Lakota people

What the hawk means to First Nations peoples who live in its habitat Being a bird species native to most of North America, the red-tailed hawk is a part of many First Nations cultures, most of whom view it as a symbol of courage, strength, and power. Since North America is so vast that there are bound to be discrepancies between the beliefs of different First Nations peoples, this writeup shall deal with the different meanings the hawk can have to different tribes, including some in British…

Tatanka Iyotake a principal war chief of the Lakota and Oglala Sioux better known as Sitting Bull , once said “If we must die, we die defending our rights”. This shows the strong tension between the native americans and the settlers. Throughout history the two groups created multiple treaties among each other. As gold mines were discovered, indian land was bought off by the white settlers, the indians were faced with the ultimate choice: assimilation or extermination. The age old quote, “kill or…

from a tribe. He chooses the name Charles Eastman. After he studies to become a doctor he is taken back to his tribe of the Sioux reservation, to help the sick people of his tribe. Sitting Bull, the last chief to come to the Sioux reservation was not following any of the rules and not doing what the people wanted him to do. The white people tried to get him to do what they wanted him to do but he would…

of the Dakota Access Pipeline would impact the lives of the people living on the reserve as well as other residents in the Dakota region. The Dakota Access Pipeline threatens many aspects of the native Sioux culture, such as sacred sites, burial grounds, and their ancestral homeland in general. The Dakota Access Pipeline brings the illumination for numerous social issues…

I am writing to you for help to keep Bears Ears a National Monument. I think it is important to protect this land. There are people out there that are destroying this area in Utah. The Natives have a lot of history on this land and I think it is important to protect it from those who are destroying historical artifacts. Native Americans to this day are still performing ceremonial traditions and to keep it sacred for them. Ranchers are becoming upset because they want to use this land for…

them do their actions. Then the rains began. It began pouring and pouring, it was sent by the gods to get rid of these horrible people. The invaders became flustered and moved to higher grounds. Then the spotted bear, medicine man, and tribe gathered to deal with the rains. They seeked buffalo to stay safe and found one and then a calf and cow as well. They tribes people then proceeded to get out a white buffalo skin. The spotted bear lay the white buffalo skin and everyone began to stretch it…

Keith Basso, in Wisdom Sits in Places, identified that “place-making” is the construction of a “place-world” as culture activity. He highlighted that “we are, in a sense, the place-worlds we imagine” (Basso 1996: 7). They can either have descriptive names or commemorative names. Just as specific places are meaningful to the Western Apache, such as “Big Cottonwood Trees Stand Here And There,” “Coarse-Textured Rocks Lie Above In A Compact Cluster,” and “Men Stand Above Here And There,” the…

into her dynamic life as a half white, half Lakota, woman in her novel, Lakota Woman. Being of mixed race, I found that Mary Crow Dog and I shared similar feelings rooted within our ethnicity. In Mary’s life, mainly her childhood and young adulthood, she found herself caught in between her white and Native American sides. She was constantly being urged to assimilate into white culture by her “full-blooded” family, even though she gravitated towards the Lakota culture and was left frustrated due…

Noble eco-savage: indigenous people naturally good at being conservationists. The term is an addition to “noble savage” which is the concept of indigenous, or the “other”, who has not been corrupted by civilization. Both terms can symbolize humanity’s innate goodness. The terms can also romanticize native cultures and portray civilized cultures as the big bad. Perhaps the best film example of the noble eco-savage is Avatar. The native people on Pandora are named the Na’vi and have a distinct…

last meal she will eat. The diction used and phrasing techniques lead the reader to believe that she is of importance. Specifically “let them come” as in she was okaying the people to be summoned to her to then serve her. The next line “Let me die but let them come, “ implies that she may leave the earth, but let the people come to resonate in her death and from the tone of seeming queen-like, let them mourn her. The next line of the poem, “and bring me treats,” brings thought to that she is…