Question

Lisa Nakamura’s article “Indigenous Circuits” analyzes the brief partnership between this tribe and Fairchild Semiconductor, which ended after protests in 1975. In 1998, this tribe’s leader resigned due to accusations of misusing credit cards, while a previous leader resigned after being accused of faking travel vouchers. The Bennett Freeze affected this tribe, whose families were impoverished by a 1930s “livestock reduction.” (10[2])An effort promoted by Philip Johnston was memorialized by a (10[1])statue of a crouching soldier (10[1])in a city established by this tribe, (10[1])whose English name comes from a circular formation of entrada sandstone. (10[1])High rates of lung cancer among this tribe resulted from over three decades of uranium (10[1])mining (10[1])on their lands. (10[1])For 10 points, what Native American tribe supplied (10[1])code talkers (10[6])to the (10[3])Marines (10[2])during World War II? ■END■

ANSWER: Navajo [or Dineh; or Diné; or Navajo Nation; or Naabeehó Bináhásdzo]
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y21100%0%0%106.81

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Claire JonesChicago AMichigan6010
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Joel MilesMinnesotaColumbia A7010
Conor ThompsonIowa StateFlorida7510
June YinWUSTL BWinona State8210
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley AWaterloo B9310
Jakob MyersIndianaYale10810
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateOhio State10910
Nikhil ChellamNorthwesternJohns Hopkins11210
Truman HillVanderbiltMaryland12010
Justin WytmarIllinois ARIT12210
Tai BelkeBritish ColumbiaToronto B12210
Aum MundheRutgersToronto C12210
Andrew ZengStanfordUCF12210
Mattias EhatammWaterloo ACornell A12210
Nathan SheffieldMITIllinois B12210
Charles HangWUSTL ACornell B12410
Ilyas ChoukriVirginia TechUC Berkeley B12410
Liam StarnesChicago BPenn State12410
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AOttawa12510
Olin BoseColumbia BArizona State12510