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Exploring Indigenous Cultures of the Americas

This quiz explores various aspects of Indigenous peoples across the Americas, including demographics, culture, history, and genetics.

#Indigenous Peoples #Americas #Cultural History #Genetics #Population Diversity

1 In the states of ________ and Oaxaca and in the interior of the Yucatán peninsula the majority of the population is indigenous.

2 [126][128][129] The micro-satellite diversity and distributions of the Y lineage specific to ________ indicates that certain Amerindian populations have been isolated since the initial colonization of the region.

3 According to the 2002 Census, 4.6% of the Chilean population, including the Rapanui of ________, was indigenous, although most show varying degrees of miscegenation.

4 Amongst others, representatives of ________, the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, the Chilean Council of All Lands, and the Brazilian Landless Movement participated in the forum.

5 Over 99% of all modern cultivated potatoes worldwide are descendants of a subspecies indigenous to south-central ________,[51]Solanum tuberosum ssp. tuberosum, where it was cultivated as long as 10,000 years ago.

6 Native Americans live in land units called ________.

7 Combined with relatively late ________ in many regions, this peaceful history has allowed Canadian Indigenous peoples to have a relatively strong influence on the national culture while preserving their own identity.

8 [5][21] The first indigenous group encountered by Columbus were the 250,000 Taínos of ________ who were the dominant culture in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas.

9 [109] The main concentration of Amerindians in ________ are in the rural westernmost areas facing Guatemala and to the Caribbean Sea coastline, as well on the Nicaraguan border.

10 Indigenous Amerindian genetics primarily focus on ________ and Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroups.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans.
  • the Haudenosaunee women's lacrosse team will be the first team of women to represent the indigenous peoples of the Americas when they play in the 2009 World Cup.
  • some scholars believe that John Wannuaucon Quinney was the originator of the term Native American.
  • some Native Americans traveled up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km), from as far away as the Mississippi River, to participate in the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry near Lake George, New York.
  • in a survey study of the officials elected in the 1999 municipal election in Bolivia, the Communist Party had the highest percentage of indigenous councilors.
  • the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their descendants white.
  • the Mexican land grant Rancho Little Temecula in California was one of the few granted to an indigenous American, though the court's decision came after the death of the applicant.
  • the name for the Texas stream Cibolo Creek comes from the Native American and Spanish word for Buffalo, who were hunted along its steep banks.
  • the Indian Paint fungus (Echinodontium tinctorium), a member of the fungal family Echinodontiaceae, was used by Native Americans to make red pigments.
  • the Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded by an American Indian in 1881 which incorporates Catholic, Protestant, and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible and other written scriptures.
  • the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region of Canada to New England and the mid-Atlantic and laid the foundation for modern highways.
  • by the end of the 18th century, Native American women were decorating cloth with intricate ribbon work appliqué using French silk ribbon.
  • according to Iroquois tradition, Onondaga Lake was the site of a meeting of peace between Native American leaders Tadodaho, Hiawatha and Deganawidah.
  • Chicanismo is a cultural movement by Mexican Americans to recapture their Mexican, Native American culture, which began in the 1930s in the Southwestern United States.
  • Chief Yellow Horse was the first full-blooded Native American to play Major League Baseball.
  • Charlie Grant nearly broke baseball's color barrier decades before Jackie Robinson when John McGraw disguised him as a Native American named "Charlie Tokohama".
  • Alberto Bimboni and Charles Sanford Skilton received the Bispham Memorial Medal Award for American opera for their operas on American Indian subjects.
  • prehistoric inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area fished the bat ray in large numbers, while more recently it is mostly taken by oyster growers who mistakenly believe it feeds on their oysters.
  • Hiram Straight was the foreman of the jury in Oregon City, Oregon, that sentenced five Native Americans to hang for the Whitman Massacre.
  • kuisis are Native American flutes crafted in distinct male and female pairs, but meant to be played together.
  • a group of Lakota Indian separatists have announced that they are withdrawing from treaties between their tribe and the United States and are setting up an independent Republic of Lakotah (possible boundary pictured).
  • René Boileau was given the pseudonym Rainy Drinkwater and promoted as being the first Native American in the National Hockey League by the New York Americans despite having no native blood.
  • Pocahontas Island, where evidence of prehistoric Native American artifacts were found, would later become the first free black settlement in the U.S. state of Virginia.
  • Madeline La Framboise, a fur trader of mixed French and Native American descent, was Michigan's first successful businesswoman, and is buried beneath the altar of St. Anne's church on Mackinac Island.
  • Native Americans in the West Indies used an extract from Fishfuddle to sedate fish, making them easier to catch.
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