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What joins corn and beans as the Haudenosaunee Three Sisters?
Answer: squash
Why: Broad squash leaves shade the ground, keeping the soil damp and holding back weeds.
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What does the Ojibwe word behind 'totem' mean?
Answer: clan
Why: Ojibwe clans, named for animals such as Crane and Bear, traditionally pass from father to child.
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Which jewel belongs to the Navajo sacred mountain of the west?
Answer: abalone
Why: Turquoise belongs to Mount Taylor in the south, and white shell to Blanca Peak in the east.
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Which legendary creature's name comes from a Salish language?
Answer: Sasquatch
Why: Sasquatch comes from sasq'ets, a Halq'emeylem word that roughly means 'hairy man'.
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Who fetched mud from the bottom in the Ojibwe flood story?
Answer: muskrat
Why: In many tellings the loon, the otter and the beaver all fail to reach the bottom before the small muskrat does.
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Whose stories did Longfellow retell under the name Hiawatha?
Answer: Nanabozho
Why: Longfellow first called his hero Manabozho, following a writer who wrongly took Hiawatha as another name for him.
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