1.  Identify what you would describe as the most significant events in the history of white-Indian contact on the Great Plains.  What events have you chosen and why are they the "most significant"?

2.  Using the accounts of Two Leggings, Lone Dog, Four Bears, Howling Wolf, Four Dancers and others, describe some common cultural characteristics among the Plains Indian tribes to which these men belonged.  What activities and values were important to these men?

3.  How did Plains Indian peoples respond to increasing white settlement on the frontier?  Describe some of the responses of Indians to the presence of whites in their homelands.

4.  Many demographers and historians have argued that disease was the most devastating "exchange item" brought to the New World by Europeans.  Do you agree with this statement?  Why?  What impact did disease have on Indian people in the Great Plains region?

5.  Indian women's voices are seldom heard in traditional histories of the American West.  Using the accounts of Buffalo Bird Woman, Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull, and Pretty Shield (as well as those of Indian men), discuss how the lives of Indian women changed during the nineteenth century.

6.  Describe the "reservation period."  How were Indians affected by reservation life?

7.  Indians' armed resistance to whites generally ended in the 1880s.  How did Indian people continue to resist whites during the reservation period and later?  What aspects of their traditional cultures did they retain and how did they do so?