#2720, aired 1996-05-31 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In 1837 Osceola, a leader of this Florida tribe, was captured by government troops the Seminole |
#2720, aired 1996-05-31 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: A poignant marker stands at the South Dakota gravesite of the Sioux Indians killed here in 1890 Wounded Knee |
#2720, aired 1996-05-31 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: The Algonquians lived in these dome-shaped dwellings often covered with reed mats wigwams |
#2720, aired 1996-05-31 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A tribal group consisting of 6 nations, its name in its own language means "real adders" the Iroquois |
#2720, aired 1996-05-31 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: This tribe of Central Idaho was noted for breeding the Appaloosa horse the Nez Perce |
#2625, aired 1996-01-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In 1990 the Shoshone-Bannocks of Idaho petitioned for the sockeye species of this to be protected Salmon |
#2625, aired 1996-01-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Typically, this dwelling was made with 10 or more bison skins & 20 or more cedar poles Tepee |
#2625, aired 1996-01-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Smoked in pipes, kinnikinnick was a mixture of sumac, the inner bark of dogwood or red willow & this plant Tobacco |
#2625, aired 1996-01-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A monument in Nespelem, Washington marks the grave of this Nez Perce chief who died in 1904 Chief Joseph |
#2625, aired 1996-01-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: The name of this tribe centered in northeast Arizona means "peaceful ones" Hopi |
#2408, aired 1995-02-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: As a youngster, Geronimo lived in the state of Chihuahua in this country Mexico |
#2408, aired 1995-02-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Squanto is famous for befriending these colonists & teaching them how to plant corn the Pilgrims |
#2408, aired 1995-02-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: The name of these Florida Indians means "runaways" the Seminole |
#2408, aired 1995-02-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: This ceremonial object, also called a calumet, was sometimes decorated with feathers a peace pipe |
#2408, aired 1995-02-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Traditionally, these Navajo dwellings are built with the doorways facing east hogans |
#2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Many Chumash Indians once lived in the Santa Barbara area of what is now this state California |
#2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Dragging a buffalo skull is sometimes part of the Plains Indian dance named for this heavenly body the Sun |
#2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: On an alphabetical list of North American Indians, this tribe is usually last the Zuni |
#2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: When this Chiricahua Apache died in 1874, his son Taza succeeded him as Chief Cochise |
#2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Lake Cayuga, the longest of these lakes, is named for the Cayuga Indians who once lived near it the Finger Lakes |
#2103, aired 1993-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: After he led two Indian uprisings in what's now this state, Opechancanough was killed in Jamestown in 1644 Virginia |
#2103, aired 1993-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Osceola, a leader of these Florida Indians, was tricked into attending peace talks & then captured Seminoles |
#2103, aired 1993-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: A Paiute prophet named Wovoka popularized the religious ritual known by this "spectral" name ghost dance |
#2103, aired 1993-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: These Plains Indians known by a bird's name call themselves Absaroka, which means "bird people" the Crow |
#2103, aired 1993-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: It's said this great Apache chief escaped from U.S. troops in 1861 with 3 bullets in his body Cochise |
#2047, aired 1993-06-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In 1777 Chief Joseph Brant led his fellow Mohawks in the Battle of Oriskany during this war the Revolutionary War |
#2047, aired 1993-06-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: A woman claiming to be this Lewis & Clark companion died in 1884; she would have been about 100 Sacagawea |
#2047, aired 1993-06-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Geronimo rode in this U.S. president's 1905 inaugural parade Theodore Roosevelt |
#2047, aired 1993-06-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: When this chief, Pocahontas' father, died in 1618, he was succeeded by his brother Opitchapam Powhatan |
#2047, aired 1993-06-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: This chief once called "The Apache Napoleon" died in the Arizona territory in 1874 Cochise |
#1874, aired 1992-10-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Until the 1880s, this animal was the principal source of food for the Plains Indians the buffalo |
#1874, aired 1992-10-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In addition to cultivating Pocahontas, John Rolfe learned to cultivate this cash crop from the Indians tobacco |
