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...

It is apparent that religion and magic realism encompasses almost every character in this book and it also plays a parallel role. The main characters have to battle between the Western World's religion, Christianity, and their own religion. Some people do convert, but it is the Dakota religion th...

Film Analysis: Thunderheart Thunderheart is truly mind absorbing film based on factual events taken place in the 1970's on the Oglala Sioux Reservation. The main character Ray Levoi played by Val Kilmer is a quarter Sioux Indian sent to the badlands by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ...

Black Elk Speaks Black Elk was born into a tribe of the Plains Indians, the Ogallala Lakota. He had five sisters and one brother. He had many children, but his daughter, Lucy Looks Twice, is the one discussed in this essay. The Lakota were hunters, and they relied mainly on the buffal...

In December of 1890, some 300 Lakota Indians, led by Chief Spotted Elk, took up an encampment in the area we now know as Wounded Knee, South Dakota. While they were resting, a larger group of U.S. soldiers surrounded the Indians. A single shot was fired from the soldiers, sparking a string of unprec...

After the Civil War, many settlers from the East moved west, the new frontier during the 1860-1890 period. Among those settlers were farmers, miners, railroad builders, and cattlemen who all wanted the rich, vast lands of the West. The movement west occurred because of the following reasons: the rai...

North America, from west to east coast, was mostly owned and settled by Native Americans in 1775. Native Americans were the first settlers on North America, but slowly, when the Americans no longer needed Native Americans help, they viewed them as savages and outsiders. So the Americans and the mai...

Sitting Bull was A Hunkpappa Lakota Chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribe united on the Dakota plains. Sitting Bull fought the American Army. He didn't believe the American promises. He was born in 1831 on the Grand River in what is now South Dakota at a Lakota place called Many Ca...