Custer

“Indians are like the weather.” With his opening words Vine Deloria Jr. sets up the basis for the rest of his witty yet substantial manifesto, Custer Died for Your Sins. The book, which describes the struggles and misrepresentation of the American Indian people in 1960s American culture, is written in a style that changes from ironic and humorous satire to serious notions, then back again. Through energetic dialogue that engages the reader in a clever and articulate presentation, Deloria advocates

knew their coordinated we would ambush them using our mastery of stealth and camouflage. After this we found a surprising detail as we attempted to ambush them we realised they were outnumbered, we had surrounded them, but they still didn’t see us. Custer and his troops were outnumbered. This was clearly our advantage to win this battle we can finally show them the how we felt from losing our homes and then losing our family members. We lost everything majority people don't have good health and also

At the beginning of Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk and John Neihardt smoke the peace pipe then Black Elk begins his story. When Black Elk was still pretty young he and his tribe were involved in the Hundred slain war, and Black Elk also begins to hear strange voices. Later on Black Elk falls very ill, then two warriors come from the sky and bring Black Elk to the Flaming rainbow tepee, while he was there his six grandfathers gave him six very special gifts. After Black Elk got the gifts he was taught

George Crook and his brigade, successfully turning back the soldiers as they attempted to advance toward Sitting Bull's encampment on the Little Bighorn River. A week later Crazy Horse teamed up with Sitting Bull to decimate Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his esteemed Seventh Cavalry in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, perhaps the greatest victory ever by Native Americans over U.S.

engaged in many battles over the years. One of those battles was the Battle of Little Big Horn or commonly known as Custer's Last Stand. The Battle little Big Horn took place at the little big horn river (now Montana) in 1876 with Lt. Col. George Custer against Crazy Horse and the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. According to Janiskee (2011) “268 Soldiers and attached personnel of the Seventh Cavalry” and “About 100 Indians” (para.7) were killed in the fight. Another famous battle United

Sitting Bull once quoted, “If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean” ( "Sitting Bull Quotes ). Sitting Bull was a kind and compassionate man that had admiration for the Lakota tribe and the tribe's land, and was also known to have led the Lakota tribe to safety during the many years of defiance against the new American policies. Recognized and admired by the Lakota tribe

In the late 1800’s the Americans viciously forced many Native Americans off their lands all because the federal government wanted the U.S. to expand and obtain Manifest Destiny. The main Native American and tribe that stood against the federal government was Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux and entire Lakota nation. He led a large amount of Sioux warriors in many battles against the American government that were fought over the rights and lands of the Lakota nation. He was against the American

forcing the Natives on reservations. To accomplish this task, three expeditions were launched. The goal of these expeditions were to corner the Indians, so they had nowhere to run, and force them on to the agencies. The plan would have worked, if Custer had not thought that he could take on the Indians himself. He was unaware that the Indians outnumbered him, so he chased them down, right in to a trap, where he and all his men were killed. Many members of the military were furious over Custer’s defeat

Introduction The Indians that had fought General Custer had actually fought a battle against an even larger American Army Force only 10 days earlier. In mid June of 1876 General George Crook and approximately 1325 American soldiers, packers, miners and Indian allies moved north1. The intent was to get contingents of the Cheyenne, Sioux and Arapaho to move to reservations. History Gold had been discovered in the Black Hills of the Dakotas, and the American military intended to take it by force

These anthropologists go into a new region with pencil and paper at hand in order to jot down their observations. They wish to acquire new undiscovered traditions or history of a region so that they may formulate a summary. As Vine Deloria Jr. in Custer Died For Your Sins said, “ The summaries are condensed for two reasons. Some condensations are sent to government agencies as reports justifying the previous summer’s research. Others