#1874, aired 1992-10-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: The Chippewa name for this bird is kookookoo-ooh the owl |
#1874, aired 1992-10-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Red Cloud & Crazy Horse were members of the Oglalla branch of this tribe the Sioux |
#1874, aired 1992-10-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: In 1828 this tribe began publishing a weekly newspaper using their new alphabet the Cherokee |
#1618, aired 1991-09-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull led his remaining followers into this country Canada |
#1618, aired 1991-09-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: This inventor of the Cherokee syllabary died in Mexico in 1843; his burial place is unknown Sequoyah |
#1618, aired 1991-09-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: Collier's Encyclopedia says this Apache chief was sometimes called "Chiz" for short Cochise |
#1618, aired 1991-09-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In 1609 this powerful chief, Pocahontas' father, was crowned by order of Christopher Newport Powhatan |
#1618, aired 1991-09-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: He was captured & sold into slavery in Spain a few years before he befriended the Pilgrims Squanto |
#1571, aired 1991-06-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: As you might guess, the Chinook Indians had rites & rituals involving this fish salmon |
#1571, aired 1991-06-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In the 1800s runaway slaves often found safety in these Indians of Florida the Seminole |
#1571, aired 1991-06-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: The Nez Perce Indians received their name from engaging in this practice piercing their nose |
#1571, aired 1991-06-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: The Navajo were known for building this type of home, usually of logs & earth a hogan |
#1571, aired 1991-06-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: These circular underground chambers were built by the Pueblo Indians for religious ceremonies kivas |
#1543, aired 1991-04-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: The Apache Wars ended in 1886 with his formal surrender to the U.S. Geronimo |
#1543, aired 1991-04-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The clan or family symbols Indians of the Northwest carve on poles totems |
#1543, aired 1991-04-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: 6 million people still speak Quechua, the language of these South American Indians the Incas |
#1543, aired 1991-04-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The Spanish gave this name, meaning "town", to tribes they found living in apartment-like structures a pueblo |
#1543, aired 1991-04-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Activists of the "Red Power" movement took over this abandoned island from 1969 to 1971 Alcatraz Island |
#1427, aired 1990-11-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: From 1881-86 he led the Chiricahua Apaches in the last major Indian stand Geronimo |
#1427, aired 1990-11-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Coinciding with the '84 Olympics in L.A. was a memorial powwow & games honoring this athlete Jim Thorpe |
#1427, aired 1990-11-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: This 6-nation group has not accepted U.S. citizenship & considers itself a separate nation the Iroquois |
#1427, aired 1990-11-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: They call themselves the Dine; since their language has no "V", they found this name unpronounceable the Navajo |
#1427, aired 1990-11-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Among tribes this Spanish explorer met & alienated were the Cherokee, Creek & Choctaw de Sotò |
#1368, aired 1990-07-11 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The Creek word for "runaways" was given to this group of Creeks who went to Florida in the 18th c. the Seminoles |
#1368, aired 1990-07-11 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600 (Daily Double): Tho this Ottawa chief's attack on Fort Detroit failed, a car & a nearby city are named for him Pontiac |
#1368, aired 1990-07-11 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he had a vision of soldiers falling into the Indian camp Sitting Bull |
#1368, aired 1990-07-11 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: This tribe's reservation, the nation's largest, includes part of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah & Colorado the Navajo |
#1368, aired 1990-07-11 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: In 1890 about 200 Sioux were killed during the "Ghost Dance war" at this S. Dakota site Wounded Knee |
#1208, aired 1989-11-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Those of the Woodland Indians had the typical "puckered toe" stitching moccasins |
#1208, aired 1989-11-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The practice of building these, whether effigy, temple or burial, ended with European contact mounds |
#1208, aired 1989-11-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: One of the other leaders supporting Geronimo was Nachez, son of this Apache leader Cochise |
#1208, aired 1989-11-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Spooky craze that swept the Plains & led to the death of Sitting Bull the Ghost Dance |
