Native American Heritage Month Facts
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- 2. Not all Native American tribes have their own ___.
- 4. In 1990, Congress and what president passed the law designating November as the first National American Indian Heritage Month?
- 5. The birth name of General Ely Parker, born to the Seneca tribe (Who wrote the Union's conditions of surrender to the Confederates during the Civil War)
- 7. 31st Vice President of the United States who was longtime senator from Kansas and sports ancestry of the Kaw, Osage, and Potawatomi
- 8. What percentage of the US Population identifies as Native American?
- 10. The People of the South Wind are known as the ___tribe.
- 13. What is the Lakota formation Tunkasila Sakpe Paha known as now?
- 15. First native American community to sign a treaty with the United States government.
- 17. The ___ ___ has the largest tribal land in the United States.
- 19. Native Americans spoke more than ___ ___ languages.
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- 1. Which Native American Confederacy is considered one of the oldest living democracies in the world?
- 3. What percentage of Native Americans living in the United States today live on reservations?
- 6. Word meaning "the people" in the Inuktitut language.
- 9. Oldest Earthwork Mound complex in North America (older than pyramids and stonehenge)
- 11. Which Native American chief is known for uniting many tribes of Native American people to stand against the United States Government in the battle of Little Bighorn?
- 12. The first ____ in a Native American language began publishing in 1828.
- 14. The ____ __ ____ was a series of forced displacements of approx 60,000 American Indians of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States Government.
- 16. What year were Native Americans granted American Citizenship?
- 18. What is the most commonly used Native American language?
- 20. Native American group who commonly served as code talkers during WW2