Why Is The Sioux Tribe Called Today

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The Sioux tribe is the reason behind the name the Cheyenne tribe is called today. The Cheyenne was originally named ‘Ni-oh-ma-ate-a-nin-ya’ which meant ‘desert people’, but the Sioux gave them the name ‘Shi-hel-la’, and later changed it to ‘Shi-hen-na’ and travelers picked up that name easier. The Cheyenne tribe took many steps to become who they are today, such as being pushed off their land and changing lifestyles. They had traditions that made them different from the other tribes. They also sometimes had to go down the path of war or peace. The Cheyenne was one of the most famous Plains

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Sitting Bull Thesis

Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) was made principal chief of the entire Sioux nation about 1867 and was a young rebel, not the kind of rebel most think of. Sitting Bull rebelled against the white men that were wrongfully breaking the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie, which was supposed to guarantee the Sioux tribes and the Arapaho Native Americans possession of the Dakota territory West of the Mississippi. This rebellious act shaped America today in a not so good way. America lost many healthy relationships with…

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Argumentative Essay Against The Dakota Access Pipeline

In their September 2016 article, Federal government moves to halt oil pipeline construction near Standing Rock Sioux tribal land, Heim. Joe and Berman, Mark, wrote “A federal judge ruled Friday against the Standing Rock Sioux Trible’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt construction on the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline that the tribe says endanger sacred burial ground and could threaten its water supply from Lake Oahe, a dammed section of the Missouri river” (Heim. Joe and Berman). Historically…

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Native American History Research Paper

first settlers of North America, yet why isn’t their history, culture, and feats been recorded in tomes of history books or taught to the average student in the elementary/secondary classroom? The ordinary person’s knowledge of Native Americans’ appearance, clothing, life-style, history, personality, and academic and artistic achievements most often comes from fictional stories and films, which paint a stereotypical, inaccurate image. This paper takes a look at why is there such a lack of accurate…

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Essay Native History

which would be owned by individual Natives. The desired outcome was to significantly decrease the amount of land obtainable by the tribes so that the government could sale the “surplus” land and make out like bandits. However, some natives decided to sale their allotments to non-natives and this reduced the size of reservations considerably. The Dawes Act, also called the General Allotment Act, was passed on February 8, 1887 by Congress and named for Senator Henry Dawes of Massachusetts. The President…

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Bent's Forts Analysis

building four foot thick walls and it is all made of adobe, which is a clay like material that is made into bricks. As you think of this do any buildings created come to mind? A building is not created this strong and big for just anything, which is why Bent’s Fort was such a successful trading post. Bents Fort was run by about sixty people that all did many different things to make this one of the most significant trading posts in our country’s history. It happened to be the biggest building between…

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Native American Health Care

injustices throughout history that continue on even today. So when we were asked to write a research paper about historic or current social justice issues concerning Native American Indians I didn’t know where to start or how to even pick just one topic. Over the course of this semester my heart bled for the Anasazi people, Massasoit and the Wampanoag to Tecumseh and his story, the Apache and Geronimo to the Navajo and the Sioux and all the countless tribes and people not listed here( 1), throughout the…

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African American Reparation Research Paper

Jews and Japanese Americans even included provisions for the descendants of the people harmed, not just the actual victims. The Constitutional Rights Foundation notes that the Supreme Court in 1980 ordered the federal government to pay eight Sioux Indian tribes $122 million to compensate for the illegal seizure of tribal lands in 1877. Then in 1988, Congress approved the payment of $1.25 billion to 60,000 Japanese-American citizens who had been interned in prison camps during World War II. Donna Lamb…

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final paper

treaties, another problem that the Indians were faced with. The United States and Canada has had a long history with peace treaties with Indians. What we are going to look at today is the broken treaties of the Lakotas and the Plains Cree. In 1868 there was a treaty between the Lakota and the United States to the Great Sioux War of 1876, and Treaty Six in 1876 between the Plains Cree and Canada until the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. The result is an insightful comparative history of treaty relations…

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Imperialism: Vladimir Lenin and Nineteenth Century Imperialism Essay

and ultimately benefited everyone by ensuring the free flow of trade. In other words, Ferguson would find little reason to contradict the young Winston Churchill’s assertion that the aim of British imperialism was to: give peace to warring tribes, to administer justice where all was violence, to strike the chains off the slave, to draw the richness from the soil, to place the earliest seeds of commerce and learning, to increase in whole peoples their capacities for pleasure and diminish their chances of pain…

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History Of The Preexistence Of Robert H. Goddard

building of the railroad; as a result, another war with the Indians, for example the Sand Creek Massacre where some drunken disorderly military men killed over 200 Indians, mostly the elderly and children were there, at Wounded Knee Creek where 200 Sioux were killed, and Custer's last stand in the Black Hills where the Indians action-ally won. All these deputes were settle based on Goddard theoretical theory of flight using gun powder to put an object in flight a theory that already existed. For…

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