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Prehistory and Indians

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What Shawnee leader tried to warn American militia about an impending attack at Fort Randolph in 1777 only to be murdered?
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What name has been given to a Late Prehistoric culture whose people lived in present Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and southern West Virginia between A.D. 1000 and 1650?
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Which one of the following prehistoric cultures traded with early European explorers?
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The Fort Ancient culture was located south of what current city?
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Where do archeologists believe the earliest prehistoric cultures in present West Virginia originally came from?
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Which one of the following did NOT fight on the side of the French in the French & Indian War?
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What destroyed the prehistoric stone walls on Mount Carbon in Fayette County?
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Most archeologists think prehistoric cultures created the Luther Elkins Site petroglyphs in this county, as opposed to a largely discredited theory they depict Christian writings by 6th-century Irish monks.
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What 1795 battle in Ohio effectively ended all conflict between European-American settlers and Indians in present West Virginia?
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The capture of this person by Shawnees helped prompt Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition.
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