1. The Way to Rainy Mountain

2. Test
Question
What did they acquire when they were befriended by the Crows?(4)
the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood. She could tell of the Crows, whom she had never seen, and of the Black Hills, where she had never been. why ? (5)
What about the language feature in para.6?
What are the differences when they came down from mountain?(7)

3. Para.2
Function of para.2?
infirm
ill/sick and weak(old)
to grow old and infirm
walk with infirm steps
I was told that in death her face was that of a child.
Feature of children’s face?
She was peaceful and free from all earthly worries and miseries.

4. Para.3-10
Division?
3 Summary
4 Emergence
5-9 Evolution
10 Decline

5. Para.3
Golden time and decline
I like to think of her as a child. ?
For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron.
Central and west of Kansas and Oklahoma

6. CONTENTS Appalachian Range R ocky Mountains ADD YOUR TITLE
The Indians of the Great Plains inhabited two major sub-regions.

7. the central and Southern Plains
In alliance with the Comanches, they had ruled the whole of Southern Plains.
the Northern Plains
the central and Southern Plains
Dakota, Montana southward
to Nebraska
western Kansas, Colorado,
eastern New Mexico, and Texas
several large tribes who spoke
Sioux with Flathead, Blackfeet，
Crows(bird people) and some other
Indian tribes.（黑脚族，鸦族）
Pawnees, Comanches, Kiowas
and Arapahos（波尼族，科曼
奇族，阿拉帕霍族）
Kiowa

8. War was their sacred business,
Courage; strength
warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival
Preeminently
To a great degree
a matter of disposition
Prevailing aspect of nature, tendency
She has a calm and introverted disposition

9. disposition VS. survival
unrelenting
relentless and not yield
Finally his mother relented and gave permission for her youngest son to marry.
Never understood ?
Westward expension

10. Staked Plains
On the border of Texas and New Mexico
Palo Duro Canyon
帕罗杜洛峡谷
In Texas
Pillage
the act of plundering
Fort Sill
锡尔堡
Oklahoma

11. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years, but she must have known from birth the affliction of defeat, the dark brooding of old warriors.
affliction
pain and suffering
brooding
gloomy, hopeless, sad
dark, brooding eyes

12. Para.4 Emergence
My grandmother -----her forebears
the last culture to evolve
Horse; sun dance……
whose language has never been positively classified in any major group.
in a way that leaves no possibility of doubt
Her attacker has now been positively identified by police.

13. It was a journey toward the dawn, and it led to a golden age.
the time of day when light first appears
the beginning of something
their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground ?

14. so shared in the divinity of the sun
It was worshiped by all tribes that regarded the sun as the deity
transformed.
Mountain people ----plain people
No longer were they slaves to the simple necessity of survival; they were a lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves, hunters and priests of the sun.

15. From one point of view, their migration was the fruit of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.

16. Para.5
the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood.
Great Plains
Black Hills(South D.)
Siouan fighting with the White

17. I wanted to see in reality what she had seen more perfectly in the mind’s eye
Pilgrimage
holy place where his ancestors lived and thrived in their golden age.

18. Assignment
Para.7--12