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Section One What do you think is happening? 1. What are these men doing? 2. What animal other than the buffalo do you see? 3. How are the Indians at the top different from the others? Why? Dig Deeper 1. How many buffalo do you see in this section of the hide painting? 2. How many have been killed? 3. What is next to the dead buffalo? 4. Where are the buffalo bleeding? Why? 5. What do you think the Indians did with the buffalo they killed?
Section Two How did the Indians of the northern plains show respect for the buffalo? 1. How did the Indians of the northern plains honor the buffalo? Dig Deeper 1. What did the buffalo mean to these Indians?
Section Three What do you think is happening? 1. Who do you think these people are? 2. How are they different from the Indians? 3. What are they doing? Dig Deeper 1. How many buffalo do you see in this section of the hide painting? 2. How many have been killed? 3. What part of the buffalo is bleeding most? Why? 4. What do you think these people did with the buffalo they killed?
Section Four What do you think is happening? 1. How many people do you see? 2. Who do you think these people are? 3. How did they get to the northern plains? 4. How are they different than the Indians? 5. How did they use the land differently than the Indians? Dig Deeper 1. What animals do you see in this part of the painting? How many are there? 2. How did the arrival of American settlers change life on the northern plains?
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