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lived on for hundreds of years. He also presents an interesting opinion on the chief Red Cloud, who made negotiations with the United States Government to sell land in an attempt to protect his people. The members of Black Elk’s tribe recognized that with every negotiation made, the whites always wanted more, and so they lost respect for their leader, whom they saw as weak. In the ninth chapter, Black Elk and his friends share their memories of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or as they refer…

Tatanka Iyotake a principal war chief of the Lakota and Oglala Sioux better known as Sitting Bull , once said “If we must die, we die defending our rights”. This shows the strong tension between the native americans and the settlers. Throughout history the two groups created multiple treaties among each other. As gold mines were discovered, indian land was bought off by the white settlers, the indians were faced with the ultimate choice: assimilation or extermination. The age old quote, “kill or…

The largest argument against the pipeline is that it will run directly through the Lakota Sioux tribe’s burial ground and sacred sites (Reuters, 2016). Environmentalists also worry that the pipeline will break. If the pipeline breaks, the Lakota will no longer have clean drinking water, and the surrounding area will be devastated. In the Lakota…

The North Dakota pipeline protest is arguably the most influential protest of our time, regarding Native Americans and the environment. There are certain things that should be endowed to any human being. And two of those things are access to clean drinking water and a place to lay their loved ones to rest. Native people have been protesting the construction of the North Dakota access pipeline for months now, with no end in site. The construction of this pipeline threatens not just native peoples…

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…

RELIGION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PLAINS One of the largest and most influential tribe is Lakota. It is also known as “Sioux”, which means snakes. The Wakantanka, which means “the Great Spirit” or “the Great Mysterious”, refers to the 16 deities and was derived from the number 4 (multiplied by the number itself). The number 4 was a sacred number and it refers to the 4 directions (north, south, east, and west). The Wakantanka was known at the Creator. The Inktomi, which means spider, was a…

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, and the area was declared a war on all inputs other than India. He and his band of Oglala Sioux were a number of attacks on American settlers and miners have traveled to Oregon and Bozeman way. Captain William Fetter man has led to a relief party to India…

law before it can be completed (Yan, Park, Ravits and Sidner, 2017). Since the signing of executive order, protesting about the pipeline has been an ongoing event. The main protester against the Dakota Pipeline is a tribe known as the Standing Rock Sioux (Yan, Park, Ravits and Sidner, 2017). Their key concern is the pipeline being tunneled under Lake Oahe, which is a section…

Crazy Horse was a Oglala chief who fought 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.…

should not be one and can it easily be threatened? Source C discusses the possibility of putting up a monument that perhaps should not be one. Namely, Mount Rushmore. As the author of the document states: “It was bad enough that white men drove the Sioux from hills they still hold sacred; did they have to carve faces all over them too?” In essence, the author is suggesting that Mount Rushmore can come across as insensitive--graffiti,…