My Visits with the Lakota Sioux of the Cheyenne River Reservation Mrs. Emig Music Teacher Fayetteville Elementary School

Things We Do Build relationships Build playgrounds Work with children Put up meeting tents and help with transportation Repair buildings and build new ones Move trailers Community Garden

Pipestone, Minnesota

Famous Sioux Indians Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse "His-Horse-Is-Crazy" or "His-Horse-Is-Spirited” (1840 –1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the United States government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people, including leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. After surrendering to U.S. troops, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a military guard while allegedly resisting arrest. He ranks among the most important Native American tribal members and has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a 13¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.

Sitting Bull Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill

Sitting Bull (1831 – 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. Sitting Bull developed into the most important of Native American chiefs.

Native American pupils at Carlisle Indian School

Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879–1918) was an Indian boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1879 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, the school was the first off-reservation boarding school, and it became a model for Indian boarding schools in other locations. It was one of a series of nineteenth-century efforts by the United States government to assimilate Native American children from 140 tribes into the majority culture. The goal of total assimilation can be summed up in the school's slogan: "To civilize the Indian, get him into civilization. To keep him civilized, let him stay."[3]

The late nineteenth century was also a period of continued expansion of public education across the country, with the Reconstruction era (United States) legislatures having created public school systems in the South for the first time, and new northern towns' founding schools to keep up with the settlement of the Midwest and West, as well as expanding immigrant populations in industrial cities. In the early years of the twentieth century, Coach Pop Warner led a highly successful football team and athletic program at the Carlisle School, and went on to an illustrious career in professional football. He coached the exceptional athlete Jim Thorpe and his teammates, bringing national recognition to the small school. In 1912 Carlisle won the national collegiate championship. After the school closed in 1918, the United States Army took back Carlisle Barracks and used the facility as a hospital to treat soldiers wounded in World War I. Later it established the War College there. In 1961 the complex was designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL). In later decades the school was re-evaluated by historians and analysts in terms of the psychological damage done to Native American children by assimilation efforts, as well as documented cases of abuse. The school was also recognized for its ideals. In 2000 the former school was the site of a historical commemoration for its Native American students and the full history of the experience.[4]

A Camp for Troubled Youth

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A Few of Our Friends

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