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NATIVE AMERICANS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| IN 1898 MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE PUBLISHED TWO MOON'S ACCOUNT OF THIS JUNE, 1876 EVENT | BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN |
| IN 1894 THIS APACHE LEADER WAS SENT TO FORT SILL, OK , WHERE HE FARMED AND JOINED THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH | GERONIMO |
| IN 1833 THIS LEADER OF THE SAC & FOX TRIBES, FOR WHOM A WAR IS NAMED, DICTATED HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO ANTOINE LECLAIRE | BLACK HAWK |
| THIS NAME THE PILGRIMS USED FOR A GREAT WAMPANOAG CHIEF MEANS "GREAT CHIEF" | MASSOSOIT |
| IN THE MID-1830S, OSCEOLA, A LEADER OF THIS TRIBE, WAGED GUERRILLA WARFARE AGAINST THE U.S. TROOPS IN THE EVERGLADES | SEMINOLE |
| A G.I. JOE INTRODUCED IN 2000 IS SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THESE NATIVE AMERICANS WHO WERE CODE TALKERS IN WWII | NAVAJO |
| MERIWETHER LEWIS NAMED A TRIBUTARY OF THE MUSSELSHELL RIVER IN MONTANA FOR HER | SACAJAWEA |
| THIS SIOUS CHIEF IS SAID TO HAVE RECEIVED HIS NAME WHEN AN EQUINE RACED THROUGH CAMP AT HIS BIRTH, C. 1849 | CRAZY HORSE |
| A WISCONSIN CITY IS NAMED FOR THIS MENOMINEE CHIEF WHO HELPED THE BRITISH CAPTURE FORT MACKINAW IN 1812 | OSHKOSH |
| A CREE INDIAN, THIS FOLK SINGER WON A 1982 OSCAR FOR CO-WRITING "UP WHERE WE BELONG" FROM "AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN" | BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE |
| THIS "ROYAL" WAMPANOAG LEADER FOUGHT A 1675-76 WAR AGAINST COLONISTS IN WHAT WAS NEW ENGLAND'S WORST INDIAN WAR | KING PHILIP |
| ALGONQUIN FOR "TO TRADE", THIS NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE SHARES ITS NAME WITH CANADA'S CAPITAL | OTTAWA |
| THE POMO OF CALIFORNIA WERE PARTICULARLY KNOWN FOR THIS ART, AN EASY ELECTIVE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS | BASKET WEAVING |
| THIS TRIBE'S NAME WAS FIRST ON A BAY, THEN A COLONY, THEN A STATE | MASSACHUSETTS |
| THIS ATHLETE'S INDIAN NAME WAS WA-THO-HUCK, "BRIGHT PATH" | JIM THORPE |
| FROM THE DARK COLOR THEY DYED THEIR MOCCASINS, THE SIKSIKA ARE ALSO KNOWN AS THIS | BLACK FOOT |
| NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTED BISON AND PRESERVED THE MEAT WITH BERRIES AND FAT AS THIS TREAT | PEMMICAN |
| THE MARRIAGE OF THIS PAIR IN 1614 BROUGHTPEACE BETWEEN THE JAMESTOWN COLONY AND LOCAL NATIVE AMERICANS | POCAHONTAS & JOHN ROLFE |
| WHEN NATIVE AMERICANS PUT ON THE OLD SOFT SHOES, THEY ARE OFTEN THESE, MADE OF SOFT LEATHER OR DEERSKIN | MOCCASINS |
| AMERICAN INDIANS USED THE SMALL AX OR HATCHET TO CHOP WOOD AND TO CHOP DOWN ENEMIES IN BATTLE | TOMAHAWK |
| IT'S THE NATIVE AMERICAN ITEM THAT YOU MAY HAVE HANGING IN YOUR BEDROOM | DREAM CATCHER |
| COCHISE WAS A FAMOUS CHIEF OF THIS NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE | APACHE |
| THE TRADITIONAL NAVAJO HOME IS THIS TYPE OF SHELTER, OFTEN 8-SIDED AND MADE OF LOGS AND MUD | HOGAN |
| WITH SOME 280,000 MEMBERS, THIS TRIBE, LARGELY CONCENTRATED IN OKLAHOMA, IS THE LARGEST IN THE U.S. | CHEROKEE |
| IT SOUNDS SERVILE, BUT THIS 11,000-SQUARE-MILE CANADIAN LAKE IS ACTUALLY NAMED FOR A TRIBE OF NATIVE AMERICANS | GREAT SLAVE LAKE |
| WINTER GUIDED TOURS OF GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK ARE DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE TO CLOMP AROUND IN THESE, ORIGINALLY USED BY NATIVE AMERICANS | SNOWSHOES |
