Native America--Test Your Knowledge

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  1. How many federally recognized tribes are there in the United States and Alaska?

    2. Your answer:
    over 550
    100
    200
    300

  2. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, former U.S. Senator from Colorado, is an enrolled member of which tribe?

    3. Your answer:
    Osage
    Apache
    Northern Cheyenne
    Chippewa

  3. What northern plains American Indian reservation is roughly the size of Connecticut?

    4. Your answer:
    Pine Ridge
    Crow Creek
    Spirit Lake
    White Earth

  4. He was the 31st Vice President of the United States and a Kaw Indian.

    5. Your answer:
    Graham Greene
    Robert Dole
    Joseph Brant
    Charles Curtis

  5. Which U.S. President declared November "National American Indian Heritage Month"?

    6. Your answer:
    George H.W. Bush
    Jimmy Carter
    Ronald Reagan
    William J. Clinton

  6. Which astronaut, a member of the Chicksaw Nation, was the first Native American to walk in space?

    7. Your answer:
    John Bennett Herrington
    Neil Armstrong
    John Glen
    Buzz Aldrich

  7. All federally recognized tribes have possessed reservation lands.

    8. Your answer:
    True
    False
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  8. Native Americans were the first to use the following crops.

    9. Your answer:
    corn or maize
    tobacco
    squash
    all of the above

  9. Non-Indians are not permitted to own land on an Indian reservation in the United States.

    10. Your answer:
    True
    False
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  10. What Native American tribe has the largest Indian reservation?

    11. Your answer:
    Crow
    Navajo
    Oneida
    Cherokee

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