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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…

Red Cloud; The most important Lakota leaders of the nineteenth century. Red Cloud was a Native American war leader who became an important part of history for his role in fiercely defending his peoples land against the U.S. government Chief Red Cloud was Chief of the Oglala Lakota tribe. Chief Red Cloud was Born in Nebraska in 1822, the Lakota chief Red Cloud was an important figure in the 19th century land battle between Native Americans and the U.S. government. He successfully resisted…

The film Dances with Wolves is motion picture based on a book by Michael Blake about a soldier in the American Civil War. The story of the movie has facts about indigenous people during Civil war in the United states. However, there are author’s thoughts and imagination as well. The film allocated for the life-saving image of Native Americans, which is very different from the typical Hollywood stamps that show Indians or “noble husbands” or “bloodthirsty savages”. The American Army lieutenant,…

In the painting, “Assiniboine Chief before and after Civilization” by George Catlin, it illustrated the tragic differences and the conflicts amongst the Native Americans and the white people. In the painting it shows two men dressed in different clothing on different sides of the painting. As you look closely you can tell that the two men are actually just one person. That mysterious man is an assiniboine chief. Located on the left side of the painting, the chief stands so great and proud. He…

This story is about a Spanish soldier describing his encounters with the Native Americans and how the Comaches were able to overpower the Spanish on their way San Saba Mission. The passage commences with a Sergeant being asked as to why he didn’t try to travel to the Mission by an alternative route instead of taking the one that was plagued by hostile Indians. The general responded by stating that they had been attacked when they were in a canyon that was in between many hills and a river.…

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…

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…