Wk 11Oklahoma Studies Weekly Early Exploration in Oklahoma

About how many different American Indian tribes did George Catlin paint or sketch?

• 30

• 40

• 50

• 60

Over 500 of George Catlin's paintings are located in a museum in ________________

• New York City

• Washington DC

• Philadelphia

• Los Angeles

George Catlin painted Comanche people in Oklahoma playing _______________

• stickball

• with their children

• football

• games on the plains

What was Coronado trying to find?

• a good place to live

• gold

• food and water

• buffalo

Coronado traveled through _______________ during his explorations.

• America

• Mexico

• hills and grasslands

• the Oklahoma panhandle

When Coronado's men hunted buffalo, they _______________

• got lost

• met American Indians

• found millions of them

• traveled throughout Oklahoma

What motivated George Catlin to become an artist?

• He was looking for religious freedom.

• He was looking for new hobbies.

• He was fascinated by American Indian culture,

• He was looking for a different job.

In what city are many of George Catlin's paintings found?

• Oklahoma City

• Tulsa

• Norman

• Edmond

George Catlin came to Oklahoma to _______________

• farm on the Great Plains

• observe life in 19th-Century cities

• get away from the Civil War

• paint the people and the land

Washington Irving wrote

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

• the Bible

• a journal

• a story about Oklahoma