Essays Tagged: "Lakota people"
Arguement and debate regarding Indigenous Languages and their extinction
her generation or two."Marion BlueArm, an educator with special interest and personal involvment in Lakota language preservation. She currently works as an educational talent search counselor for Chey ... elor for Cheyenne River schools. BlueArm states in the Cultural Survival Quarterly in 2001 that the Lakota is disappearing, children do not want to learn. "Many of today's youth and children can barel ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
The treatment of native americans in America.
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"Sitting Bull" This is more of a biography of Sitting Bull though the assignment was about how he is a "hero". It would have been an A paper if it was just about his history.
Sitting Bull was the supreme Indian during his time. He was a chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes came in coalition in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, Sitting Bull ... ned defiant toward American military power and scornful of American promises to the end. At a place Lakota called "Many Caches" for they had dug there, Sitting Bull was given the name Tatanka-Iyotanka ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Devastating Battle of Wounded Knee.
ere not accepted as Americans and were outlawed the rights established to the white population. The Lakota Sioux Nation and its people were not allowed a place in white society. Their land, which ackn ... the twenty-first century. This has brought long term and short term social, cultural effects on the Lakota Sioux Nation. The Dawes Act and the 1952 Termination Policy could in no circumstances even be ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Standing Rock Indian Reservation
s. Some being immigrants that have just stepped foot on American soil. There are others such as the Lakota and Dakota Indians who are a part of the Great Sioux Nation, whose land is Standing Rock Indi ... ugh.The Great Sioux Nation is located in both North and South Dakota. It also holds the name of the Lakota Nation, Dakota Nation, or the Nakota Nation. The people of the Sioux Nation refer to themselv ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Response to Chief.
f.Listening to a chief of a nation was a new experience for me. Crazy Bull, a chief of about 10,000 Lakotas, taught a lot about his culture and ways of knowing through his experience as an American Na ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Analysis of the short-story "Integration"
gines his mother. "When John imagines his birth, his mother is sometimes Navajo. Other times she is Lakota. Often she is of the same tribe as the last Indian woman he has seen on television." This sug ... ut his mother, or her past. The reason is found further into the story. "John's mother is Navajo or Lakota. She is Apache or Seminole. She is Yakama or Spokane."I believe that this is a typical way to ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Sitting Bull
age when he killed his first Buffalo. At the age of fourteen he joined a raid against the Hunkapapa Lakota's (sitting bulls tribe) enemy, the Absaroke. Known later as the Crows. They were very formida ... Bad things always happened when the white men came into contact with the Indians. Although the Lakota had come in contact with the white men before but trouble started to heat up in the early 185 ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Buffalo And Small Pox In The American West 1860's
1860, the area west of the Mississippi River in North America, had been that off collisions between people, animals, and the environment. Many of these contacts led to a drastic change in the way anim ... d the environment. Many of these contacts led to a drastic change in the way animals and indigenous people lived. There are four aspects related to this time period and the conflicts involved. The fir ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Red Cloud's Revenge
er seen alive again. Seven months after the tragic bloodshed of the Fetterman Massacre by a band of Lakota; Sargent Seamus Donegan was stationed near Fort Phil Kearney recovering from the horror and b ... away from his destination Seamus along with the small camp he stopped at was attacked by a band of Lakota Indians. Narrowly escaping with his life, Donegan set off again to Fort C.F. Smith and fatefu ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History
The History of Sitting Bull
During the nineteenth century, Lakota culture took a drastic change. With the "whites" settling all across the U.S. it made hard ti ... so contracted many diseases from the white settlers that the Indians could not cure.The traditional Lakota style of fighting was of the usual fashion; each man for himself, each striving for deeds of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"The Journey of Crazy Horse" by Joseph M Marshall III The book report was a summary and response/reaction paper to the Lakota History of Crazy Horse.
interested in being a warrior. Each time he was involved with killing a white man or protecting the Lakota during a war, helped him in becoming more of a warrior and leader of his people. Then he was ... ed Crazy Horse, was given the nickname of the Light Haired One because unlike all other boys in the Lakota tribe his hair and skin were constantly getting lighter while he grew. Growing up, Light Hair ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors