Lakota

The Last of the Mohicans The Last Of the Mohicans is one of the books from The Leather-Stocking Tales series written by James Fenimore Cooper. The book is set on the frontier during the french and indian war and follows the main character, Hawkeye, who is a white man that was adopted by a native american man and raised by him from the age of two years old. The book is about Hawkeye, his father, and his brother helping a soldier transport two women to a fort after they were attacked by an indian…

Describe Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a western movie about the Sioux and Americans conflicts, was released in 2007 and was directed by Yves Simoneau. This movie occurs in the western part of America, in many Indian reservations. The main location was Pine Ridge, and the main battle was at Wounded Knee. The movie begins around the time when the Sioux were defeated at Little Bighorn. Then, the Americans continued to try and steal their land. Americans offered the Natives money for their land,…

North-West Resistance Monument Public History Statement in Queen’s Park. Summary of the conflict The North-West Resistance was a ferocious five-month rebellion that was started in the spring of 1985 by Metis militants and their allies of Aboriginal background against the Canadian government in the north-West territories. It was sparked off due to the fear and insecurity of rapid changes in the North-West Territories which threatened the existence and livelihoods of the Metis, Aborigines and the…

Yellowstone Valley and the Great Flood To begin, the Yellowstone Valley and the great flood myth is drawn out by a older man of the area whom was being interviewed by a journalist. According to the tale, Yellowstone Valley survived the great flood by learning from the action of the greedy men who were taking the tribe's land, animals, and resources. The tribe peacefully dealt with the men and let them do their actions. Then the rains began. It began pouring and pouring, it was sent by the gods…

The Mandan Indians faced many challenges in their lives, from the environment and climate to pests and other human beings. Many of the introductions into their world had both positive and negative effects. How were they able to survive and what drove them on a daily basis? The Mandans were like other tribes of their time in that they searched for a place to live that provided the resources necessary to maintain their life. They also made sure the place could be protected from attacking or…

The buffalo played an important role in the life of the Crow tribe, whether it be for a source of food or for the reason they are packing up their lodges and moving. A majority of Pretty-Shields stories came about when the buffalo were abundant, according to her that was the time when her people were the happiest. Nevertheless, Linderman made attempts to get stories about her people’s present condition, “When the buffalo went away, the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and they could not…

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…

Jon’s Hands Sometimes, one will never know someone’s story, but if their hands could talk, they would tell everywhere they have been and everything they have seen. Over the years, I have been able to see Jon’s hands all over the countryside. Jon’s hands are one of the most worked, nurturing, strong hands I’ve ever had the pleasure of shaking because Jon has the All-American cowboy hands. As I stand there at the roper’s box, waiting for the header to ride in, I lean back to tell Jon a joke.…

The atrocities that took place at Wounded Knee was mainly of assassination of Natives. The soldiers had used wagon guns which destroyed some bodies to pieces. Then, the soldiers typically shot at the unarmed Natives while they attempted to escape. They believed the killing of the natives was necessary to defend and save the life of the settlers. President Harrison indicated that the victims deserved the atrocities handed out at them. President Harrison agreed that the Natives were certainly…

Beginning in July of 2016 and continuing on to the present day, protesters have been actively camped out near Cannon Ball, North Dakota; protesting as, or in solidarity with, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. Calling themselves “Water Protectors”, they are actively protesting a 1,172-mile long oil pipeline being built by a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners named Dakota Access (Time 1). The pipeline is proposed to run diagonally from Stanley, North Dakota all the way…