Buffalo Soldiers

edHelper.com
Black History and Blacks in U.S. History

Buffalo Soldiers

Buffalo Soldiers

A Very Quick Reader

Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 5 to 7
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.42

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		cathay, all-black, bulky, slave, battle, title, mind, army, become, order, died, serve, former, woman, living, native
	content words:		Native Americans, Buffalo Soldiers, One Buffalo Soldier, Cathay Williams, Buffalo Soldier, Mark Matthews

Print Buffalo Soldiers

Print Buffalo Soldiers (font options, pick words for additional puzzles, and more)

Quickly Print - PDF format

	Quickly Print: PDF (2 columns per page)
	Quickly Print: PDF (full page)

Quickly Print - HTML format

Quickly Print: HTML

Proofreading Activity

Print a proofreading activity

Feedback on Buffalo Soldiers

Leave your feedback on Buffalo Soldiers (use this link if you found an error in the story)

Other Languages
Spanish: Soldados Búfalo

Buffalo Soldiers
By Brenda B. Covert

¹ What comes to mind when you read the title? Maybe you see stern soldiers riding bulky buffalo into battle. In 1866, the U.S. Army created six all-black regiments (troops). Native Americans nicknamed them Buffalo Soldiers. (They rode horses, not buffalo.) Over the years, at least twenty Buffalo Soldiers earned the Medal of Honor. That is the highest award they could get! One Buffalo Soldier was really a woman. Cathay Williams was a former slave. She pretended to be a man in order to become a soldier. She was a Buffalo Soldier for .....
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable

Weekly Reading Books

Create Weekly Reading Books

Prepare for an entire week at once!

Black History and Blacks in U.S. History

Black History and Blacks in U.S. History

United States

United States

		American Government

		Black History and Blacks in U.S. History

		Children in History

		Government Careers

		Hispanic Heritage

		How Can I Help?

		Immigration

		National Parks and Monuments

		Native Americans

		Presidents of the United States

		Women's History

United States History

		A Nation Divided (1840-1861)

		A New Nation (1776-1830)

		After the Civil War (1865-1870)

		American Revolution

		Cold War (1947-1991)

		Colonial America (1492-1776)

		Lewis and Clark (1804-1806)

		Spanish American War (1898)

		The 1890's

		The 1900's

		The 1910's

		The 1920's

		The 1930's

		The 1940's

		The 1950's

		The 1960's

		The 1970's

		The 1980's

		The 1990's

		The 2000's

		The Civil War (1861-1865)

		The Great Depression (1929-1945)

		The United States Grows (1865-1900)

		The War of 1812

		Wild, Wild West

		World War I (1914-1918)

		World War II

50 States

Fifty States Theme Unit

Document Based Activities

Document Based Activities