The world's indigenous peoples.

#27 Week 6

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Sigrun Sørumgård
February 06, 2025

It´s the national day of the Sami people today, who are considered an indigenous population in Norway, what do you really know about the world's indigenous peoples?

  1. Which indigenous Polynesian people make up about 15 percent of New Zealand's population today?

  2. Almost all Inuit live today in cities and towns in which three countries / self-governing countries?

  3. The Masai are an indigenous people who live in savannah areas of Africa, but in which two countries?

  4. The indigenous people of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, are known for creating which monumental stone statues (name for these stone statues)?

  5. Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was an important chief of the Hunkpapa tribe, a subgroup of the Lakotan nation in North America. Lakota designates both the people and the language of a North American indigenous group, which one?

  6. What is the name of the largest indigenous people in Peru (and in the rest of South America)?

  7. Aborigines are indigenous people from Australia. They invented the long wind instrument didgeridoo, but they also invented a wooden tool that was used as a weapon. Today, these tools, often with traditional patterns, are mostly used for decoration and sports. Which tool are we going to reach?

  8. Which Sami term is used for traditional handicrafts and housework?

  9. South Africa's largest ethnic group is also the native people's largest part of southern Africa. Which population group is this?

  10. The Dukha people, also called Tsaatan, meaning "those who have reindeer", have a population of just over 200 people (2020). And they live rather scattered, but in which country?

The Wonder Wall

  • According to the UN, there are around 476 million people in the world today who are indigenous. These are distributed among 90 countries. Indigenous peoples make up around six percent of the world's total population.

  • The indigenous peoples of the world represent 5,000 different cultures, and together speak an overwhelming majority of the world's 7,000 languages.

  • There is no internationally recognized, clear definition of what indigenous people is. But there is agreement on several characteristics. An indigenous people are a people group that has been connected to a specific geographical area long before current state borders were established. The term indigenous people are therefore closely linked to those people groups who have lost their lands, or received limited rights, as a consequence of colonization.

Yesterday´s Questions & Answers

  1. Which art movement is associated with artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, characterized by fragmented and abstract forms?

    Cubism, which is a direction within European art, especially painting. It was most important from the beginning of the 20th century until the First World War.

  2. Which artist is famous for his paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, and is a key figure in the Pop Art movement?

    Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American painter, graphic artist and film artist.

  3. What style of painting was characterized by capturing everyday scenes and was popularized by artists like Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir?

    Impressionism was a trend in painting around 1870, starting in France. The period is historically limited to eight exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. Impressionism would stick to the immediate impression and the immediate experience of nature. In extension of this, the Impressionists wanted to free the painter's colour palette for earth tones.

  4. Who is the Mexican painter known for her self-portraits and for depicting themes of pain, identity, and culture?

    Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

  5. Which artist is famous for creating a series of paintings depicting ballet dancers, capturing their movement and grace?

    Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French painter, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor.

  6. American Gothic is a painting from 1930, often used in popular culture, was painted by which American artist?

    Painted by the american painter Grant Wood (1892-1942). The image shows a farmer holding a pitchfork upright, standing next to a woman in front of a Carpenter Gothic style house. The picture is one of the most famous, and parodied, works of American art from the 20th century.

  7. Name the convent where Leonardo da Vinci''s famous fresco the "Last Supper" is painted.

    Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.

  8. Which movement, founded by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, rejected traditional art standards and embraced absurdity?

    Dadaism

  9. Which French sculptor created the iconic work The Thinker?

    Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). A work that occupied Rodin for many years was the Gate of Hell, a gigantic gate filled with reliefs and crowned by three figures with the main figure being the Thinker. This life's work, which he worked on from 1880 until his death, is based on Dante Alighieri's depiction of the inferno and was originally intended as the main entrance to the Musée des Arts décoratifs. The gate shows Michelangelo's influence, and several figures are directly related to the Sistine Chapel.

  10. What technique is central to Japanese ukiyo-e art, seen in works like Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa?

    Woodblock printing / woodcut