Sioux

The Easterners and Native Americans were thought to live vastly different lifestyles. Most Easterners were much like John Dunbar, a decorated American lieutenant. They had a desire to see the American frontier before it vanished from their steady expansion out West. However, Native Americans inhabited what many regarded as the American frontier, and they along with their tribe vowed to protect their land from the white men who would only continue to come and ravish the land. “Native Americans are

the occurrences that follow the Lakota people in the 1800s. Although the Sioux nation fell apart by the invasive power of the United States, the Lakota people were composed in unified family groups because of their common culture, tradition, and by the efforts of Chief Sitting Bull. The Sioux tribes, were composed in tied groups; they shared religion, language, a strong sense of ethnic pride, and even wifes. Although, the Sioux nation was separated in seven different tribes - Lakota, Yankton, Yanktonai

back by a soldier. By this time most of the indians were forced to live on the reservations but one band of Lakotas escaped from the reservation and traveled north to Canada where Sitting Bull’s band was. The winters in Canada were too harsh for the Sioux so they reluctantly moved back to the reservation where they were given hardly anything. With Black Elk’s people losing hope he teaches them the dances he learned in his visions. When Black Elk learns of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show he decides to

Undoing Stereotypes in the Movie, Dances With Wolves Hollywood has helped create and perpetuate many different stereotypical images of the different races in the world. Those stereotypes still continue to affect the way we think about each other today and many of those stereotypes have been proven to be historically inaccurate. The movie Dances With Wolves, directed by actor Kevin Costner, does an excellent job in attempting to promote a greater acceptance, understanding, and sympathy towards

lose their jobs, they will not have enough money and the economy plummets. This is also known as inflation, which is deleterious to our economy. “‘We're not opposed to energy independence. We're not opposed to economic development,’ Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Archambault II said. ‘The problem we have -- and this is a long history of problems that evolved over time -- is where the federal government or corporations take advantage of indigenous lands and indigenous rights.’” (Yan). The government

An old Sioux prophecy once stated that a black snake will cross the great Sioux land. The black snake would come at a great time of uncertainty and destroy the world as we know it. It also states the only way to stop this black snake is for the youth to come together and stop it. Many protestors, commonly referred as water protectors, believe this black snake has arrived in the form of the Dakota Access Pipeline. In the beginning of the year 2016 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published a draft

of the American Indians (particularly the Sioux), who were thought by some as even more subhuman than blacks during the 1800's (and even during parts of the 1900's)." It has always been thought that Native Americans of old were savage, non-feeling, unemotional, cold-blooded killers. It is difficult for people to see them as

“threaten water supplies for the Standing Rock Sioux and millions of others downstream, and its route would destroy tribal burial grounds and sacred cultural land” (Healy). Many of the Native American people, along

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

for nature. Luther Standing Bear was the son of an Oglala Sioux chief, and later after his career as an Indian in the Hollywood film industry he became chief of the same tribe in South Dakota. Luther Standing Bear uses both personification and symbolism of the Earth and Mother Nature’s soil to create meaning of their religion, which is significantly influenced and maintained by nature. The Lakota Indians, another name for the Western Sioux tribe, were true lovers of Nature and lived true to the land