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U S Government Crazy Horse
1,347 words... ny and C. F. Smith. During the summer of 1868 his request was accepted. The troops moved. A civil war hero William Tecumseh Sherman moved into the territory as the new commander of the plains. He had plans to get the treaty signed. His hopes were to, shut up the congressional critics, get the Sioux to agree on already and maintain the army's morale. After negotiations were made Red Cloud lead one hundred-and twenty-five leaders of the Sioux nations to sign the treaty of 1868. This treaty gua...
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U S Government U S Army
408 wordsIn the early 1860 s the Oglala Sioux leader Chief Red Cloud fought to keep the U. S. Army from opening the Bozeman Trail, which led to the Montana gold fields through Sioux hunting areas in the Dakota Territory. Between 1866 and 1868 Red Cloud and his allies besieged forts along the trail until in 1868 the U. S. government agreed to abandon it. Red Cloud signed the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie Wyoming on April 29, 1869. The U. S. government agreed to close the Bozeman Trail, and in the treaty inc...
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Nez Perce Indian Territory
1,191 wordsCiting the Sioux as the example, explain the conquest of the Natives. When did the conflicts occur and where did they occur? What were the Anglo American objectives and what were the Means? What was the outcome? As you stated that most all of the Plains Indians were toughs fighters, but the tribes that became the most powerful were the Comanches in the South the Sioux in the North. 1860 Indian sovereignty had been responsible for the governments efforts to erect t permanent barrier or buffers be...
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Sitting Bull White Man
1,207 words"Progress is the elimination of the savage." These words of General Terry, a character in Sharon Pollock's "Walsh", demonstrates how he and his fellow white men feel towards Native Indians. The indians see Canada as their homeland, but the Canadian government will not let them stay and will do anything in their power to make them leave to the United States. They are cheated against, lied to, and betrayed by their government, because of their ethnic background. Especially Sitting Bull, the head o...
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Crazy Horse Red Cloud
835 wordsRed Clouds Revenge is a historical novel about the grim recollection of detailed events and days / months before the showdown between the US Cavalry & Sioux Indians on the northern plains of 1867. Fetterman, Brown & Grummond rode out ahead of seventy-eight soldiers that day on December 21 st 1866. In hopes of driving out some Sioux Indians and bring some scalps home. Many soldiers guard was down when Fetterman's entire force disappeared over Trail Lodge Ridge. None of them were ever seen alive a...
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Sitting Bull Exile To Canada
1,424 wordsMany things influenced Sitting Bulls decision to cross the border into Canada. After Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had to live life in fear. He fought on the defensive for years. Sitting Bull and his followers fled from the onslaught of American howitzers. He then was able to find sanctuary in the White Grandmothers Country, north of the international boundary. Most of the band drifted back in the next few years; Sitting Bull himself was to return in 1881 to end his exile (Andr...
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Sitting Bull Exile To Canada
1,437 words... f the world. In the Queens land we all live like one family (Utley 188). During the meeting Canadian Lieutenant Irvine told Sitting Bull that he would be protected, as long as he behaved himself. The Lakota leaders started to realize that life in Canada a very appealing prospect. They now had protection against bluecoat (American) attack. They also had an abundance of buffalo between Cypress Hills and Wood Mountain. They had a new vision for the future On the other hand the chiefs still had ...
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Black Elk One Day
1,108 wordsWhat do Buddhism and Sioux tradition tell us about meditation and having a vision? First of all, we meditate in Buddhism because it gives us the nourishment for your spirit and nourishment for your body, (Hanh, p. 42). We also meditate to heal other or ourselves. In the Sioux traditions having a vision is like healing a person. Only the holy man can have the vision. The method of meditation and having a vision is like a method of relaxing and healing the state of conscious. Sometimes having a vi...
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Dances With Wolves White Settlers
1,477 wordsIndians were the original occupants of this land we call America. They lived off the land and were quite content. But, when white settlers came here to colonize, it became inevitable that the Indians ways were going to end. The white settlers were more interested in spreading out and starting new homes than the tradition that stood in their way. Having better weapons and better technology, the white settlers killed Indians at the drop of a hat. Since communication was difficult, treaties, if att...
