Name: ____________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE: VIDEO QUESTIONS
Chief Sitting Bull- Lakota Sioux; Chief Red Cloud- O glala Sioux (Same nation, different tribes)
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1. What Battle is depicted at the beginning of the movie?
2. Who was considered by President Grant and his advisors to be a “fool” for his slaughter at this battle?
3. What did the government want from Chief Red Cloud and the Oglala Sioux Indians?
4. How did General Miles insult Chief Sitting Bull? What was the result?
5. Where did Chief Sitting Bull take his people?
6. Under what conditions did the Mounties say that Chief Sitting Bull and his people, the Lakota Sioux,
would be permitted to live on Canadian soil?
7. Give several examples of how Native Americans were either choosing to or being forced to assimilate
into white American culture.
8. What name did the Native American boy in the classroom choose as his Christian name?
