Native Men (NAS semester exam) Quiz

Answer: Wahunsonacock

Wikipedia spells Wahunsonacock's name as Wahunsenacawh. He is probably best known to white historians as Powhatan, which was the name of his Confederacy. Geronimo was an Apache in Arizona. Matoaka was the birth name of Pocahontas.

Answer: Tisquantum

Kidnapped and taken to Spain by one of John Smith's lieutenants, Tisquantum eventually worked his way back to England before returning to Massachusetts in 1619 only to find the rest of his tribesmen killed off. He then became a liaison between the Wampanoag and the English, trying to be a friend to both. By the time he died in 1622, however, he was trusted by neither side.

Answer: Black Hawk

Iowa has dozens of place names derived from the Sac and Fox tribes and their leaders, including Sac, Black Hawk, and Keokuk counties. The Meskwaki settlement in Iowa's Tama County is made up of descendants of the Fox people involved in the Black Hawk War. Notable Americans serving in the Black Hawk War included Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis.

Answer: Metacomet

After a year of warring against the whites, Metacomet's support faded and he returned home, only to be betrayed by a native ally and killed by the English. After quartering him, the English displayed his head on a pike in Plymouth for 20 years.

Answer: Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa

Tenskwatawa was also known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. William Henry Harrison defeated a force led by Tenskwatawa at Tippecanoe, while Tecumseh was in the South trying to bring more allies into the great Shawnee uprising. Later, both brothers were at the Thames in Canada where Tecumseh was killed.

Answer: Pocahontas

Pocahontas was a nickname among Powhatan people for the girl who supposedly saved John Smith. Her actual name was Matoaka. When she became a Christian and married Rolfe, she took the name Rebecca Rolfe. Virginia Dare was the first English child born in America, while White Dove is the "Indian maid" in the song "Running Bear," written by the Big Bopper in 1959.

Answer: Chief Joseph

For three months in the fall of 1877, Joseph led a band of 800 Nez Perce and Palouse refugees through the mountains of Idaho and Montana in an attempt to flee from the United States and avoid capture by three different units of the United States Army.

The attempt ended about 40 miles south of the Canadian border in Montana's Bear Paw Mountains. Joseph's group had traveled over 1,100 miles.

Answer: Goyathlay

According to Wikipedia, there is disagreement over how Goyathlay's name was changed to Geronimo. Some historians say the Mexicans were shouting "Geronimo" for Saint Jerome, asking for aid when Geronimo attacked, while some say they were simply mispronouncing Goyathlay.

A third interpretation was that Geronimo's attack came on the feast day of St. Jerome, thus causing the application of the name.

Answer: Enrique

Because he was not very tall, Enrique was also known as Enriquillo. Enrique's Rebellion ended after 14 years of resistance by the Taino in the Bahoruco mountains when the Spanish came to terms.

Answer: Hiawatha

Most Iroquois oral history ascribes the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy to Hiawatha and a prophet named Deganawida, a Huron also referred to as the Great Peacemaker. The Hiawatha of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem bears no relation to the "historical" Hiawatha, but is instead based on the work of Henry R. Schoolcraft.