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Defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn In this essay I shall be writing and explaining about the defeat at the battle of Little Bighorn. I will be writing about why the battle began in the first place. How it could have been prevented. And who was to blame for the defeat. I will also be examining why Custer decided to attempt to conquer the Sioux nation by himself, his attitude and ambitions and his personality. His background, his confidence, the battle itself and the

Benjamin Duong Dr. Padma Manian History 24 American Indian History 3/19/2016 Black Elk Speaks Throughout American history, there have been unrelenting efforts to force Native American peoples to surrender their tribal existence, national sovereignty, land ownership, tribal land relations, and indigenous tribal religions by turning to western ideals of the Christian religion. Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt is a literary text of considerable significance especially on American culture and religion

Wounded Knee Massacre: What components of conflict led to the Wounded Knee Massacre? The purpose of this paper is to analyze the conflicts that caused the Wounded Knee Massacre. On December 29,1890, at Wounded Knee Creek located southwest South Dakota is where a tragic incident occurred. Nearly half the victims killed were women and children. About 250 to 300 people lost their lives to a battle due to a religious dance, miscommunicated traditional culture, and religious conflict. The Indians

The Cheyenne Indians There are many different types of cultures, languages, and religion out in this enormous planet we call earth. It was quite hard to decide on what cultural group to study, since there are a wide range of interesting cultures. The one group of individuals that has always interested me was the Native American culture. Though there is a wide range of Native American cultural groups as well. The one group that I wanted to pinpoint and what interested me the most was, the Cheyenne

Helen Hunt was born in 1830 October 14 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Married to Edward Bissell Hunt she started her literary career in 1865 shortly after the death of her husband in 1863 and the death of her two sons. Throughout her literary career, Jackson published five collections of Poetry, as well as a number of children’s literature and travel books. In response to a speech given in 1879 by the Ponca chief Standing Bear, Helen wrote A Century of Dishonor in 1881 exposing the mistreatment of Native

While growing up, doing well in school always came naturally to me. I took every Advanced Placement class my high school offered and still graduated with a 3.85 GPA. Unfortunately, after high school, I learned that my methods in high school no longer worked as well in college. In 2007, I enrolled at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD. Augustana is a small, private university, and I learned plenty of academic, as well as life, lessons while attending. My grades at Augustana dropped slightly

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

The battle of wounded knee started in December 29,1890.When they arrived troops were on the pine ridge reservation in South Dakota to quiet the ghost dance disorder of 1890.After the Indian police killed chief sitting bull while trying to arrest him on December 15th on the standing rock his hunkpapa band of the Lakota tribe grew agitated and troop reinforcements arrived.When 200 of the Indians fled southward to Cheyenne river military officials feared a hunkpapa miniconjou coalition.There was about

troops and the Sioux tribe. In 1863 the Sioux tribe was defeated but regained strength in 1866. Their leader, Red Cloud, soon retired to a reservation in the Dakotas but they didn’t stay long. The army knew that the tribes, Kiowa, Commanche, Arapaho, Cheyenne and Sioux were gathering at a general location. So the army tried to pincer them south of the Yellowstone River with a three-pronged force. The Indians decided to attack each prong separately.

society productive. In the small towns of South Dakota, social reproduction is manifested through the town’s economy. The towns’ economy is threatened when the way of making a living becomes too expensive to sustain its economy. Historical as well as economic changes force the towns to shift gear. Carrie Breitbach touches upon these changes in her article: “The Geographies of a More Just Food System: Building Landscapes for Social Reproduction.” South Dakota landscapes experienced change just like