Q 01/05

Which US state's capital city is named after the Cheyenne people, who have no reservation there?

A) Nebraska

B) Kansas

C) South Dakota

D) Wyoming

Answer · why

D) Wyoming

Wyoming got its capital from a Union Pacific railroad junction founded in 1867, which residents named for the Cheyenne people. The tribe's two nations...

Q 02/05

Northern Cheyenne chief Two Moons was a model for the Native American profile on which US coin?

A) Indian Head cent

B) Sacagawea dollar

C) Buffalo nickel

D) Indian Head eagle

Answer · why

C) Buffalo nickel

Buffalo nickel sculptor James Earle Fraser said he drew on several sitters, naming Two Moons and the Lakota chief Iron Tail. He wanted a type, he said...

Q 03/05

Cheyenne oral history credits Buffalo Calf Road Woman with knocking which cavalry commander off his horse in 1876?

A) William Tecumseh Sherman

B) George Crook

C) George Armstrong Custer

D) Nelson Miles

Answer · why

C) George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer was knocked from his horse by her blow before he died, Northern Cheyenne storytellers said in 2005, breaking more than a centu...

Q 04/05

The Cheyenne word for a white person, vé'ho'e, is also the word for which creature?

A) Coyote

B) Spider

C) Magpie

D) Rattlesnake

Answer · why

B) Spider

Spider and white person share one word in Cheyenne. A common folk explanation is that settlers fenced the open range until it looked like a web.

Q 05/05

Cheyenne Mountain, named for the Cheyenne people, houses the underground bunker of which military command?

A) NATO

B) STRATCOM

C) CENTCOM

D) NORAD

Answer · why

D) NORAD

NORAD built its operations centre inside the mountain during the Cold War, to watch North American skies for missile launches and Soviet aircraft.