Introduction to Native American History
This term is used broadly for people who have lived in a particular place since before settlers arrived.
What is Indigenous?
On February 27, 1973, long deliberations took place between the Oglala Lakota and the American Indian Movement at this historic location in South Dakota.
What is the Site of the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Indigenous American agriculture was largely based on this grain.
What is corn?
Native Americans created America's first democracy that later inspired this document.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
These types of histories, passed down through storytelling, preserve knowledge of events like the eruption that formed Crater Lake 7,600 years ago.
What are oral traditions?
The standoff at the Wounded Knee Massacre site was between the American Indian Movement and this Native American tribe.
Who are the Oglala Lakota?
The total population of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century was estimated to be this.
What is about One Hundred Million?
In a remote canyon in New Mexico, more than a thousand years ago, Native Americans built one of the largest cities in North America, called this.
What is Chaco?
This system aims to remove and erase the people already living in a place so that a new group can move in instead.
What is settler-colonialism?
An armed special unit, the Guardians of the Oglala Nation, were also known by this nickname.
Who were the "Goon Squad?"
The Indigenous populations of the Americas were reduced by 90 percent after European colonizing projects to this number of total population.
What is around Ten Million?
The Hopi are one of these communities, named after the style of housing they used.
What are Pueblo Communities?
This Native Nation member explained that their people call themselves Diné, which means “the people.”
Who are the Navajo?
What is 1890?
The total population of Europe at the end of the 15th Century was estimated to be this.
What is around Fifty Million?
What is "Caverna de Pedra Pintada" Portuguese for?
What is the Cave of the Painted Rock?
This concept assigned people a perceived fraction of “Indian blood” to gradually eliminate Native identity.
What is blood quantum?
In 1972, the American Indian Movement was led by this authoritarian tribal chairman.
Who is Richard Wilson?
The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora made up an Alliance of Six nations called this.
What is the Haudenosaunee or Iriquois Confederacy?
In Room 28 of the city of Chaco, archeologists discovered drinking vessels with traces of this substance.
What is chocolate?