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Prologue-Chapter 7

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Orange, Tommy. Wandering Stars. Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. Hardcover.

· The narrative shifts from past to present, and sometimes the future, and this lesson plan indicates those shifts.

· In the Prologue, in the past, the massacre at Sand Creek was excused by calling the Indians “merciless savage inhabitants” (vii) of American lands.

· It was done to make the killing at Sand Creek by 700 drunken men like “killing bugs” (vii).

· The same denigration of the Indians was used four years later when 700 Indian horses were rounded up and shot at Washita River.

· These events were called battles and later massacres in America’s longest war.

· There were 313 years of war—longer than America had been a nation.

· After the Indians were killed or rounded up to be put on reservations and the buffalo were reduced from 30 million...

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