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A 7 page investigation of this critical point in Native American and US history. This paper explores the differences that existed between the Native view of what was right and the white view. Bibliography lists sources.
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United States alike. This was a time when cultural conflict had reached a pinnacle. Native Americans were largely confined to government identified and ran reservations. Their traditional
lifeways had been ripped from them and they were forced to live life as wards of the US government. During this time, however, some interesting developments were occurring.
This was a time of emergent nationalism for Native Americans. It was also a time where new cultural traditions were being created. Many of these new traditions, the
Ghost Dance for example, were actually a desperate attempt by Native Americans to once again take control of their lives and their destinies.
Nationalism was a new phenomenon in many ways for Native Americans in the nineteenth century. This wasnt because they hadnt had tribal associations well before the onslaught
of whites into their lives. Instead, it was because those associations had been loosely defined and not subject to the strict interpretation of legalities as was the case with
this new emerging nationalism. This new nationalism was, in many ways, both a godsend to the Native Americans and a curse. In
"Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inherent in the historical pronouncement of the Lakota people as a "nation".
Anderson (1996) presents a factual accounting of the Lakota people from the time of the White invasion into their homelands through their forced retreat to the reservation, the ghost
dance and the eventual recognition of the nation by the United States government. Andersons (1996) thesis is that this final recognition was indeed a paradox. Not only had
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