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For Questions 1 and 2:

By 1890, western Indians were isolated on small, scattered reservations. Native Americans had struggled to retain their land in major battles, from the Great Sioux Uprising in 1862 to the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.

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For Questions 3 and 4:

In 1874, Harper’s Weekly featured this illustration of a buffalo-hide hunter skinning a carcass on the southwestern plains. City father Colonel Richard Dodge wrote of the carnage, “The air was foul with sickening stench, and the vast plain, which only a short twelve-month before teemed with animal life, was a dead, solitary, putrid desert.”

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For Questions 5 and 6:

Crazy Horse at the Little Big Horn, by Amos Bad Heart Bull

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For Questions 5 and 6:

The Battle of Little Big Horn, 1889

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1. Analyze the Map: Where was the largest reservation located in 1890? Which states on this map show no reservations in 1890?

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2. Why did the Federal Government force Native Americans onto reservations? What developments prompted these changes?

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3. Analyze the Harper’s Weekly Image: What virtues and stereotypes of the West does this magazine cover express?

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4. How did the slaughter of buffalo affect the lives of Plains Indians?

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5. Analyze the Portraits: Compare the portrayals of Custer’s Last Stand. What strikes you about the Indian version in relationship to the

Anglo lithograph?

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6. Analyze the Portraits: Who is the center of the focus for the Indians? Who for the Anglos? How does this reflect the two sides’ different

interpretations of the dramatic encounter?

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