Loaded Questions 11/24/22 - American History
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope your Thursday is going well, and hope you have good times today and this week. I’ve already lost a game of Trivial Pursuit while home (they engaged in shenanigans). Today’s set of questions are all about the reason for the season - the indigenous people of North America. Enjoy our questions today, and enjoy the day!
1. Name either the leader of the Wampanoag confederacy who in 1621 sent Squanto to live among the colonists at Plymouth, or name the Abenaki tribesman who made the first contact with the Pilgrims, greeted them in English saying “Welcome, Englishmen”, and brought Squanto to the colony.
2. The longest river entirely in Washington state is named after what tribe of central Washington who fished in the Columbia River and are associated with the Klikitat, Wallawalla, and Wanapam people?
3. What northern Georgia city was the capital of the Cherokee Nation from 1825 until their removal in the 1830s? This city names a controversial treaty signed by the Cherokee Nation and the United States.
4. What is name is given to a style of Algonquin canoe made from bark used during the 17th and 18th centuries?
5. Headquartered in Montana, what tribe is allied with the Gros Ventre and the Sacree to form a confederacy? This tribe is also called the Siksika.
6. What Mohawk leader was an ally with the British during the Revolution? Also named Thayendanegea, his sister Molly who was the consort to Sir William Johnson.
7. What is the translation of cheechako, a Chinook word applied to some people who joined the gold rush?
8. While Navajo code talkers were seen in WW2, eight members of what tribe served as code talkers during WW1, the first code talkers in US history? This tribe is the third-largest federally recognized tribe (after Cherokee and Navajo), and the name Oklahoma comes from this tribe’s language.
9. Hoboken, Weehawken, Lackawanna, Pocono, Punxsutawney, Susquehanna, and Manhattan are all place names that take their name from the language of what tribe? Sometimes called the Delaware Indians, this tribe with a six-letter name were the original inhabitants of what would become Philadelphia before European settlement.
10. The father-in-law of Geronimo, what leader of the Chiricahua Apache was a key leader during the Apache Wars of the 1860s and 1870s? The namesake of Arizona’s southeastern county, this man was portrayed sympathetically in the films “Broken Arrow” and “Fort Apache”.
11. A seven-pointed star appears on the quarter for Wilma Mankiller, who from 1985 to 1995 served as the first female Principal Chief of what tribal nation? Her quarter features the name of this tribe in its alphabet, with letters first created by Sequoyah in the 1810s.
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1. Name either the leader of the Wampanoag confederacy who in 1621 sent Squanto to live among the colonists at Plymouth, or name the Abenaki tribesman who made the first contact with the Pilgrims, greeted them in English saying “Welcome, Englishmen”, and brought Squanto to the colony.
Massasoit, Samoset
2. The longest river entirely in Washington state is named after what tribe of central Washington who fished in the Columbia River and are associated with the Klikitat, Wallawalla, and Wanapam people?
Yakama
3. What northern Georgia city was the capital of the Cherokee Nation from 1825 until their removal in the 1830s? This city names a controversial treaty signed by the Cherokee Nation and the United States.
New Echota
4. What is name is given to a style of Algonquin canoe made from bark used during the 17th and 18th centuries?
Rabaska
5. Headquartered in Montana, what tribe is allied with the Gros Ventre and the Sacree to form a confederacy? This tribe is also called the Siksika.
Blackfoot
6. What Mohawk leader was an ally with the British during the Revolution? Also named Thayendanegea, his sister Molly who was the consort to Sir William Johnson.
Joseph Brant
7. What is the translation of cheechako, a Chinook word applied to some people who joined the gold rush?
Newcomer
8. While Navajo code talkers were seen in WW2, eight members of what tribe served as code talkers during WW1, the first code talkers in US history? This tribe is the third-largest federally recognized tribe (after Cherokee and Navajo), and the name Oklahoma comes from this tribe’s language.
Choctaw
9. Hoboken, Weehawken, Lackawanna, Pocono, Punxsutawney, Susquehanna, and Manhattan are all place names that take their name from the language of what tribe? Sometimes called the Delaware Indians, this tribe with a six-letter name were the original inhabitants of what would become Philadelphia before European settlement.
Lenape
10. The father-in-law of Geronimo, what leader of the Chiricahua Apache was a key leader during the Apache Wars of the 1860s and 1870s? The namesake of Arizona’s southeastern county, this man was portrayed sympathetically in the films “Broken Arrow” and “Fort Apache”.
Cochise
11. A seven-pointed star appears on the quarter for Wilma Mankiller, who from 1985 to 1995 served as the first female Principal Chief of what tribal nation? Her quarter features the name of this tribe in its alphabet, with letters first created by Sequoyah in the 1810s.
Cherokee