Lakota people

Magua a traitor to the Native Americans guided two men named Duncan, and David he also guided two women named Cora and Alice. They are on a journey to Fort William Henry. Magua led them the wrong way and they encountered Hawkeye and his Mohican friends. After they met them Magua escaped. The new group, went down the river and hid in a cave beneath a waterfall. The next morning they are attacked by indians; they went down the river again to escape. The three guys were running low on ammunition…

After six weeks of fighting with many casualties on both sides, the then governor of Minnesota, Henry Sibley led a final onslaught against the Dakota Indians. The Dakota warriors were subdued and captured; about three hundred and three Sioux warriors were tried and sentenced to murder for their involvement in the war. Out of the number, thirty-eight of the warriors were publicly executed on December 29, 1962; the rest was commuted to various life sentences by Abraham Lincoln, who was the…

Jedediah Smith, the son of a general store owner. Born on January 6th 1799 in Bainbridge, New York passed on May 27th 1831, a very accomplished man. Jedediah grew to love travel and explored large areas, this after becoming the first American to read the 1814 edition of Lewis and Clark. He made his first trip in his teens. In his travels he rediscovered the South Pass and “ascend the Missouri River” in a fur collecting business of 100 enterprising men. He also crossed the Mighty Rockies…

The Sioux Tribe The Vision Quest is a myth originated from the Sioux tribe. This tribe consisted of Indians who traveled to North America from Asia around 30,000 years ago. In English Sioux means rattlesnake. The Ojibwa Indians named them this to indicate that the Sioux were their enemy. They are one of the largest groups of Native Americans in North America. However, they split into about 7 main groups and then split again into 13 smaller groups over time. Overall, they had large amounts…

A long time ago, enemies of the Sioux were taking their horses and running off the buffalo. Standing Bear the First asked his brave warriors to help punish the enemies and make them return to their homeland. On his horse Standing Bear, was followed by ten warriors on foot. His horse was his most prized possession. For days, the party traveled, but the enemy hid, because they didn’t want an open fight with the Sioux. Enemies knew that the they were the bravest of the brave. Eventually the Sioux…

TJ Trump 2/9/16 Why Buffalo Soldiers were chosen to protect the first National Parks, 1886-1914. From 1886 to 1914, the Buffalo Soldiers assisted with the protection of the National Parks, in particular Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks. However, there is little information describing much about their service as park rangers there other than the benefits they brought to the parks. There is no clear reason as to why these soldiers were sent to guard the prestigious parks, instead of the…

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was way more than just a battle. The events that led up to the battle may be more important than the battle itself. In 1874, gold was discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota. Let it be known that in 1851 the Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed and it protected the Black Hills from white settlement and miners. The Black Hills was considered holy land by the Sioux Indians. The government offered to buy the Black Hills from the Sioux but they refused to sell. Then…

lived on for hundreds of years. He also presents an interesting opinion on the chief Red Cloud, who made negotiations with the United States Government to sell land in an attempt to protect his people. The members of Black Elk’s tribe recognized that with every negotiation made, the whites always wanted more, and so they lost respect for their leader, whom they saw as weak. In the ninth chapter, Black Elk and his friends share their memories of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or as they refer…

collectively referred to when in mention of the Sioux, who were the more dominant majority of the region. The region had a long history of rumors of gold that attracted gold seekers and settlers in the early 1800s. The initial encroachments of white people on the Sioux homeland were easily repelled until the United States government began establishing military outposts in the region. After years of conflict during 1851-1868 between the U.S. Army, gold seekers, and the Sioux, the government…

anything about the true history of how Iowa used to be a prairie, and the many different animals that roamed it. This shows the differences in how both the authors viewed the prairie. Foster saw it as a beautiful place full of life that allowed for his people to survive. He explained the animals that roamed the prairie, and how the Indians would use each animal after they hunted it. Gruchow was taught to see Iowa as a vast farmland rather than the prairie it once was. He never even learned the…