Deck 6: Indigenous Traditions

Question 1

Until relatively recently, Indigenous peoples were only studied by ________.

A) doctors
B) historians
C) anthropologists
D) other Indigenous peoples

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Indigenous peoples have often been understood by Europeans to resemble ________.

A) children
B) Asian yogis
C) the lost tribes of Israel
D) Europeans

Answer 2

A

Question 3

For the Maori people, weavers were generally ________.

A) men
B) adolescents
C) unimportant
D) women

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In Indigenous traditions, teaching typically happens through ________.

A) meditation
B) stories
C) visions
D) schools

Question 5

The origin stories of the Australian Aborigines focus on events that occurred in a time and place most commonly translated in the nineteenth century as ________.

A) "The Awakening"
B) "The Uncreated"
C) "The Dreaming"
D) "The Mystical"

Question 6

Many First Nations people in Canada refer to North America as ________.

A) Yanyuwa
B) Turtle Island
C) Gaia
D) Golden Mountain

Question 7

Almost all of the traditional trickster characters we know of are ________.

A) female
B) androgynous
C) either male or female
D) male

Question 8

Rites of passage can be understood as ________.

A) journeys
B) unchanging through time and place
C) magic
D) part of daily ritual activity

Question 9

In most African Indigenous traditions, white is the colour of ________.

A) purity
B) transformation
C) tradition
D) evil

Question 10

Indigenous peoples generally see time as ________.

A) static
B) rhythmic
C) linear
D) cyclical

Question 11

The sand paintings of the Navajo must be ________.

A) simple
B) comprised of blood
C) preserved for one year
D) erased the day they are made

Question 12

In Indigenous traditions, art is fundamentally about ________.

A) style
B) the gods
C) protest
D) relationships

Question 13

Pomo Indian Mabel McKay used basket weaving ________.

A) as a meditation technique
B) to make money
C) to teach non-Indigenous peoples about the Pomo traditions
D) in her healing practice

Question 14

________ is a material not generally used in the making of African masks.

A) Iron
B) Ivory
C) Pottery
D) Cloth

Question 15

The Anishinaubae word dodaem can mean ________.

A) animal
B) sacred
C) heart
D) a pole

Question 16

Totem poles were usually carved from ________.

A) oak trees
B) cedar trees
C) peach trees
D) maple trees

Question 17

The figures that decorate Maori meeting houses are ________.

A) the gods
B) matriarchs
C) animals
D) ancestors

Question 18

The marae is the ________ home of a Maori person.

A) social and religious
B) social
C) afterlife
D) religious

Question 19

The majority of Indigenous peoples have performed all or most of their rituals ________.

A) in a ritual bath
B) in sacred buildings
C) outdoors
D) in their homes

Question 20

In popular film, Indigenous people are often portrayed as ________.

A) cunning and clever people
B) hard-working people
C) a noble and dying people
D) homeless people

Question 21

The most commercially successful movie about Indigenous people ever made was ________.

A) Dances with Wolves
B) The Gods Must Be Crazy
C) Crocodile Dundee
D) Pocahontas

Question 22

New Age use of Indigenous traditions is ________.

A) not very common
B) a good example of honouring Indigenous traditions
C) politically neutral
D) potentially dangerous

Question 23

The Longhouse religion is practised by about one-third of all ________.

A) Anishinaubae
B) Iroquois
C) Yoruba
D) Navajo

Question 24

Most cargo cults developed in ________.

A) North America
B) the Pacific Southwest
C) Africa
D) South America

Question 25

At issue in the 1990 standoff between the Mohawk community and the town of Oka, Quebec was ________.

A) the town's plan to expand a golf course
B) the Mohawk destruction of a residential school
C) the Mohawk plan to build a casino
D) the town's plan to build a public education centre

Question 26

The US Supreme Court ruled that, of the following local government bans, ________ was unconstitutional.

A) the ban on smoking tobacco
B) the ban on animal sacrifice
C) the ban on the hunting of the bald eagle
D) the ban on commercially producing dream catchers

Question 27

The Yoruban god of iron and war, Ogun, has come to be associated with ________.

A) doctors
B) car mechanics
C) soldiers
D) butchers

Question 28

________ is a film created by Indigenous people about Indigenous people.

A) The Gods Must Be Crazy
B) Pocahontas: The True Story
C) Dances with Wolves
D) Whale Rider

Question 29

The traditions of Indigenous populations ________.

A) have nothing in common with what they were in the past
B) are no less authentic now than they were in the past
C) have only rudimentary likeness to those of the past
D) are illegal in most regions

Question 30

These days, authentic Indigenous religious practices can be found ________.

A) anywhere
B) only in sub-Saharan countries
C) only in certain places in the tropics
D) everywhere except Southeast Asia

Question 31

The use of the term "primitive" when speaking of Indigenous traditions provides justification for ________.

A) the eradication of various Indigenous ceremonies
B) so-called improvements of the Indigenous culture
C) forming ghettos of Indigenous peoples
D) acceptance of Indigenous practices

Question 32

In many Indigenous societies, gender classification ________.

A) is rarely made manifest
B) has strict boundaries
C) could be somewhat fluid
D) is not commonly thought an issue

Question 33

With respect to kinship in Indigenous societies, ________.

A) there is a definitive gender pattern
B) gender patterns are not adhered to
C) gender is irrelevant
D) there is no definitive gender pattern

Question 34

Generally speaking, stories of the afterlife in Indigenous traditions ________.

