Lakota

their work to fit their needs. They were held to the same expectations as the other students, but they also received extra time within their normal classroom to finish up projects or to have Mrs. Bowmann help them submit assignments online, since Lakota just began using Canvas at the high school level. This was interesting to see how the students were able to still be required to complete the same work, in order to not limit their abilities, as well as to make it work best for them rather than…

I left the reserve to seek the house of my great-grandchild that I would soon pass the medicine bag onto. I left after his family and him had come for a visit and in that time I had not realized how lonely I had gotten by myself. So I set off for 3 reasons, the first was to find my only living family. The second was because it had become my time and I could feel myself getting weaker and weaker everyday. Finally, the third was to pass on the sacred family tradition of the medicine bag. During…

In 1492 when Christopher Columbus first arrived in America and came into contact with the native people he wrote this about them: “they could easily be commanded, and made to work, to sow and to do whatever might be needed, to build towns and be taught to wear clothes and adopt our ways,” and, “they are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest.” (Present, 2003) As I researched Native Americans History I was and am certain you will be when you read this paper embarrassed at the way…

practices. In the 2011 article “Quaker Sweat,” the Mashpee Wampanoag vocally objected to the use of the sweat lodge ceremony by a Quaker organization (Aldred 81). Though the Quaker who was directing the sweat was supposedly introduced to the ceremony by Lakota spiritual leaders in the eighties, the Mashpee Wampanoag made the point that the sweat lodge ceremony is not something that should be conducted by a non-indigenous spiritual leader (Aldred 75; 81). They reinforced the point that the misuse…

Name: Boston Whitaker The Mandan people were a unique group of Native Americans who had an important role in history; they contributed to Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Their main roles in history were being hunters, farmers, and traders. The Mandan people had their own language, culture, roles, and trade. The Mandan people were native to North Dakota and their language was Siouan (Source D). The Mandan tribes did not understand other Native American languages including Hidatsa and Arikara, so…

The article Racism American Style and Resistance to Change: Art Education’s Role in the Indian Mascot Issue by Elizabeth M. Delacruz, discusses the problematic situation that occurs in with using the American Indian as a mascot without knowing its dark, disturbing history. She also explains on how people mock the Native American culture by using stereotypes / racial slurs and how it affects the way people identify them. In agreement with the author, people misuse the Indian mascot because of…

“The Black Elk Speaks” is a book on the life of Black Elk. The narrator John Neihardt, tells the story of Black Elk’s life, which is translated by Black Elk’s son Ben. Neihardt shares the journey of Black Elk, which includes his early life as an autobiography, spiritual revelation, and about the history of his tribal life and religious believes and customs. In the beginning chapters Black Elk as he is saying his story, he tells the audience that this is not his story alone, this story is about…

The American Indian has been the subject of many different emotions throughout history. Emotions ranging from fear to spiritual enlightenment. Could the War on the American Indians been prevented through better talks between Europeans and Native Americans. This essay will discuss the history of the War on the American Indian and how it affected the tribes of North America Forever. Since the arrival of European peoples from Europe the Native American Indians who were settled in the area where…

February of 1973, Native Americans took their stand at Wounded Knee, for they were about to be “...obliterated culturally. Our spiritual way of life—our entire way of life was about to be stamped out” as said by Russell Means, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and former American Indian Movement (AIM) leader (Wounded Knee). For 71 days, Indian tribes from all over the nation came to join in the protest against their heritage at Wounded Knee, a location of a past Indian massacre on reservation…

During the period 1800 to 1890, the Plains Indians lost their ancestral homelands to white settlers from the USA, leading to them being forced into reservations. This was due to reasons including the actions of the federal government and the US army, their own mistakes which affected public opinion of them and the westward movement of settlers due to the railroads and the discovery of gold. One factor that meant that the Plains Indians lost their land was the actions of the federal government. A…