Cherokee Challenge Bowl 2021

Cherokee Challenge Bowl 2021

by Kit Coughran

Multiple Choice

How would you ask "What is HER name"?

• Du-do-a

• Do-de-tsa-do-a

• Do-i-yu-sdi

• Do-du-do-a

Multiple Choice

How do you "My name is"

• De-tsa-do-a

• Du-do-a

• Da-gwa-do-a

• Do-de-tsa-do-a

Multiple Choice

What is the correct way of asking "are you well"?

• O-shi-gwo-tsu

• To-hi-gwo-tsu

• O-shi-gwo

• Hv-yo-l(a)-da-tsu

Multiple Choice

Do-ha-di-sgo "Stand up"

• Tso-hle-sdi

• Ha-hv-ga

• Ta-le-hv-ga

• Hi-go-wa-ti-ha

Multiple Choice

The word for "eat it"

• Hi-ga Di-na

• Hi-ga

• Hi-go-wa-ti-ha

• Tsa-yo-shi-ha

Multiple Choice

Do-ha-di-sgo "His/her father"

• A-gi-du-tsi

• Tsa-do-da

• U-du-du

• U-do-da

Multiple Choice

What is "Gi-ga-ge-i"

• Black

• Red

• Pink

• Gray

Multiple Choice

Do-ha-di-sgo " You live"

• He-hi

• E-hi

• Ge-i

• Tsi-hi

Multiple Choice

What is "A-ni-wo-di-hi"

• Big cove

• Wolf town

• Paint clan

• Paint Town

Multiple Choice

What Vowel is written in phonetics as an e?

Multiple Choice

Which Vowel is written as a v in phonetics?

Multiple Choice

Which vowel sound is written as o, in phonetics?

Multiple Choice

Which vowel sound is written as a u in phonetics, but sounds like oo as in you?

Multiple Choice

With the words below, which word contains the vowel sound of ah?

• to hi

• A kwa du li ha

• gi tli

• All of these contain this sound

Multiple Choice

In the word i ya, which syllabary character is the correct vowel that begins this word?

• None of these

Multiple Choice

Which syllabary character below represents the sound of uh?

Multiple Choice

Which Vowel does this word Ugugu begin with?

Multiple Choice

Which word below contains the vowel sound of ee?

• e kwa

• i ga

• o ga na

• None of these

Multiple Choice

Which word below contains the sound of ay?

• e tla we hi

• e lo hi

• e kwa

• All of these

Multiple Choice

In 1838, the U.S. Army forced thousands of Cherokee people to march to the Indian Territory (in present-day Oklahoma) as part of the removal process. Which statement BEST explains why the route to the Indian Territory became known as the "Trail of Tears"? 

• Many battles took place along the journey.
• Some government officials wept over Jackson’s decision.
• It describes the legend of the “Weeping Eagle”. 
• Thousands of Cherokees died along the journey.

Multiple Choice

__________________ led the Cherokee faction that wanted to resist further concessions to the U.S. government, ultimately suing the U.S. government in court. He led them on the Trail of Tears.

• George Guess

• Andrew Jackson

• John Ross

• William McIntosh

Multiple Choice

Andrew Jackson’s role in the removal of the Cherokee from Georgia was that he 

• ruled in favor of the Cherokee as a sovereign nation and prevented their removal.
• refused to enforce the Supreme Court’s ruling and instead enforced the Indian Removal Act.
• accompanied the Cherokee people on the trail of tears and helped organize farms in the Oklahoma territory.
• organized the newly acquired Yazoo lands for their settlement, opening their land to gold miners.

Multiple Choice

What was John Marshall’s final ruling in the Worcester V. Georgia case?

• Cherokees were to be sold into slavery and their land would be divided out among Georgia political leaders.

• Cherokees were Georgia citizens and should follow state laws for taxes and voting.

• Cherokees were a sovereign nation and should have federal protection from state laws.

• Cherokees were a sovereign nation but should be relocated to Oklahoma.

Multiple Choice

Which Supreme Court decision denied the right of states to take tribal lands but was ignored by President Andrew Jackson?

