Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Test Your Knowledge Chapter 8
Test Your Knowledge Chapter 9
Analysis
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Why was Red Cloud called a cheap man by Black Elk's father?
What is that he wanted to sell the Black Hills
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What 3 items that we already learned about does Black Elk see from his vision during the curing ceremony of Rattling Hawk?
What are a cup of water, a herb, and a red cane
100
What are white settlers/folks called according to the Sioux?
What are the Wasichus
100
What is the man's name that is shot in the hip during the Rosebud battle and what is the name of the man who cures him?
What is Rattling Hawk and Hairy Chin
200
Black Elk's aunt gives Black Elk a very important weapon when he was 13 years old, what was it and why was this so important to the development of Black Elk?
What is a six-shooter and that it represented that he was a man; he had to become a man
200
Who are the fronters?
What are the bravest who have had the most practice in war
200
According to Black Elk, the month of May is known as what?
What is Moon When the Ponies Shed
200
What does Black Elk do that is seen as an important achievement by Native Americans?
What is he scalps a soldier
300
What month is known as Moon of Making Fat and what was special about it, specifically for Sitting Bull and the sun dance?
What is June and because the sun is at its highest and the growing power of the world is strongest in order to the purify the people and give them power and endurance
300
What crazy action did Standing Bear witness?
What is the scalping of a Shyela (Cheyenne) who was a friend
300
How many times did the chiefs who carried the sacred tree home stop and what did the stops represent?
What are 4 stops and each stop represented each season
300
What band is Standing Bear from and how old is he during the Battle of Little Bighorn?
What is the Minneconjou and he is 16 years old
400
True or False, the sun dance that Black Elks explains is important because it was a time for everybody to have endure everything and anything?
What is true
400
What does Black Elk find on a dead soldier's belt?
What is a pocket watch
400
How did the Sioux fight against the Wasichus on the Bozeman Trail?
What is by riding around and around them in a wide circle that kept getting narrower
400
What was funny about what Iron Hawk saw between 2 fat women and a soldier?
What is that the 2 fat women were stripping the solider, even though he was playing-dead and they were also trying to cut something that he had
500
Instead of fighting in battle (he only fought for a little bit), what does Iron Hawk do and how old is he?
What is that he eats with three other Lakota members, he is only 14 years old
500
What is the name of Black Elk's cousin who is from the Lakota tribe who gets shot?
What is Black Wasichus
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Iron Hawk mentions what occurred on June 17, 1876, when they fought General Crook. What Native American tribe fought alongside General Crook and his army and what Native American tribe fed Iron Hawk during the battle?
What are the Crow; what are the Lakota
500
What action does Elk Nation do for his brother-friend Little Bear who is shot while charging at the Wasichus?
What is Elk Nation goes to save Little Bear even though he knew he would be killed
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Chapter 9 is called The Rubbing Out of Long Hair. Obviously this is an important event described through the perspective of a Native American. Who is Long Hair and what are the kill songs explaining?
What is General George Armstrong Custer and that he lost the battle of Little Bighorn, and that they are songs that are used to make fun of him by stating that his wife will be lonely, that he gave guns to the Native Americans, and that his body is nowhere to be found, but mostly important is the fact that guns are no match for the fighting spirit of the Native Americans
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