Review over the Paradox of Sitting Bull
In the late 1800’s the Americans viciously forced many Native Americans off their lands all because the federal government wanted the U.S. to expand and obtain Manifest Destiny. The main Native American and tribe that stood against the federal government was Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux and entire Lakota nation. He led a large amount of Sioux warriors in many battles against the American government that were fought over the rights and lands of the Lakota nation. He was against the American government and the forceful ways that they took over Indian lands, and therefore he used his strong, spiritual leadership abilities to battle against the American government as well as the U.S army. The author of the biography Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood, was written by Gary C. Anderson, because he feels that all Americans should acknowledge the will-power, leadership, determination, and courage of a man like Sitting Bull before him and his impact on Native American and American history is forgotten and lost like most history. As the Americans moved farther and farther westward, they had no reason to harshly force the Indians off their homelands, and Sitting Bull’s refusal against the American government and its armies has left an impact that has shaped the culture many Native American’s way of life.
1) (a) What seven bands constituted the Lakota nation? (b) Describe the socio-political structure of the Lakotas and its relationship to their buffalo-hunting economy.
(a) The seven bands that constituted the Lakota nation were the Yankton, Yanktonai, Dakota, Sisseton, Wahpeton, Wahpekute, and the Mdewakanton tribes. Theses tribes lived over a vast area that made up the Lakota nation. The Yankton and Yankonai tribes were settled east of the Missouri river. These two tribes were branches, so to speak, of the larger Nakota Sioux tribe. The Dakota tribe was a branch of the Eastern Sioux the Sisseton, Wahpeton, Wahpekute, and Mdewakanton tribes
1) (a) What seven bands constituted the Lakota nation? (b) Describe the socio-political structure of the Lakotas and its relationship to their buffalo-hunting economy.
(a) The seven bands that constituted the Lakota nation were the Yankton, Yanktonai, Dakota, Sisseton, Wahpeton, Wahpekute, and the Mdewakanton tribes. Theses tribes lived over a vast area that made up the Lakota nation. The Yankton and Yankonai tribes were settled east of the Missouri river. These two tribes were branches, so to speak, of the larger Nakota Sioux tribe. The Dakota tribe was a branch of the Eastern Sioux the Sisseton, Wahpeton, Wahpekute, and Mdewakanton tribes