CT Chapter 1-6 Review

Ch. 1-6 Review

Code Talker

Format

  • Matching
  • Multiple Choice (5)
  • Short Answer (2)

Identify the following:

Kii Yazhi: narrator who goes to the mission school (Ned Begay)

Long Walk: the hundreds of miles the Navajos were forced to walk to Fort Sumner

Gallup: where the mission school is located

Mr. Jacob Benally: older Navajo translator at the mission school

Jim Thorpe: Native American athlete

Principal O’Sullivan: big white man with a red face, red hair/beard (mean/scary)

Ned Begay: Kii Yazhi’s new American name

Mr Reamer: gave the Navajo boys their new names

Biligaana: Navajo word for white man

Hogan: Navajo dwelling/home

Important Questions:

  1. What rule must the Navajo children never break?

never speaking Navajo (their native language)

  1. What things are “taken away” from the Navajo children when they get to school?

clothes (jewelry), hair, last names, language (a sense of their identity)

  1. How is the mission school different from the high school?

high school provides a better education and is closer to home (he feels challenged)

mission school is farther away and has fewer academic expectations

  1. Describe the food drive Ned and his peers organized.

to give food to people in Japan who were struggling

Ironic- a) the Navajo are just as poor b) the Americans have never organized a food drive like this for them and c) the Japanese will soon be their enemies in WWII

  1. What was the purpose of the Navajo Tribal Council resolution?

Navajos promise to fight if they are needed (in WWII)

They are pledging their allegiance to the American people (despite their mistreatment over the years)

  1. What happened on December 7, 1941?

Pearl Harbor