WAS 12 YEAR OLD OTA KTE GOING TO BE KILLED?

ZEREK, CAMRYN, AND ANDREW

PERIOD 6

GROUP 6

SUMMARY – “WOULD WE BE KILLED?”

THE YEAR WAS 1879, AND THERE WAS A BOY NAMED OTA KTE, HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE

LAKOTA SIOUX INDIAN TRIBE. THE BOYS AND GIRLS HAD TO LEAVE THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR

RESERVATIONS, ALL BECAUSE OF AN ARMY GENERAL NAMED HENRY PRATT. THEIR WERE 83

SIOUX CHILDREN RIDING ON A TRAIN TRAVELING EAST TO A WHOLE NEW LAND CALLED

PENNSYLVANIA. THEY HAD TO CHOOSE. EITHER TO EMBRACE THEIR CULTURE, OR ABANDON IT.

VOCABULARY – “WOULD WE BE KILLED?”

• DIRE – CAUSING OR INVOLVING GREAT FEAR OR SUFFERING; DREADFUL; TERRIBLE

• PLIGHT – A CONDITION, STATE, OR SITUATION, ESPECIALLY AN UNFAVORABLE OR

UNFORTUNATE ONE

• BARRACK – A BUILDING OR GROUP OF BUILDINGS FOR LODGING SOLDIERS, ESPECIALLY IN

GARRISON

EVIDENCE – “WOULD WE BE KILLED?”

• IN THIS ARTICLE IT CLEARLY STATES “ WOULD WE BE KILLED” STATES THAT THEY WOULD TAKE

CHILDREN FROM INDIAN TRIBES AND PUT THEM IN BOARDING SCHOOLS SO THEY WOULD

FORGET THEIR CULTURE AND LEARN THE AMERICAN CULTURE.

SUMMARY – “LIFE ON THE REZ”

• LIFE ON THE REZ IS ABOUT A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL NAMED SHANICE BRITTON WHO IS A NATIVE

AMERICAN. SHANICE GREW UP ON THE ROUND VALLEY INDIAN RESERVATION IN COVELO. SHE

IS A PART OF THE WAILKI, YUKI, POMO, CONCOW AND NOMALAKI TRIBES. SHE GOES TO THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, WITH MANY OTHER CULTURES AND PEOPLE. MANY PEERS ASK

HER QUESTIONS ABOUT LIFE ON A RESERVATION, AND SHE IS VERY HAPPY TO ANSWER.

VOCABULARY – “LIFE ON THE REZ”

• MISCONCEPTION- AN ERRONEOUS CONCEPTION; MISTAKEN NOTION.

• REGALIA- THE ENSIGNS OR EMBLEMS OF ROYALTY, AS THE CROWN OR SCEPTER.

• INSTILLED- TO INFUSE SLOWLY OR GRADUALLY INTO THE MIND OR FEELINGS; INSINUATE;

INJECT.

EVIDENCE – “LIFE ON THE REZ”

IN THE ARTICLE BY SHANICE BRITTON IT READS “A GIRL NAMED JANE BLANCH GREW UP ON THE

ROUND VALLEY INDIAN RESERVATION IN COVELO.” THERE IS A HELPFUL QUOTE IN THE STORY

THAT TELLS YOU THAT THE STORY WITH CAPTAIN PRATT WAS A BAD MAN. “ WHEN I HEAR

STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE CAPTAIN PRATT, WHO MADE NATIVE AMERICANS ABANDON THEIR

CULTURE, IT MAKE ME SAD TO KNOW THAT MY ANCESTORS HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT.” THAT

WAS A QUOTE TOLD BY JANE BLANCH A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL THAT IS A MEMBER OF SEVERAL

NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES. THIS SHOWS THAT EVEN NOW PEOPLE IN THESE INDIAN TRIBES AND

RESERVATIONS DESPISED OF CAPTAIN PRATT STILL AS THEY DID BACK THEN.