Deborah Wright Themes

The Black Hills had previously been declared Native American holy land under the Laramie Treaty. However, whites in search of gold repeatedly trespassed into the Black Hills, and the Laramie Treaty was conveniently tabled by the U.S. government to allow these prospectors to trespass; subsequently, the United States declared war on any Native Americans found conflicting with the whites trespassing on their land. Sitting Bull rejected this adamantly; he avidly believed in the future of his people and their way of life. He conducted a Sundance Ceremony at the Little Bighorn River where he danced for 36 hours without stopping, depriving himself of water and rest, and slicing 50 pieces of flesh from his arms in sacrifice. At the conclusion of the ceremony, he told the community of Native Americans that he had had a vision in which the U.S. Army was overcome.

His understanding of the necessity for wildness occurred when he kills one of the area’s few remaining wolves, and watching “the fierce green fire” die in the wolf’s eye, he realized that much of what he had learned was wrong. Leopold became one of America’s first advocated for wilderness, which also included spearheading protection for the high country of the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona in 1924. Soon after, this area was later announced as the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. The Sand County’s essay stressed the importance of concerns for the need for wild spaces and that we will lose something is and when they disappear. Although Leopold is no longer around to witness the conservation going on, many is surprised to see how his work had influenced the modern wilderness movement and the amount of land now protected.

We watched the movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee which was released in May of 2007 and was directed by Yves Simoneau and produced by Tom Thayer and Dick Wolf. The setting of the movie is the out west like in South Dakota. The Indians believed that the Black Hills and the Bad Lands were the holy land that was given to them by their great spirit. These Indians who have lived here for many generations are getting kicked out of their land because the U.S. government wants the gold that is in the mines. The U.S. government is trying to get all the Indian leaders to come live on the reservation with the other Indian tribes that have agreed to this arrangement.

The Department of the Army (2012) defines prudent risk as “a deliberate exposure to potential injury or loss when the commander judges the outcome in terms of mission accomplishment as worth the cost” (p. 5). Custer’s deliberate exposure to injury was the decision to bring his force around to what he believed to be the left flank of the Sioux village when he was now fully aware that his force was outnumbered and fighting an enemy which was conducting a spirited defense where before they were expected to flee. Further, it must have come into his mind that his force was only operating at 70% strength from the outset with the removal of Benteen’s battalion (Neuman, 2001). Whatever his mitigations may have been, it is clear that the risk he took turned out to be imprudent, and the risk he accepted led to his battalion being isolated from the rest of his command where it was summarily encircled and annihilated (Collins,

The government won a couple battles that took over their homeland.”The Indians, badly outnumbered, suffered a crushing defeat, made worse by the failure of promised aid from the British. The British offered aid to Tecumseh and his American Indian people”. Tecumseh took no negotiations with them which then led to another battle called Fallen Timbers. The Indians decided to rebuild their land in the southern Ohio part. At the end of this, he was considered and became an “influential young war chief with a growing following many of the younger, more anti-American warriors.

The Native Americans reaction to the Dawes Act was the Ghost Dance. It was popular in the Great Basin and was associated with a prophet named Wovoka. They believed that all white people would die and the dead Native Americans would return to earth if they lived together in peace with the whites, abandoned white influences, and danced a particular dance. The Ghost Dance was popular amongst the Sioux that lived in the Dakota territory. The military authorities eventually outlawed performing the dance.

He caused the death of hundreds of Indians. The Indian Removal Act was put in place to get land from the Indians to expand America. Courts told Jackson that he couldn 't take the Indians land. While the law was passed by congress. Andrew Jackson didn 't care he forced them walk to new land and hundreds of Indians died which was the Trail of Tears.

From the event of the Sioux Nation on the move, the U.S. Calvary dispatched three units to attack. The second difference that is clearly evident is the U.S. Calvary underestimated the multiple tribe’s courage to stay and fight. Major Reno’s battalion advanced first heading down the Little Bighorn and came across a natural a ford to cross the river. On this account, the Sioux could not see past the creek, and they believed the soldiers were out of cartridges. The major difference in these two accounts in the Battle of Little Bighorn is that the Sioux Nation did not believe they had committed any crimes by leaving the

Perhaps the most controversial of Jackson’s actions during his presidency is the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that lead to the Trail of Tears. Soon after becoming president, Jackson passed the former act which called for the relocation of native tribes from their homelands to a designated “Indian territory” in present-day Oklahoma. While Jackson had a clear idea of his plans, he befriended the tribes and promised them prosperity, friendship, and the possibility of becoming civilized children of God. In other words, he, the symbol of reassurance in America, stabbed the backs of all natives. Beyond the question of Jackson 's morality, what was the ultimate reason behind the removal?

Class, One reason for the defeat of the Plains Indians was the decline of the buffalo herds, due to the killing by white hunters. The buffalo was one of the most sacred things to the Native Americans, but was their main source of supplies, because they used every part of the buffalo to help them. Second are the former Indian lands being settled by homesteaders, because this reduced the ability of tribes to migrate freely through the plains. This also did not allow the Indians to hunt for more buffalo herds. Lastly was the hostile encounter with the US Army which provided a few victories for the Indian population although Sitting Bull and the Indians fought stunning battles such as the defeat of the US Calvary at Little Big Horn, in the end

Lt.Dunbar wishes for some peace and wants to see the fronteir so he askes for a posting on the South Dakota frontier. However when he arrives with new supplies at the Fort Sedgewick, it’s deserted except for a lone wolf, who Dunbar will make friends with and call two-socks, because of the white fur on his front paws. Dunbar cleans and makes the outpost useable again while he waits for the reinforcements that will not come. The local Lakota indian tribe has some young men who discover that Dunbar is alone at the outpost and try to steal cisco to make themselves look good for