Native American Heritage Quiz Answer Key

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Native American HeritageQuiz Answer Key

1. d. The celebration of Native American
Heritage month didnt begin until 1990, when
George H. W. Bush signed a resolution designating
November, National American Indian Heritage
month.   2. c. The Unites States federally
recognizes 564 tribes.   3. False. Charles
Curtis, who was a member of the Kaw tribe, was
Elected Vice President of the United States in
1929 and served under Herbert Hoover.   4.
True. Jim Thorpe, of the Sac and Fox Nation, was
ranked the third best athlete of the 20th century
by the Associated Press. In addition to his two
gold medal victories in the Olympics, he also
played basketball, baseball and football
professionally.   5. True. Native American and
American Indian are both widely recognized terms
and used synonymously to mean those inhabiting
America before Western settlers.   6. b. The
Anasazi built and inhabited spectacular cliff
dwellings or cities in the Southwest four corners
region of the U.S . The cliff dwellings were
architecturally impressive, several story high
structures that housed hundreds of people and
could sometimes only be reached by rock climbing.
  7. a. Sequoyah, who was a trader and
silversmith in Georgia, created the system of
writing for Cherokee and later taught many Native
Americans to read and write.   8. True. Maria
Tallchief, of the Osage Nation, was once known as
one of the worlds greatest ballerinas. She
later went on to found the Chicago City
Ballet.   9. c. Sacajawea, a Shoshone woman, was
the only woman to join the Lewis and Clark
expedition. She successfully assisted the
expedition team and was especially valuable as
the team came upon the Upper Missouri river which
is where she is from.   10. a. In 1614, the
Iroquois League wrote a constitution called The
Great Law of Peace that is said to have later
influenced the founding fathers in the creation
of the Constitution.