Native American Tribes Practice Quiz Questions

For generations the Apache, guided by leaders such as Chochise and Geronimo, resisted

white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest by both Spaniards and North American

settlers

Apache

Tecumseh was the Shawnee chief, orator, military leader, and advocate of intertribal Indian

alliance who directed Indian resistance to white rule in the Ohio River vallev. In the War of

1812 he joined British forces for the capture of Detroit and the invasion of Ohio.

Tecumseh

The Hop's origin traditions tell that their ancestors climbed upward through underground

chambers called kivas and lived in many places before reaching their present settlements in

the Fourth World.

Hopi

Which people inhabited the east bank of the lower Mississippi

River and had a caste system, hereditary aristocracy, and lineage

of rulership?

Natchez

Characterized as one of the world's oldest participatory democracies, the Iroquois

Confederacy (also called Haudenosaunee) was composed of five (later six) Iroquois nations

across upper New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the

struggle between the French and British for control of North America.

Iroquois

In the 19th century the Mandan lived in dome-shaped earth lodges clustered in stockaded

villages. Each village generally had three chiefs: one for war, one for peace, and one as the

day-to-day village leader.

Mandan

Which group constituted one of the largest

politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization

of the Americas?

Cherokee

Who was the principal chief of the Oglala Teton Dakota (Sioux)

who successfully resisted the U.S. government's development of

the Bozeman Trail?

Red Cloud

In 1832 which 65-year-old Sauk warrior led some

1,000 Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo men, women, and children across

the Mississippi River to reclaim land in Illinois that tribal

spokesmen had surrendered to the U.S. in 1804?

Black Hawk