Native American Quiz
Posted Thursday, November 3, 2011 05:57 AM
Subject: Quiz in honor of Native American month
 
 
November is Native American Month. Let's see how much we know about the people who lived in the Southeast, The Great Plains, the Southeast, The Northwest, Sub Arctic and the Great Basin sections of the United States.
 
 
1. What region were the Cherokee from?
 
2 .What region were the Potawatomi from?
 
3. What region were the Sioux located in?
 
4. Which region were the Nis-Qually from?
 
5. What region were the Shoshone from?
 
6. What region were the Labrador Inuit from ?
 
7. What region were the Nez Perce from?
 
8. What region were the Yokuts from?
 
9. What region were the Western Apache located?
 
10. What region were the Miami tribe from?
 
11. Which North American Native American tribe never signed a peace treaty with the US
government?
 
12. Which Native American woman is in one of the US currency coins?
 
13. Were Chingachgook and Uncas truly the last of the Mohicans?
 
14. Who was Wamsutta?
 
15. What group of Native Americans lived in what is now modern New Bedford?
 
 
 
 
<<<<< Answers
 
1. Southeast, close to modern day Carolinas
2. Midwest, modern day Michigan
3. Plains, Sioux chief Running Antelope is on US nickel
4. Northwest, modern day Oregon
5 Great Basin, lived in tepees, hunted buffalo
6. Sub - Arctic, the Eskimos
7. Plateau, modern day Idaho, good horsemanship
8. West Coast, California
9. Southwest
10. Eastern Woodland, modern day Indiana
11. Seminole tribe of Florida
12. Sacagawea, of the Sashone tribe
13. No, there are two tribes who are part of the people in the novel: the Mohicans
and the Mohegans of modern Connecticut
14. Wamsutta was the oldest son of Chief Massasoit
15. The Wampanoag People (by the way, a politically correct new children's book "Ten Little Wampanoags" sings to the tune of "Ten Little Indians
 
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