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slept and resulted in a horrible massacre of the Indians. A federal peace keeping commission in 1868 enacted the Treaty of Fort Laramie to make up for government mistreatment of the tribes. The treaty admitted U.S. defeat in the Great Sioux War in 1868 and gave the Sioux perpetual land…

She shares historical facts with a sound knowledge of the beliefs and the culture of the Sioux people and furthermore shares the emotions that took place during those turbulent decades. I think that her book is so well known and widely recommended because it is not just battles or the shifting movements of the Sioux that she deems as important, but also those intervals between historical events, the understanding, and emotions of the people and their…

and would kill the white men on sight, not all of them were. Most men were afraid of the Native Americans or hated them because of society’s already set prejudices. Although there was one man, John Dunbar, that got a very close experience with the Sioux tribe of Native…

of creation. Prior to creation of Earth for the Lakota Sioux the gods resided in a celestial domain. Secondly Australian Aboriginal, Baiame the god existed before creation. Thirdly in Wakaranga African, God existed before creation. Lastly the Hopi, Hard-Being Women deities of the East and West ocean and the sun existed prior to creation. An additional similarity between all four religions is problems in the creation process. The Lakota Sioux creation problems when Takuskankan the god found out…

The process of deciding what college to attend, is one of the most difficult tasks that one can have in their lives. There are so many variables in choosing the right school, the education, sports, size, denomination. The University of Sioux Falls is a great fit for me because of many different things like the size, education, and the denomination. Being able to play a sport that you enjoy and study the intended majors are great to have. But in addition, the close relationships that all students…

Americans are lecturing Native Americans on what should offend them” (Hyman).This is from an article about the University of North Dakota and their mascot. The Fighting Sioux have been told that there name is racial and crude by the board of education and other representatives. But, they haven’t discussed this with their origin, the Sioux tribe, who wants them to keep the name. They see it as an honor to be represented by the people of their town. According to Playboy magazine,”90 percent of…

decided in 2009. On July 15, 2006, a woman called the Sioux City Police Department to report that Luis Ortiz, who she hired to do remodeling work in her house, “had forced her seven-year-old daughter to touch his penis”. After a brief meeting with Ortiz Detective Bertrand asked ortiz is he was willing to go to the police station with him for an interview. Once both arrived to the police station Detective Bertrand and Salvador Sanchez, a Sioux City officer, acting as translator, handed Ortiz a…

resources’ to be dealt with, rather it focuses on the possibility of harming or ruining a large resource that would have a large impact on many people, particularly the Standing Rock Sioux. According to Time Magazine, “The pipeline would travel underneath the Missouri River, the primary drinking water source for the Standing Rock Sioux, a tribe of around 10,000 with…

The indigenous plight against the “civilized” men is glossed over in traditional history books. In the domination and expansion of the Western settlement, the indigenous faced terrible conditions by the effects of the white men, whom in a Western fashion of conqueration eradicated the indigenous culture, and deliberately through the law committed acts of racial discrimination in the name of capitalism. Within the 1800s, the indigenous were forced onto reservation land slowly, and to be…

Ohiyesa later has to pick a white man's name so they do not know he came from a tribe. He chooses the name Charles Eastman. After he studies to become a doctor he is taken back to his tribe of the Sioux reservation, to help the sick people of his tribe. Sitting Bull, the last chief to come to the Sioux reservation was not following any of the rules and not doing what the people wanted him to do. The white people tried to get him to do what they wanted him to do but he would…