This Week, the Answer Man Looks at Native Americans

Andy Seamans and Dawn Seamans-Shook
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:00:00 -0700
Lifestyle

1. The name of this state comes from Choctaw words, which translate to "red people." Name the state.

2. TRUE or FALSE: Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an English interpreter for them.

3. The giant sequoia redwood trees are named in honor of the Cherokee leader, Sequoyah. What enduring gift is Sequoyah known for?
Updated: Sat Jul 12, 2014

1. The name of this state comes from Choctaw words, which translate to "red people." Name the state.

2. TRUE or FALSE: Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an English interpreter for them.

3. The giant sequoia redwood trees are named in honor of the Cherokee leader, Sequoyah. What enduring gift is Sequoyah known for?

4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the story "The Song of Hiawatha," which is loosely based on an actual Native American. What do we know about Hiawatha?

5. As of May 2013, there are 566 Native American tribes that are legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the United States. Can you name the three largest tribes?

ANSWERS

1. Oklahoma comes from the phrase "okla humma," literally meaning "red people."

2. False. Sacagawea spoke no English. Instead she translated Hidatsa to Toussaint Charbonneau, who could translate to French for Francois Labiche, a member of the expedition, who could then translate into English for Lewis and Clark.

3. Sequoyah created a written Cherokee language that led to the production of a Cherokee adaptation of the Bible and a weekly Cherokee newspaper.

4. Hiawatha was a legendary Native American leader and is attributed with having helped join together five tribes to form the Iroquois Confederacy in the mid-1500s.

5. The largest are Navajo, Cherokee and Sioux.

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