The story draws the black elk as a savior and glorified man that has all the power‚ which ensured to him since he was young. It recorded the shift of the Sioux nation from previous reservation to reservation culture‚because of their engagement in the war of Little Bighorn. Black Elk provides evidence to the price where human struggle that the Sioux paid for the westward extension of the US. As an appreciation‚ it graves the passing of innocence and free American Indian and the current cultural rescission
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Native American have suffered due to White Settlers. White Settles moved out west and then there was conflict with White settler and Native Americans. When the White Settlers moved westward‚ they started killing Buffalo and Native Americans had to depended on buffalo for food‚ clothing‚ and shelter. The movement started with farmers who drove the Cotton Kingdom toward the west. More individuals started to move out west alongside the Cotton Kingdom with expectations of discovering gold in California
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The United States government possesses a long history of double-crossing Native Americans. The most recent event is the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline currently being protested by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters. Though the pipeline is more than halfway completed‚ protestor’s have held their ground since April of 2016‚ and show no sign of losing momentum. The tribe argues construction of the pipeline has already bulldozed into the sacred burial grounds of their ancestors
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com/2011/06/comanche.html> Because of their skill with these weapons‚ they were able to defeat many tribes alongside the Crow (Ryan 8). Together‚ the two tribes beat the Comanche and Shashamane in the west‚ the Cheyenne and Arapaho in the north‚ and the Sioux in the east (9). There’s an old Cherokee saying that states‚ “When the white man discovered this country‚ Indians were running it. No debt‚ no taxes‚ women did all the work. White man thought he could improve on a system like that” (American Indian
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bad image. If the property does not belong to the government‚ the soil should not be altered unless consent is given by the property owner. To begin with‚ the route that the Dakota Access Pipeline is being built on was placed on sacred ground of the Sioux Tribe. The sacred ground includes the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and it includes graveyards were they have buried their ancestors. Now before the government wants to build something‚ they need to make sure that whatever they are
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the Lakota Sioux Indians highlighting the instance of the Battle of Wounded Knee and Indian Boarding Schools are acts of genocide. The acts committed on the Sioux Indians can be deemed genocidal for a number of reasons‚ they might not have been acting on the basis to destroy the culture and the people of the Lakota Sioux yet it was the inevitable outcome. By default the members of the 7th Cavalry and United States Federal Government have committed acts of genocide on the Lakota Sioux Indians. The
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hero not only to his tribe but to many other people. Crazy Horse was groomed according to tribal customs. At this time‚ the Sioux prided themselves on the training and development of their sons and daughters‚ and they did not overlook a step in that development. Before he was 12‚ Curly had killed a buffalo and received his own horse. He witnessed the shooting of an old Sioux chief‚ Conquering Bear‚ by white soldiers on the Oregon trail. Seeing this dying chief set off everything in Crazy Horse’s head
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and setting. It was the eighteenth century and the Americans were beginning to invade the lands west of the Mississippi River. This caused problems because even though Americans saw the lands as an unoccupied region‚ Sitting Bull and his Lakota or Sioux people knew it as their homeland. While the Indians were living their normal lives by hunting and following the buffalo‚ the Americans were moving out west and fast. They established a railway and were on the move for gold. The buffalo population was
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The 1860’s brought hardship between whites and Indians. As our people slowly moved into the tribe’s land‚ no friendship was bound to be created. Little by little‚ we nudged the Indians into a limited area of land where they felt the need to fight back. Included in this retaliation was three massacres. The bloodiest battle according to the rest of the US military that was not murdered‚ was titled the Fetterman Massacre. The last two Massacres took place in territories such as Colorado and Missouri
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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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