Lakota

in the book The Lakota Way that I chose to write this essay over is Trust. Trust was very important to Native American’s and many other people during the upcoming of our society. The reason trust was so important back in the old times was because if you were trusted you could be reliable to many. Being trustworthy is being able to survive, Trust was a great acceptance among the Lakota. Reasons being not many people were trustworthy to the Lakota, especially white men. The Lakota always thought…

The Lakota Sioux, are industrious, nomadic people with strong leaders, homemade clothes, and simple way of life eating what they kill and using every part of the animal. There other Sioux brothers called the Nakota and Dakota lived very close to them and they interacted frequently. Being forced out of there home they had to move North up to Oklahoma. The Lakota are very nomadic people they have gone from place to place. Originally they lived on the northern plains of north america. “The Lakota…

There have been a plethora of social change groups and social movements throughout America’s history. Each group has a goal and a blockage in their way. Each group is fighting generally for the same thing, equality. The following quote from Lakota Women, states that a movement is only as good as the people opposing or disagreeing with it, “Some people say that a movement dies the moment it becomes acceptable” (82). For example, school walkouts and blowouts were led by a group of Los Angeles…

At times the group that is discriminated against is a religious sect. When this occurs the people involved in the religion often turn to their faith for guidance, reassurement, and a way to protest the injustice against them. In the autobiography Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog, the author tells the story of how she experienced the Native American religion while being discriminated against by those who held power. Crow Dog is affected by religion in her youth, when she got involved with AIM, as…

pipeline is that it will run directly through the Lakota Sioux tribe’s burial ground and sacred sites (Reuters, 2016). Environmentalists also worry that the pipeline will break. If the pipeline breaks, the Lakota will no longer have clean drinking water, and the surrounding area will be devastated. In the Lakota Tribe, there is a prophecy that a “black snake” slithers above the ground, and when it goes underground, it will devastate the earth. The Lakota people believe that the oil running…

The Lakota Indians are called the Native Americans they are considered a first nation of North America. In this video, many people are living in poverty and abandon homes. In the beginning of the video, a Lakota activist that lives on the Indian reservation explains that they have no rights meaning that they are unable to stand up or speak up for themselves. People that do the wrong things are not punished because the reservation has no rights for their citizens. In the video, the activist…

the four ages. They also used the number four as for the elements, earth, fire, air and water, the seasons, winter, spring, summer and fall, the directions north, south, east and west. Cleanliness and purity are the consistent themes of the myth and Lakota believe that if one contaminates one’s own home, one will be suffocated by one’s own waste. The transformation of the holy woman as different types of buffalo-calf shows the unlimited power of the holy, before which a human being needs to…

Bear Butte Bear Butte is a very sacred site to many different Indigenous people’s cultures. Each of these cultures has their own origin story for the Butte. Bear Butte was the most sacred to the Cheyenne and to the Lakota peoples. The Cheyenne called it Noaha vose and Nahkohe vose meaning the giving hill and bear hill. The buttes origin story for the Cheyenne comes from the legend of Sweet Medicine. (Kinsella “Bear Butte: Crossroads of History”). Sweet Medicine travelled to the sacred butte,…

term. The Lakota and Ojibwe tribes had very different outcomes of these treaties including hunting rights and forced assimilation. These outcomes were different partly because of the negation processes of the two treaties. Hunting is one very important aspect of the Native American culture found in most tribes throughout the United States. The treaties were different the permitting of hunting. The Lakota in the Fort Laramie Treaties were allowed to hunt only on the allotted…

but the chiefs would not accept the money, saying that the Black Hills still were not for sale. Although the war had ended long ago, it continued to be remembered and Red Cloud’s defiant nature lived on in the hearts of the Sioux. Seventy thousand Lakota remain today, living under poor conditions on five different reservations in North and South Dakota (Higgins 27-28). A memorial stands today where the Fetterman Massacre occurred (Murray 46). A plaque…