Notable Oklahoma Natives Flashcards
Who was the Cherokee cowboy, humorist, and actor?
Will Rogers
Who was the Sac and Fox Olympian, baseball, and football player, aka the “world’s greatest athlete”?
Jim Thorpe
Who was the last Chief of the Comanche, whose mother was a captive?
Quanah Parker
Who was the Cherokee Guinness Book of World record holder for blowing up water bottles?
Brian Jackson
Who was the Choctaw Warrior and WW1 Code Talker?
Joseph Oklahombi
Who was the Chief of the Ponca who has a statue in Ponca City?
Standing Bear
Who was the Osage first general, who died in WW2 and has an Air Force base named after him?
Clarence Tinker
Who was the last surviving Comanche Code Talker?
Charles Chibitty
Who was the first Native American astronaut from the Chickasaw Nation?
John Herrington
Who was the Cherokee rapper and actor who played in “Indian in the Cupboard”?
Litefoot
Who is the Cherokee NFL quarterback, former Hiesman trophy winner, who played for OU?
Sam Bradford
Who was the Muscogee soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in WW2?
Ernest Childers
Who was the Confederate Brigadier General who led Native American troops in the Civil War?
Stand Watie
Who was the Cheyenne chief around 1861?
Black Kettle
Who was the Cherokee cattleman who had a cattle trail named after him?
Jesse Chisholm
Who is the current Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Darryl LaCounte
Who is the current Director of the Bureau of Indian Education?
Tony Dearman
Who is the US Secretary of the Interior?
Deb Haaland
He was a world renowned sculptor, and one of the most important American artists, also the first baby born to this tribe’s family after the end of captivity?
Allan Houser, Fort Sill Apache
Who was the first woman elected as a chairman of this tribe?
Phoebe O’Dell, Iowa Tribe
Who was the last full-blood member of this tribe, who served as tribal Chairman from 1987-1990, during which time the tribe wrote a new constitution to engage in economic development?
William Mehoja, Kaw Nation
Name the tribe whose membership is matrilineal (meaning people are members automatically if their mother is a member).
Kialegee Tribal Town
This tribe was the first to greet Lewis and Clark on their expedition as it departed from St Louis in 1804?
Otoe-Missouria Tribe
The word Miami, coms from Myaamia, which means what?
Downstream people
The war with this tribe in 1872-1873 cost the US Government half a million dollars?
Modoc
This tribe’s name has been translated by some to mean “situated yonder or over there” however, they refer to themselves as Tsoyaha or “Children of the Sun”
Euchee / Yuchi
In what state were 70 Native warriors exiled?
Florida
Which president gave a peace medal to the Otoe tribe?
President Thomas Jefferson
Which tribe has the largest enrollment in the state of Oklahoma?
Cherokee
This tribe is called a Muscogee word, Simano-li (which may be derived from the Spanish word Cimarron), meaning “runaway” or “wild one”
Seminole
This tribe was instrumental in the founding of Detroit, Michigan and Kansas City, KS.
Wyandotte
What lifestyle did the Plains Indians have?
Nomadic
Which tribe is the only Oklahoma tribe NOT federally recognized?
Euchee / Yuchi
Which tribe and their language is unlike any other in the world?
Euchee / Yuchi
This tribe was the first in Oklahoma was the first to organize after the enactment of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936?
Seneca-Cayuga
The title of this tribe’s leader is Mekko, which means King.
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town
The origin of this tribe’s name is Tonkaweya, which means, “They all stay together”
Tonkawa
Which band of Cherokee authored their first written constitution in 1859?
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees
This tribe is the sole Indian Nation of the Southern Plains who remain in their place of origin.
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes
What are the four Pawnee bands?
Skidi, Chaui, Pitahaurat, and Kitkehahki
Which Oklahoman tribe has created a star chart?
Pawnee
How many Kickapoo speak their own language and nothing else?
80%
Former representative Lisa Johnson Billy is a member of what tribe?
Chickasaw
This newspaper in Tulsa claims to have the largest Native readership?
Native Times
Tecumseh was killed in what war?
War of 1812
The US Constitution is based on what Native document?
Iroquois Confederacy or League of Nations
Who was the first US Prima Ballerina?
Maria Tallchief
What tribe is Yvonne Choteau from?
Shawnee Tribe
