Sioux Uprising

It isn't unheard for powerful empires to obliterate obstacles in the path of expansion. Mankind is never satiated with their appetite for expansion and growth, never satisfied with what they currently possess, always wanting what the people next door have. This has led to the demise of many extraordinary leaders, armies and nations like the Romans, Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte. But still, pioneers have and probably will always push forward to foreign lands, disregarding everything

Deadville, by Robert F, Jones, is a western novel full of riveting action, gore, and vengeance that takes place in the late 1800s. The story is based all across America with two brothers, Dillon and Owen, that are determined to strike it rich.The story starts off with Dillon mentioning that he is elderly and about to become 85 years old. He says that many things have changed within his lifetime, and then begins talking about his wild adventures.The brothers first started off working in coal mines

The north-west rebellion resulted a lot of things but mostly damage, it resulted seven battles and one massacre and one looting (cut knife, duck lake and fish creek, Battleford, Fort Pitt, frog lake, batoche, loon lake and Frenchman’s butte) and it caused the deaths of more than 123 people. The rebellion also resulted in the destruction of metis and aboriginal forces such as Big Bear who surrendered and then was sentenced prison and the 8 other aboriginal men who were hanged and Louis Riel who surrendered

fighting. But, he surrendered eventually.  Of course not by choice though. On June 25, 1876 the “Battle Of Little Bighorn” took place.  The battle it self took place by Little Bighorn River in Montana.  Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse along with the Sioux, and the Cheyenne were all there at Little Bighorn not wanting to return to the reservations without a fight.  When George Armstrong Custer went down to the area he was unaware of how many Indians were actually there.  So due to that Custer underestimating

“’An old Sioux prophecy says that a black snake will come to destroy the world at a moment of great uncertainty,’ he said. ‘Unless the youth stop it’” (Enzinna 35). The Standing Rock Sioux tribe believe the “black snake” has arrived in the form of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Dakota Access Pipeline is a pipeline that originates in North Dakota and stretches across four states. The pipeline is roughly 1,000 miles long and would carry up to 600,000 barrels of domestically produced oil each day.

Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to stop the pipeline from being built. The protesters are doing everything in their power to stop this pipeline construction. Adding on, if the pipeline is built then it would damage the historical past of the Sioux Tribe, it would damage the environment, and it will disturb sacred lands and the way of life of Native Americans that live in the upper Midwest. If the pipeline is constructed, it would damage the historical past of the Sioux Tribe. The Sioux Tribe came

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a pipeline that runs from the Dakotas to Illinois, is currently under construction in the sacred land of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American tribe. This tribe, along with many other tribes, is leading boycotts against the pipeline. They fear the 30-inch diameter tube will risk pollution and oil spills in their primary water source: the Missouri River. However, since the land is owned by the Federal Government, they have the final say in what happens, whether

These protesters were demanding clean water, a basic human right. They were asking for the pipeline to not directly travel right through a burial site that is hundreds of years old which disrespects the Sioux Nation. The only way the issue became so big, was because there was peaceful resistance against the Army Corps, who were fighting to put the pipeline in place, as well as the big corporate media sources, who refused to cover the story. The story became

declared that all Sioux Indians not in reservations would have to be subjugated by Custer’s troops. Many Sioux refused to cooperate, and Custer began to attack. At the battle of Little Bighorn, in June 1876, Custer split his troops, and a larger force of Indians wiped out all of his men. After this defeat, the army took a different course by harassing the Sioux in attrition. Indians eventually lost the will to resist as these strategies were commonly successful against the Sioux. In the December of

Battle of Greasy Grass to Native Americans) took place near Little Bighorn River, Montana Territory and on June 25, 1876. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his U.S. Army troops are defeated in battle against the Native Americans Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes in Montana, near Little Bighorn River, during The Battle of Little Bighorn. Tensions between the 2 groups had been rising since the discovery of gold on Native American lands. When a number of tribes missed a federal