Identity and Origin | Culture | Montana Tribes | Art | Philosophy & Beliefs |
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What is the Bering Straight Theory?
The scientific idea of how the Americas were populated
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What is the southwest?
A culture area that is home to the Navajo and Hopi
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What is the Little Shell Chippewa?
This tribe was recently given federal recognition and does not currently have a reservation
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What is totem pole?
A staple of northwest coastal art
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What is the number 4?
This number is regarded as sacred among many tribes
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What is enrollment?
The legal process of becoming a member of a tribe
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What are language families?
Na-Dene and Algonquian are examples of this
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What is the Crow?
Apsaalooke is the name this tribe calls themselves
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What is petroglyphs?
Art that is carved into a rock
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What is Wakan Tanka?
The Sioux term for the "Creator" that is literally translated as "the Big Sacred"
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Who is Tiger Woods?
Identified himself as Cablinasian
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What is the bison?
Plains tribes relied on this animal for food, clothing, tools, shelter and more
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What is the Riel Rebellion (1885)?
Rocky Boy lead his band of Chippewa to Montana after this rebellion in Canada
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What is pictograph?
Art that is on top of rock, often found in caves
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What is animism?
The belief in spirit beings
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Who is Kennewick Man?
Human remains that do not fit identifying markers for ancestral Native Americans or Caucasians
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What is permanent?
Cultures who relied on farming as a form of subsistence usually had this type of housing structure
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What is Salish, Kootenai, or Pend d'Oreille?
One of the three confederated tribes on the Flathead Reservation
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What is a winter count?
A mnemonic historical record, kept by plains tribes
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What is syncretism?
The blending or combining of two or more religious belief systems into a new one
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Who is Rachel Dolezal?
A white woman who identified as a black woman
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What is Dog Days?
The era before Plains tribes had horses is called this
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What is Gros Ventre?
This tribe's name was mistranslated by the French and now translated to "Big Belly"
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What is basketry, pottery, weaving, and jewelry?
Southwestern tribal art is known for these four things
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What is hozho?
The Navajo term that means peace, balance, harmony, and beauty
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