Lakota

American Indians inhabited the continent now known as America for thousands of years before the arrival of Columbus to it. "The graceful boat of death" as described by Linda Hogan in Solar Storms, whose riders committed the most barbaric crimes ever: "beloved children (were) mutilated, women cut open and torn, strong, brave men would die, and even their gods would be massacred" (168). Since that discovery, American Indians suffered the worst of injustices: subjugation, expropriation, forced…

What does it mean to be native? I went into this project pondering this question. The answer I got wasn 't as I expected, it was coded and confusing just like the people I observed. When you think native one might think feathers, yelling, horses and shooting things with bows and arrows. While there may be feathers and yelling these isn 't as much as you think. I wanted to learn about this culture and the way its people live because this is my heritage that I was never able to be a part of. You…

Cultural Genocide: Destroying a Way of Life In her novel, Mean Spirit, Linda Hogan depicts violence against Osage people during the oil boom in Oklahoma in the early 1920s. Greed of the EuroAmerican system creates a crisis in cultural identity for those Osage who have tried to live among the white people. Ways in which the white characters corrupt the world of the Osage at that time include degrading their native beliefs in the things they hold sacred, the damaging relationships among…

estate appraisal, food services, dental supply sales, and home restoration while trying to write and sell his first novel. In 1994 this hard work and determination finally began to pay off. He and a friend decided to co write a book called “Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self Understanding.” (Creative, The Uprising. "Nicholas Sparks.") This book was published by Feather Publishing, Hay House, and Random House, selling 50,000 copies in its first year. Yet, he still wasn’t making enough…

Through experience it has been learned that White people do not typically identify strongly with race nor are they typically impacted by it. Very few White people acknowledge white privilege or have felt white guilt. I am a White girl however who has experienced both. I was always very racially aware from a young age, I knew that people around the world lived very different lives, had drastically opposite beliefs, and had a particular way of viewing the world, all of this fascinated me and I…

Intro (The setting of this short story takes place seventy years from the time we last saw Shane. The year is 2073, and the Chasing Horse family is still on the Lakota reservation.) On a bright and hopeful morning, the birds chirp and the air smells as if the world was reborn overnight and nothing was in the air but the sun. A young Edward wakes up in his fresh linen sheets and can smell the bacon and eggs that mom is cooking in the kitchen. It 's a perfect day. Saturday. Nothing can go…

The Keystone XL pipeline was commissioned in 2010. It “is a $7 billion pipeline approximately 1,661 miles in length and 36 inches wide” (Palliser 2012, 8). The company that would run this project is TransCanada and the pipeline “would run from Hardisty, Alberta, to Nederland, Texas, and traverse Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas” (Palliser 2012, 8). The media has written about the different perspectives on this proposed project. The Indian Country Today article is…

Unit 1 Vocab Exchange & Interactions (WXT,ENV) Corn - One of the many crops from the Americas that was brought over to Europe through the Columbian Exchange as a result of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World. Horses - A form of transportation and livestock from Europe that brought itself to the Americas via the Columbian Exchange. Horses heavily aided in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas. However, the Aztecs and Incas would later utilize horses for transportation and…

invokes sadness in the viewers when the soldiers shoot Two Socks. Dances with Wolves has also been praised by critics everywhere for its accurate representation of the Plains Indian culture, and the audience gets a chance to experience the authentic Lakota culture and language. Films can invoke an emotional response from an audience that other forms of media simply cannot. Historians can reconstruct the lives and events of history with more detail than ever before by considering the…

Now that we have gained new knowledge about the mistreatment of Native Americans, we have the responsibility to do something with this knowledge. To let this knowledge go to waste would be disrespectful not only to you (our instructor), but also to present day Native Americans who are being continuously mistreated by our government and our citizens. Using the knowledge we have gained from our readings and from lectures we are able to demonstrate our knowledge and new ideas by trying to make…