500 Nations: Roads across the Plains

California

1. What do you think of the way in which the young Indian was “Christianized”?

2. How was Mexican California better and worse for the Indians?

3. How did the gold rush affect California Indians?

Southern Plains

4. How did the horse change the Plains Indians?

Path of Peace: White Antelope and Black Kettle

5. What steps toward peace did Black Kettle and White Antelope take?

6. What happened at Sand Creek, Colorado?

Kiowa Resistance

7. How was the buffalo the “life” of the Kiowa Indians?

8. How was the buffalo population reduced from 50 million to less than 1,000?

Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse

9. The day after the Battle at Little Big Horn, newspapers stated that the US soldiers were massacred. Do you agree? Explain.

10. “The good Indian, he that listens to the white man, gets nothing. The independent Indian, is the only one that is rewarded.” As a Native American, would you have chosen to fight or live on a reservation? Support your answer with at least three examples from the video.

500 Nations: Roads across the Plains

California

1. What do you think of the way in which the young Indian was “Christianized”?

2. How was Mexican California better and worse for the Indians?

3. How did the gold rush affect California Indians?

Southern Plains

4. How did the horse change the Plains Indians?

Path of Peace: White Antelope and Black Kettle

5. What steps toward peace did Black Kettle and White Antelope take?

6. What happened at Sand Creek, Colorado?

Kiowa Resistance

7. How was the buffalo the “life” of the Kiowa Indians?

8. How was the buffalo population reduced from 50 million to less than 1,000?

Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse

9. The day after the Battle at Little Big Horn, newspapers stated that the US soldiers were massacred. Do you agree? Explain.

10. “The good Indian, he that listens to the white man, gets nothing. The independent Indian, is the only one that is rewarded.” As a Native American, would you have chosen to fight or live on a reservation? Support your answer with at least three examples from the video.