Sioux

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

The multi-billion dollar Dakota Access oil pipeline stretched across four states is standing in the way of one big thing- a clean and healthy environment for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. This is a fight that they have been battling since April, and tensions are on the rise. The pushes and violations that the government has had against Indian tribes since the dawn of this country is one of the main reasons for the violent protests against the pipeline. The U.S. government has consistently pursued

In the novel, Sitting Bull Champion of the Sioux by Stanley Vestal, he explains how Slow’s only tasks were “rising early, hunting small game with bows and arrows, and perhaps herding the family stock through long, lazy days on the prairie.” 3 In the 1800’s native American children were taught survival

Sitting Bull Courageous Sioux Chief Sitting bull was born in the 1830s on the plains of North America that we know as South Dakota. His actual name is Hunkeshnee which means “slow”. The Sioux tribe moved from place to place for hunting buffalo. The Sioux boys learned their skills from the games they play. They had hunted with bows and arrows, held races, wrestle, and swam. They would also imitate their fathers actions. A little fact is Hunkeshnee was named Sitting Bull at the age of 14 after

Pipelines vs The People The Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota has made headlines throughout the US because of their reaction to what they feel is a threat to not only their sacred lands but also the water source of the whole tribe, along with many others. The construction of an oil pipeline going through North and South Dakota while going under the Missouri River has caused this major controversy. This pipeline that is soon being built has been a project that was halted before by the past

uproar from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The Sioux Tribe is suing to stop crews from burrowing beneath the Missouri river which is upstream from that Sioux Tribes land. According to the history of Standing Rock, “History” from www.standingrock.org, they explain “The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation was originally established as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. Article 2 of the Treaty of Fort Laramie of April 29, 1868 described the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation” (“History”). So many

Lieutenant John Dunbar and The Sioux D ances with Wolves is a film adapted from a book of same name written by Michael Blake in 1988 and produced by Kevin Costner in 1990. The film dictates the story of a Union Army lieutenant, who journeyed to the American frontier in search of a military post, and his relationships with a group of Lakota Indians. The movie has adequately addresses some theoretical perspectives, cultural tensions and reconciliations based on some historical facts. Some theoretical

Environmental Justice Case study: Keystone XL Pipeline vs. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Introduction Throughout this paper I will try to prove that the proposed establishment of the Keystone XL Pipeline is a direct infringement upon the human rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. In order to make this claim I shall directly address three elements: First, the evidence of possible inequality of this situation, secondly the explanatory progress of how and why this situation

This summer, as a volunteer with the Guildford Community Church, I flew out to the Sioux Reservation in South Dakota- home of the Native American Lakota tribe. Immediately I was introduced to an unimaginable degree of poverty. Hungry families were living in small rundown shacks. Soon after sunrise construction began- building a volunteer bunkhouse and renovating families homes. With growing mold, broken utilities, and overall structural deterioration, homes were unsafe living conditions for any human

The Sioux During the Indian times the Sioux would do different things to get food, water, and shelter. Often they would have to move near lakes and rivers and animals to get more supplies. Buffalo is one of the main supplies for everything like their shelter and coats. Water is important to have when you are in the woods. That is why the Sioux would live by lakes and rivers to get resources for their camp. Another reason the Sioux and other Indians would live by or near water is because they need