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4th grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 8

The Nine Tribes of Oregon

Sovereign nations, past and present

What your child practices

Oregon's nine federally recognized Tribes, each named as it names itself: where their homelands are, Tribal sovereignty and constitutions, termination and restoration, and Tribes today. Light and in the present tense, following Tribal History/Shared History.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: 4.C.PI.2; 4.G.GE.8; 4.H.CP.6; 4.G.MM.5 · the nine federally recognized Tribes of Oregon, their governments and constitutions, their homelands and their resilience

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    The Klamath Tribes are the Klamath, Modoc and… peoples.

    • Wasco
    • Yahooskin
    • Cayuse

  2. Question 2

    In the 1950s, the US government ended its recognition of the Klamath Tribes and many western Oregon Tribes. This was called…

    • restoration
    • statehood
    • termination

  3. Question 3

    Many Tribes in Oregon keep their languages strong by…

    • teaching them to children
    • forgetting them
    • banning them

  4. Question 4

    Tribes in Oregon have lived on these lands…

    • for about 100 years
    • only since 1859
    • since time immemorial

  5. Question 5

    A Tribal constitution sets out…

    • school lunch prices
    • the rules of a board game
    • how the Tribe's government works and who its members are

  6. Question 6

    Treaties signed in 1855 by the Tribes of Warm Springs and of the Umatilla Reservation…

    • were all canceled
    • are still law and protect rights the Tribes kept, such as fishing
    • were only about money

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