Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

In 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, there were ongoing tensions between two groups, GOONS and AIM (American Indian Movement), where GOONS were hired by a tribal chairman to get rid of AIM. GOONS were often helped by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by giving them information about AIM and turning a blind eye to the large amount of crimes GOONS was committing. A family asked Leonard Peltier, an Aim leader, to protect them from targeted violence so a group of AIM followers…

economic injustice. Many say the federal government is not giving American Indians enough money to combat these problems. The Native American culture is sometimes looked on to by many people in the United States today. What many do not realize is that about twenty-five percent of Native Americans are living in poverty (Rogers et al 2010). As Cecilia Fire Thunder, the former chief of the Lakota tribe on the Pine Ridge reservation, , “We are held back by inadequate funding.” When it comes to…

Malcolm X are common knowledge. Not many Americans, though know about or have even heard of the American Indian Movement, in return leaders like Dennis Banks(Ojibwe) and Russell Means(Oglala Sioux) are virtually unknown. Many things will be discussed and alluded to in this paper, some of which I will attempt to explain; for an example at the time of AIM, “Traditionals” were full-blooded American Indians who keep the traditional way of life, while “Nontraditionals” were mostly of mixed race and…

deserve to have their land back. The United States broke all their treaties with the Sioux time and time again, taking more and more land from them every few years. The Sioux have some of the worst living conditions in the country. “Many American Indian communities are impoverished, with some tribes reporting unemployment as high as 85%”- The…

deadline to move to reservations, the U.S. Army, including Custer and his 7th Calvary, was dispatched to confront them. Custer was unaware of the number of Indians fighting under the command of Sitting Bull (c.1831-90) at Little Bighorn, and his forces were outnumbered and quickly overwhelmed in what became known as Custer’s Last Stand. Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and…

and it protected the Black Hills from white settlement and miners. The Black Hills was considered holy land by the Sioux Indians. The government offered to buy the Black Hills from the Sioux but they refused to sell. Then the government intended to take the land away from the Sioux by forcing them onto reservations. When the Sioux refused to leave their land for the reservations the Army declared the Sioux hostile. In 1876 as the United States prepared to go to war…

cultural issues that led to Reservation Systems which the U.S. Government forced Native Americans tribes to live in certain areas. This act caused rebellious plans such as the Dakota Sioux Uprising of 1862, the Dawes Act of 1887 and Geronimo. Another major conflict were the issues with land, trade, medicine and cultural differences such as the Ghost Dance, even though some Natives accepted the Treaty Process,…

it occurred, it was near wounded knee creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the US state of South Dakota. Philip Wells Was a mixed-blood sioux who served as an interpreter for the army. He later recounted what he saw that Monday morning. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. Just before the battle of wounded knee the captured indians had been ordered to give up there arms. During that…

for living Native American Wisdom on Ethics and Character, written by Joseph M. Marshall III, was published by the Penguin Group in New York, New York in 2001. Joseph presents a guide to living an ethical life based on the core values of the Sioux Indians. Is he able to give a convincing argument that the Lakota people possess and uphold a set of values that people of all cultures can benefit from having? He is careful to state that he does not aim to "turn the non-Lakota into a Lakota." He is…

FBI agents that were killed at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975 which help us understand this situation better. Native American had be treated like they do not own anything, the american are forgetting that the native american were here before them so they own the place just like anybody else. The occupation of alcatraz is a good example for that. It was a situation of alcatraz island where 89 american indian asked the government to give that island to the indians to make it a place where…