Cheyenne

On June 25, 1876, approximately six fateful months after the Commissioner of Indian Affairs issued a strong ultimatum requiring all Native Americans in the northern plains to relocate to a designated reservation, the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native American tribes remained in the golden, rugged foothills of south-central Montana, near the Little Bighorn River ("Battle of the Little Bighorn"). Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer was attempting an element of surprise attack with…

At the start of the 2015-2016 school year, Chiitaanibah Johnson, a sophomore student at California State University, was sitting in her U.S. History class when the professor allegedly denied that the term genocide should be used to encompass the tragedies that were brought upon the Native Americans. Johnson being of Navajo and Maidu descent especially took offense and decided that in the next class she would bring research to refute his claim. In the next class, the debate between Johnson and…

Cheyenne L. Foll Professor Roberts English 102 November 21st, 2017 Right vs. Wrong: How to Manage Unjust Laws A society is made up of many different people with their own individualized beliefs and values. Due to the large amount of diversity within society, it is necessary to have a concrete set of rules and guidelines in an attempt to avoid constant chaos. However, some of these laws are often questioned by those who hold varying views of what is right or wrong, or, fair or…

Niema Poindexter Professor Guevara Pols 197 9 December 2014 Natives and African Americans The race relations with races within the United States are damage and needs to be repair. The damage was created the day they set foot on Jamestown. The whiteness was created by the greed for power, money, and domination; whiteness has belittled groups that we see as minorities. The minorities have very little power compare to the majority. Given that, the majority group was created from the whiteness…

emerged victorious and succeeded in shining a national spotlight on the problems of modern Native Americans”(AIM Takes Wounded Knee). This battle for the Oglala Sioux was just as important as the victory of Little Big Horn was for their people and the Cheyenne ninety-seven years…

The treaty was to be with the Sioux and other tribes whose land was being invaded by the white immigrants that were going to California in their search for gold. On September 17, 1851, Chiefs, headmen, and braves from the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arrapahoes, Crows. Assinabiones, Gros-Ventre Mandans, and Arrickras tribes met at Fort Laramie to make a treaty. The treaty of 1851 at Fort Laramie was the first treaty that included multiple Native American tribes under one…

William Henry Jackson William Henry Jackson, a man of ambition who loved to paint, write, and explore, but his greatest love was photography. Throughout his entire life, he devoted himself to the scenic and historic sites of the West, producing over a hundred thousand negatives. “He was the first person to photograph the wonders of Yellowstone and other places in the American West, as well as documenting the Civil War in a number of sketches.” (Weiser, 2003) Jackson was born in…

The Keystone XL pipeline was commissioned in 2010. It “is a $7 billion pipeline approximately 1,661 miles in length and 36 inches wide” (Palliser 2012, 8). The company that would run this project is TransCanada and the pipeline “would run from Hardisty, Alberta, to Nederland, Texas, and traverse Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas” (Palliser 2012, 8). The media has written about the different perspectives on this proposed project. The Indian Country Today article is…

Breeding: Luyster et al. (2006) state that before breeding season starts, around January, the breeding animals should be given a physical exam, and any health problems should be addressed. During this time, the facilities need to determine the SSP breeding recommendations. A list of up to four males should be made, with the first choice being housed in the adjourning cage. It is found that females are more fertile in their first three years, and males are more fertile until they are about five.…

This memo responds to your request for information about the United States and State of Wyoming’s Constitution. In this report we will discuss the U.S. Constitutional Convention, Wyoming Constitutional Convention, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the other 17 Amendments, and the Wyoming Constitution. Constitutional Conventions The U.S. Constitutional Convention was the meeting in which delegates from the existing states formed to try and better the U.S by creating laws. The US…