UC Berkeley Native & Indigenous Council Quiz

Question 1

During the 1850's the newly enacted California state government put out a bounty of $50 for every dead native.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

This tribe had what anthropologists, perhaps arbitrarily, describe as being the only truly maritime economy in CA.

Accepted Answer

Chumash

Question 3

The only region of California in which tribes were known to have practiced systematic sustenance agriculture

Accepted Answer

Colorado River drainage

Question 4

How many federally recognized tribes are there in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

More than 550

Question 5

What Oakland Native wrote a book about the urban Native community who all end up at a powwow in Oakland?

Accepted Answer

Tommy Orange

Question 6

According to the Census 2020, which are the largest American Indian Tribes in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Cherokee, Navajo, Choctaw

Question 7

Which is NOT a California Indian tribe?

Accepted Answer

Cherokee

Question 8

Ishi, Theodore Kroeber's "Last wild Indian of North America," was a member of which tribe?

Accepted Answer

Yahi, part of the Yana

Question 9

What organization led the 1973 takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota?

Accepted Answer

AIM

Question 10

Which 2 are famous Indian athletes?

Accepted Answer

Jim Thorpe, Notah Begay

Question 11

In 1969, Native American activists spoke against the U.S. government's Termination Policy and occupied what island?

Accepted Answer

Alcatraz

Question 12

Name two Native women who were elected to the House of Representatives.

Accepted Answer

Sharice Davids, Ho-Chunk, Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo

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