Quiz  /  Native American Tribes and Regions

  • 1. 
    What large region or grouping of Native Americans lived the middle of the country and included such tribes as the Cheyenne and the Comanche?

  • Southeast
  • Northeast
  • Arctic
  • Great Plains

  • 2. 
    Which of the following tribes was located in the Southwest region?

  • Inuit
  • Navajo
  • Cherokee
  • Crow

  • 3. 
    Which description below best describes the Great Plains Indians?

  • They were good farmers
  • They build longhouses and lived mostly on fish
  • They stayed in one place and hunted game in the woods
  • They moved from place to place hunting bison

  • 4. 
    What was the main thing that tied the Algonquian tribes together?

  • They had the same religion
  • They all spoke the same language
  • They lived in the same small area
  • They all lived in the same type of adobe brick houses

  • 5. 
    What was the large grouping of tribes in the Northeast (including the Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga) called?

  • Iroquois
  • Navajo Nation
  • Apache
  • Californian

  • 6. 
    True or False: There were only around 25 different Native American tribes in North America.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE

  • 7. 
    What were two famous Californian tribes?

  • Blackfoot and Cheyenne
  • Apache and Navaho
  • Mohave and Miwok
  • Seminole and Cherokee

  • 8. 
    How many tribes made up the Apache?

  • 1
  • 6
  • 2
  • 14

  • 9. 
    Tribes such as the Nez Perce and the Salish built their homes from cedar planks. In what region did they live?

  • Southeast
  • Northeast
  • Southwest
  • Northwest

  • 10. 
    Which of the following statements best describes the Native Americans that lived in the Southeast?

  • They were nomadic and moved often to follow the bison heards
  • They made their homes from cedar planks and built totem poles
  • They all spoke the same language and were the last to have contact with the Europeans
  • They were good farmers who tended to stay in one place
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