Sioux Uprising

himself to his elders, killing his first buffalo at the age of ten, and by the time he was fourteen, he had accompanied a group of Lakota warriors on a raid of their rivals, the Crow. He also fought in the Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux uprising. When he was 15, Sitting Bull showed honor and valor in a battle with the Flatheads in 1847. He flew past their front line, yelling taunts at them. Despite the barrage of arrows and the rain of Flathead bullets that stood in his way, Sitting

The film opens with the Native American victory at Little Big Horn over General Custer and his men on June 25, 1876. Custer’s death and the Native American win sparked rage from the U.S. government and led them to redraw territories so that the gold-filled Black Hills would not be included in the reservation land. The event of the movie focus on the government’s attempts to steal this land and the resistance of the Native Americans. 1) Who was Charles Eastman and what were the contending forces

After another year had passed, Sitting Bulls decided to lay siege to Fort Rice that had recently been constructed in what is now modern day North Dakota. In response to these act of bravery, Sitting Bull was made principal chief of the entire Lakota Sioux nation in 1868, eleven years after becoming the war chief. In that same year, a peace conference occurred in order to get the Fort Laramie Treaty signed.

Tatanka Iyotanku more commonly known as Sitting Bull was born around 1831 in what is now known as South Dakota. He lived a life that many people would despise and attempt to get away from. Sitting Bull is one of the most recognizable and important Native American’s in history and he was known for his bravery and standing up for what he believed in. He led his people in multiple battles and did all he could to give them the rights they deserved. Sitting Bull’s parents were Tatanka Iyotanku, Sitting

Native American Ritual Dancing “It has often been said that the North American Indians ‘dance out’ their religions” (Vecsey 51). There were two very important dances for the Sioux tribe, the Sun Dance and the Ghost Dance. Both dances show the nature of Native American spirituality. The Ghost Dance and the Sun Dance were two very different dances, however both promote a sense of community. “The Sun Dance was the most spectacular and important religious ceremony of the Plains

Sitting Bull In 1831 an indian child was born, of the Sioux Nation and the Hunkpapa Tribe. His father, Sitting Bull, and mother, Her-holy-door, did not name him Sitting Bull, he was named Jumping Badger. He was never called Jumping Badger, he was called Slow because of his willful and deliberate ways. When Slow was fourteen he insisted on going along with the adult warriors into battle. Usually the untrained youths were errand boys while learning about battle conditions. Slow, screaming a

In That Guy Wolf Dancing, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn tells a nonfiction story of Philip Big Pipe’s life as a twenty-something Native American from the Santee Sioux or Mdewakanton Dakota tribe that is just trying to find his way in the world. At the hospital where Philip works part time, the “old-young woman” he works with dies and unexpectedly leaves Philip in her will. She left him an incredibly sacred buckskin shirt and war stick that was most likely stolen from a Native American hung at New Ulm after

Introduction The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last action in a long and bloody war that pitted Native American Indians against U.S Military forces. For roughly 300 years the two sides had been in constant conflict across America in a battle for land, resources, and ultimately; freedom. This final massacre solidified the American hold on the west and closed the final chapter on a way of life that can never be brought back. Lakota Indians, having learned of the death of Sitting Bull started

A Hunkpapa Lakota chief named Sitting Bull and the history of the Lakota nationhood was the chosen subject of Gary C. Anderson to write a biography on. Although most of the history about Sitting Bull took place back in the eighteen hundreds, Anderson did not come out with his book tell around 1995. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers published the book in 1996. The book follows the history of Sitting Bull and the native Indians fight with the "white man" over land. The first chapter goes back

For Native Americans, protecting their sacred ways was and is a matter of survival, but it is also a matter of respect for the power that is involved. Across the United States, there are more than 558 federally recognized and several hundred state recognized Native American nations (Russell, 1998). Given the wide-ranging diversity of this population consisting of 2.3 million people, it is essential to understand that the term Native American spirituality encompasses the vastness of more than 500