Sioux County

entertainment as it was to give a glimpse into the horrors of American and Native American history, as it is based on the book by the same name that is a history of Native Americans in the 1860 's and 70 's. While this movie focuses particularly on the Sioux tribe, Charles Eastman, and Sitting Bull, it is mostly representative of what Native Americans went through as a whole. Of course, all movies take some creative liberties in order to make them more "interesting" to their viewers, but "Burn…

According to historian Gustav Niebuhr in, Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, a Priest and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors, writes that the commission used a half-breed named Godfrey [native name - Otakle], born to African American and…

In South Dakota lies the memorial of one of the most respected leaders of the Oglala Sioux. This leader is known by many as Crazy Horse. Many people may not know the story behind Crazy Horse, but this Oglala leader, who possessed different leadership traits than most Oglala leaders, suffered the same fate as most Indians did in the 1700 and 1800’s and that inevitable fate was death. For most of Crazy Horse’s life war surrounded him. Crazy Horse also had killed countless times in his early war…

Bear Butte Bear Butte is a very sacred site to many different Indigenous people’s cultures. Each of these cultures has their own origin story for the Butte. Bear Butte was the most sacred to the Cheyenne and to the Lakota peoples. The Cheyenne called it Noaha vose and Nahkohe vose meaning the giving hill and bear hill. The buttes origin story for the Cheyenne comes from the legend of Sweet Medicine. (Kinsella “Bear Butte: Crossroads of History”). Sweet Medicine travelled to the sacred butte,…

Introduction Thesis statement: The Treaty of Fort Laramie is important because of how it led to the loss of a lot of Native American culture. It was part of their culture to live close together, but the treaty separated them by giving the Sioux too much land on each reservation. Not only that, but because the U.S. Government did not keep some of its promises to the Native Americans, it was not even worth the tradeoff. For example, the United States’ “promised annuity goods for fifty years…

in an honorably battle against the rival clan. After killing his first buffalo and fighting in his first battle he was named, Tatanka-Iyotanka. His name he was given meant, “A buffalo bull sitting on its haunches.” Sitting Bull was the son of a Sioux warrior named Returns Again. They also called his father Returns Again because he was…

Introducing the Kiowas in history, their traditions are able to tell us how they entered the world and how they lived a hard life. In the late seventeenth century, they migrated southward. The Kiowas acquired horses and also Tai-me, which was their sacred sun dance doll. In the map 6.3 in the textbook, it shows us the Kiowa migration route from 1832-1869 and that they migrated south across the Great Plains. Although they were brought to new homes, they encountered with the Americans and this…

Native Indians were mistreated, and massacre by the white people, whom they thought where friendly people. They had been told a tale that one day the white men would return, and both races would live in peace. When the white men arrive Natives received them with kindness. Little did they know that the reason they came was not for them but for the gold in the mines. Natives where force to leave their reservations, others died of diseases brought by the foreigners, and some were hunted by bounty…

Tombstone, a western shooting up the charts Wyatt Earp, a retired officer, is forced to come out of retirement due to cowboys overrunning his town. Tombstone is a western covering Wyatt Earp, everyone involved, and the Arizona town of Tombstone during the 1800s. Tombstone received a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes and was named "one of the 5 greatest Westerns ever made" by True West Magazine. Tombstone is a western during the 1800s when cowboys were running around and when silver and wealth were…

The Dakota access pipeline is said to be the safest and most environmentally sensitive way to transport oil from domestic wells to American consumers. However, it imposes risks of leaks that endanger the fresh water in lakes and rivers. Activists in North Dakota do not want the DAPL to pass because they fear that it will leak into the Missouri river. People often protest the Dakota Access pipeline causing “Water protectors” who participate in action to get tortured. They will generally get…