2022 NAHM QUIZ 5: Indigenous Leaders

An Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 meter run at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the first American to do so.

• Billy Mills

• Jim Thorpe

• Jack Thorpe

• Bob Hill

Members of Lower Sioux Tribal Council (select all that apply).

• Robert L. Larsen, President

• Joesph O'Brien, Secretary

• Grace Goldtooth, Vice President

• Kevin O'Keefe, Treasurer

AIM - the American Indian Movement - began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the summer of 1968. It began taking form when 200 people from the Indian community turned out for a meeting caled by a group of Native American community activists led by (select all that apply).

• George Mitchell

• Russell Means

• Dennis Banks

• Clyde Bellecourt

A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.

• Billy Mills

• Jim Thorpe

• Jack Thorpe

• Bob Hill

Maria Tallchief...

• is the Senior Executive Director for the Lower Sioux Indian Community

• is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chipppewa Indians

• was the first prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet

• was one of the first bilingual, bicultural antrhopologists

John Herrington...

• is the Lower Sioux Health Care Center CEO

• was the first indigenous American in space

• is an indigenous American professional basketball player

• is known as "The Sioux Chef"

A Santee Dakota physician educated at Boston University, the first Native American to be certified in Western medicine.

• John Eastman

• Jacob Eastman

• Seth Eastman

• Charles Eastman

Lower Sioux Healthy Generations Coordinator and 2010 Redwood Valley High School graduate

• Darin Prescott

• Mat Pendleton

• Vanessa Goodthunder

• Kortni Bidinger

Sean Sherman...(select all that apply)

• is an Oglala Lakota Sioux chef, cookbook author, forager, and promoter of indigenous cuisine

• is known as "The Sioux Chef"

• uses ingredients indigenous to North America prior to colonization on his menu at his restaurant

• owns a restaurant called Owamni that features foods indigenous to Mni Sota Makoce

Who were the first two Native American women elected to Congress?

• Peggy Flanagan

• Sharice Davids

• Deb Haaland

• Wilma Mankiller