The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the environmentalist and local citizens raised high concerns about the potential health and environmental consequences of oil spills, because after many research’s pipelines always leak. The pipeline can contaminate the Missouri River, which supplies drinking water for millions of Americans households and irrigation supply for thousands of acres farming lands. The Native American tribe is concerned about the vicinity of the pipeline to their reservation. They are also concerned that the construction could disrupt their sacred ancestral burial grounds, [and some other cultural significance.]…
War Dance, Sioux also has a historical context. George Catlin created this oil on canvas artwork in 1845-1848. George Catlin did not randomly imagine this artwork. He, most likely, first sketched this scene near For Pierre in 1832, and, eventually, he created this painting in his studio years later. Therefore, since his historical culture involved Native Americans during a time of warfare, George Catlin created War Dance, Sioux.…
The historical context for George Catlin's War Dance, Sioux. The author seems to view the Indians as an energetic, unified group, as they take turns jumping through the fire in their ritual dance. It was likely painted between 1845 and 1848, the historical events framing this painting are the Mexican- American War and the implementation of Manifest Destiny that displaced many Indians from their homeland. The impression is the Indians binding together for a cause.…
The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 by Stephen Warren looks into the lives of Native Americans in the Old Northwest. This time was characterized by warfare and failed compromises between the Americans and Native Americans. Native Americans faced failure and removal much in part due to their inability to combine forces to fight against, or seek to gain rights from the American frontiersmen.…
The Sioux nation was a powerful proud nation which migrated and traveled over the Great Plains; their hunter gather lifestyle was encroached upon after the civil war in the United States. The Sioux were victimized socially politically and genocidal. The need to develop the western hemisphere of the United States, seen the lifestyle of the Sioux, as savage and a threat to settlers moving west. The government of the United States philosophy was that a good Indian was a dead Indian represented little hope of peace. Though peace treaties were inspired by the American government they held no validity and integrity as they were a means to eradicate the Sioux’s lifestyle. The American perspective in taming the west was to impose boundaries in the form of reservations on the Sioux and take away their freedom to hunt buffalo non-compliant Indians were deemed as hostile and classified an enemy of the United States, this ramification led into the Plains Indian wars.…
In 1875 the Black Hills Gold Rush begun and white settlers crossed the hunting ground of the Sioux tribe. The natives were upset and gathered around. This affected the white settlers who were trying to moving the west. The government ordered the Natives American to go back to their reservations. The US army sent out military leader Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and 265 soldiers to go against the Indians. On June 25, 1876 the Custer’s Last Stand war broke through. The Sioux tribe led by Rain-in-the-Face, War Chief Crazy Horse and their medicine doctor Sitting Bull with 2,500 natives crushed and killed Custer and all of Custer’s 265 soldiers. This resulted in a nationwide revenge against the Sioux tribes. By 1876 in October, three thousand…
The Sioux, under the direction of Red Cloud, retaliated by attacking the troops stationed in these forts relentlessly until the U.S. signed the second Fort Laramie treaty in 1868 which once again recognized Lakota sovereignty and national territoriality as well as creating the Great Sioux Reservation encompassing the majority of South Dakota. The treaty also stipulated that U.S. troops were to prevent non-Indians from trespassing into Lakota territory. However, one such trespasser found gold in the Black Hills and the U.S. government promptly dispatched the 7th cavalry to the area who corroborated the presence of this prized commodity and violated both treaties in one stroke (Churchill,…
Summary: In this text it’s pretty much introducing to all the topics and examples of the ways names are so important in our world today. He firstly describes how in past decades they always had a nickname like the 70s, 80s and 90s. But for the twenty first century years 2000 to 2009 has never received a nickname. He states how this is quite unfortunate and crazy because in the start of this 21st century we’ve had a lot accomplishment and devastating failures. Then in one of the same topics Patrick Olsen writes a text on “Does Your Pickup Truck Have a Nickname?” He states that people have a big love and enjoyment for inanimate things such as people who own trucks. He gives statistics and provides a survey…
The United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians was a case that was decided in the Supreme Court in 1980, but really goes back to the events surrounding the Fort Laramine Treaty of 1868. The events that led up to the Sioux Nation pursuing legal action can pretty much be summarized as the United States government using their military power and governmental law as a means to wrongfully and/or immorally take away land that was promised to the Sioux Nation in the Fort Laramine Treaty of 1868. The treaty stated that the Great Sioux reservation, including the Black hills, would be “set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation" of the Sioux Nation (Sioux), and that no treaty for the cession of any part of the reservation would be valid…
The Sioux Native Americans are a diverse tribe. There are three unions that make up seven different tribes that are distributed in the United States. The unions are the Dakota, or also known as the Santee, the Nakota, which makes up the Yankton and the Yanktonai tribes, and the final union is the Lakota, which makes up seven other tribes. The Santee Dakota can be found along the Minnesota River in what is now Minnesota. The Yankton Nakota migrated along the Missouri River in what is now southeastern South Dakota, and in southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa. The Lakota settled the greatest west to the Black Hills region of what is now western South Dakota, eastern Wyoming, and eastern Montana (fofweb.com). We can still see many factors made…
The Natchez are Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi. Archaeological evidence states that the Natchez people lived in the Natchez Bluffs region since as long ago as 700 A.D. The Natchez Indians were among the last American Indian groups to inhabit the area now known as southwestern Mississippi. Only after several disputes with the French were the Natchez dispersed.…
The one difference about these two plays that are pretty obvious is that both of the play were made at different times like in the movie “10 things I hate about you” the characters are dating and not into anything to serious but in “The taming of the shrew” when all the characters met they, one fell in love right away, two they did sex and got married not to long before they met. In both the play and film, Kat and Kate make changes in…
“The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare, is a very notorious play that has been rewritten and turned into multiple Hollywood films. One very popular version of the famous play is the movie directed by Mr. Franco Zeffirelli. Although most think that this version is the most accurate representation of the original play, there are still many distinct differences.…
Crazy Horse is one on the most ambiguous yet legendary leaders in the American Indian history. The book Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life attempts to tell the story of one of the most feared by foes, and honored by allies American Indian leaders. Kingsley M. Bray draws from primary sources and other biographies to construct the tragic sequence of childhood conflict, deception, and misjudgments that shaped the leader’s adulthood affairs and eventually led to his demise. The book reveals a new biography not only in the warrior’s battles, but also the often time overlooked political and religious struggles he faced. It gives a new outlook on the man inside the legend.…
Frontier wars would of been seen or felt the impact by every Aboriginal that came into contact with Europeans. The definition of a frontier war is fighting that happens on the border of the furthest extent of inhabited areas. A good example of this would be the Bathurst Wars which eventually become the largest military campaign to take place in our own country. The impact of the frontier war can still be felt today such as the destruction of sacred sites such as burials.…