Shannon County, South Dakota

Why change the name after a hundred years? Is it something wrong with the name? After president McKinley passed away; the tallest mountain in North America named after him. Now president Obama is disgracing the McKinley Family and his home state of Ohio by changing the name after a hundred years. Mount McKinley is the tallest mountain peak in North America that reaches over twenty thousand, three hundred and ten feet tall. The mountain is located in the Alaskan range. In 1896 after President…

Marnie Reed Crowell is what the North Country is all about! Marnie is a conservationist and a natural history writer and poet. She received her master’s degree in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Marnie is a believer in using art to speak for nature. She writes an environmental column in the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. Growing up from a young age Marnie learned to appreciate the natural world. In her first book, Greener Pastures she writes about her life with her husband on their farm…

After reading this excerpt from the book Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz this excerpt it gave Crazy Horse’s personal thoughts about the encroachment of the white man into Indian territory. The influential leader of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Crazy Horse, held out against the government's efforts to imprison the Sioux on reservations. He fought in many battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. In 1877, he was one of the last Indian Chiefs to surrender and was…

The Black Hills were part of the Dakota Territory and was a rich reserve of natural resources used by the Sioux Indians for many years. Though the region also contained populations of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, they were collectively referred to when in mention of the Sioux, who were…

ammunition that was supposed to be used for the buffalo hunt. Meanwhile, it seemed that Crazy Horse was becoming more and more disillusioned with his decision to surrender. He had to watch as his Cheyenne brothers who fought alongside him were marched south to Indian Territory where the government had been actively dumping other tribes from all over the Unites States. There were constant rumors that the Sioux reservation would be located on the Missouri River rather than near their homeland in…

Recovering the Landscape of the Ioway by Lance M. Foster goes into great detail about what Iowa, or how the Indians who were natives here called it, Ioway, was once like. Foster states that the state of Iowa was once a vast prairie, but today less than 0.1 percent of that prairie remains. He states that Americans typically associate the buffalo with the great plains, rather than thinking of them once being in the tallgrass prairie that once covered Iowa and Illinois. Foster, being a member of…

whole reservation looks empty. The only place where we can see some community life is the pub and the community room, where an IBA agent tried to convince the tribe to sell their lands. 2. Later the characters visit the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In what sense is it different? The living conditions in Pine Ridge Reservation are the same, however, the people’s attitude towards their culture, their heritage is a bit different. The audience can see…

unique and alike to one another. From how the director was going with the theme of the movies and where there are really trying to get at. Dances with wolves; has a story and setting in the time frame of 1864 based in the great plains of south dakota where there is this guy named (John j. Dunbar) goes onto a trip to an abandoned Fort Sedgewick. But then he starts to encounter Sioux indians while…

Sitting Bull used many tools in his speach to his fellow Natives. He spoke of the land and what it means to them, and he spoke of their ancestors. The most effective tool the Sitting Bull used, however, is his comparisons of the people, the animals, and the land they roam. Animals were an incredibly important aspect of the natives lives. They provided food, and most other things that the natives used in their every day lives. They only took what they needed and did not waste any part of the…

ask that you please keep your mind open, because I as a Native American can tell you first hand the hardships we have had to face and why we still fight to this day for a country that doesn’t care for us much. Today I want to talk to you about the Dakota Access Pipeline and why natives are so dead set on it not being created;…