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The History of the Lakota in Wind Cave National Park For the Lakota tribe in South Dakota, Wind Cave National Park is much more than an awe-inspiring cave full of peculiar cave formations and bison that stand eight feet tall. For the Lakota, Wind Cave National Park is the site of their ancestors’ emergence from inside the Earth onto the land they used to call home. Upon the discovery of gold in the Great Sioux Reservation, the Lakota’s sacred land was claimed by the United States National Government. The Lakota’s history on the land, their creation story and their rituals associated with the Wind Cave has resulted in their ongoing dispute with the federal government with regard to who should have the right to the sacred lands.
After reading Native Americans and the “Middle Ground,” I realized how narratives of historians are quick to shame and blame Native Americans in history. This article begins by revealing how European settlement presented the Indians as obstacles. Recent historians, such as Gary Nash, show the Native Americans as being conquered by the Europeans. Author of The Middle Ground, Richard White, seems to be one of the first to examine the culture of Native Americans and the relationship between colonists. White writes about the “middle ground” of the politics and trade that is eventually established.
Name: Ashutosh(Osh) Bhattarai Date: 8/30/15 Period: 5 Chapter and Title: Chapter 4 Red Eyes Questions: • Native Americans have been pretty much been misinformed in most of history • They are represented from the point of view of Europeans and barely think from their point of view • However the textbooks have been improving in the way they have been presenting their information on the Native Americans • Other authors of history textbooks are criticizing for using disrespectful words such as half-breeds and savages • Some authors how bias as they clearly favor the white Europeans as they are described as settlers and not
Did you know that Circle Justice is practiced in Minnesota and in other Midwestern states? In Ghost of Spirit Bear, Cole still gets involved with the Circle. The theme in Touching Spirit Bear is to not blame others for your actions and to forgive the ones you have hurt and finding the bright side in life. “The sky, this stick, hot dogs, life, it’s all the same. It’s what you make of it.
Herman’s family got raided and killed and kidnapped his brother and him. Another raid was the Cathertons when they killed everyone in the house except the baby so Laura and her family questioned if it was Indians that did it. Laura’s family also got their house raided. These are examples of the things Native Americans did to get revenge on the Europeans and make their lives harder than it needed to be. With all of this being said about the Indians and their history and what they have been through this all connects back to Hill Country.
The US government wanted the indians to take come into “white ways”. Chief Luther Standing Bear tells his experience after leaving the reservation. He explains how he unexpectedly learned the ways of the white man instead of his original idea of doing a “brave deed”. Also, in Powell’s report, he pushes for Native children to be put into schools to learn english and american ways to work. He pushed for houses to be built to encourage indians to convert to american traditions and ways of life.
Leroy Little Bear and Johnson would have similar responses to the harmful impacts of alcohol consumption if they were to sit down and have a discussion. The idea of how (1) knowledge is passed through story telling and (2) the impact of a jagged world view are the main concepts that both authors share. Knowledge is constantly changing and so our epistemological and ontological views change as well. Stories are very important to Indigenous culture it is the primary method of learning. Colonialism has left Indigenous people with a jagged worldview, which is why many of our Indigenous peoples find themselves involved with alcohol.
The Lakota Indians The Lakota is a tribe located in the northern plains of America. They are related to the Sioux by culture, Language, and history. The Dakota are also a related tribe to the Lakota. They are known as Teton or also western Sioux. In the 1640’s the Lakota stayed closer to the Sioux.
The narrative’s topic focuses on the mistreatment of the Native Americans through the investigation of native relations with White Americans. Dee Brown argues that Americans only know the White American histories of the Native Americans. Brown claims that his narrative provides a history of the American West from the perspective of the Native American. While the monograph cites a few primary sources, the majority of Brown’s argument relies on footnotes that cite secondary works. Brown’s use of these sources enables him to provide each chapter with a history of different Native American tribes and their interactions with the United States government.
Throughout American history treaties have been signed in an effort to “protect” the Lakota Nation and their land. However, these treaties have continuously been violated and the amount of land the Lakota have been allowed to occupy has continued to shrink. In 1851 the treaty of Fort Laramie was signed, which set the boundaries for the Lakota nation. Nine years later, this treaty was not even brought into consideration when the government allowed the Transcontinental Railroad to travel through the Lakota territory. Less than a decade had passed when the Indian Appropriation Act was signed.
Accordingly, in The Lakota Way, it says, “When choosing a leader, we always kept in mind that humility provides clarity where arrogance makes a cloud. The last thing we wanted was to be led by someone whose judgment and actions were clouded by arrogance.” Nevertheless, Humility is an important trait, consequently, people will notice acts of bravery, valor, and kindness when they are not boasted about. Nevertheless, Humility is an important trait, consequently, people will notice acts of bravery, valor, and kindness when they are not boasted about.
“The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.” This is a quote from a Native American after the Trail of Tears. This quote not only shows us the hardships that they had to endure, but also the perseverance that they had to carry on and survive, but this is not even half of it. The Native Americans in the South were put through so much more.
During the Great Sioux War of 1876 which was also known as The Black Hills War there were a series of battles fought between 1876 and 1877. The most prominent battle of the war was The Battle of Little Big Horn commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand. This battle was fought between June 25 and June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory. The Battle of Little Big Horn was fought between members of the Lakota, Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The foremost leader of the Indian tribes was Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull.
For the Sioux tribe, American expansion caused many problems and hardships, primarily derived from Americans’ dislike for Natives. This is evident in an excerpt from the book Sioux by D. L. Birchfield. One can see from this excerpt that when streams of American expansion moved west because of the California Gold Rush, they brought various illnesses and sickness to the Sioux. The spread of smallpox, measles, and other contagious diseases killed off an estimated ½ of their population (Birchfield). Settlers were not sad because of this news, and a lot were actually glad that so many Native Americans had died.
Kobo (Kimifusa) Abe is a well-known Japanese author. Abe’s book The Face of Another won the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1960 (Zolbrod). His work first began to receive international attention during his travel to Eastern Europe (Price, Magill’s). His writing was influenced by his childhood and culture which is prevalent in his novels The Face of Another and Woman in the Dunes.
