Lakota

The Lewis and Clark Expedition How would you feel if you were asked by the president to lead an expedition to explore new land? When America gained the Louisiana Purchase territory, a vast property from France to expand America, the government required someone to explore and chart the region. This party of explorers was led by Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark. The expedition lasted three years with only one occupant of their crew dying along the journey. The Lewis and Clark…

ghosts of their ancestors. The Sioux tribe would wear clothing that they thought would protect them against white bullets during the spiritual dancing. During the Indian spiritual dance the United States sent in the Seventh Cavalry to disarm the the Lakota and take control. That 's when the Wounded Knee Massacre took place killing over 200 Sioux tribe members. After the huge massacre many lost hope in the so called “Ghost Dance” and didn 't believe in the spiritual dance. This was the last huge…

It was since the period of the Stone Age and up to the greeting with Europeans, the first colonizers in North America dwelled primarily as huntsmen and collectors. Throughout the most primitive ages, the Stone Age, the North American pioneers had the identical cultivation transformations as well, when approximately twenty-thousand years before, a band of natives relocated to lower regions of North American and stayed there. These individuals acknowledged sharing distinctive beliefs which were in…

The Era where the Indians and the white people got along came to a crashing end. After the United States started to push the Indians off their land and force them into a smaller territory which we now call an Indian reservation. The interaction between the Indians and the white people did not have the greatest relationship but they were able to live together. The ways the Indians lived and way the whites lived their lives were different which one of the reason why they didn’t get along. The…

“Times have changed and they’ve changed in this case for the better”, by Ann Gutmann. This quote reflects the individual’s experiences being compared between a Native American female and an African American female. Charlotte Forten was an African-American girl that attended a private school in New England. Mary Brave Bird, a Native American woman, raised by her grandparents on a South Dakota reservation. As an activist, she endured and encountered some violent events and was able to survive…

A hero is classified as a person or character that in the face of danger, or in a position of weakness, displays courage, selflessness, bravery, and self sacrifice, for a reason of goodness that comes from the heart and not for fame. Wolverine displays all these trait that a hero needs, but not just at a time of weakness, he displays them at all times. For that very reason, Wolverine truly deserves the title of a “hero.” Above all Wolverine's appearance, powers and abilities and the lessons he…

The topic of government and economy within the west has intrigued historians for decades. Many questions have been raised in regards to the ethics involved when settling the west, and how our country would differ if those series of events were handled disparately. When the settling of the west occurred, the ideology of the settlers was along the lines of: “ride forth my son and stake your claim for God has determined it”, otherwise known as manifest destiny. This mindset is the reason the…

I. Intro Malcolm X once said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” As this country’s demographic continues to shift, we must recognize the value of minorities achieving educational and economical success as a vital part of this country’s prosperity. In 2000, minorities comprise approximately 30% of the population in the United States(U.S Census Bureau). In 2010 that number increased to 37% and will maintain a steady increase.…

Native American religion is peculiar, to say the least. In most religions, there is a central belief that everyone in that religion follows; however, Native Americans do not have beliefs cast in stone that everyone must to adhere to. In fact, it is quite difficult to refer to the beliefs of different Native American tribes as one religion, although, there are many similarities between them. Perhaps, it is more appropriate to separate each Native American tribe’s belief system into a different…

ancestors are portrayed whether it be by how they look or by how they act. The inaccuracy that is depicted by these mascots is one of the biggest problems natives have with the use of it. “Including some Seminole people. They say the mascot looks like a Lakota who got lost in an Apache dressing room riding a Nez Perce horse”(Spindel 16). This is just one example of why American Indians are offended by mascot’s depictions of them even though the Seminoles chief has a good relationship with…