• Fletcher vs. Peck

• Peck vs. Veno

• Worcester vs. Georgia

• Alabama vs. Georgia

Multiple Choice

What was discovered in 1829 in Cherokee territory that led to the removal of the Cherokee and the creation of Dahlonega? 

• diamonds
• the syllabary
• rivers
• gold

Multiple Choice

William McIntosh, a Creek chief, was murdered by his own people because he

• fell to defeat in a fight with the Georgia militia.

• was the cousin of Georgia’s Governor George Troup.

• signed a peace treaty with the Cherokee Indians without permission.

• signed a treaty giving up the last Creek lands in Georgia to the government.

Multiple Choice

-Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation

-Sued the U.S. Government in Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

-Led the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears

• John Ross

• William McIntosh

• Joseph Vann

• Sitting Bull

Multiple Choice

Which of Georgia's native groups was the largest in regards to both population and land?

• Creek

• Cherokee

• Chickasaw

• Seminole

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is TRUE regarding White Stick Creeks during the Red Stick War?

• White Sticks were Creek Indians who largely supported the U.S. government during the war.

• White Sticks were Creek Indians who largely supported the Creek Nation during the war.

• White Sticks were not a group fighting in the Red Stick War.

• The White Sticks were white U.S. soldiers led by General Andrew Jackson.

Multiple Choice

The term assimilation could best be defined as:

• Adopting the culture of the majority in a country.

• Giving/selling land to the U.S. government.

• A special and sacred Native American religious ritual.

• A form of agriculture in which citizens of a country plant small, self-sufficient gardens.

Multiple Choice

In an effort to adopt the culture of whites, the Cherokee created a written language, a newspaper, a government with three branches, and largely adopted Christianity. What is the name of the action being described?

• Assimilation

• Horticulture

• Cession

• Treaty

Multiple Choice

-1755 - 1835

-Fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

-Ruled in favor of the Cherokee in Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

• John Marshall

• John Ross

• Andrew Jackson

• William McIntosh

Multiple Choice

Which land distribution system was used by Georgia to give away former Cherokee land following the Trail of Tears?

• Headright

• Land Lottery

• Yazoo Land Fraud

• Horticulture

Multiple Choice

Which land distribution system was used by Georgia to give away former Cherokee land following the Trail of Tears?

• Headright

• Land Lottery

• Yazoo Land Fraud

• Horticulture

Multiple Choice

Why was Sequoia an important member of the Cherokee community? 

• He helped Cherokee people build homes. 
• He was in the newspaper. 
• He developed a written language for the Cherokee people. 
• He read many books. 

Multiple Choice

What did the Cherokee people trade deerskins and baskets for? 

• potatoes and tomatoes
• guns, cloth, cooking pots and other goods
• fish and chicken 
• new homes 

Multiple Choice

From 1838-1839 the Cherokee people were forced to walk hundreds of miles to Indian territory which is in modern day Oklahoma. What was this forced removal called? 

• The Great Migration 
• The Journey West
• Westward Bound 
• The Trail of Tears

Multiple Choice

What did early Cherokee Houses look like? 

• A round house made of mud, animal hair, grass and clay
• A tall building with many floors
• a rectangular structure with few windows
• a pyramid with thatched sides

Multiple Choice

What jobs did Cherokee men do? 

• They invented different types of electronics
• They build homes, and made tools, weapons and canoes
• They gathered berries and watched children
• They planted crops and made meals 

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the law that forced the Indians to leave their homelands and go on the "Trail of Tears"? 

• The homeland journey Law
• Cherokee Migration Law 
• The Indian Removal Act of 1830
• Westward Law 

Multiple Choice

What was the problem with Galun'lati

• The animals were curious

• It was too crowded

• The arch was breaking

• People were hunting them

Multiple Choice

What was the strangest thing about Daiyuni-si the water beetle?

• He could not find a piece of land

• He was brave

• He darted over the water surface

• He was the beaver's grand child

Multiple Choice

Which of the following animals plays a major role in "How the World Was Made?"

• Deer

• Buzzard

• Sheep

• Turtle

Multiple Choice

What does Daiuni-si do with mud he gets from the bottom of the ocean?

• He makes the large island Earth

• He makes a house

• He makes more space on Galun'lati

• He puts it on the great buzzard's back.