Assignment 5 and 7 Native American History

All work is needed by 8 am in morning. 2 pages each for Assignment 5 and 7.

HTY/SSC 110HM Assignment 5

The assignment for this module contains four parts. Carefully read the instructions and place your
responses to all four parts on one Word document.

1. Why did the massacre of the buffalo herds precipitate the end of life for the Plains tribes as they
knew it?

2. Read the interview with Cochise called, “A Conference with Cochise” and answer the following
questions. Click here for instructions on locating and accessing this interview account.

 What concerns does Cochise express in this article?

 What aspects of this article demonstrate the prejudices held by the white chroniclers about
Native Americans.

3. Click here and read a New York Times account of the 1871 Camp Grant massacre of Apache,

and then answer the following questions. (You may need to enlarge the article to read it.)

 Based on the information provided in this article, what can you infer happened to several of
the Apache who were not killed in the massacre?

 What concerns are expressed by the Apache chief quoted in the article?

 What concerns were expressed by Lieutenant Whitman?

 How does reading this article help us to understand the Apache warriors who fought the U.S.
Army until the end of the nineteenth century?

 Compare this massacre to others from the readings and the videos from this module.

4. Why was the Sioux Ghost Dance considered to be a form of rebellion? To answer this question,
you will need to click the Pearson Materials link under Course Home, and then, click on “Mrs Z.

A. Parker, Description of a Ghost Dance (1890)” and read the article. Then, click on “Sioux Ghost
Dance (1894)” and view the video.

Submit Assignment 5 to the Assignment basket no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.

http://mediaweb.saintleo.edu/Courses/HTYSSC110HM/How_to_Locate_Chief_Cochise_Interview

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50E11F63B5A1B7493C2AB178CD85F458784F9

HTY/SSC110HM Assignment 7

The assignment for this module contains two parts. Carefully read the instructions and place your
responses to both parts on one Word document.

1. Locate and read “Ishi: The last of His People” by David R. Collins and Kristen Bergren. You can
locate and access the article on EBSCOhost as follows:

a. Click the Resources link under Course Home, and then, click on the Online Library link.

b. Click on Databases under “Find Info.”
c. Scroll down the page and locate the EBSCO link. Click on it. (If you are not already

logged on via the Saint Leo Portal, you will be prompted to logon using the same
username and password as you do when entering on the Saint Leo Portal.)

d. Click History Reference Center.
e. Type “Ishi” in the search box at the top-left of the page and click “Search.”
f. Click the “HTML Full Text” link under “Ishi: The Last of His People.”

After reading the article, answer the following questions:

 What events led to Ishi being the last survivor of his entire tribe?

 What adjustments did Ishi need to make in order to live in a twentieth-century California
city?

 Why were researchers so interested in learning and writing down his language?

 What valuable information other than language did Ishi provide for researchers that they
would not have otherwise been able to obtain?

 How does Ishi’s story refute Commissioner of Indian Affairs Dillon Myer’s statement that
“Indians possessed no ‘legitimate culture’ of their own?” (First Americans, 524)

2. In addition to information from Chapter 16 of the textbook, review the article and video below to

learn about issues related to “Termination.” How does the information in the textbook, in the
video, and the readings about the plight of the Menominee people illustrate the problems with the
government’s consideration of a termination policy?

Menominee Termination Act (1954): To access this article, you will need to click the Pearson
Materials link under Course Home, and then, click on “Menominee Termination Act (1954).”

Television Interview with Oliver La Farge (1951): To access this video, you will need to click
the Pearson Materials link under Course Home, and then, click on “Television Interview with

Oliver La Farge (1951).” A transcript of the interview can be obtained from Doc Sharing.

Submit Assignment 7 to the Assignment basket no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT.