Sioux Uprising

mouth of a Sioux warrior, a Dakota. They call him Crooked Lightning. That was the first and only true announcement about the planned uprising from the Dakota Nation. The Sioux Uprising of 1862 was appallingly deadly and destructive considering it may have been avoided if the United States had paid the Sioux their gold on time. The Dakota Nation didn’t just wake up one day and decide to attack the settlers. They had been insulted, oppressed and cheated for years. Eventually, the Sioux decided to

When I was in elementary school, there were three people I was fascinated with: Ludwig van Beethoven, Adolf Hitler, and Abraham Lincoln. Beethoven’s music and personal story enthralled me,and I was striving to understand the appeal of the Fuhrer to those he led to comply with evil, but Abraham Lincoln was my hero. He freed the slaves, he was honest, seemed like an all-around great guy, and was tragically assassinated. I latched onto him because he was one of the greats; his decisions and actions

Governor Henry Hastings Sibley is a memorable figure in Minnesota history, but one that is laced with controversy and suspicion. These controversies extend from his early career in fur trading to his leadership of Minnesota’s militia in the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862. The criticism of Governor Sibley was mainly because of his hesitation to engage with the Indians and his constant complaints to territorial governor Alexander Ramsey about lack of men and supplies, but is simply not justified when the

that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. Sitting Bull joined his first war party in 14 and soon gained a reputation for bravery in battle. In 1868 the Sioux accepted peace with the U.S. government, but when gold was discovered in the Black Hills in the mid-1870s, a rush of white prospectors invaded Sioux lands. The son of an esteemed Sioux warrior named Returns-Again, Sitting

. Big Daddy Weave’s “Redeemed” is a tightly constructed poem that reflects an emotional battling between one’s self. Being haunted by their past, Mike Weaver strikes again by becoming one of the top four Christian artists searched on the Top 100 Billboard in 2014. The band Big Daddy Weave was inspired by Weaver’s low self-esteem and willingness to figure out exactly what God was calling him to do. Mike Weaver is credited most for the lyrics of “Redeemed.” Mike plays guitar and is also one of

white man and the Indian Nation is a poignant historical portrayal of what took place at the Wounded Knee Massacre. It was all set in motion in the “Moon When the Deer Shed Their Horns”, a Sioux moon of December. The Sioux were so distraught about the assassination of Sitting Bull; they could not muster an uprising. The Ghost Dance was their only hope to eradicate the white man. “There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the Son of

living in Pierre, South Dakota. This citizen believed the Lakota’s were planning an uprising, at that point Noble ordered the commissioner of Indian affairs to investigate. Hugh D. Gallagher the agent at Pine Ridge Reservation was the first to respond and assured Noble that no dangers existed, Charles E. McChesney the agent at Cheyenne River Reservation also found no dangers, and both denied any rumors of an uprising. Agent J. George Wright from Rosebud Reservation denied any trouble, however he gave

The author of Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux, Gary Clayton Anderson, is a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is also the author Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1830-1875 and The Indian Southwest 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention. Other publications include Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood and he teaches U.S. Survey and

Wounded Knee For the entirety of his 27 years, Black Elk’s somber eyes had watched as the way of life for his fellow Lakota Sioux withered on the Great Plains. The medicine man had witnessed a generation of broken treaties and shattered dreams. The Lakota, who once roamed as free as the bison on the Great Plains, were now mostly confined to government reservations. Life for the Sioux had become as bleak as the weather that gripped the snow-dusted prairies of South Dakota in the winter of 1890. A glimmer

“To own the Earth, There is no word for this in the Sioux Language.” The Battle of Wounded Knee was the last battle of the American Indian Wars it was also one of the most gruesome battles that either side had seen. An estimated three hundred Indians lay dead while the US army had lost twenty five and thirty nine were wounded some of who would die later. This was one of the worst acts that the Americans have ever done to the Native Americans. One Native American stated later “it was as if the soldiers