Food and Absolutely No Food
Known as the "good seed" or "good berry" in Anishinaabemowin
Who is mnomin or wild rice?
Nambezho/Mishipeshu is a great water spirit that is associated with whirlpools. Also seen as a constellation in the night sky, what time of year is the constellation most prominent?
When is late winter/early spring?
This cultural gathering is NOT a meeting.
What is a pow wow?
Government funded and compulsory institutions that were designed to "kill the Indian, save the man."
What are Native American Boardings Schools/Residential Schools?
As a political unit, the Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe are known together as the...
What is the Three Fires Confederacy?
A form of spiritual and actual dying, this practice allows one to become closer to the spirit world, thus making their prayers more potent.
What is fasting or vision quest?
Abhorred cannibal creature present in winter months.
What is a weendigo/windigo/weetigo?
A woman needs a dress with tobacco lids in order to take part.
What is jingle dress dancing?
AIRFA was passed in 1978 and stands for...
What is the American Indian Religious Freedom Act?
The 17th c. marked settler fear of Native American religions as [___________], whereas, 19th c. settler fears focused on Indigenous political rebellion.
What is witchcraft?
Spirit feasts are typically held during this time of year.
When is fall?
This type of structure/ceremonial lodge is sometimes described as a womb.
What is a sweatlodge?
Material that Native peoples in the Great Lakes record their hi(stories) by etching pictographs.
What is birch bark? (stones also acceptable answer).
This act parceled existing reservation land established by treaties in order to make individual plots for Native families (instead of communally held land) while siphoning off the "excess" land to give to white Americans and recently arrived European immigrants.
What is the Dawes Act or General Allotment Act of 1887?
The number of federally recognized tribes in Michigan.
What is 12?
While popular, this food is a result of colonial food commodity programs.
What is frybread?
Translated as "spirit" or "entity that goes about causing change."
Who is a manitou or mnedo?
Seen on medicine pouches, these two spirit beings are at constant war with each other, thus protecting the medicinal contents.
Who are Nambezho/Mishipeshu/Underwater Panther and Nimki Bneshi/Thunderbird?
The year the Indian Citizenship Act was passed, granting American citizenship to members of Native American tribes.
When is 1924?
This prophetic movement resulted in killing of several hundred unarmed Lakota Indians, almost half of whom were women and children, by soldiers of the United States Army.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Mostly practiced by tribes in Plains, this ceremony consists of dancing, piecing of the chest, and taking no food or water.
What is the Sun Dance?
These elder relatives enter the sweat lodge with the help of a fire keeper.
Who are Grandfather stones?
This resistance movement used pictographs and knotted cords to share their covert plan with allies.
What is the Pueblo Revolt, 1680?
This law created consultation requirements with Native American tribes as well as mandated institutions that receive federal funding (like museums) to create inventories of their collections.
What is NAGPRA (The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), 1990?
As of 2026, this is the number federally recognized tribes in the United States.
What is 575?