Lakota people

Powwow Highway Task Sheet 1. How does Powwow Highway depict the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana? The reservation is depicted in a way which clearly shows that the people there are living below the average. Most of the houses have no windows, pylons are rare and the whole reservation looks empty. The only place where we can see some community life is the pub and the community room, where an IBA agent tried to convince the tribe to sell their lands. 2. Later the characters…

The film Dances with Wolves is motion picture based on a book by Michael Blake about a soldier in the American Civil War. The story of the movie has facts about indigenous people during Civil war in the United states. However, there are author’s thoughts and imagination as well. The film allocated for the life-saving image of Native Americans, which is very different from the typical Hollywood stamps that show Indians or “noble husbands” or “bloodthirsty savages”. The American Army lieutenant,…

many hard times for Omakayas but that is what made her stronger throughout the book. Omakayas has gone through things like getting tackled by a bear, getting low on food and even something like her little brother dying because of a sickness from the people that are trying to take over the native americans land. As you can see the whole family has grown in some way during all the seasons. In the Summer Omakayas’s mother told her to go fetch the scissors from Old Tallow. Omakayas went to Old…

Since the “White Man” first discovered Native people, we have been forced to submit to their will, we have went through genocide, slavery, and just about anything else you can possible think of; however, even after all Native people have went through we still stand strong today, and we even fight in wars that aren’t our own. Today I want to tell you about a subject that could get messy if you are dead set in your ways, but I ask that you please keep your mind open, because I as a Native American…

Crazy Horse was a Oglala chief who fought to protect the lands and traditions of the Lakota from white men who wanted to take the Native Americans’ land. He was known as a visionary and great warrior. His Sioux name was Ta-sunko-witko. Crazy Horse was born near what would be Rapid City, South Dakota, around 1842. In 1865, Crazy Horse lead war parties to stop roads to goldfields from being built. To discourage white settlers from moving to his lands, he helped massacre Captain William J.…

Hello, Chad~~ Great topic. Ft. Laramie was the second fort to be built by the Government as a series to protect the settlers traveling through the Oregon Trail. The fort was the most important port was the scene of several signings in the Treaty, which was the Ft. Laramie of 1868. Immigrants, miners, wagon train and U. S. troops began to enter the main resources for the buffalo hunt, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribe area. In 1866 Red Cloud refused to sign the non-aggression treaty in Fort Laramie,…

done so they can begin the oil transfer. The state and local government leaders are backing the pipelines development. “North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has called in the National Guard as well as an army of other police officials. More than 140 people were arrested this week, even as construction on the pipeline has continued.” In this the author is showing the side of those in favor of the pipeline against the…

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1,172 mile pipeline that will connect Bakken and Three Forks production areas in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois. Once built it will transport approximately 470,000 barrels of oil per day; Shippers will be able to access multiple markets, including Midwest and East Coast markets as well as the Gulf Coast via the Nederland, Texas crude oil terminal facility of Sunoco Logistics Partners. The pipeline which was supposed to be completed at the end of 2016 would turn…

This map was drawn by Lieutenant Joseph Dixon, United States Topographical Engineers, under the direction of Captain G. Thom. It shows the routes traveled by the Command of Maj. E. Steen, U.S. War Department, in 1860 during campaign against Snake Indians. This survey map is a significant early depiction of of Eastern Oregon, bounded by three rivers, the Willamette, Columbia and Snake Rivers. This map is said to have its origin in Steen's Topographical Memoir of the Command Against the Snake…

Battle of the Wounded Knee The battle of the wounded knee occurred on December 29, 1890. When it occurred, it was near wounded knee creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the US state of South Dakota. Philip Wells Was a mixed-blood sioux who served as an interpreter for the army. He later recounted what he saw that Monday morning. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. Just before the…