Chumash
Pueblo People
Iroquois
Cheyenne
Film and Media
100

The Chumash would say they live on this State's coastline, which happens to be the same state many of us call home.

What is California?

100

The name of the homes in which these people lived, which we also use to describe their group.

What is the Pueblo?

100

These appropriately named houses that the Iroquois lived in could reach up to 400-feet long.

What are Long Houses?

100

The large flat environment of the United States where the Cheyenne lived is called this. 

The Great Plains

100

This is a widely held but untrue belief about a person, or group of people, that could be based on racist ideas.

What is a stereotype?

200

These seeds from an oak tree were collected by Chumash children and adults to help supply them with food.

What are acorns?

200

The Adobe bricks that made their homes were made of these 3 ingredients.

What is clay/sand, water, and straw?

200

The Iroquois, and many other tribes, farmed these 3 foods commonly known as 3 Sisters.

What are corn, beans, squash?

200

These large animals were very important to the Cheyenne, as they would use every part of the animal for food, clothing, shelter, tools and more.

What were the Buffalo?

200

When a person wants to be a truthful film or book, they would need to do research to make sure they are doing this. 

What is Accurate Representation?

300

The boats that the Chumash would use to row out into the ocean to collect food.

What are Canoes?

300

The Pueblo had trade routes stretching far to the West and all the way South,  into this country.

What is Mexico?

300

The Iroquois were not just one tribe but 6, all joined together in a union called this. 

What is a confederacy? 

300

The name of the tent-like structures that the Cheyenne called their home.

What was a Teepee?

300

In the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee the Lakota tribe is being attacked by this American group during the deadly process of Westward Expansion.

What was the US Army?

400

One of the Chumash's favorite games was to throw these through a rolling hoop.

What is a Javelin? 

400

This blue stone was used by the Pueblo to make beautiful jewelry.

What is turquoise? 

400

The Iroquois were Matrilineal which meant they followed their family lines by this parent.

Who is the Mother?

400

The Cheyenne learned a way to do this to meats and fruits, which kept the food from spoiling, and made for good trading valuables.

What is drying or dried foods?

400

During the Peter Pan racist song we watched, one of the kids ask the Chief when did you first say 'this,' which was a stereotyped Indigenous person greeting.

When did he first ask "how?"

500

This was the name of the Chumash home (and how do you spell it?)

'ap

500

The Pueblo had these dolls to help teach them about their religion.

What are Kachina dolls?

500

The Iroquois would make a frame for their homes out of sticks and logs, then cover the homes with this  material to protect them from wind and rain.

What is bark?

500

This is the name of the god that the Cheyenne believed created them. 

Who is Ma'heo'o

500

This was the name of one of the two tribes shown as overly violent in the film Dances with Wolves.

Who was the Sioux or the Pawnee?