Famous Native American Figures
This Shoshone woman is known for guiding Lewis and Clark on their expedition to explore the American West.
Who is Sacagawea?
This U.S. President signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, leading to the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This Native American sport, which involved a ball and stick and was played to settle disputes and train warriors, is considered the precursor to modern lacrosse.
What is stickball?
This tribe developed a written language system, known as a syllabary, created by Sequoyah in the early 19th century.
Who are the Cherokee?
This is the hours of operation here at the Center, also a famous Dolly Parton song.
What is 9 to 5?
This Apache leader led a long resistance against U.S. and Mexican military forces in the late 19th century.
Who is Geronimo?
This 1978 law was enacted to protect Native American children from being removed from their families and placed into non-Native homes.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)?
These staple crops are known as the "Three Sisters" in Native American agriculture.
What is corn (maize), rice, and squash?
Our state name (Oklahoma) comes from this tribe language, meaning "red people".
Who is the Choctaw?
This is the app where you upload pictures from Center-related activities, you can find the QR code for this around the center.
What is PhotoCircle?
He was a Lakota Sioux chief who defeated General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
The 1934 act that ended the policy of allotment and aimed to restore tribal self-government on reservations.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
In recent Western wear trends, the Navajo are famous for incorporating this vibrant blue-green stone into their jewelry, often used in rings, necklaces, and bracelets.
What is turquoise?
This tragic event refers to the forced relocation of the Cherokee and other tribes to Indian Territory, during which thousands died.
What is the Trail of Tears?
We celebrated this event at the beginning of the semester, you can say we were on cloud nine.
What is the Center for Sovereign Nations' 9th birthday?
This famous athlete, of Sac and Fox Nation heritage, won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon in 1912.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
Native American tribes have this power, meaning they can govern themselves, create laws, and maintain courts within their lands.
What is tribal sovereignty?
This Navajo contribution to U.S. military success in World War II involved creating a secret code based on their language.
What is the Navajo Code?
This tribe, also known as the Muscogee, established a sophisticated society in Alabama and Georgia before being forcibly relocated to present-day Oklahoma.
Who are the Creek?
This is the biggest student-lead Native American organization on campus that meets every other Thursday at 6, its also the name for the space agency in the US.
What is the Native American Student Association (NASA)?
The first Native American to become U.S. Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration, he was a member of the Chickasaw Nation.
Who is Charles Curtis?
This legal doctrine, established in 1908, continues to affirm that Native American tribes hold water rights to support the life of their reservations, and recent rulings have reinforced its importance in drought-affected areas.
What is the Winters Doctrine?
This Native American political structure, which united several nations under a collective governing body, is said to have influenced the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This treaty, signed in 1835 by a small faction of Cherokee leaders, ceded all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi in exchange for land in Oklahoma.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
What is students, partnerships, and sovereignty?