Please read each section of the assignment carefully and answer in full sentences using proper grammar. Be sure to completely document any sources used within the assignment.The assignment for this module contains three parts. Carefully read the instructions and place your responses to all three parts on one Word document.Part 1:After watching the Video (“Ishi: The Last of His Kind”) answer the following questions: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAUYMRTeYgWhat events led to Ishi being the last survivor of his entire tribe?What adjustments did Ishi need to make in order to live in a twentieth-century California city?Why were researchers so interested in learning and writing down his language?What valuable information other than language did Ishi provide for researchers that they would not have otherwise been able to obtain?How does Ishi’s story refute Commissioner of Indian Affairs Dillon Myer’s statement that “Indians possessed no ‘legitimate culture’ of their own?” (First Americans, 524)Part 2:Why did the massacre of the buffalo herds precipitate the end of life for the Plains tribes as they knew it?Part 3:Examine the “Execution of Santee Sioux” (I will put the short text here) and answer these 2 question:In 1862, Minnesota Territorial government executed 38 of 320 Santee convicted of various alleged crimes and for initiating war in the territory. President Abraham Lincoln personally sanctioned the executions. There remains significant debate regarding the president’s rationale in approving the executions. Soon afterward, all Santee Indians still residing in Minnesota were relocated to the Dakota Territory.What values or perspectives does the background and foreground imagery suggest?How does the painting of the execution of santee Sioux address the concept of “identity”?Part 4:How did the Confederacy convince Native Americans to join its side in the Civil War? Should Native Americans have chosen the Confederacy, the Union or neutrality under the circumstances?
