantic Ocean?
Spain
Most populated state in the United States.
California
Mountain Range in the Eastern United States. It crosses states like Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Appalachian Mountains
Famous Native American guide to the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Corps of Discovery). She was born to the Shoshone Tribe in Idaho but had been captured by the Hidatsa Tribe in North Dakota. Today North Dakota's largest lake is named after her.
Sakakawea or Sacagawea or Sacajawea
Which territory in Canada is completely governed by the indigenous Native tribe (the Inuit).
Nunavut
What year did Christopher Columbus sail across the Atlantic Ocean?
1492
Least populated state in the United States.
Wyoming
What is the Native American name of the tallest mountain in the United States? It is located in Alaska and its English name is Mount McKinley.
Denali
What terrible event were the "5 Civilized Tribes" forced to endure while being removed from their lands by the US Government?
Trail of Tears
What is Blood Quantum?
Name the modern island country where Columbus first landed after crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Bahamas
Name the 5 inhabited U.S. Territories.
Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa.
Name the 5 Great Lakes.
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Eerie, and Ontario.
Which Native tribe helped inspire the United States to become a Democracy after the American Revolution with Hiawatha's Great Law of Peace and a Tribal Confederacy form of government.
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
Chief of the Lakota who defeated the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) in 1876 and has a large monument still under construction in South Dakota.
Crazy Horse
The first Europeans to reach Minnesota were from which country?
France