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    The document discusses the expansion of America into the western territories and its impact on Native American tribes like the Sioux. As white settlers moved west in search of land and resources, conflicts increased with Native groups who resisted being forced onto reservations. The book examines key events in this period like the Battle of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee Massacre that resulted from the clashes over land and the competing interests of settlers and indigenous peoples.

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    The document discusses the expansion of America into the western territories and its impact on Native American tribes like the Sioux. As white settlers moved west in search of land and resources, conflicts increased with Native groups who resisted being forced onto reservations. The book examines key events in this period like the Battle of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee Massacre that resulted from the clashes over land and the competing interests of settlers and indigenous peoples.

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    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

    Expansion of America into the West

    Name______________________

    1- List 2 main people who participated in the Battle of Little Big Horn

    2- What was discovered in the Black Hills that made whites want to live or be there?
    3- Why do the soldiers shoot the boy?

    4- What do the generals want to do about the Natives?

    5- Do you think the generals feel badly about the people they killed? Why or Why not?

    6- How do most of the white people think of the Natives? Do they think of them as people?

    7- Why is the senator trying to make them think of the Natives as people?

    8- Why is it easier for them to think of the Natives as less than people?

    9- List 3 ways the Native’s lives are different than the whites?

    10- Do you think acting like the whites will help or hurt the Natives?
    11- How do the other Natives feel about the Native who is dressed like a white man?

    12- Why does the man take his son Ohiyesa with him?
    13- Why does Senator Dawes offer a treaty?
    14- Why don’t the Natives trust the treaty?

    15- How important is the buffalo to the Natives?


    16- How is the expansion into the west causing problems with the buffalo?

    17- Why does the soldier suggest that they aren’t the first to take land and tell Sitting Bull to get his
    lands back from other tribes?

    18- Why doesn’t Sitting Bull want to go to the reservation>?

    19- Why do you think the Sioux are willing to fight instead of going to the reservation and giving up
    their lands?

    20- Why do they cut Ohiyesa’s hair and give him a new name?

    21- How do the Canadians help the Natives?

    22- Why doesn’t Charles ( Ohiyesa) want to learn at the school at first?

    23- Why does the father want him to be more like the whites?

    24- What advantages will Charles have if he becomes like the whites?

    25- Why are the Natives fighting with the chief about going home?

    26- How do you think they feel about having to hide and live away from their homes?

    27- How does forcing them out help the country expand?
    28- Do you think the politicians believe they are right to expand the country?

    29- How do the Natives fighting amongst themselves cause them problems?

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