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- 11: Hostile Takeover of the New World
- ... the as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. (Brown, 177) Despite his efforts, the crooked U.S. government could not be overcome. He could not make peace between the whites and the Sioux, Cheyenne and other remaining tribes. The Indians believed it was wrong to sell their land. They believed it was theirs and a price could not be put on the fields ... Cheyenne numbered in the 10,000s. The Great Cheyenne in their effort to evade reservation, numbered in the 100s in total in January, 1879. (Brown, 350) Rumors came to the Sioux that people were being starved on reservations. Those that did not starve inherited diseases due to close and unsanitary quarters; many of the Indians were mocked. The soldiers were thought ... They would be forced to work. The provisions, clothing and other goods, promised by the U.S. Government were nowhere to be found. They were being treated as hostels. The Sioux would not give into reservation life without a fight. And fight they did. They killed 224 of General Custer's men in The Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25, ...
- 12: Black Elk Speaks
- ... was instead gifted with the story of Black Elk's life. Black Elk's words would explain much about the nature of wisdom as well as the lives of the Sioux and other tribes of that period. The priest or holy man calling himself Black Elk was born in the December of 1863, to a family in the Ogalala band of the Sioux. Black Elk's family was well known, and he counted the famed Crazy Horse as a friend and cousin. Black Elk's family was likewise acknowledged as a family of ... the strength of this vision, and the wisdom in his heart that Black Elk eventually realized his place as a leader and wise man in the Ogalala band of the Sioux. The wisdom possessed by Black Elk is immediately present in his recollections of various lessons learned by himself and by others. These stories ran the whole gambit of life ...
- 13: The Indians and Losing Their Homes
- ... is taken from them, they have no where else to turn but violence. Violence towards the people who stole away their security while replacing it with fear and apprehension. The Sioux tribe of Indians were a breed of people entirely different from the white man. They believed in spiritual guidance, but not spiritual worshipping. This was a major conflict to what ... Each Indian had these qualities and they were all pure. From birth on, each Indian was a good person, not labeled bad or thought to have an evil mind. The Sioux tribe believed that courage and bravery were weighed as well as the intelligent mind. Young Sioux boys were sent to spend a night in the wilderness to show that they were strong and brave. The Sioux tribe and the rest of the Native Americans had ...
- 14: Western Films
- ... Water (1911), with the western's first characteristic scenes of a wagon train siege and a cavalry rescue, the innovatively-filmed Fighting Blood (1911) about conflict between white settlers and Sioux Indians in the Dakota territory of 1899, and The Battle of Elderbrush Gulch (1913), a pre-cursor to his most (in)famous film, Birth of a Nation (1915). Cecil B ... Berger's novel titled Little Big Man (1970). One of the few attempts to portray Native-American life in a more sympathetic light was found in the realistic depiction of Sioux Indians in the Dakotas in A Man Called Horse (1970). In the early 1980s, westerns began to disappear from cinema screens as memories of the trail-blazing past receded and ... Costner's box-office and critical success Dances with Wolves (1990), his directorial debut, was noted as one of the few westerns that cast Indians in acting roles, used Lakota Sioux sub-titles, and viewed Native Americans in a sympathetic way and not as blood-thirsty savages. Although the film was officially sanctioned by the Sioux, not all Native American ...
- 15: Drawing Names In The Lottery
- ... progresses. In the beginning, Blake gives us a hostile environment. The setting is that Dunbar, a drunk army officer, is assigned to a remote trading post near a tribe of Sioux Indians, his sworn enemies. Communications between them are limited, and the Indian tribe describes white men as dumb and useless. The feeling is mutual, too. White men then considered Indians ... t been settled. This just so happens to be Indian land. As the story progresses, Dunbar befriends the tribe, turns against his Northern army, and goes to live with the Sioux. The tone here is a more warm and friendly environment, because Dunbar realizes that his new friends are more civil than men of his own kind. Things really start to turn around when Dunbar s troops find out that he has joined the Sioux. They trap him and beat him, then make him serve as a slave. Dunbar never ends up going back to the white men s army. The way that Blake ...
