Cultural aspects

Question 1

Quote by Chief Washakie of Shoshone tribe:

Answer 1

‘The white man kills our game [buffalo], captures our furs and sometimes feeds his herds upon our meadows.’

Question 2

West’s view of ‘the Indian problem’?

Answer 2

Needed to be killed by military force

Question 3

Contemporary traveller and painter’s comments on the buffalo’s extinction?

Answer 3

Name: George Catlin
‘the buffalo’s doom is sealed, and with their extinction, the Indians must surely sink into despair and starvation’.

Question 4

How many buffalo were killed by Buffalo Bill in 17 months?

Answer 4

4000

Question 5

Importance of Buffalo for Indians quote summarised?

Answer 5

“Kill every buffalo you can! Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.”

Question 6

Where was the tanning (buffalo hides) industry centered?

Answer 6

Fort Worth

Question 7

When was the southern herd of buffalo destroyed?

Answer 7

1875

Question 8

When was the northern herd destroyed?

Answer 8

1883

Question 9

When did the Northern Pacific Railroad reach Bismarck?

Answer 9

1876

Question 10

Buffalo hides carried on train stats?

Answer 10

1872 - 500,000
1873 - 750,000
1874 - 100,000

Question 11

Great Spirit name

Answer 11

Wakantanka

Question 12

How many horses owned by Comanches tribe

Answer 12

8000 horses in a tribe of 3000 people

Question 13

How many Buffalo skins made up a tipi?

Answer 13

10 - 20

Question 14

Use of the brain of buffalo?

Answer 14

Tanning hides

Question 15

Use of the buffalo tail?

Answer 15

• Whips
• Fly swats

Question 16

Use of the gall of the buffalo?

Answer 16

Make yellow paint

Question 17

Use of the liver of the buffalo?

Answer 17

eaten in religious ceremonies

Question 18

How many buffalo between 1872-4 were killed by Indians?

Answer 18

Of 3,700,000 only 150,000

Question 19

What did General Sheridan say when asked about the buffalo slaughter?

Answer 19

‘Let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo is exterminated, as it is the only way to bring lasting peace and allow civilisation to advance’

Question 20

How was the extermination of the buffalo combatted?

Answer 20

• Isatai (prophet of the Kwahadis tribe - who were free) spoke of a war to save the buffalo
• Quanah Parker (a young war chief) spoke of a war to drive white hunters from grazing lands.
• Cheyenne and Arapahos arrived from north. 50 of their horses had been stolen who white thieves, so they wanted to join.
• Lone Wolf and Satanta and Kiowa warriors also volunteered to fight.