American Indian Wars There is perhaps a tendency to view the record of the military in terms of conflict, that may be why the U.S. Army's operational experience in the quarter century following the Civil War became known as the Indian wars. Previous struggles with the Indian,...

Can you imagine our world coexisting with Indians? It could have happened. If the Indians could have been pulled together and won the Battle of Wounded Knee. Your neighborhood could have been called Indian Estates and your next door neighbor could have been a Sioux. But they lost. American Indian ex...

When I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made hi...

History The Sioux Nation contained about twenty thousand people in seven different tribes throughout the Northern Great plains. The Sioux were originally part of the seven council fires, Oceti Sakowin, which was made up of seven bands: four Dakota, two nakota and one teton or lakota band. The...

The event that that ended all the wars between the Indians and America was the Battle of Wounded Knee. The battle symbolizes not only never ending battle of Indians and Americans but the end of the American frontier. The once proud Sioux found their free-roaming life ruined, the buffalo gone. They w...

Crazy Horse When I think back of the stories that I have heard about howthe Native American Indians were driven from their land andforced to live on the reservations one particular event comes tomy mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It isone of the few times that the Oglala Sioux...

An Indian Named Slow The Life Of Sitting Bull Slow (Sitting Bull) played a very important role in the Sioux nation. Slow was a very unique person. He did not follow the traditional way of the other Indians. Slow later to become Sitting Bull became one of the greatest and wisest leaders of the ...

Crazy Horse When I think back of the stories that I have heard about howthe Native American Indians were driven from their land andforced to live on the reservations one particular event comes tomy mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It isone of the few times that the Oglala Sio...

American Indian Wars There is perhaps a tendency to view the record of the military in terms of conflict, that may be why the U.S. Army’s operational experience in the quarter century following the Civil War became known as the Indian wars. Previous struggles with the Indian, dating back to ...

The Parallels and Divergences of Native Americans and Christianity The Description of Black Elk's Vision is one of a mystical journey, which has allows Americans a peak into the complex religions of Native American tribes. The relationships between Christianity and Black Elk's Sioux Religion we...

In 1830's the Plains Indians were sent to the Great American Deserts in the west because Indians in white men's objectives did not deserve a good fertile land to live on. When the white men realized they could still use the land they gave the Natives because the land could support agricult...

Published in 1932, the novel Black Elk Speaks is the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux, as told through John Neihardt. In a long series of discussions between the two men, Black Elk imparted his own story and the story of the Oglala Sioux during the tragic decades of the Custer battle, th...

The story of the Lakota and the Great Plains is one of resilience and strength. Their story includes great moments of coming to together as a tribe and resilience against the westerners when the railroads were commissioned. The plains were home to the Lakota long before the settlers arrived, being s...