November is National Native American Heritage Month.

Lets test your Native American knowledge.

** 1. Native Americans, also known as American Indians, are also called:

a. Yellow men
b. Red men
c. Brown men
d. Blacks

** 2. Native Americans come from the regions of North America and Alaska.

a. True
b. False

3. When did the European colonization of the Americas
that ravaged the population of Native Americans start?

a. 20th century
b. 10 b.c.
c. 16th century
d. 19th century

4. What was the first Native American tribe
encountered by Christopher Columbus?

a. Apache Warriors
b. Island Arawaks
c. Cherokees
d. Sioux Indians

** 5. What was the disease that wiped out a great number
of Native Americans in Massachusetts Bay?

a. Insomnia
b. Measles
c. Small pox
d. Skin diseases

** 6. The Maya, Toltec and Aztec belong to what
Native American cultural area?

a. Great plains culture
b. Northwest coast culture
c. California culture
d. Mesoamerica culture

7. The tribes known as the ‘The Five Civilized Tribes’ because of
their advanced systems of government, education and law,
were the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and:

a. Iroquois
b. Chickasaw
c. Navajo
d. Sioux

8. When was the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended
the American Revolutionary War between the UK and the USA, signed?

a. October 5, 1782
b. November 16, 1784
c. August 9, 1781
d. September 3, 1783

** 9. Who is the famous Native American, known as the Sioux War Chief?

a. Sitting Bull
b. Red Cloud
c. Little Turtle
d. Squanto

10. Is Blackfeet one of the largest Native American tribes
in the US in 2000?

a. Yes
b. No

** 11. What do you call the art of painting ritual paintings for
religious ceremonies that was most commonly practiced by
Navajo Indians?

a. Air brush painting
b. Bark painting
c. Sandpainting
d. Finger painting

** 12. What is the gathering of Native Americans called?

a. Fiesta
b. Powwow
c. Kachina
d. Pocahontas feast

13. Who did they follow over the ice bridge?

a. big game.
b. Sioux War Chief.
c. black feet.
d. Tecumseh

** 14. what the name of the leader of the Aztecs?

a. little turtle
b. black feet
c. red cloud
d. Montezuma

15. Where did the american indians come from before going to America?

a. Africa
b. Asia
c. Antartica
d. South America

9./a

1/b

5 / c

12/B

2. True -as far as it goes.
Actually this is a narrow definition as "Indians" moved around and could be found in Canada and probably Mexico.
However, a more accurate definition is a group of people believed to migrate from Asia over the Bering Strait when there was still a land bridge. They filled up both North and South America but the term American Indian is normally reserved for those peoples living in the area of the United States.

And from what I have read, there have been Native Americans here far longer than
peoples of either England or Northern Europe.

11. c-sandpainting

14. Montezuma.
Aha! I actually retained some info from high school.

WTG cyrus!
shame many of us mostly associate "Montezuma"
w/a bottle of Pepto Bismol

6. d