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Section
1: The Mission Grounds:
1.
To feed the residents of the mission and to sell to Oregon Trail emigrants
to offset mission expenses.
2.
To keep the livestock out of the crops.
3.
75.
4.
If the Cayuse learned to farm they would not have to move throughout the
year to find food. They would also be able to claim ownership of the land,
so that settlers could not take it away.
5.
December, 1836.
6.
It flooded several times.
7.
(choose 2) enclosed a good chimney and fireplace, laid floor, no window
or doors except blankets, reared and then lean-to, fire in the fireplace
upon arrival.
8.
Alice Clarissa Whitman.
9.
Cayuse Girl, because she was born in Cayuse country.
10.
River was in oxbow right next to first house and path. Now it is several
hundred feet away to the south near trees.
11.
(Picture of Great Basin wild rye).
12.
Three.
13.
It ground grains — wheat, corn, etc., into flour for cooking. "Flour"
would be correct.
14.
To power the grist mill and provide irrigation water.
15.
(choose 2) ducks, geese, frogs, turtles, bugs, squirrels, rabbits, coyote,
deer, snakes, birds … and many others. Most of these animals were
here when the Whitmans were.
16.
Now: green lawn, paved sidewalk, road, signs, no buildings. Then: mud
or dirt and native grasses, no pavement, Oregon Trail rutted road, four
main buildings and several outbuildings.
17.
William H. Gray.
18.
Emigrants/Pioneers. They came first because it was on the Oregon Trail,
later for food, shelter, and medicine.
19.
1847.
20.
Measles.
21.
Metal (or iron).
22.
(choose 3) plows, hoes, horseshoes, rails, hinges, wagons, grist mill,
nails, other…
23.
Adobe bricks (mud and manure), wood.
24.
Preaching, doctoring, leading singing, all to the Cayuse.
25.
(choose 3) living, sleeping, teaching, preaching, medicine, shelter emigrants,
school, cooking, playing …
26.
November 29, 1847.
Section
2: The Great Grave, Shaft Hill, and the Oregon Trail and wagon
1.
14.
2.
John and Francis (Frank) Sager.
3.
Mary Dix Gray and William Henry Gray. William Gray had come to Waiilatpu
with the Whitmans in 1836, and both had lived here with the Whitmans.
4.
WHITMAN.
5.
Do some math: Height of shaft 27 Elevation above sea level at
base: 720 Elevation at top of shaft: 747 .
6.
(choose 3) mission, pond, river, wagons, crop fields, tents, trees, people,
...
7. Oldest: John Sager,
age 13. Youngest: Henrietta (Rosanna) Sager, age 5 months.
8.
Continued on to Willamette.
9.
Henry Sager in Wyoming, Naomi Sager in Idaho.
10.
(choose 3) oak, ash, maple, pine, hickory, elm.
11.
Cheaper, pulled heavy loads, didn't stampede, didn't bog down.
12.
Too large and heavy for the mountains of the Oregon Trail.
Museum
Worksheet:
1.
It's a (smoking) pipe.
2.
A parfleche was used to store personal belongings. This one is blue, red,
yellow, and green.
(Drawing).
3.
Blue and white pictures of country scenes - people, plants, streams, animals,
buildings…
4.
(choose 3) wooden bowl, butter churn, wooden bucket, metal candle forms,
cast iron stove, adobe bricks.
5.
Toy iron, Indian doll in a cradleboard.
6.
Shells, beads, leather strings, metal.
7. Spring: Women searching for/gathering food, root digging
Summer:
Men horseback riding, women cooking, gathering wood for fires.
Fall:
Man fishing with net at waterfall. Man holding fish while talking
to another man.
Winter:
woman preparing food for smoking. Most people inside teepees and lodges.
Smoke coming from lodges.
8.
Seven figures: (choose 2) Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, a half-Indian girl,
a medicine man, an Indian hunter, an Indian woman root-digging, an Indian
woman who is leaning over the fence.
9.
A moccasin.
10.
Wood and antler
11.
Leather/deerskin
12.
St. Louis.
13.
Catherine, Elizabeth, Henrietta, Matilda.
14.
(choose 2) compass, bible, mortar.
15.
Iron/metal.
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