723+Sioux,+The+Great+Plains

= Sioux, Great Plains =

Question #1:
= The Sioux are important in history. They where the first people to actually settle in North America. They where also clever people that hunted large animals like bison with ease. In other words the warriors were killing machines who had many battles with people and won no matter who their opponents were. =



“Born Of A Legend” Lower Sioux Bronze Monument Monument built to honor the people of the Lower Sioux Tribe.

Question #2: The Native Americans formed their governments by using ideas of other societies. They made this legal system to make fair decisions for their communities. This shows they had organized communities and close to never had arguments or protests.

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Question # 3 :
= The Sioux and The Europeans didn't really get a long because the Europeans expanded their territory and the Sioux were getting pushed to the west, even though the Sioux move from place to place, whenever they even stay for a while in a place near the Europeans they get pushed away. The Sioux relationship with the French traders wasn't really that good too because they argued a lot about fur. =

During the 1500s, the Sioux migrated from Eastern North America to what is now Minnesota. They had arable land in that area. By the 1600s, the Sioux people began to migrate from the arable land to the Great Plains. They didn't want to climb tough terrain. After all, it is easier to live with flat land around you. In the 1700s, the Sioux obtained horses, and learned to expertly ride them. They used these horses to hunt buffalo. That is when the Sioux dominated the other tribes of the Great Plains. During the 1800s, The Great Sioux Nation ruled the northern Great Plains which is now present day North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. Trading posts established throughout the west. By 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Purchase. This area includes Sioux territory. In 1804 the Sioux encountered the Lewis and Clark expedition and in 1831 Sitting Bull is born. In 1842 Crazy Horse was born. Between 1837 and 1870 at least four smallpox outbreaks ravage through the tribes of the Great Plains.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, at the very time the horse-riding nomadic way of life of the Lakotas was flourishing, the grasslands were being invaded by European Americans. The U.S. government initiated an aggressive military policy in the Plains during the 1860s. This policy included building additional military posts and pursuing Indian groups characterized as "hostile," activities that inflamed already tense relations between the federal government and the Lakotas and their allies. The Great Sioux Nation and its allies proved formidable opponents, militarily and politically, and brought the U.S. government to the negotiating table twice at Fort Laramie (1854 and 1868) to sign treaties. The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie established the Great Sioux Reservation, spanning more than half of the modern state of South Dakota (west of the Missouri River), and provided annuities and rations for the Sioux.

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Today, many Sioux raise cattle and a large number work as wage-laborers in neighboring towns. The Sioux language and culture ar e vigorously maintained although most Sioux are now nominally Christian. Many also follow the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic peyote cactus in traditional sacred medical ritual. In 1973, Dakota Sioux occupied the site of Wounded Knee, which raised the awareness of the American Indian Movement. Gold, uranium, coal, oil, and natural gas have been found on their reservations.

Aritfact #1


=General George A. Custer =

Artifact #2


=The Ghost Dance, clothes =

**Artifact #3** = Sioux carved pipestone =