Q 01/05

Which institution of higher education has its main campus in Tahlequah, the Cherokee capital?

A) Oklahoma State

B) Northeastern State

C) Oklahoma Baptist

D) Oral Roberts

Answer · why

B) Northeastern State

Northeastern State grew out of the Cherokee Female Seminary: after statehood, Oklahoma bought the tribe's school building in 1909 to train teachers.

Q 02/05

Which US state is home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians?

A) Tennessee

B) North Carolina

C) South Carolina

D) Georgia

Answer · why

B) North Carolina

North Carolina is home to the Eastern Band, whose ancestors stayed behind, some hiding in the mountains, when most Cherokee were driven west in 1838.

Q 03/05

Which Oklahoma city lies partly inside the Cherokee Nation's reservation?

A) Enid

B) Tulsa

C) Norman

D) Lawton

Answer · why

B) Tulsa

Tulsa lies partly inside the reservation, and after courts affirmed it in 2021 the tribe's own court took on hundreds of criminal cases the state once...

Q 04/05

Which 2020 Supreme Court ruling on the Muscogee led courts to affirm the Cherokee reservation was never disestablished?

A) McGirt v. Oklahoma

B) Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta

C) Haaland v. Brackeen

D) Oliphant v. Suquamish

Answer · why

A) McGirt v. Oklahoma

McGirt v. Oklahoma first led state courts to vacate old convictions, but in 2021 Oklahoma's top criminal court refused to apply it to convictions alre...

Q 05/05

The Cherokee Nation's newspaper, the first published by Native Americans in the US, is named after which mythical bird?

A) The thunderbird

B) The phoenix

C) The roc

D) The firebird

Answer · why

B) The phoenix

The phoenix named a weekly printed in English and Cherokee, and it stopped in 1834 when the US government failed to pay the tribe's annuity.