Buffalo‚ and many acts such as the Dawes act and Homestead. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29‚ 1980‚ near Wounded Knee Creek on an Indian Reservation. It was a battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians. This battle resulted in the deaths of 300 Sioux men‚ women‚ and children. The massacre
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In the spring of 1868‚ a conference held at Fort Laramie (present day Wyoming)‚ resulted in the Sioux Treaty of 1868. The treaty stated that as long as the Sioux agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory‚ there would be peace between the whites and Sioux. However‚ when migrant workers repeatedly violated the treaty‚ they found gold within the Black Hills. So in 1874‚ General George A. Custer and the United States Army led an excursion to the Black Hills with the
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Lakota Sioux medicine man and war chief Sitting Bull led his following of 135 lodges across the "medicine line" which was the name used for the border between the United States and Canada. Sitting Bull ’s decision to move his people north into the Province of Saskatchewan was the outcome of the gradual erosion of the Sioux way of life in the American plains because of the decimation of the buffalo herds. In addition‚ he was unable to protect his people against the U.S. military in the Great Sioux War
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Americans off their lands all because the federal government wanted the U.S. to expand and obtain Manifest Destiny. The main Native American and tribe that stood against the federal government was Sitting Bull‚ Chief of the Sioux and entire Lakota nation. He led a large amount of Sioux warriors in many battles against the American government that were fought over the rights and lands of the Lakota nation. He was against the American government and the forceful ways that they took over Indian lands‚ and
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Newspaper Report: Battle of the Wounded Knee Yesterday‚ December 29‚ the continuous American tension with Indians finally shatters into a massacre between the Sioux Indians and the U.S Army’s 7th regiment. It is said that this battle truly begun when an outburst of ghost dancing from the Sioux Indians brought fear of rebellion to James McLaughlin‚ an Indian Agent. McLaughlin later recalls what he had said to his superiors that day‚ “Indians are dancing in the snow and are wild and crazy.
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the US Army and tribes of the Western Sioux Nation take place at all? The battle took place in 1876. For many years before this date‚ the Sioux and the American government had been in conflict. The Sioux nation was a powerful collection of tribes. Throughout the Nineteenth Century‚ they had been pushed further and further west as the white settlers expanded into the American heartland from the Thirteen Colonies on the eastern seaboard. By 1850‚ the Sioux nation had been cut in two by the expansion
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The Sioux tribe was impacted by Westward Expansion in many ways. The U.S. army tried to gain control of the Sioux ‚ many of whom entered and left reservations at will. The U.S. army then attempted to force the remaining Sioux tribe of the land by sending more forces under Colonel George Cluster into the hills of South Dakota. The Westward Expansion was also detrimental to the needs of not only the Sioux tribe but all Native American tribes. Most tribes depended solemnly on buffalo for food as well
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The Sioux were thought of as violent and scary when really‚ the things they were doing‚ were beautiful. They have many traditions that revolve around life. Even today the Sioux carry on their ancestor’s beliefs and stories. Their ideas of life itself were special. The Sioux is an overall unique tribe. One of the most important things to the Sioux is the Sun Dance. The Sun Dance is a ceremony that lasts four days. It shows honor towards the sun and bravery to overcome pain (David J. Wishart‚ 1).
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Reconstruction and the West Reconstruction and the West The post-Civil War South has been called the “New South.” In what ways did it succeed in reinventing itself? In what ways did it fail? The south’s reconstruction failed for many reasons in my opinion. First off many states rejected the 13th Amendment. Furthermore‚ many of the southern states had no intentions of giving Blacks any type of true freedoms. Many states tried to make the African Americans as property-less as possible. They were
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The legend of the famous Devils Tower in Wyoming‚ according to the Sioux tribes of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota‚ tells a vivid story of young boys‚ and how this tower helped them to escape the grasps of a gigantic grizzly bear. The Rosebud Indian Reservation is federally recognized as the Sicangu Oyate tribe‚ or the Sicangu Lakota‚ which is a more specific group within the Lakota tribe. (Rose‚ “About the Sicangu Oyate”) They say a group of young boys wandered off playing with their
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