#1208, aired 1989-11-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: The Sauk leader Keokuk is buried in the city named for him in this state Iowa |
#1201, aired 1989-11-20 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: One of the villages of the Miami was this "skunk place" on Lake Michigan Chicago |
#1201, aired 1989-11-20 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: This Pawtuxet Indian who befriended the Pilgrims was also known as Tisquantum Squanto |
#1201, aired 1989-11-20 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: "Dark Bird" name of the man for whom a tragic 1832 war was named Black Hawk |
#1201, aired 1989-11-20 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Some say this president died after a month in office because Tecumseh's brother put a curse on him William Henry Harrison |
#1201, aired 1989-11-20 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1,000 (Daily Double): This ceremonial object is also known as a calumet peace pipe |
#1148, aired 1989-09-06 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: = = |
#1148, aired 1989-09-06 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: = = |
#1148, aired 1989-09-06 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: = = |
#1148, aired 1989-09-06 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400 (Daily Double): = = |
#1148, aired 1989-09-06 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: = = |
#1107, aired 1989-05-30 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Iroquois villages were often surrounded by these water barriers moats |
#1107, aired 1989-05-30 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: During the Revolutionary War, the Cherokee fought for this side the British |
#1107, aired 1989-05-30 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been an arm of this government department since 1849 the Department of the Interior |
#1107, aired 1989-05-30 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The birth of her son, Baptiste, was recorded by Meriwether Lewis February 11, 1805 Sacajawea |
#1107, aired 1989-05-30 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: A city near Detroit is named for this Ottawa chief who united the Great Lakes tribes in 1763 Pontiac |
#1057, aired 1989-03-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The only 1 of "The 5 Civilized Tribes" whose name doesn't begin with "C", many of them live in Fla. Seminoles |
#1057, aired 1989-03-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The largest city in Nebraska was named for this tribe whose name means "going upstream" Omaha |
#1057, aired 1989-03-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: When he took his alphabet to Tenn., the tribal council put him on trial for practicing black magic Sequoyah |
#1057, aired 1989-03-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: This American Indian food consists of meat, fat & berries pressed into small cakes pemmican |
#1057, aired 1989-03-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: This "regal" Indian war has been called "the bloodiest conflict in 17th century New England" King Philip's War |
#1054, aired 1989-03-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: The Plains Indians performed a dance to these animals to ensure a steady supply of meat & hides buffalo |
#1054, aired 1989-03-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: U.S. cavalry leader who defeated the Cheyenne at the 1868 Battle of the Washita George Armstrong Custer |
#1054, aired 1989-03-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: Subgroups of this tribe include the Tonto, the Lipan, & the Mescalero the Apache |
#1054, aired 1989-03-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Merle Haggard sang about this Oklahoma city named for the Creek Indians' name for themselves Muskogee |
#1054, aired 1989-03-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: A brand of R.V., or a Michigan tribe that did not live in them Winnebago |
#1037, aired 1989-02-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In many tribes husbands regarded this relative by marriage as taboo & never spoke to her the mother-in-law |
#1037, aired 1989-02-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Of the Mayas, Aztecs or Incas, the Indian civilization that lived in South America the Incas |
#1037, aired 1989-02-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Manabozho, an Ojibwa hero, was the actual subject of this Longfellow poem Hiawatha |
#1037, aired 1989-02-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: State with Mohawk, Oneida & Onondaga reservatioons New York |
#1013, aired 1989-01-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: He was the 1st to call the Native Americans "Indians" Columbus |
#1013, aired 1989-01-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Long before baseball was invented, Indians built dugouts, which they used as these canoes |
#1013, aired 1989-01-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: While Indiana, Kansas & Ohio all have counties named for this Algonquin tribe, Florida doesn't Miami |
#1013, aired 1989-01-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Guns obtained from early Dutch settlers helped this confederation dominate its neighbors Iroquois |
#1013, aired 1989-01-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: The potlatch ceremony, in which they did this, impoverished many a northwest Indian giving away all of one's possessions |
