Wounded Knee was a massacre that killed many Sioux Indians. This occurred on December 29‚ 1890. All happened when soldiers wanted to arrest the Sioux Indians. The main reason was for the soldiers to arrest the chief. As they tried to arrest him there began a intense fight against the Indians and soldiers. This went on for many months‚ during theses months much happened Such as many deaths‚ ghost dances and what happened at the end. On December 29‚1890 many soldiers rallied the Sioux
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Sitting Bull said “If we must die‚ we die defending our rights.”(Quotes- sitting bull). Sitting Bull was a Sioux Indian that was willing to die to protect his land and his rights. Sitting Bull shows us that he is a rebel because he united the struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains. Sitting Bull was born in 1831 in Grand River and he joined his first war party at the age of 14. This battle was a bad one; it was known as the Battle of Little Big Horn and it lasted about 20 minutes
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PLAINS INDIANS The American Indians are among the best known of all Native Americans. These Indians played a significant role in shaping the history of the West. Some of the more noteworthy Plains Indians were Big Foot‚ Black Kettle‚ and Crazy Horse. Big Foot Big Foot was also known as Spotted Elk. Born in the Northern Great Plains‚ he eventually became a Minneconjou Teton Sioux chief. He was part of a tribal delegation that traveled to Washington‚ D.C.‚ and worked to establish schools
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The Indians were given two choices‚ they could either get off the reservation or receive military enforcement. They did not answer which forced the US to send the army to the land. On May 17‚ 1786‚ Sioux warriors scalped 12 men and prompted the attack of General George Crook and 1300 men. This made everyone mad and so‚ the first real battle began in Rosebud Creek on June 17. This battle prompted little bighorn because Custard was searching for Indian tribes who fought in the battle and aided the
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In chapter 2 “Eating Christmas with the Kalahari‚” Richard Borshay Lee writes about his experiences in Kalahari. He decides that he wants to part of their Christmas tradition by slaughtering an ox for the tribe. He wanted to do this to say thank you for letting him study them for the past years. He wanted to find the biggest ox and does. When he shows the tribe the ox he was going to slaughter for Christmas‚ they all laughed at him and told him the ox was indeed big‚ but it was also old and thin
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2013 Neat Vs. Sloppy In Suzanne Britt’s "Neat People Vs. Sloppy People" and Dave Barry’s " Batting Clean Up and Striking Out" both author’s examine just complicated human relationships can be considering how many types of personalities are out there. They both share certain literary elements‚ but differ immensely
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Famous people and their privacy Like most children‚ you and I probably once fantasized about being famous when we were older. Whether it’s mesmerizing thousands with music‚ or having a star role in an action movie‚ being a famous celebrity is something most people in North America covet in at least one point of their life. But famous people are always persuaded by photographers and reporters‚ which destroys their privacy‚ and enables the public to know the daily life of every celebrity. Celebrities
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she didn ’t know how bad things were. As a child‚ she wasn ’t very religious; the only true religious figures in her life were her uncle Bill and her grandparents‚ who still lived in the Sioux way. She was still very young when the "do-good" white people took her away from her family to the Catholic school. Catholicism was forced upon her often in abusive ways. Abusive priests and nuns distorted the meaning Catholicism‚ an impression like that is very hard to reverse. Conditions not much better than
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youth group. It was my first summer with the group and I was invited to go along with them on a mission trip to an Indian reservation in Bridger‚ South Dakota. I’d been told many things about the people of Bridger. They had very little in comparison to me but yet they were some of the happiest‚ most humble people I would have the pleasure of meeting. I was told that seeing what they had and what they made of it would change my perspective on life itself. I decided I would join the group that summer to
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People are people Autumn Heather Lundy Concorde Career College Friday‚ July 12‚ 2013 Prepared for MS Hill Multicultural competence is the ability to appreciate‚ value‚ interact with and benefit from difference cultures. Cultures are group with a common outlook. They may be racial or ethnic; male or female; of a certain sexual orientation belief or age (job readiness‚ 2013‚ page 104). You will always see in this world multicultural competence because every judges everybody. Before I was born
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