Q 01/05

Which tribe's reservation, the largest in the United States, covers more land than the state of West Virginia?

A) Lakota

B) Navajo

C) Osage

D) Ute

Answer · why

B) Navajo

Navajo land spans about 27,000 square miles across three states, and the door of a traditional hogan there faces east to greet the dawn.

Q 02/05

Which tribe sent about $170 to famine victims in Ireland in 1847, a gift honoured by a sculpture in County Cork?

A) Choctaw

B) Mohawk

C) Lenape

D) Catawba

Answer · why

A) Choctaw

Choctaw donors had only recently endured their own forced removal west. The stainless steel sculpture Kindred Spirits was unveiled in their honour in ...

Q 03/05

Which tribe, forced west on the Trail of Tears, made Tahlequah, Oklahoma, its capital in 1839?

A) Osage

B) Delaware

C) Cherokee

D) Quapaw

Answer · why

C) Cherokee

Cherokee citizens still gather in Tahlequah every Labor Day weekend for a national holiday that marks the signing of the nation's constitution in 1839...

Q 04/05

Which confederacy of six nations has issued its own passports since 1923, carried by its national lacrosse team?

A) Wabanaki

B) Iroquois

C) Illinois

D) Huron

Answer · why

B) Iroquois

Iroquois passports began when the Cayuga statesman Deskaheh needed one to take his people's case to the League of Nations in Geneva.

Q 05/05

Which Florida tribe says it is the only one in America never to have signed a peace treaty with the US?

A) Apalachee

B) Calusa

C) Timucua

D) Seminole

Answer · why

D) Seminole

Seminole survivors, perhaps 200 of them, retreated deep into the Everglades after an 1850s war and were left alone without ever surrendering.