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    Sitting bull was destined to be the almighty chief of the fierce Lakota tribe at a young age. “He had been divinely chosen to lead and protect his people, and established himself in this role while still a young man.” (Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Sioux) 1). Sitting bull knew even before he was a man that he would have to lead a great nation through adversity, and was ready to take on anything fist first. This showed strong leadership at a young age. Sitting bull was known as a non-peaceful man from…

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    President Obama to permanently stop construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 to tell President Obama to Stand with Standing Rock and “deny the easement to the Dakota Access Pipeline.” Donate to Standing Rock Sioux to sustain the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline. Protest in your local community, in your online spaces, and in any way you can. Inform your friends, family, classmates, strangers about why the DAPL sucks, and what we need to do to…

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    Dakota Pipeline

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    pipeline is a pipeline that is being built to transfer crude oil fro North Dakota to Illinois. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose reservation is directly affected by the pipeline in North and South Dakota, has been opposed to it since 2014, when they learned about the plans. The pipeline is designed to go under the Missouri River, which is the primary source of drinking water for the Sioux, who argue that not only does this put their water in danger and further contribute to man-inflicted…

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    Sitting Bull Thesis

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    Sitting Bull or Tatanka Iyotake was one of the most prominent Native American leaders in all time. He was a Sioux tribe leader who located in the Great Plains region of modern day South Dakota around 1874 when gold was discovered in the Black Hills. Sitting Bull’s main focus was war and opposition of the American settlers. He began training and fighting in battles from the age of fourteen up to his death at age fifty-nine. During Sitting Bull’s early years, he didn’t really interact or witness…

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    in an honorably battle against the rival clan. After killing his first buffalo and fighting in his first battle he was named, Tatanka-Iyotanka. His name he was given meant, “A buffalo bull sitting on its haunches.” Sitting Bull was the son of a Sioux warrior named Returns Again. They also called his father Returns Again because he was…

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    His first encounter with whites occurred in 1862 when the Santee Sioux uprising occurred in Minnesota. In July 1864, the chief vowed to keep his people from the white man’s world, and to never sign a treaty that would force them to live on a reservation. The chief’s disregard for treaties and reservation life attracted…

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    At the beginning of this paper and before we go into deep details, I will go into some of the headnotes that give the reader sort of good view of the Dakota tribe. Essentially, the word Dakota means ally in their language, which is the Dakota Sioux language. The Dakota people are a Native American tribe located in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota and North Dakota. The Dakota people are First Nations band government in North America and the largest division of the Siouan family. The Dakota…

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    The Wounded Knee Massacre

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    Wounded knee is located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. South Dakota is home to the Sioux tribe and many of its counterparts including the Oglala, Rosebud, and the Yankton Sioux tribes. Wounded Knee, named after a creek on the reservation, was remembered as a place of much resentment, betrayal, of “the white man’s lies and promises,” and of lost hope because of the massacre that took place there in 1890. Eighty-three years later this same site would host a more controversial…

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    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…

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    The journalists of the day quickly took it upon themselves to condemn this sacred practice labeling it as that of extremist’s intent upon killing all the white people. That’s not what it means to the Native Americans. It’s a sacred ceremonial the Sioux performed to bring back the buffalo and return the Native American tribes to their land. A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead; that began in Nevada. I have even been told this by my grandmother. I feel a…

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