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Devil's Tower Thesis

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There are many perceptions about the Devil’s Tower for many tribes and Native Americans. For the Lakota people the Devil’s Tower is a place of worship and sacred ground, is is the “center of life” for them. The name the use to call the Devil's tower is Mato Tipila, which literally means the “The Lodge of the Bear”. The legend is that the Devil’s Tower was created to save a group of boys fleeing from a bear. They also believe that if a man had a deteriorating heath, mind, and spiritually was to go in it, he would come out as rejuvenated and with “excellent health”. For the climbers that climb the Devil’s tower they completely disregard this. They believe that since this natural feature is on federal land and not private land, they have the right to climb and use it without any restrictions. Also there are many …show more content…

Those who live around the Devil’s tower believe that it should not be reserved or be given to one set of people but rather everyone should use it. In the documentary one man said that this has nothing to do with the Native Americans religion, but rather they are just trying to capture and acquire back land that they lost. I believe the reason why people have different ideas about this natural feature is because we were all brought up differently. For example, if the Climbers who disregard the Native Americans beliefs were brought up in that environment, they would definitely feel differently about it. One thing that really caught me of guard was in the beginning of the film where the elderly lady said, “I don’t go down to you white people’s church and raise hell”. This really surprised me because it is quite true, imagine in todays society if a group of people tried to occupy a Church, Mosque, or a Synagogue people would be up in arms. So its all about how we perceive

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