Sioux

white with red streaks of lightning, red with straight back lines of lightning, and yellow streaked with black lightning signified the various colors of the four quarters and six grandfathers. These two cultural practices by the Efiks people and the Sioux people was one that I chose to talk about because even though they vary in geographical location, their cultural practice tend to showcase striking…

Bear Butte Bear Butte is a very sacred site to many different Indigenous people’s cultures. Each of these cultures has their own origin story for the Butte. Bear Butte was the most sacred to the Cheyenne and to the Lakota peoples. The Cheyenne called it Noaha vose and Nahkohe vose meaning the giving hill and bear hill. The buttes origin story for the Cheyenne comes from the legend of Sweet Medicine. (Kinsella “Bear Butte: Crossroads of History”). Sweet Medicine travelled to the sacred butte,…

all the time, whether you know it or not. That is why I felt uneasy when I heard that protesters were unfairly protesting to stop building a pipeline that would transport sweet crude oil to areas where there is less of it. Today, the standing rock sioux tribe is trying to sue the Army Corps of Engineers, the builder of the pipeline, for trying to build a pipeline over their “sacred land” and their drinking source, the Missouri River. Today, me, Lauren, and my clients will prove to you why…

Cheyenne Paragraph The Cheyenne were a powerful,resourceful Native American Indian tribe.They often allied with Sioux and Arapaho.The Cheyenne settled along the Missouri River near the Mandan and Arikara tribes.The most Famous chiefs in the Cheyenne tribe included Dull Knife,Chief Roman Nose and Morning Star.There are a band of warriors called the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers.They were extremely courageous and fight to their death to protect their people. They migrated west across the Mississippi…

According to historian Gustav Niebuhr in, Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, a Priest and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors, writes that the commission used a half-breed named Godfrey [native name - Otakle], born to African American and…

examines the historical question of “to what extent did the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876?”. The key sources chosen to support this investigation are a book of compiled historical information from the United States Department of the Interior and an interview of a Native American woman that lived through both the Black Hills Gold Rush and the Great Sioux War. These are relevant because one has access to an extensive database of government resources relating to…

The Standing Rock Sioux fear that if the pipeline were to rupture it would contaminate their only source of drinking water which comes from the Missouri River. According to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration which is a branch of the government, have…

The name Sioux comes from Natawesiwak, that means enemy. The Chippewa gave this name. They were called themselves as Lakota, Dakota or Nakota, which means friend. These names are the dialects that their language evolved. They come from the area of forests, and the constant conflicts with Ojibwa enemies forced them to lead a nomadic life on the meadows. It was a nomadic and warlike people, and their traditional house was the Tipi, it is a kind of tent made of wooden poles and skins. In this era…

anything they want; however, when they grow they realize they must work for these possessions and often times struggle to earn these on their own. The crave to own such items is often criticized, as Sitting Bull, the leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe, writes, “Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.” Bull compares the love of possessions to a deathly disease. The most significant aspects of the American Dream…

The Dakota Pipeline is still an ongoing battle. The determined Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their many supporters are still protesting at full force. However the Deputy secretary of the Army will grant the permit to complete the pipeline. The Army working on the pipeline planned on granting a 30-year easement but it was hailed by Congressional Republicans and decried by Standing Rock Sioux tribe. In recent documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Army…