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    Stage three of Campbell’s monomyth begins as Chief Ten Bears instructs the village to move to its winter camp. Since his first day at Fort Sedgwick Dunbar had kept a daily journal of his activities, including guidelines to the location of the Sioux, and evidence that he has retained too much information about their ways, “In this fashion it becomes an entirely symbolic record of his metamorphosis, a map which traces his spiritual journey” (Smith). This begs the question, was he right to endanger…

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    surrounded a camp of Sioux Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. According to eyewitness to history, Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890, the Cavalry’s mission was to arrest the Miniconjou Lakota’s chief, Big Foot, and disarm his warriors, because of their involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. The conflict quickly arose, as a result of the tension that had been building up between the two sides for the past few months. During a search for weapons among the Sioux people, one…

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    The spiritual dance that Wovoka stressed upon would be performed with hundreds of people in attendance. The people would gather in a large circle in a space that was cleared of all grass and obstructions on the reservation. Sheets would then be placed around them. A freshly cut sapling would be placed in the center of the circle to le praised as the prayer tree. The sapling would be decorated with a multicolored cloth or occasionally a miniature American lag. Wovoka, dressed in a white man’s…

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    American Indian Traditions

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    Western Hemisphere of the Earth. South Dakota is the current home of the Sioux Nation tribe. South Dakota has ten reservations located in our state, one that covers part of Nebraska (Johnston, n.d., para. 4). South Dakota is one of the many states where American Indian traditions are still celebrated. Through all the struggles and the triumphant Sioux pride has remained. Luther Standing Bear wrote the book My People the Sioux to show how his life was changed through assimilation. Although…

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    ago, enemies of the Sioux were taking their horses and running off the buffalo. Standing Bear the First asked his brave warriors to help punish the enemies and make them return to their homeland. On his horse Standing Bear, was followed by ten warriors on foot. His horse was his most prized possession. For days, the party traveled, but the enemy hid, because they didn’t want an open fight with the Sioux. Enemies knew that the they were the bravest of the brave. Eventually the Sioux found and…

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    Native American tribe called the Sioux occupied this land. The United States Government saw this as a problem. On January 31, 1876, the government urged the Sioux leader named Sitting Bull, and his people to give their land away to white settlers and move to a reservation. The Sioux decided not to leave, and that this was their land. At this point, the Sioux and the whites hated each other. Meanwhile, the United States Army was marching in to force the Sioux to move to a reservation. The…

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    We have come to learn over the course of time that American Native Indians still have no clear answer on whether they are considered sovereign or not. The definition of sovereignty is to possess power, and although some Indian Tribes are climbing the ladder in earning this right, there is one reservation imparticularly that is suffering due to the neglect of the US Government. The Pine Ridge Reservation is one of the poorest areas in America and suffers great poverty due to the actions of the…

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    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…

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    Red Cloud Legacy

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    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…

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    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…

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