American Indians


Quiz Produced by Zoe Friloux
Endangered Indigenous Languages
  1. Which U.S. Indian nation is the largest in terms of membership and reservation size?

    Hopi

    Choctaw

    Navajo

    Cherokee

  2. Which Indian tribe was involved in the Trail of Tears?

    Nez Perce

    Cherokee

    Sioux

    Maricopa

  3. How many Indians are estimated to have died as a result of the Trail of Tears?

    10,000

    4,000

    1,500

    25,000

  4. Traditionally, what is the main crop of Arizona Hopi Indians?

    tobacco

    potatoes

    citrus

    corn

  5. Members of which two tribes defeated U.S. Cavalry troops at Little Bighorn in 1876?

    Sioux and Cheyenne

    Hopi and Navajo

    Creek and Cherokee

    Algonquin and Mohican

  6. Which U.S. city had the largest number of American Indian or Alaska Native residents on the 2000 census?

    Miami

    Washington

    New York

    Phoenix

  7. How many Indian tribes and nations in the 48 contiguous states and Alaska have official recognition from the U.S. government?

    127

    349

    556

    875

  8. Which U.S. census was the first in which a person could list American Indian or Alaska Native in addition to another race?

    1970

    1980

    1990

    2000

  9. What English name was given to the Powhatan teenager Pocahontas before her 1614 marriage to John Rolfe?

    Lady Agatha

    Lady Margaret

    Lady Rebecca

    Lady Marion

  10. Brothers Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh, Indian spiritual and political leaders of the late 1700s and early 1800s, were members of which tribe?

    Ottawa

    Miami

    Shawnee

    Potawatomi

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