Shannon County, South Dakota

During the 1890’s racism was a big deal in America. African Americans faced major racial problems and the right to be free. Native Americans faced having to move from their ancestral lands. The United States army had no justification to attack Native Americans at Wounded Knee. During the time of the battle of Wounded Knee there were also other huge events and things happening such as congress taking Oklahoma from Indians and forcing them from their lands in the east. Battle of Little Bighorn…

was born a few years before the Great Depression began, in the largely Ihanktonwan, or Yankton Dakota settlement of Greenwood, South Dakota. He was among the first in his family born a United States citizen after the Snyder Act in 1924. I choose this term ‘Indians’ to follow suite with the language used in that particular Act. When I speak of Indians, I speak only from my own understanding of Yankton Dakota heritage, passed down from all the generations before me. With a dash of artistic…

to protect the lands and traditions of the Lakota from white men who wanted to take the Native Americans’ land. He was known as a visionary and great warrior. His Sioux name was Ta-sunko-witko. Crazy Horse was born near what would be Rapid City, South Dakota, around 1842. In 1865, Crazy Horse lead war parties to stop roads to goldfields from being built. To discourage white settlers from moving to his lands, he helped massacre Captain William J. Fetterman and his soldiers. Crazy Horse refused…

resisted developments of the Bozeman trail through Montana territory, and led the opposition against the development of a road through Wyoming and Montana for two years this is a period that came to be known as Red Cloud's War. Red Cloud died in South Dakota in 1909.…

Marquart talks about how some even feel their only job is to connect the more interesting states to each other. Marquart explains, “This is the way I recently heard a comedian describe the column of states that holds down the center of the country—the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma—a region that spawns both tornadoes and Republicans.” The midwestern states are too often used for jokes and for postcards advertising an average middle class family. Marquart uses past experiences to describe…

When I went to Jamestown North Dakota a medium sized city in the absolute middle of nowhere land. This place is so much in the middle of nowhere you didn't see anything until a mile a way. The way there took a long time it took four and a half hours.when we were there we went to a hotel there were we were staying it was a nice hotel on the edge of the city. The way home was less boring because we did more on the way back. We went out to eat a lot we didn't go out to eat one time while we…

The continued mistreatment and discrimination against Indigenous people is apparent in light of the Standing Rock protests taking place in North Dakota. Oil companies in North Dakota seek to put a pipeline near Standing Rock, which will ruin water supplies and sacred tribal sites. Although these companies say it will be safe, they altered the location of the pipeline from a city center to Indigenous lands. Protests have continued to take place since April 2016. The protest signifies what has…

“reservations” where the goverment them to live in a certain area. Americans helped influence their culture by helping “absorb” them into another different culture. The Cheyenne tribe usually lived in areas around the Great Plains and parts of South Dakota. When it's around summer time they in teepees which are 12-16 feet in diameter.When winter comes around they lived in grass covered prairies. In 1832 the Cheyenne tribe split into two groups, northern and southern. The northern group lived…

Hello, Chad~~ Great topic. Ft. Laramie was the second fort to be built by the Government as a series to protect the settlers traveling through the Oregon Trail. The fort was the most important port was the scene of several signings in the Treaty, which was the Ft. Laramie of 1868. Immigrants, miners, wagon train and U. S. troops began to enter the main resources for the buffalo hunt, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribe area. In 1866 Red Cloud refused to sign the non-aggression treaty in Fort Laramie,…

Is manner significant to a protest today? Could it be possible that this might also cause significant impact to their cause? The government is building the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock in North Dakota. The Dakota Access Pipeline is an oil pipeline from Bakken oil fields to Illinois. The American Indians are protesting because the oil pipeline might contaminate the water supply in the area and will destroy sites of cultural and historical significance. In “An Indian Protest for…