| THE TEETH OF THIS FEROCIOUS FISH, CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS, MAY HAVE BEEN USED AS ARROWHEADS BY NATIVE AMERICANS | GREAT WHITE SHARK |
| THESE POLISHED SHELL BEADS WERE WOVEN INTO BELTS BY NATIVE AMERICANS & TRADED OR USED TO SEND MESSAGES | WAMPUM |
| NATIVE AMERICANS BELIEVED THIS BLUE-GREEN HYDROUS PHOSPHATE OF ALUMINUM & COPPER PROTECTED THEM | TURQUOISE |
| WITH CLOSE TO 650,000, THIS STATE LEADS THE U.S. IN NUMBER OF NATIVE AMERICANS, FOLLOWED BY OKLAHOMA AND ARIZONA | CALIFORNIA |
| IN 1492, COLUMBUS LANDED ON THE ISLAND OF SAN SALVADOR AND ENCOUNTERED THESE NATIVE AMERICANS | ARAWAKS |
| ONE-WORD NAME OF A PORTABLE DWELLING OF NATIVE AMERICANS, ESPECIALLY ON THE GREAT PLAINS | TEEPEE |
| IN 1934 THIS PRESIDENT WAS MADE AN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE BLACKFOOT TRIBE AND GIVEN THE NAME "LONE CHIEF" | FDR |
| HE HAD 2 ADOPTED SONS, ONE BULL & WHITE BULL | SITTING BULL |
| MAJOR SUBGROUPS OF THIS TRIBE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST INCLUDE KIOWA, CHIRICAHUA, AND MESCALERO | APACHE |
| THIS FLORIDA TRIBE LIVED IN DWELLINGS CALLED CHICKEES THAT HAD RAISED FLOORS & OPEN SIDES ALLOWING THE AIR TO CIRCULATE | SEMINOLE |
| GOVERNOR BRADFORD SAID THAT THIS INDIAN WHO TAUGHT THE PILGRIMS HOW TO PLANT CORN WAS AN "INSTRUMENT SENT BY GOD" | SQUANTO |
| THE MOJAVE, WHO ORIGINALLY LIVED ON THIS RIVER, STILL HAVE A RESERVATION ON IT | COLORADO RIVER |
| NOW USUALLY MEANING A CONFERENCE, IT HAS ALSO MEANT TO PRACTICE MAGIC | POW-WOW |
| FROM WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOMES, THE ANASAZI, ANCESTORS OF THE PUEBLO, ARE CALLED THESE | CLIFF DWELLERS |
| THE SEMINOLES BEGAN AS A BRANCH OF THIS TRIBE | CREEK INDIANS |
| IN AN 1830 TREATY, THE CHOCTOW NATION CEDED ALL OF ITS LAND EAST OF THIS RIVER TO THE U.S. | MISSISSIPPI RIVER |
| THE TIME ALMANAC REPORTS THIS LARGEST CITY IN LOUISIANA IS HOME TO FEWER THAN 1,000 NATIVE AMERICANS | NEW ORLEANS |
| NATIVE AMERICANS MADE CANOES UP TO 45' LONG FROM THE BARK OF THE PAPER TYPE OF THIS TREE | BIRCH |
| NATIVE AMERICANS CALLED THIS FENCE MATERIAL THE "DEVIL'S ROPE" | BARBED WIRE |
| APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S. | 2 MILLION |
| AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, THIS ABOLITIONIST CAMPAIGNED FOR WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE AND JUSTICE FOR NATIVE AMERICANS | WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON |
| THE FIRST SERIOUS EPIDEMIC OF THIS "DIMINUATIVE" DISEASE IN NEW ENGLAND BEGAN IN 1616 AND WAS VERY HARD ON NATIVE AMERICANS | SMALLPOX |
| THE FIRST MENTION OF HER IN BRITISH COLONIAL RECORDS WAS IN JOHN SMITH'S "TRUE RELATIONS" | POCAHONTAS |
| THIS LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE AT THE LITTLE BIG HORN TOOK NO ACTIVE PART IN THE BATTLE | SITTING BULL |
| THIS SHOSHONE'S NAME MEANT "BIRD WOMAN" | SACAJAWEA |
| THIS CHIRICAHUA APACHE TOOK PART IN THE INAUGUARAL PROCESSION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN 1905 | GERONIMO |
| AT THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON DEFEATED THIS WARRIOR'S BROTHER, "THE SHAWNEE PROPHET" | TECUMSEH |
| NATIVE AMERICANS ONCE CUT THE SHELLS OF QUAHOGS INTO BEADS & USED THEM FOR THIS MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE | WAMPUM |
| CHIEF BLACKFISH ADOPTED THIS KENTUCKY EXPLORER, GUIDE, AND LATER STATE LEGISLATOR | DANIEL BOONE |
| CAMEAHWAIT HAD PLANNED ON ATTACKING THIS PAIR'S EXPEDITION, UNTIL HE NOTICED THEIR GUIDE WAS HIS SISTER | LEWIS AND CLARK |
