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Native American Homelands Map

6 colored pencils Page 322

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Chapter 1: Indians of the Great Basin

Chapter 1: Indians of the Great Basin

1. Why is the Great Basin given that name? p. 322

• The area is surrounded by mountains.

2. Define culture. P. 322

• The attitudes, customs, and beliefs of a group of people

3. Define myth. P. 323

• A story that expresses basic ideas about human values that are held by the people of a certain

culture

4. What were vital parts of the Paiutes life? P. 323

• Hunting and gathering

5. What is a shaman? P. 323

• Men and women who are believed to be gifted with special abilities to communicate with the

spirit world

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Chapter 1: Indians of the Great Basin

6. What is a corral? P. 323

฀An area enclosed on three sides and open only at one end, used to contain animals

7. Why did the Paiutes gather together in the Fall? P. 324

฀Share stories about the past year, dance, play, seek spouses, hunt jackrabbits, harvest pine nuts

8. For what staple food did the Paiutes search? P. 324

฀Pine nuts

9. Name three characteristics that describe the Paiute people. P. 324

1. Used every possible resource 2. Held animals, plants, and natural forces in great respect 3. Kept their social organizations simple as possible

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Chapter 2: Indians of the Plateau

Chapter 2: Indians of the Plateau

• 1. Name one characteristic that the Plateau people share with the
• Paiutes. P. 325
• They were also hunter-gatherers
• 2. What are hunter-gatherers? P. 325
• A people who belong to a culture that does not practice agriculture,

but instead feeds itself by hunting, fishing, and finding edible plants

• 3. Why were the lives of the Plateau people easier than the lives of the

Great Basin people? P. 325

• They could draw on a much wider range of food sources (water, plants,

and animals)

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Chapter 2: Indians of the Plateau

• 4. Why did the Nez Perce gather together

in the spring? P. 326

• to hunt salmon
• 5. Which animal is frequently given

human characteristics in Indian trickster legends? P. 327

• coyote

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A Tale of Two Wolves

From a grandfather to his grandson: “My son, there’s a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It’s anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other is good. It’s joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, and truth.” The boy thought about it, and asked: “Grandfather, which wolf wins?” The old man quietly replied: “The one you feed.”

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Chapter 3: Indians of the Plains

Chapter 3: Indians of the Plains

1.What kind of biome is found in the Great Plains? P. 328

• grasslands

2.What animal was a staple of the Great Plains’ diet? P. 329

• bison

3.Which animal changed the lives of the Great Plains Indians? P. 329

• The horse

4.What did the Great Plains Indians use the bison? P. 329

• Hides used for tepees, clothes, moccasins, machine bags
• Hair used for pillows and rope
• Horns used for cups, spoon, ladles
• Bones used for awls, knives, shovels, war clubs
• Dung used for fuel

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Chapter 4: Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Chapter 4: Indians of the Pacific Northwest

1.What kind of climate is found in the Pacific Northwest and what effect does it cause? P. 331

• It is always wet and causes forests to grow, full of plants and animals

2.What is a potlatch? P. 332

• Great ceremonies that lasted days, even weeks

3.Why did the Northwest tribes throw potlatches? P. 332

• To strengthen the bonds that held Northwest Coast Indian society together

4.What did the Northwest Indians do to pass on their history? P. 332

• they carved their family histories into totem poles

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Chapter 5: Broken Promises

Chapter 5: Broken Promises

1.What is diplomacy? P. 335

• The management of relations between nations

2.Why did the US government have trouble making treaties (failed diplomacy) with the Indians? P. 336

• There was no central Indian government to approve a treaty

3.What was the plan for getting Indians to leave their lands? P. 337

• Move them to reservations

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Chapter 5: Broken Promises

• 4. What is assimilation? P. 337
• To become like the people of a nation in customs, viewpoint, values,

and so on 5.What were the Cherokees forced to do and what is their journey called?

• P. 338
• About 15,000 Cherokees were herded into stockades and

force-marched on a 800 mile journey westward to OK. It was called the “Trail of Tears” 6.What did the Carlisle School attempt to do? P. 339

• to assimilate young Indians

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Chapter 6: Tensions Mount

Chapter 6: Tensions Mount

• 1. Was smallpox ever intentionally spread to the Indians? P. 340
• Yes, during a siege of a British fort in 1763, the British commander gave a handkerchief and 2 blankets

to some Delaware Indians that was infected with smallpox

• 2. What is a massacre? P. 342
• The cruel and violent killing of a large number of people
• 3. What happened during the Sand Creek Massacre?
• American army officers (Chivington and Anthony) betrayed, attacked and killed a group of Cheyenne

and Arapaho.

• 4. What happened to Chivington and Anthony? P. 343
• They were never punished

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Chapter 7 : The Indian Wars

Chapter 7 : The Indian Wars

• 1. The period between 1782 and 1890 involved 65 skirmishes and wars. What is this

period called? P. 344

• Indian Wars period
• 2. Where did the Modoc War take place and why? P. 344
• Near the West coast, because the Modoc Indians refused to stay on their

reservation

• 3. What caused settlers to break the Second Treaty of Laramie with the South

Dakota Cheyenne and Sioux in 1874 and invade the sacred hunting grounds of the Sioux and Cheyenne? P. 345

• Because of the discovery of gold in the Black Hills

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Chapter 7 : The Indian Wars

4. Who was defeated, along with his troops, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? P. 345

• Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer
• 5. After watching his people starve and freeze to death, what did Chief Joseph say? P.

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• “I will fight no more forever.”
• 6. What is a ration? P. 347
• A fixed share or portion, especially of food
• 7. After being forced onto a reservation in Arizona, Geronimo, the Apache Chief, led his

people into hiding before finally doing what? P. 347

• Escaped once again

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Chapter 8: A Last Stand

Ghost Dance-Start at 2:10! 3:18 https://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=8L1Fslf3g2M Pictures of Native Americans 3:38 https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=23q12rKTrG0

Chapter 8: A Last Stand

1.What does inhospitable mean? P. 348

• Not offering protection, shelter, food, or other necessary things

2.What does subsistence mean? P. 348

• The barest means of food, clothing, and shelter needed to live

3.Who was Wovoka and what did he teach the Indians? P. 348

• A spiritual leader, the Ghost Dance

4.What did the Indians think dancing the Ghost Dance would do? P. 348

• Return the Indians to their old way of life

5.What battle ended the Indian wars and the Ghost Dance? P. 350

• Battle of Wounded Knee

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