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and Con scholarly independent publication, summaries Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-I) attempts to slow the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline; He attempted to slow the progress by adding an amendment to a water project bill. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe believe a spill would pollute water, destroy sacred sites and burial grounds. Energy Transfer Partners claim that the pipeline would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and creature local jobs. The article claims Senator Sanders’s…

Arapaho Indians The Arapaho Indians were established in the 1850s.Since 1878, the Eastern Shoshone, people lived there.The Arapaho Indians lived in the Eastern Shoshone.The Eastern Shoshone was by the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.The Arapaho Tribe spoke in the Algonquian language. The Arapaho Indians ate every animal they saw to stay alive.The weapons they used were bows,arrows,stone ball clubs,jaw bone…

Geronimo was a prominent leader of the Chiricahua Apache Tribe and the leader of the Apache Wars. He is famous for taking his men with him and going rogue as well as being a known “celebrity” after the wars. Throughout his life he battled for the right to Indian Land. Geronimo fought against the Reservation System and continued to fight and flee until the Closing of the Frontier, when this came into effect Geronimo surrendered. Geronimo explains that the white men came into their existence…

I am writing to you for help to keep Bears Ears a National Monument. I think it is important to protect this land. There are people out there that are destroying this area in Utah. The Natives have a lot of history on this land and I think it is important to protect it from those who are destroying historical artifacts. Native Americans to this day are still performing ceremonial traditions and to keep it sacred for them. Ranchers are becoming upset because they want to use this land for…

The beginning of August 2016, a national issue occurred in a remote corner of North Dakota over the construction of a new 1,200-mile pipeline across Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. It is a great fear to the tribe in the Standing Rock Reservation that if the pipeline is to be built in this location near Missouri river a leak is probable. If an oil spill were to happen, it will not only destroy the water supply for Standing Rock Reservation but it would also destroy 50% of South Dakota's potable…

North Dakota Access Pipeline. It is also called the Bakken pipeline, since it is taking the crude oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. Since the beginning of the construction, there have been small protests from the local Native American Sioux tribe, but recently the protests have gotten much larger. The protestors have a strong argument. As with most oil production projects, the pipeline construction will involve despoiling lands and encroaching on communities. The North Dakota…

of life was, but one person that new was Sitting Bull. After reading The Lance and the Shield: The Life and times of Sitting Bull by Robert Utley I can fully believe how Sitting Bull actually was as a great leader of the Lakota tribe apart of the Sioux nation and as a great man spiritually. Utley has truly written a thorough and informed book that enlightens the reader into knowing the true Sitting Bull. Utley begins his book by giving the reader an in depth look into the Lakota tribe’s…

In In the bison hunting scenes, they used every kind of weapon they had, from spears to bows and arrows and knives to cut the bison. Dances with wolves also used his gun to save Smiles A Lot from a charging buffalo. Also, in the scene where the Sioux were in a battle with another tribe. They used spears to kill many of the people in the other tribe. In that battle, Dances…

The Dakota Access Pipeline has sparked controversy throughout America primarily in the past year due to differing beliefs about the sacred land that construction supposedly is ruining. After months of protests and spirit camps, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, a tribe that was relatively silent while others took action to protect their water supply , is taking the DAPL case to court using two deliberately planned legal strategies. Although the pipeline is complete and oil could start flowing any…

The design, however, never reached completion (Designs). In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered that the Sioux be paid for the land that had been stolen from them, but the chiefs would not accept the money, saying that the Black Hills still were not for sale. Although the war had ended long ago, it continued to be remembered and Red Cloud’s defiant nature lived on in the hearts of the Sioux. Seventy thousand Lakota remain today, living under poor conditions on five different reservations in…