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in history because he would always look out for the best interest of the Sioux tribe and the Lakota nation by standing up against the American army who was interested in the relocation of Indians and the creation of reservations. It…

William Ury’s The Third Side is about conflict management, fighting and conflicts are natural and normal aspects of life. Ury explains that violence is not inevitable, there is an alternative to being violent, and that is the Third Side. Violence and war is not inevitable, we don’t have to fight and kill each other off. The Third Side offers a promising new way you will view conflict going on in the world and around us. The Third Side is our community that we live in and our surroundings. It…

Additionally, the pipeline has been controversial due to the environmental hazards tin its operation (Issitt). One of the major groups of protestors to the Keystone Pipeline are Native American Tribes including the Northern Arapaho Tribe, Yankton Sioux Tribe, and Blackfeet tribe. Their feelings…

Crazy Horse was finally realizing that he would not be able to win the war against the whites and started coming up with questions and things they would argue about if they met with the whites for a treaty. Crazy Horse and much of the Sioux leaders decided to finally meet with the whites and talk negotiating. While the Indians were on their way to meet the whites, they go through a camp of crow scouts and things turn hostile very fast. One of the crow scouts shot and killed the Indians who were…

Black Elk and Red Crow ride back to camp in Pine Ridge, each with a baby he saved from the battleground. The site at Pine Ridge is vacant, the Indians having bolted away. While eating some food that the fugitive Indians left they are shot at. Black Elk says that he desires he had died right then and there with remains of the Indian meat in his mouth. They leave camp to search for their people. Black Elk's mother is joyful she assumed he was dead. Black Elk wants to seek revenge for the…

water tomorrow? If your mother or father’s final resting place will be bulldozed, excavated, and defiled? These hypothetical questions posed to you are the realities of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Tribe right now. The Dakota Access Pipeline debate as to whether or not it should be relocated from the Sioux Native American reservation is presently taking place due to its construction being merely half of a mile downstream from protected sacred land. The Dakota Access Pipeline has…

The monument is a tribute to a Native American war hero. He is known for fighting the battle against George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Big Horn (http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/05/us/crazy-horse-memorial/). Crazy horse was a member of the Teton Sioux tribe; he was an Oglala Lakota warrior: who was pointing into the distance riding a horse. The sculpture was carved out of the Thunderhead Mountain on what is scared land according to some of the Oglala Lakota tribe. It measures 641 feet wide…

Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz this excerpt it gave Crazy Horse’s personal thoughts about the encroachment of the white man into Indian territory. The influential leader of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Crazy Horse, held out against the government's efforts to imprison the Sioux on reservations. He fought in many battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. In 1877, he was one of the last Indian Chiefs to surrender and was killed. It reminded me of many other unimaginable…

After six weeks of fighting with many casualties on both sides, the then governor of Minnesota, Henry Sibley led a final onslaught against the Dakota Indians. The Dakota warriors were subdued and captured; about three hundred and three Sioux warriors were tried and sentenced to murder for their involvement in the war. Out of the number, thirty-eight of the warriors were publicly executed on December 29, 1962; the rest was commuted to various life sentences by Abraham Lincoln, who was the…

A company called Energy Transfer Partners wants to build a pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois to transport oil. They say that this is the safest way to carry oil. The pipeline would be near the Stand Rock Sioux tribe, and could negatively affect them. The Native Americans believe that the pipeline would destroy their land and contaminate their water source. Thousands of people have come to protest the building of this pipeline. Should the North Dakota pipelines be built near Native American…