- 16: Native American Music
- ... of musical styles and instruments. In response to the research that I have conducted, there are three main musical styles that are going to be my point of focus. The Sioux Grass Dance, the Zuni Lullaby, and the Iroquois Quiver Dance are the principal methods which contribute to Native American music. The Sioux Grass Dance is considered to be the most popular style of Native American Music. As one dances to this music, they follow a pattern known as “toe-heel.” This consists ... most often used to express a love song and never for religious ceremonies. Looking at Native American music, one can conclude that there are three main types of music: The Sioux Grass Dance, Iroquois Quiver Dance, and the Zuni Lullaby. Drums and wind instruments are used in portraying the music. The Native Americans dressed accordingly to the music that they ...
- 17: Native American Music
- ... of musical styles and instruments. In response to the research that I have conducted, there are three main musical styles that are going to be my point of focus. The Sioux Grass Dance, the Zuni Lullaby, and the Iroquois Quiver Dance are the principal methods which contribute to Native American music. The Sioux Grass Dance is considered to be the most popular style of Native American Music. As one dances to this music, they follow a pattern known as “toe-heel.” This consists ... most often used to express a love song and never for religious ceremonies. Looking at Native American music, one can conclude that there are three main types of music: The Sioux Grass Dance, Iroquois Quiver Dance, and the Zuni Lullaby. Drums and wind instruments are used in portraying the music. The Native Americans dressed accordingly to the music that they ...
- 18: A Century Of Dishonor, a Triumph or Tragedy?
- ... for the Native Americans that sadly went unnoticed. “What treaty that the whites ever made with us red men have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set in their lands. They sent 10,000 horse men to battle. Where are the warriors to-day? Who slew them? Where are ... a thief.... What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked in me because my skin is red; because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my fathers lived; because I would die for my people and my country” (qtd. in Carruth and Ehrlich 56). To write about the author, one ... enough information to present that knowledge to the 1880 Congress. “She presents her case in emotional narratives of the history of seven tribes, the Cheyennes, Cherokees, Delawares, Nez Perces, Poncass, Sioux, and Winnebagoes, and on the massacres of Indians by whites” (Estes 247). Needless to say, the 1800 Congress was not interested. “However, the powerful Indian Rights Association was formed ...
- 19: Dances With Wolves
- ... progresses. In the beginning, Blake gives us a hostile environment. The setting is that Dunbar, a drunk army officer, is assigned to a remote trading post near a tribe of Sioux Indians, his sworn enemies. Communications between them are limited, and the Indian tribe describes white men as dumb and useless. The feeling is mutual, too. White men then considered Indians ... t been settled. This just so happens to be Indian land. As the story progresses, Dunbar befriends the tribe, turns against his Northern army, and goes to live with the Sioux. The tone here is a more warm and friendly environment, because Dunbar realizes that his new friends are more civil than men of his own kind. Things really start to turn around when Dunbar s troops find out that he has joined the Sioux. They trap him and beat him, then make him serve as a slave. Dunbar never ends up going back to the white men s army. The way that Blake ...
- 20: Plains Indians
- ... pieces of bone or wood skewered into their skin tied to the sun-pole. They would then tug and pull until the skin broke free. Frederick Schwatka wrote about a Sioux Sun Dance he witnessed in the late 1800s:Each one of the young men presented himself to a medicine-man, who took between his thumb and forefinger a fold of ... Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries. New York: Harper and RowKehoe, Alice B. (1992). North American Indians A Comprehensive Account. New Jersey: Prentice-HallSchwatka, Frederick. (1889-1890). The Sun-Dance of the Sioux. Century Magazine. Pp. 753-759.Welker, Glenn. The Sun Dance http://www.indians.org/welker/sundance.htm (Jan 7, 1996)
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