The writer Jack Shakley formed the article‚ "Indian mascot - you’re out" which distributed in 2011. Shakley composed the article once the debate of the University of North Dakota attempted to change its mascot from The Fighting Sioux. He uses a modest bunch of solid sources that helps his contention and sentiment on the theme. He started constructing his assurance by utilizing his own associations with the theme. All through his article‚ Shakley has used a great deal of passionate interest. He
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The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal‚ have the rights to life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness‚ and have control of the government when it becomes destructive‚ these rights ‚ although stated in Americas constitution‚ were not granted to the Native Americans. The Native Americans were made to endure the hardships of being forced out of their land‚ being killed‚ thrown into countless wars‚ and promised lies. The 1830’s and 1890’s proved to be some of the worst
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English‚ so that they could communicate. The Lieutenant found a friend‚ which was a wolf‚ and became friendly with it‚ letting it eat from his hand. From this knowledge‚ the Indians named Dunbar‚ "Dances With Wolves"�. From then on‚ he helped the Sioux Indians fight against the Pawnee‚ by giving them guns. During this time‚ the Indian woman who was actually white but was raised as an Indian and Dances With Wolves fell in love and married. Then‚ Dances With Wolves told the Indians that more white
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The knowledge that the government lacked to know was that the Bighorn Valley was the local gathering place for Indian tribe meetings and camped at Little Bighorn were seven to ten thousand Indians‚ mostly comprising of Sioux and Cheyennes. Sitting Bull and his allies among them. Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s army was defeated and Custer dies. After the Little Bighorn victory‚ Sitting Bull and a number of his followers fled to Canada to escape the government’s
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Nicole Smith Professor Ben Beshwate History of the United States (132) Homework Assignment 2 05 February 2013 Sitting Bull With the possible exception of Crazy Horse‚ nobody is a more recognizable figure in the Indian resistance against the US settlers. I believe the author chose him as the focal point of this chapter not only for that reason‚ but because he‚ perhaps more than anybody else‚ embodied the spirit of the Lakota people‚ and nobody fought with more determination to protect it.
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One of my favorite movies is Dances With Wolves. Dances With Wolves is a 1990 American epic western film directed and produced by Kevin Costner. Kevin Costner plays the star character‚ Lieutenant‚ John J. Dunbar. He is wounded in the American Civil War. He chose to try to commit suicide over having his foot amputated by taking a horse and riding it up to and along the confederate soldiers’ front lines. They failed to shoot him. The Union Army attacks the line while the confederate soldiers
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The Fetterman Massacre The Fetterman Massacre‚ also known as the Fetterman Fight‚ the Battle of the Hundred Slain‚ and the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand‚ was a battle on December 21‚ 1866 between Indians from the Lakota Sioux‚ Cheyenne‚ and Arapaho tribes and soldiers of the United States Army during Red Cloud’s War. This battle was at the time the worst military disaster to have ever been suffered by the by the U.S. on the Great Plains and is known as a massacre because all 81 men‚ under the
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Little Bighorn before delving into Caldwell’s legacy‚ even though the two are inevitably entwined. On June 25‚ 1876‚ Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry went to confront the northern tribe Indians‚ including the Cheyenne‚ Sioux‚ and Arapaho. The indian’s decided that they had had enough of the white men invading their territory. They decided to wage war against Custer and his 7th Cavalry (Nightengale). Custer and his 7th Cavalry broke up into three groups to push the Indians
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Biography of Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) Notes Gertrude Bonnin was the third child of Ellen Tate ’I yohiwin Simmons‚ a full-blood Yankton Sioux. Born in 1876 on a Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and known as Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird) Age 8 she was determined to learn the white man’s ways raised in a tipi on the Missouri River until she was 12 when she went to a Quaker missionary school for Indians (White’s Manual Institute) in Wabash‚ Indiana. Though her mother was reluctant to let her
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arrival‚ he experienced a disastourous dust storm and later would come across the aftermath of a massacre. The massacre was due to altercations of warfare on the northern Plains. The tribes consisted of the following: the Lokotas who were known as the Sioux from the western portion and the Dakotas who were known as the mdewakantons‚ Sisseton‚ Wahpekute‚ and Wahpeton from the east. The western tribes‚ the Lakotas‚ had claimed most of the northern Plains country which consisted of an area known as the Black
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