relatable and beautiful one. I came from, what was then, a smaller farming town. When I was given the chance I left for "bigger and better" things. Much as the author said that she did not intend to return home, because as she pursued her education in Cheyenne she felt she had outgrown the usefulness of her hometown. I thought the same way she did. I've outgrown my hometown,…
The Language of the Storytellers: A look at the Symbolic and Form Language of North American Indigenous Representational Art Introduction In 1987, James Keyser proposes that “some ledger drawings done after 1870 … obtain the original artists’ interpretations … The result is a series of drawings that serve as a ‘Rosetta Stone’, (Keyser 1987, 43).” He follows this description with the possibilities of the usages, and its impact of the inclusion of ethnographic sources as the visual/ verbal…
Native Americans started coming to North America, but while they were there whites started coming and taking over their land. Natives had to adapt to many different things going on around them. Native Americans looked for new opportunities in the west but they lacked money and it made their experience bad. They were dealing with people not liking them and taking advantage of them. The Natives also had to worry about fighting such as battles like the Sand Creek massacre. Native Americans had…
Starting with the invasion of Europeans, Native Americans have been actively destroyed as a people. Remarkable levels of discrimination towards minorities such as Native Americans, in the United States, after the invasion are displayed through media outlets like the internet and television networks. Commonly, those who tune in to watch the daily news and the newest post on the internet are intruded with one sided bias, sometimes unknowingly. My goal throughout this informative essay is to give…
Nathaniel Bacon and a group of vigilantes destroyed the Pamunkey Indians before leading an unsuccessful revolt against colonial authorities in 1676. Some of the most infamous events in the wars were when 650 Colorado volunteer forces attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment along Sand Creek. Although they had already begun to peace negotiations…
General Custer General Custer was known as a Civil War legend. General Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio on December 5,1839. His parents were Emanuel and Marie Custer. Most of his childhood time was spent in Monroe, Michigan where he attended McNeely Norman School. After graduating from high school ,he taught two years of school. After teaching for two years he enrolled to the military academy West Point. After graduating from West Point in 1861 he joined the cavalry unit even though he was…
they had left it. With the people outrage of Custer’s death the United States redrew the boundaries of the Black Hill reservation and started to allow whites to claim the land. Within five years of the battle of Little Bighorn all of the Sioux and Cheyenne were forced back into their…
Years ago, groups of people created myths about how their culture had been created. These groups said that the world started out as nothing. From the Greeks to the Cheyenne, every myth was different. Certain myths had only one god or creator, and others had more than one creator. The three most common motifs that I have seen are starting from Chaos, creating humans from organic materials, and multiple attempts to create humans. Motif #1 Chaos First, nearly all cultures used Chaos to start…
The Sioux Indians A Native American tribe that has been glorified throughout the years with some events that have been place in history.We’re going to be talking about the origin of the Sioux Indians.We’ll also be looking back at the events that made Sioux what they are today. Ultimately I'm going to be breaking down Sioux and what exactly is Sioux,what had made them so special.So let’s begin! Sioux Indians were a group of Native Americans in the early days of America.They…
couldn’t keep up. Does my outfit not say that I know what I am doing, even though I don’t have a clue? I hope that I come across as presentable. After about two minutes of us talking, he began to lean up against the wall. Don’t lean up against the wall Cheyenne it is unprofessional, no matter how tempting it…