Wounded Knee? On December 29‚ 1890 the United States Army opened fire at a group of three hundred Sioux men‚ women‚ and children. Commanded by Colonel James W. Forsyth‚ the Seventh Cavalry attempted to unarmed the Sioux when a shot rang out. The first gunshot led to many more‚ mostly from the Cavalry‚ who killed many defenseless people with a rage-like assault. At the time of the massacre‚ Lakota Sioux Indians were living peacefully on a reservation near their sacred homeland in the Black Hills of
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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 throughout the Sioux Territory. He was one of those massacred at Wounded Knee in December 1980. Black Kettle Black Kettle was born near the Black Hills in present-day South Dakota. He was recognized
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Information circulated that reported that land as not protected by historic preservation laws and attributed the Sioux rebellion as being tied to money. The pipeline itself was described as running nowhere near the Sioux’s water supply and guaranteed to not leak or cause any serious harm if it ever did‚ despite the fact that the project was rerouted from its original
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In Cannon Ball‚ North Dakota there’s a land called Standing Rock Sioux reservation and that’s where the USACE wants to put a pipeline in. The Standing Rock Sioux reservation is a Native American sacred and burial ground. The Native Americans don’t want them putting the pipeline in because‚ it’ll contaminate their clean water and bother the people who were buried there. At first‚ the pipeline wasn’t a big deal and then the USACE wouldn’t cooperate and the THPO sued them which caused a very big problem
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The Plains Indians lived in the area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to Mexico. The most important tribes were the Sioux‚ Blackfoot‚ Cheyenne‚ Crow‚ Kiowa‚ and Comanche. The plains area was hotter than 100 degrees in the summer‚ and could drop to 40 degrees below zero with heavy snows in the winter. The region was so dry that when it rained it often flooded. The Great Plains was made up of grasslands‚ valleys‚ streams‚ and hills. There were very few
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stolen from them. My first reason to why the Native Americans should have their land back is because in the United states Fast-forward. 1980: The longest-running court case in US history‚ the Sioux Nation versus the United States‚ was ruled upon by the US Supreme Court. The court determined that when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders‚ the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated. The court
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new one. “According to the tribes‚ the term ‘Fighting Sioux’ and the Indian head logo are disrespectful and‚ in fact racist toward their heritage.” That’s just because I want to do what I want to do and it’s not fair that we make people act like that. The Sioux tribe finds major offense to the way they are being portrayed as the mascot. The word fighting before Sioux gives the Sioux tribe a bad look. The students of UND feel that the Sioux tribe should be honored that they are using them as their
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eventually‚ after meeting‚ become friends. The story starts when Dunbar goes to the American frontier to find a military post and while there‚ he soon finds out he is not alone. He meets a wolf he dubs ‘‘Two-socks’’ and a curious Indian tribe‚ the Sioux tribe. At first‚ the Indians do not accept him and want nothing to do with him because they do not respect or like white men. Having made contact with these people‚ Dunbar quickly becomes infatuated with their way of life and begins to adopt their
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” This unhappy confinement along with the many other struggles faced by Native Americans set the stage perfectly for the rise of a new religious revival among the western tribes‚ beginning with the Lakota Sioux. The Lakota Sioux also known as the Teton‚ were the westernmost part of the Sioux nation. The Lakota relied heavily upon the buffalo and lived in small bands that were frequently on the move. Their mobile lifestyle helped the Lakota to avoid problems like disease that other Native American
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Kettle‚ Red Cloud‚ Sitting Bull‚ and Spotted Tail. Big Foot Big Foot (? 1825-1890) was also known as Spotted Elk. Born in the 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 school throughout the Sioux Territory. He was one of those massacred at Wounded Knee in December 1890. (Bowman‚ 1995‚ 63) Black Kettle Black Kettle (? 1803-1868) was born near the Black Hills in present-day South
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