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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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    search of game‚ and became hostile toward the other tribes claiming the western country. Dakota was their traditional tribal name‚ but as they crossed this Northwestern Rubicon they became known by the name the Chippewas had given them years ago: "Sioux". It was by that moniker they became known as the most numerous and powerful nation of Native Americans -- warriors‚ women‚ and children -- to be found in the Northern Hemisphere. They were proud warriors when they launched out on their expedition

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    Justice and Fairness

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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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    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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    Alone on Top a Hilltop

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    John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. It is an exciting story about a young Sioux boy becoming a man and what that journey looked like for him. Four important points of the essay (be sure to use your own words‚ without quotations): 1) Indian children never being alone. 2) The peace pipe playing an important part in the young Sioux night alone. 3) The young Sioux wanting to be a medicine man. 4) What the young Sioux went through wasn’t for nothing and he accomplished his task. The text structure:

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    argue that if it weren’t for factors such as the Zollverien‚ cultural and political nationalism and the Strength of Prussia and decline of Austria‚ Bismarck would not have been nearly as successful. Before Bismarck burst onto the political scene in 1862‚ it is clear to see that the foundations for unification were already laid‚ this is shown in the economic strength of Prussia prior to 1871. The Zollverien was and important factor as it brought many German states together economically and excluded

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    Why was General Custer Defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn? History The Battle of Little Bighorn was a conflict‚ which changed the history of the Indians and Americans. It was in 1876‚ that Sitting Bull combined forces with the Cheyenne and Sioux Native American tribes‚ defeating the U.S 7th Cavalry‚ under the leadership of George Armstrong Custer. But how could a highly trained‚ heavily armed cavalry officer and his command be defeated by a group of Native American Indians? General Custer

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