Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

by Dee Brown

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Questions and Answers Chapter 5: Powder River Invasion


Study Questions
1. What was the Powder River tribes’ reaction to the rumors of soldiers surrounding them, and why did they have that reaction?

2. What did the Cheyennes say would stop their attacks on whites?

3. Why was Sitting Bull opposed to negotiating with the soldiers?

4. What did the Cheyennes learn from their September charge against the Army?

5. What fate did the Galvanized Yankee troops meet in the winter of 1865?

Answers
1. The tribes were skeptical because they thought their country couldn’t...

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