Native American Final UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Native American Final UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Black Elk - CORRECT ANSWER- -Tribe: Lakota Sioux (Oglala)
-medicine and holy man
-Near the end of his life, he met with amateur ethnologist John Neihardt and recounted to him
his religious vision, events from his life,...
Native American Final UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Black Elk - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Tribe: Lakota Sioux (Oglala)
1863-1950
-medicine and holy man
-Near the end of his life, he met with amateur ethnologist John Neihardt and recounted to him
his religious vision, events from his life, and details of Lakota culture. Neihardt edited a
translated record and published "______________ Speaks" in 1932.
Black Kettle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Tribe: Northern Cheyenne
-peace leader
-Colorado Gold Rush 1859 led to altercations.
-1864, met with Governor John Evans, and promised to do his best to keep the young
warriors in check, but tells him he doesn't have complete control over them
-had flag american flag and truce flag flying over his lodge at Sand Creek
-Chivington led the Third Colorado Cavalry to attack the village, and soldiers butchered
between 150 and 270 people, mostly women and children.
-signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867
-strong advocate for peace with the whites in Colorado
-fell on deaf ears, so he moved his people to Oklahoma
-lots of dog soldiers followed Roman Nose off the reservation and were deemed hostile. -
Custer sent to deal with those who left the reservation, by going to the reservation and killing
the people who were where they were supposed to be??
-Shot and killed with his wife at the battle of Washita by Custer's troops (still with the
American flag flying over his lodge)
Chief Joseph - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Tribe: Nez Perce
-1840-1904
-chief after his father died
-in 1855, the Nez Perce signed a treaty that set aside a large reservation for the Nez Perce.
After gold was found there (1860), miners encroached on the reservation and in 1863 the
Americans negotiated with a chief named Lawyer to make a new reservation (Lapwai). They
,lost 90% of their lands. Most of the Nez Perce chiefs refused to sign the treaty and remained
in their homeland
-promised his father (Tukekas or Old Joseph) that he would never sell their homeland
-the U.S. dispatched commissioners to investigate the situation and try to persuade him to see
and join the "treaty party" on the Lapwai Reservation
-US commissioner Oliver Otis Howard became impatient and declared they must move to the
reservation or be moved by force
-persuaded his angry people to move rather than go to war, leading more than 800 people to
Montana (hoped to find refuge with the Crows)
-stopped by the US army
-surrendered to General Miles' : "I am tired of fighting... I will fight no more forever"
-handsome and dignified in defeat became a celebrity as newspapers spread reports of his
speech and dignified surrender
-not allowed to return home (although they were promised). loaded onto trains and sent to
northeastern part of Oklahoma because General Sherman and Sheridan decided they should
not be allowed to return home.
-by the end of the year, more than 1/4 of them died due to change in climate
-he and Yellow bull travelled to Washington to plead that they be allowed to return home
-allowed to return to the Northwest in 1885
-died in 1904 due to a heart attack on the Colville reservation
Crazy Horse - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Tribe: Lakota Sioux (Oglala)
-1842-1877
-leader of the Oglalas
-son of a medicine man
-14, went on his vision quest, received a new name:
-creator promised he would never be killed by bullets if he painted lighting bolts on his face
and raindrops n his chest
-16, first raid against the Crow (injured, but not killed, medicine proved strong)
-successful in most battles (Little Big Horn, Bozeman Trail)
-Bozeman Trai Forts: wood train taking wood to build forts. He tells them to stop taking their
wood It's their homeland and it's sacred
-Fetterman's massacre
, -led Battle of the Rosebud
-surrendered at Fort Robinson in 1876, and stabbed by a bayonet when "trying to escape"
Crow Dog - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Tribe: Lakota Sioux (Brulé)
-helped popularized the Ghost Dance.
-shot and killed principal chief Chief Spotted Tail on the Rosebud Indian Reservation --
Spotted Tail argued for peace and cooperation among whites, while he maintained traditional
Sioux views
-To avoid further bloodshed, the families of Spotted Tail and Crow Dog agreed on a
settlement: Crow Dog gave Spotted Tail's family fifty dollars, eight horses, and a blanket to
"cover" the crime. This settled the case for the Sioux
-when white settlers in South Dakota learned that Spotted Tail had been murdered, they
summoned a grand jury.
-he was tried for murder in the territorial court at Deadwood, South Dakota. he was convicted
and sentenced to death.
-ex party Crow Dog
-led to Major Crimes Act
Ely Parker - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Tribe: Seneca
1828-1895
Military secretary to General Ulysses S Grant
-Drew articles of surrender signed by General Robert E Lee at Appomattox in 1865
-President Ulysses S Grant appointed him as Commissioner of Indian affairs. He was the first
Native American to hold this position
-in public and in print did what he could do shape or temper US policies
George Custer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1839-1876
-major General by the age of 23
-valor in the battle of Shiloh catapults him to the top
-one of the favorites of Sheridan
-always led from the front
-notorious for pushing his men, stories told that they would ride for 20 hours a day
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