Quiz for UG:
1) Wounded Knee is
a) what you put an ace bandage on
b) the place where some drunk injuns got uppity in the 1970's
c) the location where members of the Lakota tribe were slaughtered in the 1890's for practicing their religion.
2) The ghost dance is
a) What you do at a halloween party
b) What spirits do when they want to celebrate in the local graveyard
c) A ceremonial performed by the Lakota Sioux at the end of the 19th century that they believed would cause time to start running backwards, the buffalo would return, dead loved ones would be reborn, and the white man would vanish from the high plains.
3) Canyon de Chelly is:
a) the world's largest receptical for grape jelly
b) a resort in the French alps
c) the sacred home of the Dinee' or Navajo; the place where the Navajo's chief diety, Changing Woman, was said to have been born and the location of the final battle of the Navajo with the US military where many Navajo jumped to their deaths thousands of feet below rather than surrender their most holy site.
4) The long march is:
a) an especially tedious and lengthy tune your band teacher made you learn to play for homecoming parades
b) an especially snowy and wintery month that seems to go on forever
c) the forced journey by foot at the hands of the US Calvery that the Navajo made from their sacred home of Canyon de Chelly to a barren reservation in Oklahoma. Many Navajo died either on the march or in Oklahoma from starvation.
Don't bust a gasket trying to answer these.
