corporation as Maxxam‚ they made a last ditch effort to do what is called tree sitting. Tree sitting is taking residency in a tree‚ for a long duration of time. This is where the name of the title comes from‚ because she meets a tree call Luna. Luna is the tree in which she creates a stronger determination to save the redwood. The name Butterfly came because it was a codename since she was a tree-sitter. She believes that tree sitting would bring out the good of the corporate executives of Maxxam. Her
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prominent as the Indians begin to embrace their own culture‚ which have been heightening the tension between Americans and Indians. This time was indeed the last straw as Laughlin sent military into the Sioux territory to capture the Sioux leader Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull and a few Indians were later declared dead. 300 Sioux Indians were captured by U.S Army’s 7th regiment on their way to the Pine Ridge Agency to seek protection against the military‚ including Big Foot‚ their leader. They were led to
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the sacred six directions‚ without which healing is impossible. The front legs are west and north; the back legs‚ east and south. The head and ears point to the heavens‚ and the tail anchors all to the earth. A year after the execution of the 38‚ Sitting Bull rode on horseback to see the concentration
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Michael of Russia to a shooting match. Though the Grand Duke was noted for being an excellent wing shot‚ Annie Oakley beat him‚ missing only three birds out of fifty‚ while he missed fourteen. (AnnieOakleyFoundation.org) The great Sioux warrior Chief Sitting Bull was so impressed by Oakley ’s skill that he adopted her‚ giving her the name "Watanya Cecilia"--"Little Sure Shot." Though her life inspired dime novels‚ a Broadway play‚ and Hollywood movies‚ little is known about the real Annie Oakley‚ an intensely
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the battle of little bighorn is tThe Battle of the Little Big Horn ensured for General George Custer the fame he had always wanted. His death and the destruction of those men in the US Army’s Seventh Cavalry who fought with him by the largest gathering of Native American warriors that the country had seen‚ immortalised Custer in films‚ books and in the psyche of Americans. Paintings by the likes of Edgar Paxson and Kurz and Allison portrayed Custer as the all-American hero fighting with his men to
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What were “the four cardinal virtues of the Lakota” that Sitting Bull embodied? Why do you think that one fellow tribesman remarked that there “was something in Sitting Bull that everyone liked”? Describe how this great Sioux leader also represented the “three distinct personalities” that the Lakota valued. The “the four cardinal virtues of the Lakota” that Sitting Bull possessed was bravery‚ fortitude‚ generosity‚ and wisdom. These four virtues are characteristics that most leaders we see today
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The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century Chapter 5 Changes on the Western Frontier The culture of the Plains Indians declines as white settlers transform the Great Plains. Meanwhile‚ farmers form the Populist movement to address their economic concerns. Next Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century Chapter 5 Changes on the Western Frontier SECTION 1 Cultures Clash on the Prairie SECTION 2 Settling on the Great
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cornered 30 miles from safety and he surrendered in 1877. Sitting Bull : One of the leaders of the Sioux tribe. He was a medicine man " as wily as he was influential." He became a prominent Indian leader during the Sioux Was from 1876-1877.( The war was touched off when a group of miners rushed into the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1875.) The well-armed warriors at first proved to be a superior force. During Custer’s Last Stand in 1876‚ Sitting Bull was " making medicine" while
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Crazy Horse --> Captain William J. Fetterman @ Lodge Trail Ridge Battle of Hundred Slain Whites call it "Fetterman Massacre" :Custer 1874 - Black Hill has gold --> gold rush :1876 - Crazy Horse‚ Gall‚ Sitting Bull vs Custer’s troops (Custer dead‚ lost) :Late 1876: Sioux beaten --> Sitting Bull to Canada --> surrender for ppl’s starvation :1868 Treaty :Treaty of Fort Laramie :Gov - close the Bozeman Trail :Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River
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started to represent the “Ghost Dance” which brought fear to some of the US. They thought the Indians have gone crazy‚ and they needed to kill them for protection. The military took action by killing Sitting Bull on December 25th‚ and Big Foot was going to be the next one killed. Big Foot heard about Sitting Bull’s death and led him and his tribe to the south. They tried to settle at Pine Ridge reservation‚ but the US stopped the plan and they retreated to the edge of Wounded Knee. Not long after did
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