Lakota

Christopher Columbus landed in the new world in 1492, he discovered a group of peoples and named them Indians. The Natives seemed to be uncivilized and lack humanism, often thought to be savages. However, the English were the real savages in their crusade to inflict their religion on anyone who wasnt English. Indians were unevolved compared to the mighty English. At this point Native Americans have yet to discover the horse. Due to the primal behaviors of the Indians, hunting and farming was…

Lima, Ohio is a small, industrial town of just around 40,000 people, located between Dayton and Toledo on I-75. If you were to go to Lima, Ohio and ask who the greatest basketball player ever was you would get one name, Greg Simpson. Greg Simpson's story was that of success and failure. There was nothing stopping him from success, but himself. He was his own poison during his college years. He was featured in the Lima News as an eighth-grader at West Junior High. He garnered coverage due to his…

The meaning of Hoka Hey is “it’s a good way to die” this was the war cry of the Lakota tribe as they went into battle. This would encourage the solders to fight harder as they went into wars. The box was established in 2013 by owner Philip Craig. As you walk in to the box you could smell the chalk and sweat from the athletes working…

As one of the well-known modern day writers, Nicholas Sparks’ writings make such a personal connection with many because he uses experiences of the common man while adding a mystical touch to entice the reader. Nicholas Sparks was heavily influenced by his life experiences, and experiences of others. The Lucky Oneand Dear John are two of Nicholas Sparks’ books that expose realities of war, a prevalent event in Nicholas Sparks’ life at the time he was writing these novels, while adding a sense…

In the book, Our Hearts Fell to the Ground, author Colin G. Calloway noted that Native American were reluctant to discuss their lives once they had been relocated to the reservation. This reluctance to write or speak about life on the reservation became the mentality of many Native Americans due to varies factors. However, this reluctance can be explain if one was to examine the catastrophic damage that was cause to the Plains Indians culture and traditions. The expansion to the west stole not…

connected to intellectualism is by the theories on how the world was created. In the first book of the Christian Bible author states that God created the heavens, earth, and all the life on earth (New American Bible Revised Edition, Gen. chp. 1). The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people believe that Wakan Tanka breathed his spirit across the world to create life. The various ways people believe how the world was created is interesting, but because students are prohibited from speaking about it,…

In 1980, a Native American social worker and mental health professional named Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart spent time researching the long history of disempowerment found among the Lakota tribe. Maria’s work expanded far beyond one single tribe, and in turn translated to the entire Indigenous community. This resulted in her coining the medical term Historical Trauma. Historical Trauma is defined as, “The cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over one’s lifetime and from generation to…

Minneapolis Institute of Arts Museum Visit Minneapolis Institute of Arts is a fine art museum that has at least 3 000 different works of art from different parts of the world. The museum started in 1883, initially; it was, identified as Minneapolis Institute of Arts before changing to its current name. MIA is, situated on an eight acres piece of land at Whitter in Minnesota on a campus. The museum is government funded institute and does not charge an entrance fee for patrons. Researchers and…

In today’s society, people are always looking forward to the short-term outcomes of our actions without considering the long-term implications. For instance, the North Dakota Access Pipeline is a 3.7 billion dollar project that will facilitate the transportation of 470,000 crude oil barrels daily to refineries by an underground pipeline (Narayan). The pipeline alignment will be passing through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois states and cross various rivers (Yan). The implications…

The aspects of Native American culture can be examined in many parts. The previously studied book, “The Lakota Way” by Joseph Marshall III breaks the culture into 12 separate values; while this piecewise analysis of Native American culture can work well to describe the complexities of the culture, Kent Nerburn is able seamlessly integrate aspects of Native American culture into his book, “Neither Wolf nor Dog.” Nerburn displays the past and present aspects of promises, forgiveness, and respect…