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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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    Ghost Dance History

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    After finding themselves devastated from being confined to reservations and dwindling numbers of buffalo‚ the Sioux tribe was left with little hope of as better future. They were desperate for any means to return them to their once great life of living free on their lands‚ undisturbed by the white race. By the 1890s‚ many took comfort in the preachings of a Paiute shaman called Wovoka. Claiming himself as a Messiah‚ he encouraged performing what was known as the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance was meant

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    critic notes

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    over this Outpost Fort Sedgewick. While he is there he encounters Sioux Indians trying to steal his horse‚ but cisco his horse comes back each time. So he sets out to communicate with them‚ and finds out they are nice people that just want to be left alone. I looked it up were it was filmed in and got these Specific locations included the “Badlands National Park”‚ the Black Hills in south Dakota is where there winter camp was the Sioux. Also the Sage Creek Wilderness Area and the Belle Fourche River

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    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown starts off discussing the relationship between the Native-Americans and the Whites. Along with the backstory of Christopher Columbus during the discovery of North America while on an expedition. It then discusses the history of the American and European discovery towards the settlement in North America from the late 1400s until the mid-1800s and how it affected the Native-Americans. What was once diplomatic‚ became more vicious as white exile from Europe

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    all along the railroad killing both natives and white settlers. These attacks caused the mobilization of the United States military towards what is now the Midwest‚ causing the Great Sioux War of 1876. The most notable battle in this war was the Battle of Little Bighorn. In this battle‚ warriors from the Lakota Sioux‚ Northern Cheyenne‚ and the Arapaho tribes‚ led by Sitting Bull and Crazy horse‚ fought the Seventh Regiment of the United States Cavalry‚ led by Colonel George Custer‚ on June 25th 1876

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    The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion Thesis: The transcontinental railroad greatly increased Westward expansion in the United States of America during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The history of the United States has been influenced by England in many ways. In the second half of the 1800 ’s‚ the railroad‚ which was invented in England‚ had a major effect on Western expansion in the United States. "Railroads were born in England‚ a country with dense populations

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    Balny d’Avricourt‚ Adrien‚ L’enseigne Balny at la conquête du Tonkin: Indochine 1873. Paris: Éditions France-Empire‚ 1973. 324 pp. Armand di Biencourt‚ Au Tonkin‚ 1884-1885-1886. Paris: Imprimerie générale Lahure‚ 1898. 81 pp. Mark Philip Bradley‚ Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam‚ 1919–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press‚ 2000. xiv‚ 304 pp. Pierre Brocheux‚ The Mekong Delta: Ecology‚ Economy‚ and Revolution‚ 1860–1960. Madison: Center for

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    October 22‚ 2013 US History 1010 Lewis and Clark the Corps of Discovery The Lewis and Clark expedition‚ better known as The Corps of Discovery. This was the first party to ever venture the west of the United States. They departed May 1804 on the Mississippi river from St. Louis where they made their way west through the continental divide to the coast of the pacific. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition. The Louisiana Purchase was one of

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    Since the start of The United States of America the colonists and later Americans had to deal with the Natives that were rightfully there first. The federal government’s diplomacy approach with Native Americans during the time periods of 1790 to 1880 and 1880 to 1900 differ in a few ways. During the period of 1790 to 1880 the government participated it removals‚ treaties‚ reservations‚ and even war. In addition‚ the treaties and acts in this time period that the government approached with‚ usually

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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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