Lakota people

Historical topic: ___Treaty of Fort Laramie________ I. Introduction Thesis statement: The Treaty of Fort Laramie is important because of how it led to the loss of a lot of Native American culture. It was part of their culture to live close together, but the treaty separated them by giving the Sioux too much land on each reservation. Not only that, but because the U.S. Government did not keep some of its promises to the Native Americans, it was not even worth the tradeoff. For…

Geronimo (Apache chief) leads attacks into Mexico. The U.S. then places soldiers near his reservation, so Geronimo and some of his people escape to their stronghold in Mexico and build an army. Geronimo flees the reservation again when he hears rumors he is going to be arrested. Then the U.S. army sends a large force against Geronimo's 24 men. He surrenders and is sent to prison in Florida. He dies on a reservation as a prisoner of war. Little Wolf (Northern−Cheyenne chief) who helps lead a…

in 1785. He died on July 3, 1850. Provost lived in his house for about 35 years in St. Louis. He was in the American fur trade. He was jailed once by the Spanish. Some people wonder why the Provo River and the Provo City are named that name. Well it is because Etienne Provost gave his name to the Provo River and city. Most people considered Provost the most knowledgeable, skillful, and successful mountain men. In fact they called Provost, “the man of the mountains.” Etienne Provost began to…

Sand Creek The Morning After In Annette Jaimes, “Sand Creek The Morning After” she first starts by giving a background to the atrocities done to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho in late 1864 after stating they were at peace. This group of people, after being having countless lives taken, were driven out of their Colorado. She moves forward two decades where the American Indian community celebrate the renaming of Nichols Hall and honoring those who were slaughtered at Sand Creek. As the new…

Stage three of Campbell’s monomyth begins as Chief Ten Bears instructs the village to move to its winter camp. Since his first day at Fort Sedgwick Dunbar had kept a daily journal of his activities, including guidelines to the location of the Sioux, and evidence that he has retained too much information about their ways, “In this fashion it becomes an entirely symbolic record of his metamorphosis, a map which traces his spiritual journey” (Smith). This begs the question, was he right to endanger…

In “My People the Sioux” written by Luther Standing Bear, he documents significant history from a Native American lifestyle assimilating to the white race. Standing Bear writes an autobiography in order “to write accurately about the struggles and disappointments of the Indian (preface).” Moreover, Richard Ellis brings up controversies about the “factual errors” that Standing Bear might have said in his own autobiography. Ellis is referring to the support that is achieved through “written…

Monuments are delicate topics in the sense that one may find reason to see it not be built. Thus, there are factors for a group or agency should consider in memorializing an event or person and in creating a monument, those factors being: will it take away the main purpose of the monument, is there any reason this monument should not be one and can it easily be threatened? Source C discusses the possibility of putting up a monument that perhaps should not be one. Namely, Mount Rushmore. As the…

This paper is about the movie “Dances With Wolves.” Dances With Wolves is a 1990 Western film starring Kevin Costner. The movie starts during the Civil War when a Union lieutenant is wounded, the wound is threatening to cause his leg to be amputated. After the lieutenant leaves the hospital with his leg he goes back to the front and steals a horse and runs in between the two lines which causes the fighting to start up again. After Lieutenant Dunbar galloped through no man's land and survived…

Arikara tribes.The most Famous chiefs in the Cheyenne tribe included Dull Knife,Chief Roman Nose and Morning Star.There are a band of warriors called the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers.They were extremely courageous and fight to their death to protect their people. They migrated west across the Mississippi River and into North and South Dakota in the early 18th century.Their territory was usually with grass covered plains and areas with rivers.They lived in the American Great Plains region in the…

This story is about a Spanish soldier describing his encounters with the Native Americans and how the Comaches were able to overpower the Spanish on their way San Saba Mission. The passage commences with a Sergeant being asked as to why he didn’t try to travel to the Mission by an alternative route instead of taking the one that was plagued by hostile Indians. The general responded by stating that they had been attacked when they were in a canyon that was in between many hills and a river.…