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...

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...

On the morning of December 29, 1890, the Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. Surrounding their camp was a force of US troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. The scene was tense. Trouble had be...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1880's, the Native American people were a nation in trouble. These people suffered through the Trail of Tears, starvation, and illness. Throughout all this, they managed to grasp something that they could believe in. Unfortunately, this something resulted in mass murder. Since the &...

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...

The Great Sioux Legacy The Sioux were one of the great Indian Nations that once roamed North America freely. They have a long and interesting history, which has had a great affect on our Nation. I plan to show the history of the Sioux up to modern time, including great leaders and other importan...