What is Makoce Sica?
The Bad Lands (mah-koh-che shee-chah)
Why did the United States government allow people to violate the treaty (beginning in 1874)?
Gold was discovered by Custer's expedition.
What was the name of the treaty (agreement) that recognized the Black Hills as part of the Sioux Reservation?
The Fort Laramie Treaty signed in 1868.
What is a Winter Count?
A pictorial calendar showing an image chosen to represent each year in a tiospaye.
About how many buffalo were there in the early 1800s? 55,000? 550,000? 5,500,000? or 55,000,000?
55,000,000
What is the Lakota name for the medicine pouch Four Wind mother gave her for protection?
wotawe
What is a theme of this book?
Identity Courage Change Loss Other?
What do you think is the author's point of view?
Discussion
Around what year did this story start?
1880
What is counting coup?
Acts of courage in the face of an enemy.
What were some of the reasons the US government forced families to send their children to boarding schools?
The government wanted to make the Native Americans forget their traditions, language, and religion and to blend in with non-Native Americans. They did this by
What do the Lakota call the Black Hills?
Paha Sapa (Sapa is the Lakota word for Black)