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Place To Live Des Moines
919 wordsMoving to a Better Life I have had a fortunate life. I have never had to experience the death of an immediate family member, or any violence to deal with. Whenever someone asks me What event has changed your life? I reply, The only event that I can truly say has changed my life is when my family moved to Sioux City, Iowa. In 1992, when I was eight-years-old, my family lived in Des Moines, Iowa. I was a lonely little boy, not having any friends to play with. I spent most of my time playing Ninten...
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Sitting Bull Wounded Knee
666 words1 / 16 / 96 Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee The Ghost Dance came about by a Paiute Indian farmer named Wovoka. Wovoka s Ghost Dance came from a vision he d had in which all the ancestors and buffalo rose from the dead, restoring the old Indian way of life forever. Wovoka added some things from other religions to make the Ghost Dance full fledge religion. One main idea that Wovoka borrowed was the idea of sacred clothing that would protect the wearer from harm. The Ghost Dance religion spread among t...
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Number Of Reasons Spirit World
1,406 wordsLike all Plains Indian nations, the Sioux tribe had to be skilled and equipped if they should have to got to war or into battle. The Sioux warriors had to be prepared and be able to hide well, fight courageously and complete the aim of their task e. g. stealing horses, claiming sacred land. So how warlike really were the Sioux? Sioux warriors were well armed. They fought with many weapons, all of which were made by themselves from any natural materials that they could find. They used lances to f...
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Racial Equality Indian Lands
588 wordsOne would think that today, with all the emphasis put on equality and the evils of prejudice, the differences in the treatment of Native Americans now and during the late 1890 s would be drastic. Our country has achieved her manifest destiny. A superpower with a standard policy on just about every issue, America seems strong but are all of our ideals so solid? Looking back to before the turn of the century, our nation was still in her infancy. Wild and erratic, there were not so many checkpoints...
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U S Government Native Americans
1,391 wordsIndian tribes existed as sovereign governments long before European settlers arrived in North America. Treaties signed with European nations and later the United States in exchange for land guaranteed the tribes continued recognition and treatment as sovereign nations. Historically, state governments have been hostile to the concept of recognizing and dealing with tribes as sovereign governments. The United States negotiated numerous treaties which they continuously violated in pursuit of the In...
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Iron Ore Tall Grass
1,804 wordsMinnesota, state in the north central United States, south of Canada and west of Wisconsin. Its total area is 225, 181 sq km (86, 943 sq mi). The state name comes from a Sioux word meaning cloudy water, first applied to the Minnesota River. Minnesota is known as the Gopher State; no one is sure why. It is also called Land of 10, 000 Lakes and in fact contains 15, 000. The capital is Saint Paul. II. Physical Geography Most of Minnesota has been shaped by glaciers. The northeastern part of the sta...
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Hayden Lively Statuesque Sioux Housekeeper Hayden Lively Statuesque Sioux Review
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United States Government World War 2
1,467 wordsMany things have influenced the United States in its history. Morality, one of these influences, has been both observed and ignored in this history. This essay will show different periods in history when the United States acted in a immoral fashion. The United States treated the Japanese Americans immorally in World War 2 and acted immorally toward Native Americans especially at Wounded Knee. Another of the immoral acts that the US has committed was the My Lai Massacre. In 1940, the United State...
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Early Twentieth Century 1960 And 1970
2,337 wordsNative American Environmental Issues Traditionally Native Americans have had an immediate and reciprocal relationship with their natural environments. At contact, they lived in relatively small groups close to the earth. They defined themselves by the land and sacred places, and recognized a unity in their physical and spiritual universe. Their cosmologies connected them with all animate and inanimate beings. Indians moved in a sentient world, managing its bounty and diversity carefully lest the...
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White Men First Chapter
562 wordsI will admit that I am not much for reading. I will also admit after reading the first chapter in this book that I felt sick to my stomach, literally. That I feared reading the rest of the book knowing that this really happened and that people could actually do this to one another. Although the book disgusted me after the first chapter that I didn? t want to read it anymore it also made me not want to put it down. It could have been the way the writer described everything made it all so vivid an...
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636 words(1) Introduction The word treaty could be defined in many ways. It is most likely to be defined as agreements made between two nations. But to the Indians, treaties were simply an inevitable agreement, which the whites requested. The madness started when the European explorers reached North America. The Indians lived scattered in the area. Some lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, moving from camp to camp to harvest vital foods, such as maple sap, venison, and wild rice, according to the seasons. Bec...
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