Sioux County

A company called Energy Transfer Partners wants to build a pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois to transport oil. They say that this is the safest way to carry oil. The pipeline would be near the Stand Rock Sioux tribe, and could negatively affect them. The Native Americans believe that the pipeline would destroy their land and contaminate their water source. Thousands of people have come to protest the building of this pipeline. Should the North Dakota pipelines be built near Native American…

At the beginning of this paper and before we go into deep details, I will go into some of the headnotes that give the reader sort of good view of the Dakota tribe. Essentially, the word Dakota means ally in their language, which is the Dakota Sioux language. The Dakota people are a Native American tribe located in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota and North Dakota. The Dakota people are First Nations band government in North America and the largest division of the Siouan family. The Dakota…

big foot. Most people don't believe in Bigfoot, but i do. It would be awesome if someone really proved that Bigfoot is real and there is a lot of them Upon big foots father's death,bigfoot became the leader of the tribe. They suffered during the Sioux war for the black hills after the war, they settled on the Cheyenne river in South Dakota. “Big foot encouraged his people to adapt to life on the reservation”(“Big foot”).Bigfoot is in the species of giants,It stands between 7 to 9 feet tall…

book Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz this passage gave Crazy Horse’s 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. Almost all the Native Americans were sent to reservations by the late nineteenth century (Pollard, pg. 571). Crazy Horse was involved in many battles, including the Battle of Little…

In The Journey of Crazy Horse: a Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III Crazy Horse’s vision quest is a precise prophecy of his life and death. In the vision he sees an Indian on a horse with long unbraided hair and a lightning scar on his cheek, and in his first battle he also dresses like this and he proves to be a courageous warrior. This vision also points to him rising above white people but also being conquered them, which is another sign to his life during and after the Battle of Little…

ago, enemies of the Sioux were taking their horses and running off the buffalo. Standing Bear the First asked his brave warriors to help punish the enemies and make them return to their homeland. On his horse Standing Bear, was followed by ten warriors on foot. His horse was his most prized possession. For days, the party traveled, but the enemy hid, because they didn’t want an open fight with the Sioux. Enemies knew that the they were the bravest of the brave. Eventually the Sioux found and…

The Dakota Access Pipeline has received a lot of attention in the media for the past several months and once again constitute a polemic topic in our nation. It is hard for the U.S. government to understand the value and to even know which places are sacred for Native Americans. However, I believe by now U.S government should better understand their religion and beliefs. I mean they acknowledge that it’s a consistent problem they face, As legal scholar Stephen Pevar tells us, in the article…

In North Dakota, thousands of people stood together to protest against the production of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protesters’ main camp was on government land, so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering said that they would start arresting them. The purpose of the pipeline is to connect oil rich areas from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline is being built near an American Indian Reservation, and they feel that by building the pipeline their environmental and economic well-being would be…

A dirt road called Half Breed Drive stretches out of Auburn, Nebraska for just a few miles, through endless cornfields, past a single mailbox. But its history runs deep, with an origin story stretching back 185 years, long before Nebraska was a state, or even a territory. This road traces the top of the western boundary of the Half-Breed Tract, a failed reservation for people rooted in two cultures but welcome in neither. The story that follows only amounts to pieces that I’ve stitched together…

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of the Dakotas Context: The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is located in both North and South Dakota. This tribe is often called the Sioux tribe, a derogatory term that dates back to the seventeenth century, when the Ojibwa called the Lakota and Dakota “Nadouwesou”. French traders then shortened it to its last syllable “Sioux” (“standingrock.org”, 10/21/14) Part of the Dakotas was purchased by the United States from France through the Louisiana purchase. The Dakotas were…