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1. What town, adjacent to the Southern Ute Reservation, took its name from a famous Ute Leader?

2. What is the name of a mountain, on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, that is named after an Indian?

3. Where are the Tribal Headquarters of the Navajo Nation located?

4. What large town west of Farmington, New Mexico, is named after a giant rock that is in the shape of a sailing ship?

5. Do you know the population of the Southern Ute Tribe?

6. What college was originally located on the Ute Reservation?

7. Where is the home of the Navajo Community College?

8. Do you know the name of the tribe to the east that the Southern Utes consider neighbors?

9. How many Pueblo tribes are there?  Can you name them all?

10. What language base forms the Ute language?  Do you know the dialect the Ute people speak?

11. Can you name other tribes with this same language base?

12. What does the name Anasazi mean?  What tribe in the southwest United States gave them that name?

13. Who was the last chief and the first chairman of the Southern Utes?

14. Where are the headquarters of the Southern Ute Tribe located?

15. What is the oldest, continuously-occupied city in the United States?

16. Name the lake near Chimney Rock, Colorado, that is owned and operated by the Southern Ute Tribe.

17. What state was named after the Utes?

18. Where did the Utes get their first horses?

19. Do you know what Tribal groups claim to be direct descendants of and who claim cultural affiliation with the Anasazi?

20. What name do the Pueblos give to the rain gods who live in the mountains?

21. What Pueblo is known for the Shalako celebration held in the early winter?

22. Do you know the name of the thin, rolled, blue cornmeal cakes made by the Pueblos?

23. What tribe, close to the Southern Utes, holds their tribal celebration every year on September 15th?

24. Do you know the name of the celebration?

25. Can you name the food that is named after a tribe and is made with fry bread, beans, meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and hot sauce?

26. What event occurred in 1683?  Where did it begin and why did it happen?

27. Over what strip of land do anthropologists theorize North Americans Indians crossed to settle in the Americas?

28. Did Christopher Columbus “discover” America?  What was he supposed to discover?

29. How many Ute tribes are there?  What are the names they are federally-recognized as being?

30. Where do the Ute tribes live?

31. Do you know the tribes who reside on the Wind River Reservation in south-central Wyoming?

32. Can you name the two largest tribes in the United States?

33. What chief of the Nez Perce Tribe said the following statement, “From where the sun now stands, I shall fight no more, forever.”?

34. With what tribe did the Utes officially sign a peace treaty on July 24, 1977?