| OF MEADOWLARK, GEESE, OR CURLY, THE CROW WHO SERVED AS A SCOUT FOR CUSTER AT LITTLE BIG HORN | CURLY |
| HE WAS AN ALLY OF THE BRITISH IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND A WISCONSIN CITY IS NAMED FOR HIM | OSHKOSH |
| HIAWATHA WAS THE FOUNDER OF THIS NATIVE AMERICAN LEAGUE | IROQUOIS LEAGUE |
| KENNEWICK MAN, DISCOVERED IN 1996 IN THIS STATE, HAS SPARKED A CUSTODY BATTLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SCIENTISTS | WASHINGTON |
| IN ORDER TO PREVENT CONFLICT, YOU MIGHT PASS THIS SACRED CEREMONIAL OBJECT USED BY SOME NATIVE AMERICANS | PEACE PIPE |
| THE WAR HELMET OF THESE NATIVE AMERICANS, WAS A BISON SCALP COMPLETE WITH HORNS | COMANCHE |
| LIKE NATIVE AMERICANS, MANY MONGOLIANS FOLLOW THIS TYPE OF MYSTIC HEALER WHOSE NAME MEANS "HE WHO KNOWS" | SHAMAN |
| MIS DRIED, POUNDED MEAT WITH FAT & BERRIES TO MAKE THIS TRADITIONAL FOOD OF NATIVE AMERICANS | PEMMICAN |
| CENTURIES BEFORE COLUMBUS, THESE PEOPLE ENCOUNTERED NATIVE AMERICANS AND CALLED THEM SKRAELINGS | VIKINGS |
| THE CURRENCY CALLED WAMPUM WAS ORIGINALLY STRINGS OF THESE MADE FROM SHELLS | BEADS |
| THIS TRIBE CALLED THEMSELVES HOTCANGARA & MOVED AROUND THE GREAT LAKES IN CANOES, NOT MOTOR HOMES | WINNEBAGO |
| A WIGWAM IS AN ALGONQUIN BENT POLE & BARK DWELLING; THIS SIOUX WORD MEANS A HOUSE OF ANIMAL SKINS | TEPEE |
| THIS GROUPING INCLUDING THE CROW & WICHITA IS NAMED FOR THE AREA FROM THE ROCKIES TO THE MISSISSIPPI | PLAINS INDIANS |
| COLONISTS CALLED IT THE ELK, THOUGH THE SHAWNEE HAD GIVEN IT THIS PERFECTLY GOOD NAME | WAPITI |
| NATIVE AMERICANS GREW THESE TOGETHER WITH CORN & AT HARVEST TIME COMBINED THEM INTO "M'SICKQUATASH" | LIMA BEANS |
| THIS GREAT LAKE WAS KNOWN TO THE NATIVE AMERICANS AS GITCHEE GUMEE | LAKE SUPERIOR |
| ORIGINALLY PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR, THIS BUREAU IS CONCERNED WITH THE HOW & WHERE OF NATIVE AMERICANS | BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS |
| THE HAVASUPI TOURIST ENTERPRISE SUPPLIES GUIDES AND MULES TO TOURISTS AT THIS ARIZONA NATURAL WONDER | GRAND CANYON |
| THE SAUK CHIEF KEOKUK IS BURIED IN THE CITY OF KEOKUK IN THIS STATE | IOWA |
| IN 1959, AT AGE 99, JASON BETZINES WROTE, "I FOUGHT WITH..." THIS CHIRACUA APACHE, HIS COUSIN | GERONIMO |
| THE NAME APACHE IS A WORD FOR "ENEMY" AMONG THESE ARIZONA PUEBLO DWELLERS | ZUNIS |
| THESE MEXICAN GULF COAST INDIANS WERE FAMOUS FOR CARVING GIANT HEADS FROM BASALT | OLMECS |
| THE ALGONQUIANS GAVE US THE NAME FOR THIS BLACK ANIMAL WITH WHITE STRIPES DOWN ITS BACK | SKUNK |
| PLAINS INDIANS USUALLY STRETCHED THESE ANIMAL SKINS OVER FRAMES TO MAKE BULBOATS AND TEPEES | BUFFALO |
| THIS FUTURE CHIEF OF THE MENOMINEE HELPED THE ENGLISH CAPTURE FORT MACKINAC | OSHKOSH |
| THE NAVAJO LEARNED SAND PAINTING FROM THESE INDIANS WHOSE NAME IS SPANISH FOR "VILLAGE" | PUEBLO |
| THOMAS JEFFORDS BEFRIENDED THIS APACHE LEADER IN THE 1860S AND LATER BECAME THE TRIBE'S AGENT | COCHISE |
| ALSO CALLED TISQUANTUM, THIS HELPER OF THE PILGRIMS WAS ONE OF THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICANS TO VISIT EUROPE | SQUANTO |
| A 1924 LAW GAVE CITIZENSHIP TO ALL THESE MEMBERS OF WHAT WERE CALLED "DOMESTIC DEPENDENT NATIONS" | NATIVE AMERICANS |
| THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE PROPOSED STATE OF SEQUOYAH SERVED IN LARGE PART AS THE BASIS FOR THIS STATE'S CONSTITUTION | OKLAHOMA |
| BEFORE THIS GREAT CHIEF DIED IN 1877, HE REPORTEDLY PROPHESIED, "I WILL RETURN TO YOU IN STONE" | CRAZY HORSE |
| A PENNSYLVANIA CITY, A CANAL, AND A GREAT LAKE ARE NAMED FOR THIS TRIBE | ERIE |