Laramie

to gain equality and independence from the American Government. The grounds on which they stood was the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, this document gave the Native Community the rights to govern themselves as they see fit. Trudell made the point that the issue the Indian people had with the Government was not so much a moral or ethical one, but one of law (Trudell). Based on the Fort Laramie Treaty, the Native people had a right to the land, and the U.S Government was obligated by law to honor this…

This brought hordes of miners along with the U.S. Army, and the Treaty of Fort Laramie that was established in 1851 was violated. To the Sioux in the second half of the nineteenth century, the U.S. government was duplicitous, greedy, corrupt, and without conscience. They watched buffalo herds be deliberately exterminated by U.S. Army…

Building the pipeline under the Oceti Sakowin could be a big risk. Tampering with sacred lands and destroying historical places isn’t outweighed by the need for a pipeline. It is too great of a cost for building a pipeline. Under the 1851 treaty of Laramie, the land that the pipeline is being built on is still unseeded and sovereign territory of the Oceti Sakowin. The government’s obligation should have consulted the pipeline before tearing up land that is historical. The Army Corps of Engineers…

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,…

Throughout the 19th century, several specific ethnic groups faced discrimination in the United States. Both women and American Indians were suppressed in many ways. How they reacted and responded to this discrimination also changed by the beginning of the 20th century. Not only were women held back by society’s expectations of them, they were also limited in economic opportunities, since women were expected to devote themselves to the family; being a respectable mother and wife was the social…

see the rock as we ride by though, so that's okay. Most of the way there you could see the very top of the rock as we went, it’s that tall. Looking at the rock was a short view but good since we had to keep moving. We go on another 75 miles to Fort Laramie, when all at once Kenneth and Juniper go out for firewood and when they come back Kenneth is carrying Juniper, and his foot is all red and puffy. Kenneth told us all the story how a snake bit Juniper right in the foot. He had to suck out the…

at the top of my class from high school in 2000. I then met my husband and married in 2002. We got him through medical school and residency and now he is working steadily and securely. While in his residency, I received my associate’s degree from Laramie County Community College and intended to finish my bachelor’s when we relocated to Washington. But by that time I had two young children and a new house. We couldn’t afford for me to finish then. I did well in my community college graduating…

In my middle school years, I went through the awkward pubescent phase that all preteens do, yet with a little extra flair: I was kind of ‘emo’. I listened to hard core rock songs about death and betrayal, and wrote so many short stories with the main character being brutally murdered via either a bus, gun, or goblin that I look back upon these notepads and just laugh. Perhaps this was some kind of inspiration from the angsty fanfiction I was obsessed with reading, but I became fascinated with…

Later on in the nineteenth century as more immigrants and settlers strived to settle west, the Treat of Fort Laramie accepted bounded Native American territory and allowed the government to construct roads and forts in this territory stating, “all existing reservations of the east back of said river, shall be and the same is, set apart for the absolute and undisturbed…

1. Take a walk on IWU campus and observe the Nativity scenes (Mary, Joseph, etc.) displayed by the Bookstore and Baldwin cafeteria. Describe the characters’ racial identity. Explain what is communicated through this and why it is a problem (you can use what Dr. Bob Priest talked about to explain it). What might be a solution? The Nativity scene that I observed had one African American. The African American man was one of the Wisemen. The holy family is usually depicted with porcelain white…