• 1. 
    What was the name of the confederation of five (later six) nations across upper New York state that played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for control of North America?

  • Chippewa
  • Sioux
  • Iroquois
  • Makah
  • 2. 
    Which people inhabited the east bank of the lower Mississippi River and had a caste system, hereditary aristocracy, and lineage of rulership?

  • Nez Percé 
  • Osage
  • Natchez
  • Nooksack
  • 3. 
    Which people, guided by leaders such as Chochise and Geronimo, resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest by both Spaniards and North American settlers for generations?

  • Blackfoot
  • Cree
  • Apache
  • Penobscot
  • 4. 
    In the 19th century which people lived in dome-shaped earth lodges clustered in stockaded villages that were led by three chiefs—one for war, one for peace, and one as the day-to-day village leader?

  • Mandan
  • Zuni
  • Paiute
  • Cree
  • 5. 
    Which group constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization of the Americas?

  • Cherokee
  • Chickasaw
  • Seminole
  • Shoshone
  • 6. 
    Who was the principal chief of the Oglala Teton Dakota (Sioux) who successfully resisted the U.S. government’s development of the Bozeman Trail?

  • Red Cloud
  • Tecumseh
  • Chief Joseph
  • Sitting Bull
  • 7. 
    In 1832 which 65-year-old Sauk warrior led some 1,000 Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo men, women, and children across the Mississippi River to reclaim land in Illinois that tribal spokesmen had surrendered to the U.S. in 1804?

  • Black Hawk
  • Joseph Brant
  • Pontiac
  • King Philip
  • 8. 
    Who was the Shawnee chief, orator, military leader, and advocate of intertribal Indian alliance who directed resistance to white rule in the Ohio River valley?

  • Tecumseh
  • Wilma Mankiller
  • Black Hawk
  • Captain Jack
  • 9. 
    Which people’s origin traditions tell that their ancestors climbed upward through underground chambers called kivas and lived in many places before reaching their present settlements in the Fourth World?

  • Catawba
  • Hopi
  • Plains
  • Haida
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