Battle of the Little Bighorn

So, during the battle, this came as second nature. "He might shout: "I am going!" Or he might yell "Hokahey!" or give the war trill or clench an eagle bone whistle between his teeth and blow the piercing scree sound (Powers, 2010)." There were no decisions to be made,…

thoughts about the encroachment of the white man into Indian territory. The influential leader of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Crazy Horse, held out against the government's efforts to imprison the Sioux on reservations. He fought in many battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. In 1877, he was one of the last Indian Chiefs to surrender and was killed. It reminded me of many other unimaginable stories of Indian relocation such as the Trail of Tears, conflicts with the European settlers, and…

Indians suffered illness like small pox that was brought over by the white settlers. This caused 40% of the tribe population to die. The tribes were sent to settlement camps that were based on treaties that the whites seldom stood by. This led to battles and one called the Sand Creek Massacre occurred while the tribe slept and resulted in a horrible massacre of the Indians. A federal peace keeping commission in 1868 enacted the Treaty of Fort Laramie to make up for government mistreatment of the…

As a little girl I would always watch my older brother, Little Fox, and his friends hunt buffalo and beg them to teach me how to hunt with a bow and arrow. Finally, after days and days of listening to me whine and…

proportion it would be to state that all of the West was violent. Alkali is salt and you can't grow anything on salt, meaning these people were living on barren land, surrounded by only each other, and alcohol, so violence was to be expected. The little violence that was concentrated in those isolated places was quite insignificant actually for the vast amount of other people in the West. In the Time-Life Books by the Townsmen, made in 1975 a document can be found called the Green River City…

Expansion caused a considerable amount of political instability with the Native Americans. Attitudes from Native Americans towards white settlement was negative, shown by the Pontiac Rebellion (1763) and Tecumsch’s campaign against white settlement (1809), and seemed to continue throughout the 100 years. Americans committed atrocities, Sand Creek Massacre of 1846: c.700 members of the Colorado Territory militia attacked tribes, killing women and children, and took land from the Cheyenne and…

Identification and Evaluation of Sources This investigation examines the historical question of “to what extent did the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876?”. One key source chosen to support this investigation is a treaty written in 1868 between the the United States (U.S.) government and the Native American nations of the Dakota Territory regarding ownership and land rights of the Black Hills. The other source is a firsthand account from a Cheyenne woman that…

The Civil War and its aftermath had great impacts on Native American tribes all across the country. At the start of the war, many tribes had decided to join the Confederacy, mostly because some of their tribe members had owned slaves. Since they were apart of the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy had decided to pay all of the annuities that the Government of the United States had provided. After the Civil War, the tribes that were apart of the Confederacy were severely punished. The…

Matthew Ng Mrs. Gabbard Honors English 9 15 October 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird & Summer Reading Theme Essay To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper E. Lee and Flight by Sherman Alexie both show senses of hate. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the setting of the story is in Maycomb, Alabama. The trial of Tom Robinson shows the hatred of the white people against the blacks. In Flight, the story begins with a 15 year old Native American named Zits. He is an orphan with a history of abuse and an instinct…

disagreements within the Dakota and Lakota tribes of whether military uprising was the only way to retain their homeland or a useless and counterproductive endeavour resulted in the Dakota War of 1865. The Sioux’s had a short lived victory at The Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 in which General Custer’s military detachment was all but obliterated. In response, the government moved the sacred Black Hills outside of the tribal boundary, making it vulnerable to white settlement. Along with the…