Q 01/05

As of 2020, how many tribal governments held federal recognition in the United States?

A) 574

B) 612

C) 703

D) 1,048

Answer · why

A) 574

The count reached 574 in December 2019, when the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians gained recognition through that year's defense authorization a...

Q 02/05

Roughly how many people reported Cherokee ancestry in the 2020 US census?

A) About 1.45 million

B) About 435,000

C) About 295,000

D) About 4 million

Answer · why

A) About 1.45 million

The 2020 census counted about 1.45 million people reporting Cherokee ancestry alone or in combination, the largest tribal grouping; the Navajo lead on...

Q 03/05

The Navajo Nation occupies parts of Arizona, New Mexico and which third state?

A) Nevada

B) Texas

C) Utah

D) Colorado

Answer · why

C) Utah

Utah holds the reservation's northern strip around Monument Valley and Montezuma Creek; the 1868 treaty signed at Bosque Redondo created the reservati...

Q 04/05

The pre-Columbian city of Cahokia sat across the Mississippi from which modern city?

A) Memphis

B) Minneapolis

C) New Orleans

D) St. Louis

Answer · why

D) St. Louis

Cahokia lies across the Mississippi from St. Louis, Missouri; it peaked around 1100 CE with a population estimated at 10,000 to 20,000, and its Monks ...

Q 05/05

Colorado's Mesa Verde takes its name from Spanish words meaning what?

A) Green table

B) Sacred cliff

C) High valley

D) Stone village

Answer · why

A) Green table

Mesa Verde means 'green table' in Spanish, for the juniper-covered plateau; the park, created in 1906, protects about 600 cliff dwellings, of which Cl...