Treaty Rights & Sovereignty
The legal principle that tribal nations have the right to govern themselves is known as what?
What is tribal sovereignty
What famous landmark in Arizona is a testament to the architectural and agricultural ingenuity of the Ancestral Puebloan people?
What is the Grand Canyon
Who was the first woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation?
Who is Wilma Mankiller
Many Native American communities cultivated these three crops, known as the "Three Sisters," together, as they supported each other's growth.
What are corn, beans, and squash
This cultural region, known for its extensive grasslands and roaming buffalo herds, is home to tribes like the Pawnee and Comanche.
What is the Great plains
What 1830 act, signed by President Andrew Jackson, authorized the forced removal of many Native American tribes from their ancestral lands?
What is the Indian Removal Act
The Creator's Game is the original name for what sport?
What is lacrosse
What was the name of the famous battle fought between the U.S. Army and a coalition of Native American tribes, later known as Custer's Last Stand?
What was the Battle of the Little Bighorn
What animal did the Plains Indians rely on for food, clothing, and shelter materials?
What is the bison (or buffalo)
The Hopi and Pueblo peoples used adobe to build their permanent, village-like homes in this hot, arid region of the American Southwest.
What is the Desert Southwest
What Supreme Court case established the principle of federal trust responsibility towards Native American tribes?
What is United States v. Kagama
What is the name of the process where Native Americans created and used a complex system of water management for irrigation?
What is ancient irrigation or terracing
The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation of which five tribes from the Southeast?
Who are the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw
Besides farming and hunting, what was the third major method Native Americans used to get food?
What is gathering (wild plants, berries, nuts)
This cultural region of Alaska and Canada is home to the Inuit, who adapted to the below-freezing temperatures by hunting marine mammals and building igloos.
What is the Arctic
What is the name of the act passed in 1934 that sought to reverse the assimilation policies of the Dawes Act and promote tribal self-government?
What is the Indian Reorganization Act
What common method of food preparation, involving smoking or drying, was developed by Native Americans?
What is smoking or preservation
A significant civil rights movement that fought for Native American rights and sovereignty, beginning in Minneapolis, Minnesota
What is American Indian Movement (AIM)
What is the name for the flat, griddled-fried cornmeal bread that is a staple in many Native American and Latin American cuisines?
What is a tortilla
With a wet and mild climate, this coastal region was home to tribes like the Kwakiutl and Makah, who were known for their large plank houses and impressive totem poles.
What is the Northwest Coast
What is the term for the lands set aside by the federal government for the use and occupation of Native American tribes?
What is a reservation
Many modern innovations were developed or refined by Native Americans. Name at least two of these, such as using plants for medicine or developing sophisticated tracking techniques.
Examples include using plants for medicine, animal tracking, or advanced agriculture.
A Lakota leader and holy man known for his resistance against US government policies and his premonition of victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
What is Sitting Bull
Besides corn, beans, and squash, what other crops were among the most important grown by Native Americans before European contact?
What are potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and sunflowers
The Haudenosaunee, also known as the Iroquois, were a powerful confederacy that lived in this forested cultural region.
What is the Eastern Woodlands