#973, aired 1988-11-23 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The Western Band of this tribe is now in Oklahoma, & the Eastern Band in North Carolina Cherokee |
#973, aired 1988-11-23 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Adopting the loom from the Pueblos & sheep raising from the Spanish, they became master weavers Navajo |
#973, aired 1988-11-23 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: After securing the Chiricahua Apaches a reservation in Arizona in 1872, this chief stopped fighting Cochise |
#973, aired 1988-11-23 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: A type of salmon is named for this tribe along the Columbia River Chinook |
#926, aired 1988-09-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: The Hopi 1st rode on these in the 16th century horses |
#926, aired 1988-09-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Famous Seneca orator Red Jacket got his name from the scarlet coat they gave him the British |
#926, aired 1988-09-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: The Natchez were known for flattening this part of their bodies their foreheads (heads) |
#926, aired 1988-09-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: According to historian Clark Wissler, it was the only language Sequoya knew Cherokee |
#926, aired 1988-09-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Until the Tuscarora joined, the Iroquois consisted of this many "nations" 5 |
#907, aired 1988-07-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Though some may shave their heads, this inherited trait is all but unknown among Indian males baldness |
#907, aired 1988-07-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: A Pueblo tribe, it's the only major U.S. tribe that begins with "Z" Zuni |
#907, aired 1988-07-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Numbering about 140,000, most of whom live in the Southwest, it's the largest Indian group in the U.S. the Navajos |
#907, aired 1988-07-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A N.Y. political society was named for this chief of the Delawares Tammany |
#907, aired 1988-07-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: The word "wigwam" comes from this language group spoken by the 1st Indians to greet the Pilgrims the Algonquian |
#824, aired 1988-03-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Famed for a legendary jump, his name was yelled by WWII paratroopers as they jumped Geronimo |
#824, aired 1988-03-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Of the 5 Great Lakes, the only one whose name isn't derived from an Indian word Superior |
#824, aired 1988-03-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Their tribal name means "stone people" but you see it mostly on silverware the Oneida |
#824, aired 1988-03-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Andrew Jackson broke the power of this tribe at 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend in what is present-day Alabama the Creeks |
#824, aired 1988-03-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1,300 (Daily Double): Though named for a bird, this tribe's members were called "the handsome men" by the French the Crowes |
#770, aired 1988-01-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Algonquins were famous for their canoes made from the bark of this tree the birch tree |
#770, aired 1988-01-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Largest city named for the Hueco Indians is in this state Texas |
#770, aired 1988-01-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: When Coolidge posed in Indian garb, this humorist wired him, "Politics makes strange red-fellows" Will Rogers |
#770, aired 1988-01-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A textile mill is named for this son of Massasoit & brother of King Philip Wamsutta |
#770, aired 1988-01-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: William Henry Harrison got nickname "Old Tippecanoe" from a battle against this Shawnee leader Tecumseh (or "The Prophet", referring to Tenskwatawa) |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Tourists can view most of the annual puberty rites of the Mescalero branch of this tribe Apache |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The famed memorial to this Indian who fought and defeated Custer is near Custer, SD Crazy Horse |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Usually pulled by a dog, it could have been described as a "Plains Indians wagon without wheels" a travois |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: "Indian Napoleon" who led his band on a
1,000 mile retreat, but was caught 40 miles short of his goal, Canada Chief Joseph (of the Nez Perce) |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: American Indian Movement activist who came in 2nd for the 1988 Libertarian Party Presidential nomination Russell Means |
#722, aired 1987-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: It's said expression "on the warpath" isn't from Indians, but from this 1826 J.F. Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans |
#722, aired 1987-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The Choctaw used to do this to their babies' heads bind them |
#722, aired 1987-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Memphis, Tenn.'s baseball team, the Chicks, is not named for poultry but for this Indian tribe Chickasaws |
