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One of the most regretful and saddest battles in american and indian history is the Wounded knee massacre, Wounded Knee was the last battle that killed the last indian tribe. On the morning of December 29,1890, on wounded knee creek near the Pine Ridge agency, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S Army opened fire on the encampment of a band of miniconjou and sioux indians. The beginning of this battle started when the american military forced the indians to live like and live with white men, the…

Horse to surrender. One of the outcomes ends with Crazy Horse conforming and surrendering and the other ends with the Indians persuading him not to come in because the whites are liars and never stick to their word. General Crook sent three Indians, Sitting Bear, Lone Bear, and…

the darkness of night, then flowers flourished the next morning. In this desert there were two tribes along the river, one on the left and one on the right. Each tribe had a chief and the two chief’s names were Geronimo and Sitting Bull. Geronimo’s daughter was Awinita and Sitting Bull’s son was Alo. One day, Awinita was picking flowers along the river when she bumped into Alo who was fishing. As soon as their eyes met, it became true love at first sight! Each day they would visit each other by…

heroes. Custer was remembered by both historians and citizens as a tragic hero. Lastly, Welch stated that “it was inevitable that historians would get into the act and perpetuate the myth—objectivity be damned—that Custer was “brave” and “noble” and Sitting Bull was “clever” and “cunning”. In our historical memory the Indians remained savages, redskins, fiendish, bloodthirsty, soulless.” However,…

Crazy Horse attacked the general in Rosebud valley and forced the general to retreat. Later in summer of 1876, Crazy Horse merged his forces with Sitting Bull’s at Little Bighorn River. At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeated a battalion of soldiers George. A. Custer’s command. The Battle of the Little Bighorn made whites nervous about the Native Americans, so more of the army was sent in. Colonel Nelson A. Miles…

Sitting Man with a Pink Face by Irving Penn was taken in 1970 and printed on 1979. Graham’s photograph is known to be 52.5 cm by 49.4 cm as an image, 63.1 cm by 56 cm in paper form, and 65.8 cm by 56 cm as a mount. Eddie Pratt as Cupid by photographer David Graham was photographed in Pennsylvania. As I tried to do research on Graham's photograph, I cannot find how big this photograph can come. Each of these photographs were taken in the United States and have a Christian spirituality. These…

The Ghost Dance is a Native American religion that was instituted in the nineteenth century by a member of the Paiute tribe , Wovoka (Bowker , The Columbia Encyclopedia). The Ghost Dance Religion itself was a ritual for a peaceful end of the Western expansion and the Native Americans to get their land back . The actual dance ritual only lasted five days (each night of each day except for on the last day it was from the night until morning) (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions).…

The Apache Kid was one of the most notorious and fiercest Apache outlaw in the Wild West. He is a White Mountain Apache, later became a renegade. He was most active in the states of Arizona and New Mexico and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. Named Haskay-Bay-Nay-Natyl, the Apache Kid got his name due to wrong pronunciation of his name. He was recruited to the U.S Cavalry as Scout to fight his fellow Apache. Then after two years promoted to a sergeant. In his early days, he was…

Aspen Seaich Utah Studies Nov. 10, 2015 Etienne Provost Etienne Provost was born in 1785. He died on July 3, 1850. Provost lived in his house for about 35 years in St. Louis. He was in the American fur trade. He was jailed once by the Spanish. Some people wonder why the Provo River and the Provo City are named that name. Well it is because Etienne Provost gave his name to the Provo River and city. Most people considered Provost the most knowledgeable, skillful, and successful mountain men. In…

The Era where the Indians and the white people got along came to a crashing end. After the United States started to push the Indians off their land and force them into a smaller territory which we now call an Indian reservation. The interaction between the Indians and the white people did not have the greatest relationship but they were able to live together. The ways the Indians lived and way the whites lived their lives were different which one of the reason why they didn’t get along. The…