Black Hills

different Indigenous people’s cultures. Each of these cultures has their own origin story for the Butte. Bear Butte was the most sacred to the Cheyenne and to the Lakota peoples. The Cheyenne called it Noaha vose and Nahkohe vose meaning the giving hill and bear hill. The buttes origin story for the Cheyenne comes from the legend of Sweet Medicine. (Kinsella “Bear Butte: Crossroads of History”). Sweet Medicine travelled to the sacred butte, where the mountain opened up for him so that he was…

The events that led up to the battle may be more important than the battle itself. In 1874, gold was discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota. Let it be known that in 1851 the Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed and it protected the Black Hills from white settlement and miners. The Black Hills was considered holy land by the Sioux Indians. The government offered to buy the Black Hills from the Sioux but they refused to sell. Then the government intended to take the land away from the Sioux by…

Since he found gold, “Indian agents were dispatched to the Black Hills to convince the Sioux to sell their land” (Johnson, 2003, 59). However, they did not accept the proposal, and the conflict “led to the famous Battle of Little Bighorn” (Johnson, 2003, 59). Even though “the U.S. Calvary had attacked first,” the Sioux…

In The Lone Ranger and Tonto and “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Sherman Alexie, reservation realism is portrayed through continuous references of Native American conflict. In The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Thomas-Builds-the-Fire was arrested for detaining the reservation postmaster, Eve Ford. Several years later, the case goes to trial and the Bureau of Indian affairs grants Thomas an opportunity to give his testimony. During the trial, Alexie mentions Eve Ford sitting among the…

Describe Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a western movie about the Sioux and Americans conflicts, was released in 2007 and was directed by Yves Simoneau. This movie occurs in the western part of America, in many Indian reservations. The main location was Pine Ridge, and the main battle was at Wounded Knee. The movie begins around the time when the Sioux were defeated at Little Bighorn. Then, the Americans continued to try and steal their land. Americans offered the Natives money for their land,…

Others argue fault for the defeat should also lay with Frederick Benteen, the other officer who headed the third company Custer, after Reno and Custer’s companies. Some say Benteen was also near the battlefield when the fight between Custer and the natives began. In the book, To Hell With Honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Larry Sklenar, it is said that when Benteen believed Custer to be heading “into battle without him, Benteen became frustrated and angry, and it would now take a very…

The Pyramid Lake War of 1860 was an unavoidable war that stemmed from the years of abuse and mistreat against the Paiute tribe by Euro-American settlers. The Great Basin tribes were being forced into starvation by the Euro-American settlers who flooded into the area and overtook the lands. While the Great Basin Tribes tried to remain peaceful, after years of violent acts against them, they finally stood up against the settlers. The conflict which is considered to be “the single greatest…

advantage of the hills beside the wetlands and reclaimed a lot of area in order to develop more flat land for the city. This had a negative impact on the environment because the landscape was dramatically…

respond with “Of course” We hop in the now warm car and begin our drive into the hills. We get to our destination and slowly hop out of the car trying not to make a sound, grab our rifles and begin to walk. Walking…

The memorial drawn is one that is dedicated to myself and myself alone as it does not have any family or heritage ties related to it. It is a a memorial that is designed in accordance to Stonehenge, but it has been tweaked slightly and a few things added to it such as an ascending stairway. I chose to use Stonehenge as the base design due to the beauty I find from the actual Stonehenge structure and the amazing nature of its formation. I find it extradoinary that people were able to move and…