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Indigenous History

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What is the most accurate way to frame Indigenous history in Colorado?

  • As unrelated to present-day Colorado
  • As both historical and contemporary, with continuing tribal nations and communities
  • As only archaeology
  • As ending before statehood
Correct answer(s):
  • As both historical and contemporary, with continuing tribal nations and communities

Why should Colorado history include Indigenous communities in the present tense as well as the past?

  • Tribal governments never existed
  • Indigenous history ended in 1876
  • Tribal nations and Indigenous communities continue to exist today
  • Only archaeological sites remain
Correct answer(s):
  • Tribal nations and Indigenous communities continue to exist today

Why should Mesa Verde be understood as more than an archaeological attraction?

  • It was built by modern miners
  • It is only a ski resort
  • It is connected to the living heritage of Pueblo peoples
  • It has no cultural significance
Correct answer(s):
  • It is connected to the living heritage of Pueblo peoples

What was one serious effect of rapid nineteenth-century U.S. settlement on Indigenous peoples in Colorado?

  • Land loss and forced displacement
  • Complete end of territorial conflict before settlement
  • Guaranteed control of all former lands
  • Automatic state citizenship with no displacement
Correct answer(s):
  • Land loss and forced displacement

Who lived in the Colorado region long before European and U.S. settlement?

  • Only nineteenth-century miners
  • Only railroad workers
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Only U.S. soldiers
Correct answer(s):
  • Indigenous peoples

Which group of peoples also has important historical connections to areas that became Colorado?

  • Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Comanche, and Pueblo peoples
  • Only Inuit peoples
  • Only Caribbean island peoples
  • Only Hawaiian and Samoan peoples
Correct answer(s):
  • Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Comanche, and Pueblo peoples