#722, aired 1987-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800 (Daily Double): Called "Big Chief" & proud of his Indian ancestry, Charles Curtis held this office from 1929-33 Vice President of the United States |
#722, aired 1987-10-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Tho to them it is an age-old religious symbol, since WWII the Navajo have limited its use swastika |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: A papoose an Indian infant |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: 1 of the 6 tribes that made up most efficient N. American Indian organization, the Iroquois League (1 of) the Mohawk (Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora) |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Sometimes called "Indian rice", it isn't really rice but the grains of a marsh grass wild rice |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Chief Joseph has been called the outstanding personality in the history of this tribe the Nez Perce |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: He told A. Oakley, "The white man knows how to make everything, but he doesn't know how to distribute it" Sitting Bull |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: There's a city named for the Munsee Indians in this state named for Indians Indiana |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Indians called these northern people "eaters of raw meat" Eskimo or Inuit |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Washington Irving coined this term, alleged to be American Indians' version of heaven the happy hunting ground |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: This Indian guide of Lewis & Clark only lived to age 25 Sacajawea |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: The French called them "Pierced Nose", though few of them had one the Nez Perce |
#647, aired 1987-06-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: James Fenimore Cooper was wrong; some 900 members of this tribe presently live in Connecticut the Mohicans |
#647, aired 1987-06-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The land which became this NYC borough was obtained from the Canarsee Indians Brooklyn |
#647, aired 1987-06-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A supporter of Indian rights, Davy Crockett tried to stop forced "Trail of Tears" removal of this tribe the Cherokee |
#647, aired 1987-06-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of 7, 18 or 26, number of U.S. states that have Indian names 26 |
#647, aired 1987-06-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Member of 1 of the tribes of the Iroquois, or a philosopher of ancient Rome Seneca |
#608, aired 1987-04-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Sioux Indian greeting 1st heard by whites about 1815 háu |
#608, aired 1987-04-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: With New Mexico 2nd, this state has more land set aside for reservations than any other Arizona |
#608, aired 1987-04-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: It's said our union of states may have been patterned after this 6-tribe league centered in N.Y. the Iroquois |
#608, aired 1987-04-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: If you visited someone at home in his hogan, you'd be visiting a member of this tribe the Navajo |
#608, aired 1987-04-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Abraham Lincoln was company captain in brief war against this Sauk chief Black Hawk |
#573, aired 1987-02-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200 (Daily Double): Colorful reason large number of whites flocked to Black Hills leading to war with the red man gold |
#573, aired 1987-02-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Tribes which carve totem poles live in this part of the U.S. Pacific Northwest |
#573, aired 1987-02-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Bands of this Arizona tribe include the Tonto, Chiricahua & Mescalero Apache |
#573, aired 1987-02-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Johnny Cash James Garner & Burt Reynolds are all partly descended from this tribe Cherokee |
#497, aired 1986-11-04 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In reality, it was a dime novelist, not the Indians, who coined the term "Great White Father" for him the President |
#497, aired 1986-11-04 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: In a 1971 #1 hit, Paul Revere & the Raiders said this tribe was "so proud to live, so proud to die" the Cherokee |
#497, aired 1986-11-04 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: The tribe called itself "Dakota" meaning "allies" while others called them "Sioux" meaning this enemies |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Pontiac was a chief of this tribe for whom Canada's capital is named Ottawa |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: George Guess was English name of this inventor of the Cherokee alphabet Sequoyah |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: He's revered among the Sioux as their greatest warrior Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó) |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Each year, Arapaho Indians do this dance for 72 consecutive hours the sun dance |
#460, aired 1986-09-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Florida tribe which was famous for sheltering runaway slaves Seminoles |
