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Native Americans
YGK These Native American Peoples
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A confederacy originally consisting of five tribes (Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga) native to upstate New York, founded on the teachings of the Great Peacemaker | Iroquois Confederacy |
| The prophet and his chief follower whose teachings founded the Iroquois Confederacy | The Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha |
| The Iroquois leaders who stood by the British, leading to the collapse of the Confederacy after the American Revolution | Joseph Brant |
| An Algonquin-speaking people who lived in eastern Virginia when Jamestown was founded in 1607, led by their namesake chief | Powhatan |
| The Powhatan chief's daughter who legendarily interceded to spare John Smith's life | Pocahontas |
| One of the "Five Civilized Tribes" (along with Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminoles) whose sovereignty was acknowledged in Worcester v. Georgia but driven west on the Trail of Tears | Cherokee people |
| The Cherokee who created an original alphabet for his people | Sequoyah |
| The treaty that led to the Cherokee being driven west along the Trail of Tears | Treaty of New Echota |
| A "civilized tribe" living in Florida that fought multiple wars against the U.S. to resist forced removal west | Seminole |
| Seminole leaders who resisted removal in the Second Seminole War and the 1850s war, respectively | Osceola and Billy Bowlegs |
| The tribe native to the Ohio Valley whose leader Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet built a coalition to oppose U.S. expansion | Shawnee people |
| The Shawnee leader and his brother known as "the Prophet" who allied with the British in the War of 1812 | Tecumseh and Tenkswatawa |
| The preeminent tribe of the northern Great Plains during the 19th century who had their territory recognized in two Treaties of Fort Laramie | Lakota Sioux |
| The U.S. cavalry leader wiped out by the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn | George Custer |
| The religious movement that spread among the Sioux in the 1890s, leading to the Wounded Knee massacre when the U.S. tried to suppress it | Ghost Dance |
| The guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, a member of the Shoshone tribe | Sacagawea |
| The Shoshone chief who led a mass conversion of his people to Mormonism in 1875 to secure aid | Pocatello |
| The people living along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest whose leader Chief Joseph declared “I will fight no more forever” after a 1,200-mile retreat | Nez Perce people |
| The people of the American Southwest whose multi-decade clashes with the U.S. government began after a federal attempt to seize their chief Cochise in 1861 | Apache people |
| The Apache leader who repeatedly broke out of reservations and fought American forces until captured by Nelson Miles and exiled to Florida | Geronimo |
| The tribe driven from Arizona to New Mexico in the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo after their homeland was devastated by Kit Carson | Navajo people |
| The members of the Navajo tribe who used their native language to securely transmit messages across the Pacific theater during World War II | Navajo code-talkers |
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