Essays on Lakota

It is easy as a student of history to ignore major development with Native American tribes after the end of the nineteenth century and the so-called “closing of the frontier.” This is seen by many as the end of an era and a time where the federal government had finally settled its policy regarding the status and treatment of this country’s many Native American tribes. Charles Wilkinson in Blood Struggle paints a completely different picture of how the relationship between the tribes and the US government developed through the course of the second half of the twentieth century. ...

Over decades, Native Americans were facing fierce and severe oppression of non-Indians who targeted at ‘civilizing’ and ‘educating’ savages. Deemed they were helping English Americans were suppressing and erasing unique and beautiful Indian culture. Thousands of Indians were forcibly sent to schools in order to learn ‘correct’ language and values which damaged family relationships and distorted sense of belonging and cultural identity which brought Native American languages and culture in a catatonic state. However, despite all horrible deeds Native Americans try to rebuild and regain their cultural heritage in order to pass it to the next generations. A lot ...

The “American Indian nation” had remained forgotten for a very long time in the history of the United States. Efforts were made to silence American Indians and even make them disappear by getting absorbed by the white popular culture that has dominated the country since the very first white American immigrants arrived in the country. Despite all that, the American Indians looked for alternative means to protect their heritage and let the world and America acknowledge them. And it is against that very backdrop that the story of Mary Crow Dog is told in Lakota Woman. The story tells ...

The American Westward Expansion was one of the key events of the nineteenth century. To a great extent, it established the relationship between the White people and Native Americans and influenced their lifestyle. It was the time of mounting tensions between the two nations. The aim of this paper is to study how the life of the Plains Indians, especially the Lakota Sioux, changed under the influence of the Westward Expansion at the end of the nineteenth century. Generally, the Plain Indians had always been hunters and needed big land territories to sustain their hunting societies. The American Westward ...

Almost every culture have some type of rites of passage that boys must go through to become a man. Each of the different Native tribes in the United States had their own rite of passage for their men. However, several factors contributed toward the loss of Native tribal men’s rites of passage. Factors such as Christians wanting to convert the Native tribes, the taking of land from the Native tribes by Euro-Americans, and the misunderstanding of Native rituals by the Euro-Americans led to the loss of Native tribal men’s rites of passage. Many Native tribes fought hard ...

Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who was born in 1840 and under the Native American name Tashunka Witco near South Dakota. He got his name from his father, who was also named Crazy Horse after he showed the strong skills of a warrior. The Oglala Sioux Indian chief fought against the Black Hills reservations. He was known to be a fearless leader and remained committed to defending his people's way of life. The leader of the Lakota Sioux was also a legendary warrior who is known for his efforts to preserve Native American traditions and Lakota life that he was ...