Sioux

The Dakota access pipeline is an affliction to everyone who has a sense of compassion and understanding, especially to indigenous people who are being taxed with decisions and demands from careless people who conceal their true intentions with false facts and reasonings,when all they care about is the green in promising. Recently the $3.8 billion project has become one of America's most followed up protest, for it keeps gaining many people's attention with every protest and support. There are…

In 1889, President Harrison’s government promulgated a new Indian policy that came with some radical changes. It declared that families were to live on 320-acre individual allotments instead of residing in multifamily camps or villages; they were to support themselves by agriculture and instructed by Euro-American Farmers; and lastly, children were to be sent to boarding schools. The boarding school's primary purpose was to cut off the children from their Indian heritage and make them speak…

big foot. Most people don't believe in Bigfoot, but i do. It would be awesome if someone really proved that Bigfoot is real and there is a lot of them Upon big foots father's death,bigfoot became the leader of the tribe. They suffered during the Sioux war for the black hills after the war, they settled on the Cheyenne river in South Dakota. “Big foot encouraged his people to adapt to life on the reservation”(“Big foot”).Bigfoot is in the species of giants,It stands between 7 to 9 feet tall…

He fights many battles with U.S. soldiers to preserve his freedom and the Sioux ownership of the Black Hills. He and Crazy Horse are victorious at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. When the U.S. military comes, Sitting Bull and some of his followers move into Canada. However, he becomes a military prisoner after he returns to…

Indians facing persecution turn to Native American religion and practice traditional sacred ceremonies in order to escape the reality of the psychological and physical mistreatment they face within American society. Mary Crow Dog was a Sioux Indian of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. (Pg.5) As a child Crow Dog attended the St. Francis boarding school where Indian children were forced to assimilate and faced with punishment if they disobeyed. (Pg.4) Crow Dog became involved with the…

and Con scholarly independent publication, summaries Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-I) attempts to slow the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline; He attempted to slow the progress by adding an amendment to a water project bill. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe believe a spill would pollute water, destroy sacred sites and burial grounds. Energy Transfer Partners claim that the pipeline would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and creature local jobs. The article claims Senator Sanders’s…

and the European Americans thought of being superior. It causes cultural issues that led to Reservation Systems which the U.S. Government forced Native Americans tribes to live in certain areas. This act caused rebellious plans such as the Dakota Sioux Uprising of 1862, the Dawes Act of 1887 and Geronimo. Another major conflict were the issues with land, trade, medicine and cultural differences such as the Ghost Dance, even though some Natives accepted the Treaty Process,…

racism. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is 1,172 miles long and made to carry oil from North Dakota to southern Illinois; however, this project is controversial, sparking protests, due to it crossing the drinking water source of the Standing Rock Sioux, a Native American tribe. The first news…

The Sioux Tribe’s Weapons The Sioux Tribe used many different materials to create their own weapons. Their weapons were used for different purposes, such as hunting and fighting. Some weapons include bows, arrows, and spears. One of the mostly used weapons in the Sioux Tribe is a double curved bow, which was used for fighting and hunting. This Sioux bow is double curved and has red flannel at the handle and at the curves in the limbs.These bows were prepared according to the length of each…

entertainment as it was to give a glimpse into the horrors of American and Native American history, as it is based on the book by the same name that is a history of Native Americans in the 1860 's and 70 's. While this movie focuses particularly on the Sioux tribe, Charles Eastman, and Sitting Bull, it is mostly representative of what Native Americans went through as a whole. Of course, all movies take some creative liberties in order to make them more "interesting" to their viewers, but "Burn…