Check your knowledge of pivotal events and movements in Indigenous history. From resistance and removal to rights and self‑determination, see what you know.
The “Trail of Tears” refers to the forced 1838–39 removal of which people from their homelands?
Cherokee
Nez Perce
Apache
Sioux (Lakota)
What 1680 uprising expelled Spanish rule from much of New Mexico for over a decade?
The Pequot War
The Pueblo Revolt
Metacom’s War
The Black Hawk War
The 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee involved which nation on the northern Plains?
Cherokee
Choctaw
Lakota Sioux
Hopi
The 1864 “Long Walk” forced the Navajo to relocate primarily to which reservation site?
Pine Ridge
Fort Laramie
Standing Rock
Bosque Redondo
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 granted U.S. citizenship to whom?
All non‑citizen Native Americans born in the United States
Only members of the Five Tribes
Only military veterans
Only reservation residents
The Dawes Act of 1887 primarily aimed to do what?
Guarantee tribal sovereignty in perpetuity
Allot communal lands into individual holdings
Outlaw all reservations entirely
Create new tribes by federal charter
In 1968 activists founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in which city?
Washington, D.C.
Albuquerque
Minneapolis
Phoenix
Which Indigenous nation’s language formed the best‑known code talker program of World War II?
Sioux (Dakota)
Mohawk
Choctaw
Navajo
Which of these was one of the original Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy?
Mohawk
Shawnee
Pima
Cherokee
The 1975 Indian Self‑Determination and Education Assistance Act increased what?
Termination of all treaty obligations
Tribal control over federal programs and services
Abolition of reservations nationwide
Allocation of congressional voting districts to tribes
Starter
Review major events, nations, and laws to build a clearer timeline.
Solid
Good understanding of movements and policy—fine‑tune dates and places next.
Expert!
Excellent—your grasp of events, sovereignty, and activism is sharp.
