5.2 La. Native American Tribes

Which tribe practiced cannibalism, perhaps as a way to absorb their enemy's powers?

• Chitimacha

• Choctaw

• Atakapa

• Tunica-Biloxi

In this tribe, women could be healers and hold positions of power, but they could not have positions of religious authority.

• Natchez

• Caddo

• Coushatta

• Chitimacha

True or False? La. Native American populations increased after European settlement.

• True

• False

First tribe to be recognized as a sovereign nation:

• Chitimacha

• Tunica-Biloxi

• Natchez

• Coushatta

Which tribe had a specific class structure: king, middle class, lower class?

• Tunica-Biloxi

• Natchez

• Caddo

• Atakapa

Which two Native American tribes died out in La. by the 1730s?

• Caddo and Natchez

• Atakapa and Coushatta

• Atakapa and Natchez

• Coushatta and Chitimacha

Although tribes spoke many different languages, most could communicate in a common language called:

• Kadohadacho

• Koasati

• Mobilian

• Taensa

Which tribe were farmers, traded salt for horses, settled along the Red River, and agreed to sell 1+ million acres for $80,000?

• Caddo

• Chitimacha

• Coushatta

• Natchez

The ___________ have 3 groups who still remain in Louisiana today; there was a "civil war" among the tribe when some supported the French & others supported the Spanish after the French & Indian War.

• Tunica-Biloxi

• Choctaw

• Atakapa

• Houma

True or False? The native people of Louisiana were found to have spectacular immunity to diseases such as influenza and smallpox brought over by European explorers.

• True

• False