Review Questions Chapter17 pages 409-411 and 420-424

1. Why did the Plains Indians' reliance on the buffalo for food, clothing and shelter place the Indians in a vulnerable position when white settlers began to inhabit the plains?

2. What caused battles like Little Big Horn, Sand Creek and Wound Knee. What is the Long Walk all about for the Navajo? From what Generals Sherman and Sheridan said and did, what do you think their feelings were towards Native Americans?

3. In general, what was the Indian's view of the incursion by non-Indians onto their lands? How did they react?

4. What communication failures on the parts of both whites and Indians contributed to the difficulties of both groups? Why was "assimilation" under the, Dawes Act, considered a permanent solution to the "Indian problem" by many whites? Why did it to fail? How does Richard Coke fit into all of this?

5. What explains the popularity of the "ghost dance"? What resulted from it?

6. How did the frontier give the U.S. its own values according to Frederick Jackson Turner? What does modern Historians think about Turner's ideas? Do you like his ideas? (Pages 412-413)