Native Culture
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Vocabulary
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100

What is a popular Native American bread similar to a biscuit doughnut?  

What is fry bread?

100

What term is used to describe when two Native American tribes came together to form one larger tribe?

What is merge?

100

What Native American tribe is still found in Mississippi today?

What is the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians?
100

What word best fits the following definition: A Native American fishing method which requires the fisherman to dive below the water to grab a fish from inside a hole or hollow log. 

What is grabbling? 

100

What French Fort later became known as the city of Natchez?

What is Fort Rosalie? 

200

What ceremony was held around the harvest season to celebrate the harvest and forgive others?

What is the Green Corn Ceremony?
200

What president pushed the Indian Removal Act through congress?

Who was President Andrew Jackson?

200

What animal escaped into the wilderness of the southern forests under Hernando Desoto?

What are the razorbacks?


200

What word best fits the following definition: A smaller tribe which joined forces with a larger tribe to avoid being whiped out.

What is a refugee tribe? 

200

What does MSBCI stand for?

What is Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians? 

300

What is the name given to the leader of an Indian tribe?

What is Mingo or Chief?
300

What is the name of the 1,000 mile path that many Native Americans were forced to take after the signing of the Indian Removal Act?

What is the trail of tears?

300

What place, mentioned in the Bible, did Hernando De Soto and others describe the forests of Mississippi as looking like? 

What is the Garden of Eden?
300

What word best fits the following definition: A Native American crop with a ceremony centered around its harvest each fall. This crop could be made into many different foods.

What is corn?

What is maize?

300

What term best fits the following definition: A group of people who only ever marry outside of their immediate family or clan.

What is exogamic?

400

What game do the Choctaw Indians enjoy playing where the goal is to hit a post with a ball?

What is stickball? 

400

Which Mississippi Native American tribe lost its last living member in 1925? 

What is the Natchez Tribe? 

400

What is the name of the large structures made out of dirt found across many Native American archaeological sites called? 

What are mounds? 

400

What word best fits the following definition: The leader of the 5 Natchez indian village regions. His name has a commonality with the largest physical body in our solar system.

Who was the Great Sun? 

400

Which of the three major Native American tribes of Mississippi was the most hostile towards outsiders?

Who are the Chickasaw? 

500

Who is the current chief of the MSBCI?

Who is Cyrus Ben?

500

The Indian Removal Act required that Native Americans give up their land with the promise of receiving land in the Oklahoma Indian Territory. What term best fits that idea?

What is land cession? 

500

What term best fits the following definition: A society or people who farm to survive.

What is Agrarian? 

500

What word best fits the following definition: A small, wooden tube with a cup at the end used for holding tobacco. 

What is a calumet?

500

Having no form of written language, what did the Native Americans use to tell short stories through images? 

What is pictography?