Dakota are a very sacred area as a whole. In the black hills, i believe at one time or another, there is a piece of the rest of the world here somewhere. We are in the epicenter of sometimes testy relations between native and nonnative inhabitants. Stretching about 110 miles long and 70 miles wide, the black hills of south dakota rise up from the plains just to the west of rapid city. The black hills are very important to the native american members. They refer to it as the heart. The pine trees and the elevation we have thats around all this. Speaking of where rapid city is that, we are positioned at the gateway to the black hills. It is kind of how we have always billed ourselves, even back to the earliest founders of rapid city. I am donovan sprague. My name translates. It is about 100 miles east of where i stand right now. That is the sacred bear butte, a very spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many American Indian Tribes and nationalities visit. About the time. S
Nonnative americans. Stretching about 110 miles long and 70 miles wide, the black hills of south dakota rise up from the plains, just to the west of rapid city. The black hills are very important to the native American Community members. They are referred to as the heart. And thein pine trees elevations that we have that surround that area thinking of where rapid city is at, we are positioned at the gateway to the black hills, where it is kind of how we have always build ourselves, billed back to the earliest founders of rapid city. I am doniphan donovan sprague, i come from the lakota ise family and my tribal affiliation, from ,cion river sioux reservation , a veryacred bear butte spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many American Indian Tribes and nationalities visited. Aroundhe time period of 1800, we will say up to the wins as a time period, our henota and cheyenne are w lakota and cheyenne dominated this area. They moved with the buffalo and game, which supplied th
Time. She started her own business as a wall street banker, she advocated for free love, which means sex outside of marriage. Eastern,at 6 30 p. M. An author discusses her book democracy and truth a short history. No one one person, institution, no one sector, king, priest, National Research body, one cast would get to call the shots. Explore our nations passed on American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. The cspan cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. With support from our cable partners, this weekend we traveled to rapid city, south dakota, featuring lifesize statues of each of our nations past president s. For the next hour, we will experience the history of this city of 75,000. For a moment, we will take you into the Black Hills National Forest with a trip to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. And in about 20 minutes, it is on to bear butte, one of the most Sacred Places in the world for native americans. Later, we will visit the Journey Museum to
Lets consider some major events. It was during his presidency that the socalled great sioux uprising, what we call the dakota war, occurred. It was drenched in blood as impoverished and hungry dakota waged war on settlers and faced the wrath of whites, who hunted down suspected culprits tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, 303 men. Lincoln commuted the sentence of most of these individuals but in the end, 38 were hung in what remains americas largest max mass execution. It was during the lincoln presidency that the navajo, or dine, as they call themselves, walkmade to endure a long hundreds of miles from their homeland to a new reservation in eastern new mexico. To convince the navajo, american soldiers burned crops, destroyed livestock, and sacked their homes. They suffered from a lack of food, diseases, and raids. It was during the lincoln presidency that one of the most atrocious episodes in u. S. Indian affairs occurred, and that was the massacre at cheyenne and eastern colora
Lakota, for my tribal affiliation from Cheyenne River sioux reservation, which is about 100 miles east of where i stand right now at the sacred bear butte. A very spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many American Indian Tribes and nationalities visit. People come here and they will give tobacco offerings and prayers, and so they will leave those very often with tobacco and cloth for maybe a loved one or something they are praying for, but it does show all of the prayers that are left here and that are well received in this very area that we are at, i have actually given some lakota names to some people here. Some of these places, when i just look over, i can kind of almost imagine us, you know, having our little ceremony and getting together, and on a great occasion, someone getting a name that they are proud to carry with them. Always almost develops a connection with them, you know . They start coming here more often, and then that place is special to them. You are c