Native American History - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Year Christopher Columbus came to the Americas while looking for India	1492	98%
US President who signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing all Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River	Andrew Jackson	84%
The Native American language used as basis for a code language used by Ally forces during WW2. It was never cracked by the Axis.	Navajo	84%
The forced removal of Native Americans from their homes in the Southeast to Oklahoma, causing thousands of deaths	The Trail of Tears	84%
Present day body of water crossed by Paleolithic Native Americans to get to the Americas from Siberia	Bering Strait	80%
US President who ended the practice of Indian boarding schools in 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	76%
The current most populous Native tribe in the US, with over a million self-reported members	The Cherokee	69%
19th century American belief that the US was destined to expand across North America, causing the displacement and deaths of many Native Americans	Manifest destiny	67%
US President who signed the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, giving all Native Americans US citizenship if they didn't have it already.	Calvin Coolidge	65%
The deadliest mass shooting in US history, where about three hundred Lakota were killed by American soldiers. Later the site of a protest by the American Indian Movement.	Wounded Knee Massacre	59%
Celebrated as an alternative to Columbus Day on the second Monday in October	Indigenous Peoples' Day	45%
Psychoactive plant only legal for use by members of the Native American Church, which combines elements of Christianity and various traditional Native American religions	Peyote	45%
Procedure performed by the Indian Health Service on Native American women without their informed consent, primarily during the 60s and 70s	Sterilization	39%
Native American group in the Caribbean, the first to be encountered by Columbus	Taíno	33%
A millenarian religious movement founded by the prophet Wovoka (Jack Wilson), who said that proper practice of this dance would bring peace, among other things, to the region	Ghost Dance	27%
Traditional shell beads important to the Eastern Woodlands tribes. Used as gifts, currency, and made into belts which could be used as memory aids for storytellers	Wampum	22%
A name used by the US government to refer to the following Native nations: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee/Creek, and the Seminoles	Five Civilized Tribes	20%
Year that the American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed, which protected Native Americans right to their traditional religious and cultural practices, which were previously illegal in many places	1978	18%
A similar forced removal of the Navajo, also killing thousands	The Long Walk	16%
Prehistoric culture discovered in modern day New Mexico during the late 1920s	Clovis culture	8%
1972 cross country caravan from the West Coast to Washington DC, protesting for Native American rights and demanding to negotiate with the federal government	Trail of Broken Treaties	6%
Constitution of the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee Confederacy (the Six Nations), estimated to originate from the late 12th century. Influenced the American Constitution.	Great Law of Peace	4%
Taking place during the Cold War, the Canadian government relocated 92 Inuit further north, to modern day Nunavut	High Arctic relocation	4%
One of the biggest and most important Indian boarding schools in the US, which were dedicated to assimilating Natives into white Christian society and involved much abuse. Located in Pennsylvania, and designated as a national monument in 2024.	Carlisle Indian Industrial School	2%
Tooth or tusk shells used by Natives in western Canada and the US for jewelry and currency. Also found in the Middle East.	Dentalium	2%
A 1928 investigation into the conditions experienced by Native Americans in the US	Meriam Report	2%

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