#460, aired 1986-09-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Only East Coast Indians originally used this word for money made of shells wampum |
#460, aired 1986-09-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: 1st college on an Indian reservation is this tribe's community college in Arizona Navajo |
#460, aired 1986-09-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In 1661, the 1st of these printed in America was published in the language of the Massachusett tribe the Bible |
#460, aired 1986-09-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Wahunsonacock, Pocahontas' father, is better known by this name, which was really name of his tribe Powhatan |
#411, aired 1986-04-07 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Osceola, who conducted guerilla war in the Everglades, was a leader of this tribe Seminoles |
#411, aired 1986-04-07 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The Osage were once considered richest people per capita in the world, due to wealth from this oil |
#411, aired 1986-04-07 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300 (Daily Double): Tribe for whom this tune is named: the Apaches |
#411, aired 1986-04-07 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Conn. settlers survived Pequot attacks thanks to this Mohegan chief made famous by J.F. Cooper Uncas |
#411, aired 1986-04-07 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: French called Hidatsa of North Dakota "Gros Ventres" after this anatomical feature large stomach (big belly) |
#395, aired 1986-03-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The state of Utah is named for this tribe the Utes |
#395, aired 1986-03-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Mohawk Indian who played Lone Ranger's "faithful Indian companion, Tonto" on TV Jay Silverheels |
#395, aired 1986-03-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: In 1722, the Tuscarora, formerly of North Carolina, became "Sixth Nation" of this league the Iroquois League |
#395, aired 1986-03-14 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Dull Knife was a chief of this tribe which aided the Sioux against Custer the Cheyenne |
#371, aired 1986-02-10 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Though often credited with winning it, this Sioux medicine man sat out of the Battle of Little Big Horn Sitting Bull |
#371, aired 1986-02-10 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Imposing Duwamish Indian chief for whom Washington State's largest city was named Seattle |
#360, aired 1986-01-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: After 1510, Africans began replacing the Indians as these in the new world slaves |
#360, aired 1986-01-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Hard quartz used by Indians as arrowheads & firestarters flint |
#360, aired 1986-01-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: This S.W. tribe of Indians came to name a criminal element in faraway Paris Apache |
#360, aired 1986-01-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The English named this tribe for the many streams that ran through their southern U.S. domain the Creek Indians |
#360, aired 1986-01-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: This same Indian word means a ceremony, a medicine man, or most often, a political meeting a pow-wow |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: He called the Native Americans "Indians" because he thought he was in the East indies Columbus |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The smallest of these, near Trumbull, Conn., consists of 1/4 acre & 4 people a reservation |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Spanish for "villages", women traditionally own the houses in these Hopi & Zuni communities pueblos |
#307, aired 1985-11-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: A more accurate translation of his name would be “wild” or “unbroken” horse Crazy Horse |
#307, aired 1985-11-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: When Indians made peace, they symbolically buried this weapon hatchet |
#307, aired 1985-11-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $300: Canadian Indians played 1st version of this sport with few rules & up to 1000 players in a game lacrosse |
#307, aired 1985-11-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Side the Iroquois supported in the French & Indian War British (English side) |
#307, aired 1985-11-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Inter-tribal language of the North American Plains Indians sign language |
#291, aired 1985-10-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Hopatcong, Hackensack, & Hoboken are Indian names of places in this state New Jersey |
#291, aired 1985-10-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In 1847, Choctaws raised money to aid victims of potato famine in this country Ireland |
#291, aired 1985-10-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: A variety of salmon is named for this NW tribe, for whom it was mainstay of their diet Chinook |
#291, aired 1985-10-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Sachem, to the Algonquins a chief (a leader) |
#277, aired 1985-10-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Until their near extinction in the 1880s, they were the plains Indians main source of food buffalo (bison) |
