Sioux County

break his word?” The settlers came for gold and cattle farming, and if anybody got in there way they would demand them to move or even kill them if they didn’t listen to them. Crazy horse was a leader to the Sioux Indians who wanted to stop the white settlers and was a vital part of the Sioux Indians right to the American dream. Crazy horse wanted freedom for his people and for them to stop being killed by Colonel Custer for defending their homes and themselves from his raids. In reaction crazy…

Beginning in July of 2016 and continuing on to the present day, protesters have been actively camped out near Cannon Ball, North Dakota; protesting as, or in solidarity with, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. Calling themselves “Water Protectors”, they are actively protesting a 1,172-mile long oil pipeline being built by a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners named Dakota Access (Time 1). The pipeline is proposed to run diagonally from Stanley, North Dakota all the way…

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 killed. It reminded me of many other unimaginable…

Crazy Horse was finally realizing that he would not be able to win the war against the whites and started coming up with questions and things they would argue about if they met with the whites for a treaty. Crazy Horse and much of the Sioux leaders decided to finally meet with the whites and talk negotiating. While the Indians were on their way to meet the whites, they go through a camp of crow scouts and things turn hostile very fast. One of the crow scouts shot and killed the Indians who were…

We have come to learn over the course of time that American Native Indians still have no clear answer on whether they are considered sovereign or not. The definition of sovereignty is to possess power, and although some Indian Tribes are climbing the ladder in earning this right, there is one reservation imparticularly that is suffering due to the neglect of the US Government. The Pine Ridge Reservation is one of the poorest areas in America and suffers great poverty due to the actions of the…

Western Hemisphere of the Earth. South Dakota is the current home of the Sioux Nation tribe. South Dakota has ten reservations located in our state, one that covers part of Nebraska (Johnston, n.d., para. 4). South Dakota is one of the many states where American Indian traditions are still celebrated. Through all the struggles and the triumphant Sioux pride has remained. Luther Standing Bear wrote the book My People the Sioux to show how his life was changed through assimilation. Although…

In Zitkala Sa’s short story The Soft-Hearted Sioux a Native American boy goes to a mission school that teaches him that killing anything is wrong. His father is sick and unable to hunt, and he did not kill until it is too late. The young man is born and raised Native American but, is taught Christianity in school which made him a social outcast to both his people and their ways of life. Zitkala story The Soft-Hearted Sioux, portrays that the boy is torn between two faiths. The conflict with his…

Sitting Bull I read Sitting Bull: Champion of His People, written by Shannon Garst. Sitting Bull, born in 1831, leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota people, and father of two, Crow Foot, and Many Horses. Was not just a leader to his people, but also a champion. When he was younger he was fearless of anyone and anything that he came along. He lead the Lakota people to a rebellion against the United States government's rules and regulations. One day while minding his own business the “Indian Agency…

water tomorrow? If your mother or father’s final resting place will be bulldozed, excavated, and defiled? These hypothetical questions posed to you are the realities of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Tribe right now. The Dakota Access Pipeline debate as to whether or not it should be relocated from the Sioux Native American reservation is presently taking place due to its construction being merely half of a mile downstream from protected sacred land. The Dakota Access Pipeline has…

The movie, the Last of the Mohicans, begins with the introduction of three of the main characters Hawkeye or Natty Bumppo, his adoptive Mohican father, Chingachgook, and Chingachgook’s biological son, and Hawkeye’s adoptive Mohican brother, Uncas. All three characters are introduced as hunters, where they hunt and kill a buck. Their introduction also leads to the introduction of other characters. These three characters travel through the woods after their hunt, to a family, whom they know,…