Notable Oklahoma Natives

Question 1

Who was the Cherokee cowboy, humorist, and actor?

Answer 1

Will Rogers

Question 2

Who was the Sac and Fox Olympian, baseball, and football player, aka the “world’s greatest athlete”?

Answer 2

Jim Thorpe

Question 3

Who was the last Chief of the Comanche, whose mother was a captive?

Answer 3

Quanah Parker

Question 4

Who was the Cherokee Guinness Book of World record holder for blowing up water bottles?

Answer 4

Brian Jackson

Question 5

Who was the Choctaw Warrior and WW1 Code Talker?

Answer 5

Joseph Oklahombi

Question 6

Who was the Chief of the Ponca who has a statue in Ponca City?

Answer 6

Standing Bear

Question 7

Who was the Osage first general, who died in WW2 and has an Air Force base named after him?

Answer 7

Clarence Tinker

Question 8

Who was the last surviving Comanche Code Talker?

Answer 8

Charles Chibitty

Question 9

Who was the first Native American astronaut from the Chickasaw Nation?

Answer 9

John Herrington

Question 10

Who was the Cherokee rapper and actor who played in “Indian in the Cupboard”?

Answer 10

Litefoot

Question 11

Who is the Cherokee NFL quarterback, former Hiesman trophy winner, who played for OU?

Answer 11

Sam Bradford

Question 12

Who was the Muscogee soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in WW2?

Answer 12

Ernest Childers

Question 13

Who was the Confederate Brigadier General who led Native American troops in the Civil War?

Answer 13

Stand Watie

Question 14

Who was the Cheyenne chief around 1861?

Answer 14

Black Kettle

Question 15

Who was the Cherokee cattleman who had a cattle trail named after him?

Answer 15

Jesse Chisholm

Question 16

Who is the current Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

Answer 16

Darryl LaCounte

Question 17

Who is the current Director of the Bureau of Indian Education?

Answer 17

Tony Dearman

Question 18

Who is the US Secretary of the Interior?

Answer 18

Deb Haaland

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

Allan Houser, Fort Sill Apache

Question 20

Who was the first woman elected as a chairman of this tribe?

Answer 20

Phoebe O’Dell, Iowa Tribe

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

William Mehoja, Kaw Nation

Question 22

Name the tribe whose membership is matrilineal (meaning people are members automatically if their mother is a member).

Answer 22

Kialegee Tribal Town

Question 23

This tribe was the first to greet Lewis and Clark on their expedition as it departed from St Louis in 1804?

Answer 23

Otoe-Missouria Tribe

Question 24

The word Miami, coms from Myaamia, which means what?

Answer 24

Downstream people

Question 25

The war with this tribe in 1872-1873 cost the US Government half a million dollars?

Answer 25

Modoc

Question 26

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”

Answer 26

Euchee / Yuchi

Question 27

In what state were 70 Native warriors exiled?

Answer 27

Florida

Question 28

Which president gave a peace medal to the Otoe tribe?

Answer 28

President Thomas Jefferson

Question 29

Which tribe has the largest enrollment in the state of Oklahoma?

Answer 29

Cherokee

Question 30

This tribe is called a Muscogee word, Simano-li (which may be derived from the Spanish word Cimarron), meaning “runaway” or “wild one”

Answer 30

Seminole

Question 31

This tribe was instrumental in the founding of Detroit, Michigan and Kansas City, KS.

Answer 31

Wyandotte

Question 32

What lifestyle did the Plains Indians have?

Answer 32

Nomadic

Question 33

Which tribe is the only Oklahoma tribe NOT federally recognized?

Answer 33

Euchee / Yuchi

Question 34

Which tribe and their language is unlike any other in the world?

Answer 34

Euchee / Yuchi

Question 35

This tribe was the first in Oklahoma was the first to organize after the enactment of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936?

Answer 35

Seneca-Cayuga

Question 36

The title of this tribe’s leader is Mekko, which means King.

Answer 36

Thlopthlocco Tribal Town

Question 37

The origin of this tribe’s name is Tonkaweya, which means, “They all stay together”

Answer 37

Tonkawa

Question 38

Which band of Cherokee authored their first written constitution in 1859?

Answer 38

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees

Question 39

This tribe is the sole Indian Nation of the Southern Plains who remain in their place of origin.

Answer 39

Wichita and Affiliated Tribes

Question 40

What are the four Pawnee bands?

Answer 40

Skidi, Chaui, Pitahaurat, and Kitkehahki

Question 41

Which Oklahoman tribe has created a star chart?

Answer 41

Pawnee

Question 42

How many Kickapoo speak their own language and nothing else?

Answer 42

80%

Question 43

Former representative Lisa Johnson Billy is a member of what tribe?

Answer 43

Chickasaw

Question 44

This newspaper in Tulsa claims to have the largest Native readership?

Answer 44

Native Times

Question 45

Tecumseh was killed in what war?

Answer 45

War of 1812

Question 46

The US Constitution is based on what Native document?

Answer 46

Iroquois Confederacy or League of Nations

Question 47

Who was the first US Prima Ballerina?

Answer 47

Maria Tallchief

Question 48

What tribe is Yvonne Choteau from?

Answer 48

Shawnee Tribe