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    Dakota Access Pipeline

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    successfully providing a positive or negative freedom to citizens. Keeping in mind that our government by law is meant to serve and protect its citizens with both positive and negative freedoms‚ this theoretical approach would side with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. The first amendment in the bill of rights lists citizen’s positive freedoms that include freedom of expression‚ freedom of religion‚ freedom to assemble and freedom of speech. With these rights‚ peaceful

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    Dances with Wolves Film Review Film Information: Title: Dances with Wolves Lead Actors: Kevin Costner and Mary McDonnell Release date: 1990 Studio: TIG Productions and Majestic Films International Is considered a Fiction Movie. Although the film was added to the Library of Congress stating it as being "culturally‚ historically‚ or aesthetically significant."(Library of Congress). Map of Film Location: Here is map of where the movie took place. Most of the movie was filmed on location

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    Textual Rhetorical Analysis John Fire Lame Deer was a Sioux Indian tribal leader‚ medicine man‚ rodeo clown‚ and storyteller amongst other things. A selection from his autobiography Seeker Of Visions: The Life Of A Sioux Medicine Man titled “Talking to the Owls and Butterflies” is a short piece regarding nature and man’s relationship with it. The piece was intended to make an impression on white people in order to help salvage what is remaining in the environment. Lame Deer reprimands the “white

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    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee By Dee Brown Copyright Notice Some or all of these eNotes are an offprint from Gale ’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works. ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group‚ Inc.‚ a division of Thomson Learning‚ Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. ©2005 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced

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    The Ghost Dance

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    While adopting the movement‚ many tribes added specific customs and rituals that reflected the tribe’s individuality. The Sioux‚ for instance‚ added two specific elements including the use of hypnosis to bring about trances as well as aid in communication with the dead‚ and Ghost Clothing.

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    Nate Murray Wounded Knee Massacre – Black Elk Speaks‚ The Butchering At Wounded Knee History and background How it started: In years previous to the massacre the US government had been seizing large portions of the Native American tribe‚ the Sioux’s lands. Bison herds had reached near extinction and the treaty promises to the Native Americans protecting reservation lands were not being met. It was during this time that news spread among the reservations of a Native American prophet by the name

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    Over a century ago‚ the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory were home to several tribes of Native American Indians‚ including the Lakota Sioux. This land was rich in resources and provided plentifully for these people‚ who were very spiritual‚ and believed that it had been left to them by their god. By 1876 however‚ life had been violently disrupted by the greed and disregard of the white men who felt entitled to the gold of the Black Hills and invaded the territory; laying railroad‚ depleting resources

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    The Battle at Wounded Knee

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    One early and freezing morning on December 29th‚ 1890‚ an elderly chief of the Sioux Indians named Big Foot marched to the banks of Wounded Knee creek. Over 350 of his followers marched with him and camped there. Around Wounded Knee creek was US government troops that were going to arrest Big Foot and take all of his followersfollower’s weapons away. Many different controversies started all of this trouble. The Sioux tribe had no buffalo‚ and they couldn’t roam wherever they wanted. It was almost

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    The word “home” is defined as a place where one becomes familiar to and is their main focus. A “home” is a territory one marks to protect it from any outsiders that are arriving to invade. A “home” is the place the Standing Rock Sioux tribe resides in and has situated their whole lives in. An invader‚ a pipeline‚ is being built to seize a way of lifestyle‚ a human right‚ and one whole community. The Dakota Access Pipeline‚ a 1‚200 mile undertaking‚ must not be built to recognize the battle that

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    Sitting Bull

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    Sitting Bull was published in the encyclopedia which had a different point of view from the story that was published in 2001. In the 1911 story‚ Sitting Bull comes from a tribe called Dakota Sioux. He led attacks on white settlers in Iowa and Minnesota during the Civil War. His father was also a chief of the Dakota Sioux tribe. Sitting Bull had pretended to make peace with the whites‚ but he attacked them many times. Fearing he would have gotten punished for being in the massacre that killed General George

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