Wild West Show
World's Fair
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Quotes
100
What was Bufflo Bill's real name?
William F. Cody
100
What material was "The Red Man's Rebuke" written on after Simon Pokagon gave the speech at the 1893 World's Fair?
Birchbark.
100
Who are these figures, and what was the intention behind the photograph?
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill; to promote Bill's Wild West show as a way of bringing Indians and whites together.
100
Who said:
"The primitive Indian must be presented, living in his own habitation and carrying on his own avocations, such as making baskets, blankets, jewelry, beadwork, pottery, etc. This part of the exhibit is not to be omitted."
Thomas J. Morgan
200
True or False: The Wild West Performers were allowed to participate in the Chicago Columbian Exposition
False.
The Indian Buearu did not allow the the Wild West Shows in the Exhibit because they believed the American Indian's in the show went against their potrayal of "civilized Indians"
200
Who assumed responsibility for the Indian Village exhibit at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
Frederick W. Putnam
(of Harvard's Peabody Museum)
200
What does this display represent?
"Civilizing" American Indians using American education, the result of ethnic evolution.
200
Who said:
"...'My Country, 'Tis of Thee' these Indians in their resplendent war paint, gorgeous necklets [sic], and representative American savagery appeared on the north abutment of the building, a blazing line of character moving along with high, flaunting crests of feathers and flaming blankets which stood out against the gleaming white of the staff dome like a rainbow cleft into remembrances of a lost, primitive glory."
Amy Leslie
300
Name 2 of the few American Indian skills demonstrated in the Wild West Shows
"...Equestrian skills, their prowess with bows and arrows, their speed and agility on foot, and their artistry dance"
300
What was the theme?
"Progress made in technology, science, government, aesthetics, and human relations since the arrival of Columbus."
300
Who is depicted on this ticket and what is his significance?
Christopher Columbus
The World's Fair of Chicago (1893) was named for the progress since Columbus's arrival to the Americas.
300
Who said:
"On behalf of my people, the American Indians, I hereby declare to you, the pale-faced race that has usurped our lands and homes, that we have no spirit to celebrate with you the great Columbian Fair now being held in this Chicago city, the wonder of the World."
Simon Pokagon
400
According to the reading, what American Indian group participated in the Wild West Shows?
The Sioux People from the Pine Ridge Plains Reservation
400
Where in the Exposition were the Indian villages located?
The Midway Pleisance.
400
What document is written by this Author?
"The Red Man's Rebuke"
(1893)
400
Who Said:
"I do not know of any old Indians in this district who can make a basket. I have a few young men who have been doing something at stonework and can lay a very fair stone wall, but as this is an acquired art with them, and it is young men that does [sic] it, it would not fit in the exhibit."
John H. Seger
(Superintendent of the Indian Industrial School at Colony, Oklahoma)
500
List (3) ways the American Indians benefitted from participating in the Wild West Shows compared to being in Model Schools
Payment, traveling around America and Europe, demonstrated their skills, wearing their traditional clothing, portrayal as both protagonists and antagonists
500
What was included in Morgan's Model School?
Included scenes of school life on Indian reservations and brought in Indian boys as part of a living exhibit.
500
What set of ideas did this person propose at the World's Fair?
The Frontier Thesis
(Frederick Turner)
500
Who insisted that it was his "honorable ambition" to educate Americans in the East to respect the native inhabitants of the West?
Buffalo Bill