Questions
1. Who is the Assembly of First Nation Grand Chief?
2. This singer is known as the Arctic Rose.
3. This famous sled dog race is held annually in Alaska.
4. He heads up the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.
5. He was chosen as the greatest all-round athlete of the first half of the century.
6. This Metis leader was hanged on Nov. 16, 1885.
7. This famous archetect designed the new Museum of the American Indian building for the Smithsonian.
8. This 1990 78-day stand-off in Quebec brought Native issues into the international spotlight.
9. When a video-tape of a group of Innu children high on solvents hit the airwaves, the problems of this Labrador community came under intense scrutiny.
10. Anthony (Dudley) George was gunned-down and killed in this Ontario provincial park in 1995 while attempting to protect a Native burial ground.
11. Matthew Coon Come is the leader of this organization.
12. The Meech Lake Accord was killed when this Member of Parliment holding a eagle feather in his hand withheld his vote.
13. It's a traditional Plains Indian tribal gathering where people dance, drum and sing.
14. This man was convicted - some believe wrongly - and given two consecutive life sentences for killing two FBI agents at Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
15. His death at Little Bighorn has made his name known to the generations that followed.
16. Working on high steel construction is a tadtions for these people.
17. This treaty is the last of Canada's numbered treaties.
18. In 1959, Canadian Indians won this right, that when exercised, wouldn't compromise their Indian status.
19.In 1951, the law prohibiting this Northwest Coast ceremony is repealed.
20. He founded the league of Indians of Canda in 1919.
21. On Dec. 28, 1890, U.S. troops massacered 200 Sioux preparing for a Ghost Dance at this place.
22. This great American Indian was killed at Pine Ridge, South Dakota on Dec. 15, 1890.
23. In 1983, a Nova Scotia Supreme Court set aside his 1971 conviction afte this Micmac had spent almost 12 years in jail for a murder he did not commit.
24. The Assembly of First Nations grew out of this organization.
25.White vigilantes beat this man to death in Gordon, Nebraska. The death is ruled a suicide, but after some protest, a charge of manslaughter is laid and two men are convicted.
26. In 1971, this Inuit organization was formed.
27. In 1969, the new liberal government introduced this proposal which called on the repeal of the Indian Act and the termination of special Indian status and benefits.
28. N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for this novel.
29. This sacred ceremony was the focus of a Native standoff with RCMP at Gustafsen Lake, B.C. in 1995.
30. 1999 will mark the division of the Northwest Territories to create this.
31. This hydro-electric project in northern Quebec was successfully blocked in 1992.
32. Milton Born With A Tooth and the Lonefighters society protested the constuction of a dam on this sourthern Alberta River.
33. The Innu of Labrador argue that noise from his military exercise scares off game and causes harm to the environment.
34. This Bill repeals a section of the Indian Act that stripped women of their indian status if they married non-Natives.
35. Who was the first woman modern-day chief of a United States tribe?
36. 1992 marked the opening of this most successful casino in the Western Hemisphere by the Mashantucket Pequot.
37. This Act promised 1.4 million acres of land to the Metis.
38. Shawnadithit, who died in 1829, was the last known member of this Newfoundland tribe whose members were hunted to extinction.
39. He is the Grand Chief of the Manitoba chiefs.
40. Who holds the title for the longest serving minsiter of Indian Affairs?
41. He starred as Kicking Bird in the movie Dances With Wolves.
42. These four sacred plants are used in traditional Native ceremonies.
43. Big Bear and Poundmaker were jailed for there part in this.
44. He was Canada's first native senator.
45. Her concern for North America's Native nations figures strongly in the songs of this folksinger-songwriter.
46. She is Canada's first Ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs.
47. She bacame a candidate for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1884. In 1943 the church declared her "venerable" and in 1980 she was declared "blessed."
48. She plays a RCMP officer of televisions North of 60.
49. This group of people in British Columbia successfully negotiated the country's first modern-day treaty.
50. He heads the Metis National Council.
1. Mathew Coon Come
2. Susan Aglukark
3. Ididerod
4. Perry Bellegarde
5. Jim Thorpe
6. Louis Riel
7. Douglas Cardinal
8. The Oka Crisis
9. Davis Inlet
10. Ipperwash Provincial Park
11. Grand Council of the Crees
12. Elijah Harper
13. Powwow
14. Leonard Peltier
15. General George Armstrong Custer
16. The Mohawks
17. Treaty 11
18. The right to vote
19. The Potlatch
20. Frederick Ogilvie Loft
21. Wounded Knee
22. Sitting Bull
23. Donald Marshall, Jr.
24. National Indian Brotherhood
25. Raymond Yellow Thunder
26. Inuit Tapirisat
27. The 1969 White Paper
28. The House Made of Dawn
29. The Sun Dance
30. Nunavut
31. The Great Whale Project
32. The Oldman River
33. Low-level Flying
34. Bill C-31
35. Wilma Mankiller
36. Foxwoods Casino
37. The Manitoba Act
38. The Beothuk
39. Phil Fontaine
40. Jean Chetien
41. Graham Greene
42. Tobacco, Sweetgrass, Sage and Cedar
43. The Northwest Rebellion
44. James Gladstone
45. Buffy Sainte-Marie
46. Mary May Simon
47. Kateri Tekakwitha
48. Tina Keeper
49. The Nisga'a
50. Gerald Morin