Native Americans in Vermont
Federally Recognized tribes in Vermont
What is there are none?
A long and narrow house built with posts and poles and covered with sheets of bark that usually held multiple extended family members, used by the Iroquois tribes especially
What is a Longhouse?
The 3 Sisters
What are Corn, Beans, and Squash
In 1890, 153 Sioux men, women, and children were murdered by the U.S Army, including the Lakota Chief, this event ended The Ghost Dance movement and was the last large encounter of the Indian Wars
What is Wounded Knee?
Smallpox, pneumonia, and measles
What is diseases brought by Europeans?
The largest state recognized tribe in VT
What is the Abenaki
A small house made out of wooden frames and birchbark, often shaped like a cone or dome, used by the Algonquian tribes especially
What is a Wigwam?
What are the 4 basic ways Native American tribes found food?
What is hunting, fishing, gathering, and farming?
Signed into law in 1830 by President Andrew Jackson, ___________ forced Indians to resettle from east of the Mississippi River to lands west that were deemed Indian Territory
What is the Indian Removal Act?
America would have been delayed a century without ______ having been available by the Indians
What is Maize?
Vermont high school and middle school who honors the Abenaki Tribe with their mascot, The Thunderbirds
What is Missisquoi Valley Union Middle and High School?
A large building similar to Wigwams, but beehived shaped thatched with long prairie grass, used by tribes in the Southern Plains like the Caddos
What is a Grass House?
Weapons used by Indigenous People to hunt and fish
What are Bow and Arrows and spears?
Following the Indian Removal Act, The Cherokees and other tribes were forced to migrate to new territory and during this migration thousands experienced harsh conditions horrible weather, hundreds of death due to disease, fatigue, famine, and abuse by white settlers
What is Trail of Tears?
U.S government wanted to change and retrain Indian children by forcing them to attend________ where they were forced to cut their hair, dissolve their cultural identity, and were heavily abused
What is "Boarding Schools"
The 4 state recognized tribes
What are the, Elnu Abenaki Tribe, Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, Koasek Abenaki Tribe, and the Mississquoi Abenaki Tribe?
A cone shaped tent like house covered in buffalo hide, designed to set up quickly and be taken down quickly, used by the Plains tribes especially
What is a Teepee?
What theory did Indigenous People practice in regards to food and gathering?
What is "Waste not, want not"
What is Sand Creek Massacre?
These Indian men used their Native language to convey messages by telephone and radio without the Japanese knowing
What are The Navajo Code Talkers?
Woman from Swanton Vermont who is a part of the Abenaki tribe and was in both the Air Force and Vermont National Guard, that was featured during Joe Biden's Inauguration
Who is Takara Matthews?
A wall-less house with long posts supporting a thatched roof, during rainstorms would lash tarps made of hide to stay dry, used especially by the Seminole Indians in Florida
What is a Chickee?
A fermented corn based alcoholic drink developed by Indians in Central and South America
What is Chicha?
A long over due, one sentence act in 1924 that stated that all non-citizen Indians born within the U.S are now declared citizens
What is the Citizenship Act?
What aspects of the U.S political system was influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy?
What are the Separation of Powers (U.S Senate & House of Reps), Articles of Confederation, & The Constitution?