#277, aired 1985-10-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: An American Indian word for food, now the basis for a common style of grits hominy |
#277, aired 1985-10-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: The 2 "superpower" adversaries of the French & Indian War French & English |
#277, aired 1985-10-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Gall & he led the attack on Custer's 7th cavalry Crazy Horse |
#277, aired 1985-10-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1,500 (Daily Double): 2 of the 5 "Civilized Tribes", so called because they resembled European nations in structure (2 of) the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, the Cherokee, the Creek & the Seminole |
#180, aired 1985-05-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Actor who turned down '73 Oscar to protest treatment of Indians Marlon Brando |
#180, aired 1985-05-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: 19th C. Plains Ind. Ghost Dance religion promised disappearance of Whites & return of these animals buffalo (or bison) |
#180, aired 1985-05-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Their name is said to derive from rubbing their moccasins in ashes the Blackfeet |
#180, aired 1985-05-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: State whose name comes from 2 Choctaw words meaning "red people" Oklahoma |
#180, aired 1985-05-17 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: When the pilgrims got to America, they met this English-speaking Indian who had lived in England Squanto |
#169, aired 1985-05-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Iroquoian tribe for whom a punk hairstyle is named a Mohawk |
#169, aired 1985-05-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Cochise, whose name means "firewood", led Chiricahua band of this tribe the Apache |
#169, aired 1985-05-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: "Sorrowful" term for long forced march of the Cherokee to Oklahoma, on which many died the Trail of Tears |
#169, aired 1985-05-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Allies of the Kiowa, they eluded bullets & arrows by hanging on side or under horses the Comanche |
#169, aired 1985-05-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1,400 (Daily Double): Title of this song protesting the treatment of the Indians:
"Well I was a red man / I was proud, I was strong / You were the white man / And you stole away my home...the way you bring me down / Make me wish that I was dead" "Wooden Indian" |
#142, aired 1985-03-26 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: After Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull & his followers fled to this country Canada |
#142, aired 1985-03-26 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Algonquin tribe for whom New York City’s central island is named Manhattan |
#142, aired 1985-03-26 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Before whites introduced horses, this animal was Plains Indians’ main beast of burden a dog |
#142, aired 1985-03-26 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Last Indian war battle took place at this S. Dakota site Wounded Knee |
#142, aired 1985-03-26 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Shawnee chief who tried to unite Indians against whites and died helping British in War of 1812 Tecumseh |
#121, aired 1985-02-25 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Indians used this ax as both tool & weapon a tomahawk |
#121, aired 1985-02-25 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Sacajawea, the bird woman, guided these American explorers Lewis & Clark |
#121, aired 1985-02-25 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Though only Massasoit was invited to this, he showed up with 90 hungry warriors the first Thanksgiving |
#121, aired 1985-02-25 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Northern Plains tribe known to other Indians as "Children of the Large-Beaked Bird" the Crows |
#121, aired 1985-02-25 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: King James complained a commoner had married royalty w/out permission when this man wed Pocohontas John Rolfe |
#93, aired 1985-01-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Tribe for whom Wyoming's capital is named Cheyenne |
#93, aired 1985-01-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Jicarilla, San Carlos & Mescalero are tribes of this Indian nation Apache |
#93, aired 1985-01-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: In 1877, this Nez Perce chief said "I will fight no more forever" Chief Joseph |
#16, aired 1984-10-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: He, not Sitting Bull, led the Indians at Custer's Last Stand Chief Crazy Horse |
#16, aired 1984-10-01 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Numbering some 140,000, this Southwest tribe is America's largest Navajo |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Device Indians smoked as sign of friendship a peace pipe |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: They symbolize family trees of N.W. Indians totem poles |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: To keep Indians out, Dutch settlers built a wall across this New Amsterdam street Wall Street |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Runaway slaves used to hide with this tribe in Florida swamps the Seminoles |