A) are filled with motifs of punishment
B) tell us more about how we should live than about what happens when
We die
C) tell us of the supernatural world of the afterlife
D) tell us about the rituals that must accompany the funeral

Question 35

Ramani and lidi are two forms of ________.

A) oral history among the Kewa
B) prayer found in the Maori tradition
C) dance ritual among the Mohawk
D) song found among the Nyanga

Question 36

Tricksters are typically related ________.

A) to both the spirit and material/human worlds
B) to the gods
C) to the animal world
D) to the human world

Question 37

Trickster tales attribute the creation of aspects of our world ________.

A) to violent destructive activity
B) to the forces of demons
C) to benevolent activities of the gods
D) to the manipulative forces of the devil

Question 38

The rite of passage known as the vision quest ________.

A) prepares virgin girls for menses
B) is performed for those who have just given birth
C) is performed for those who have just died
D) prepares a young man for adulthood

Question 39

To atone for past transgressions, the Nuer of Africa ________.

A) sacrifice an ox
B) light incense during a drum ceremony
C) sacrifice a chicken
D) offer prayers

Question 40

The symbolic colours in traditional Maori weaving do not include ________.

A) red, representing the realm of being and light
B) green, representing the lush completion of the world
C) white, representing the process of coming into being
D) black, representing the realm of potential being

Question 41

In Pomo communities, ________ were responsible for basket weaving.

A) men
B) children
C) both men and women
D) women

Question 42

Moko are ________.

A) Yorubu masks
B) traditional Maori tattoos
C) Pomo spirit baskets
D) Haisla sacred totem poles

Question 43

For the Indigenous peoples of Canada's Pacific Northwest, the potlatch is ________.

A) a sacred meal wherein he participants bring particular foods for all to share
B) a feast at which the hosting family presents the guests with gifts
C) a celebration of the spring solstice
D) a series of ceremonial dances performed during a festival of thanksgiving for a newborn child

Question 44

Most countries ________.

A) have repealed their laws inhibiting the practice of Indigenous religions
B) have started to reconsider repealing laws inhibiting the practice of Indigenous religions
C) have refused to repeal their laws inhibiting the practice of Indigenous religions
D) redoubled their efforts to ensure that certain practices of Indigenous religions are ended

Question 45

Tricksters in modern Indigenous stories are ________.

A) are always portrayed as male
B) are not assigned a gender
C) no longer portrayed
D) sometimes portrayed as female

Question 46

Pauline Johnson was the first ________ to be honoured by a commemorative stamp.

A) Canadian writer
B) Canadian woman
C) Canadian Aboriginal
D) all of the above

Question 47

________ is a central issue in the works of most Indigenous authors.

A) Religion
B) History
C) Politics
D) Conflict

Question 48

The Mohawk of Kanesatake regard the standoff with the town of Oka, Quebec as ________.

A) only a partial success because the federal government owns the disputed territory, not them
B) a failure because the town built the golf course on the disputed land
C) a success because they now own the disputed territory
D) only a partial success because the town still owns the disputed territory, but agreed not to develop the golf course

Question 49

Indigenous traditions are unique in their unchanging quality.

Question 50

A literate society is more advanced than an oral society.

Question 51

Indigenous societies are oral rather than literate.

Question 52

Afterlife stories have more to do with the living than the dead.

Question 53

Indigenous origin stories typically do not imagine the beginning of time.

Question 54

In most Indigenous sacrificial rituals, the item sacrificed is less meaningful than the ritual actions themselves.

Question 55

With most Indigenous art, what you see is what you get.

Question 56

One of the oldest and most widespread of all the arts is basket weaving.

Question 57

The Anishinaubae created thousands of totem, or dodaem, poles.

Question 58

Colonial governments often made the practice of Indigenous religions illegal.

Question 59

Reliable statistical information on Indigenous religions is virtually impossible to come by.

Question 60

There are more than 5,000 distinct Indigenous cultures in some 90 countries around
the world.

Question 61

Extant written records of most Indigenous traditions begin only after contact with non-Indigenous people occurred.

Question 62

Almost all Indigenous traditions believe that personal deities have an active, ongoing impact on the world.

Question 63

Indigenous traditions tend to be more concerned with what happens after death than with the happenings of this life.

Question 64

Indigenous traditions place greater emphasis on behaviour than on belief.

Question 65

Ubuntu is the African concept that all human beings are interconnected

Question 66

Maori carvings are more likely than totem poles or masks to be displayed outside their original physical context.

Question 67

Politics is a central issue in the works of most Indigenous authors.

Question 68

For Indigenous cultures, stories have stopped serving as vehicles for the transmission of beliefs and values.

Question 69

What is the definition of "Indigenous religion" used by Ken Derry in your textbook's chapter on Indigenous traditions?

Question 70

In trickster stories, how do we know when to imitate the trickster's example and when to take the opposite course?

Question 71

Why did the Ainu fill the sacrificed bear's head with flowers?

Question 72

How is a prospective weaver selected in the Maori tradition?

Question 73

What have been the key factors in the drive towards colonialism?

Question 74

What is terra nullius in the context of colonization?

Question 75

What is the significance of Wounded Knee in the history of Indigenous and European peoples?

Question 76

How did the conversion of Indigenous people to colonial religions impact gender relations?

Question 77

What are four typical zoomorphic identities taken by tricksters?

Question 78

What is complementary dualism? How does it differ from conflict dualism?

Question 79

Why is the term "Indigenous" problematic?

Question 80

Why is context important when attempting to understand the meaning of Indigenous cultural objects?