Authors Tell Untold Story Of Sioux Warrior Red Cloud. Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. Not long after the Civil War, America waged another war, one that's almost been lost to history. It was 1866. Settlers were pouring westward in wagon trains to farm or mine for gold, pushing onto the land of the American Indians. That's when the great Sioux warrior Red Cloud decided: no more. The story of this remarkable man is told in a new biography. BOB DRURY: General William Tecumseh Sherman, who was in charge of the army of the West, he issued an order. MONTAGNE: And the backdrop for this was something that Red Cloud had proclaimed. DRURY: (Reading) The Great Spirit raised both the white man and the Indian. MONTAGNE: One of the most important and dramatic battles in Red Cloud's War came just before Christmas, in 1866. DRURY: It was a guerrilla war. MONTAGNE: One thing you do not shy away from in this book is describing how vicious these battles could be.
Sioux Reservation Has Mixed Feelings About Obama Visit. President Obama will go the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation which straddles the border between North and South Dakota. It's his first visit to an Indian reservation since becoming president. Copyright © 2014 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. President Obama goes to Indian Country today. JIM KENT, BYLINE: The village of Cannon Ball is located near the northern edge of the 3,500 square mile Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, about an hour south of Bismarck. DAVID ARCHAMBAULT: It's a good community to visit if you want to share what represents Indian Country and how you can visibly see some hardship. KENT: That life is what elder Florestine Grant calls making the best of your situation. FLORESTINE GRANT: You know, we're not wealthy or anything.
KENT: Florestine says one way President Obama could help the people here is with more funding for education and jobs programs. AVIS LITTLE EAGLE: We don't want that pipeline running through our lands. Copyright © 2014 NPR. The myth of the cowboy. Today, populations of wild horse-riders and herdsmen exist in a large number of regions all round the world. Some of them are strictly analogous to cowboys, such as gauchos on the plains of the southern cone of Latin America; the llaneros on the plains of Colombia and Venezuela; possibly the vaqueiros of the Brazilian north-east; certainly the Mexican vaqueros from whom indeed, as everyone knows, both the costume of the modern cowboy myth and most of the vocabulary of the cowboy's trade are directly derived: mustang, lasso, lariat, sombrero, chaps (chaparro), a cinch, bronco.
There are similar populations in Europe, such as the csikos on the Hungarian plain, or puszta, the Andalusian horsemen in the cattle-raising zone whose flamboyant behaviour probably gave the earliest meaning of the word "flamenco", and the various Cossack communities of the south Russian and Ukrainian plains. There is thus no shortage of potential cowboy myths in the western world. Reading this on a mobile? THE WEST - William F. Cody. "Buffalo Bill" (1846-1917) In a life that was part legend and part fabrication, William F. Cody came to embody the spirit of the West for millions, transmuting his own experience into a national myth of frontier life that still endures today. Born in Scott County, Iowa, in 1846, Cody grew up on the prairie. When his father died in 1857, his mother moved to Kansas, where Cody worked for a wagon-freight company as a mounted messenger and wrangler.
In 1859, he tried his luck as a prospector in the Pikes Peak gold rush, and the next year, joined the Pony Express, which had advertised for "skinny, expert riders willing to risk death daily. " Already a seasoned plainsman at age 14, Cody fit the bill. During the Civil War, Cody served first as a Union scout in campaigns against the Kiowa and Comanche, then in 1863 he enlisted with the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, which saw action in Missouri and Tennessee. Beginning in 1868, Cody returned to his work for the Army. Memorial of the Cherokee Nation, December 1829 | Teach US History. To the honorable the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled: The undersigned memorialists, humbly make known to your honorable bodies, that they are free citizens of the Cherokee nation. Circumstances of late occurrence have troubled our hearts, and induced us at this time to appeal to you, knowing that you are generous and just...
By the will of our Father in heaven, the governor of the whole world, the red man of America has become small, and the white man great and renowned. When the ancestors of the people of these United States first came to the shores of America, they found the red man strong—though he was ignorant and savage, yet he received them kindly, and gave them dry land to rest their weary feet. They met in peace, and shook hands in token of friendship. The land on which we stand, we have received as an inheritance from our fathers, who possessed it from time immemorial, as a gift from our common father in heaven. Crazy Horse - Native American History. Since his violent and controversial death, Crazy Horse, or Tashunka Witko, has become almost a mythical figure of the Great Plains Indian wars. The place and date of his birth are uncertain, but he was probably born in the early 1840s near Bear Butte on the Belle Fourche River in South Dakota.
His father was a medicine man of the Oglala subtribe, his mother a Brulé. There has been much speculation about the origin of the name Crazy Horse, but most historians now agree that his father had the same name. As a youth he was known as Curly, but acquired the father’s name after proving himself in combat. He was below average height, his body lithe, his hair and complexion lighter than that of most Indians. Various photographs bear his name, but most have been discredited, and probably none is genuine. His first encounter with U.S. soldiers was on the old Oregon Trail, July 25, 1865, at Platte Bridge, where he acted as a decoy to draw soldiers out of their defenses.
Westerns Films. Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a nostalgic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier (the borderline between civilization and the wilderness). They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically American genres in their mythic origins. [The popularity of westerns has waxed and waned over the years. Their most prolific era was in the 1930s to the 1960s, and most recently in the 90s, there was a resurgence of the genre.
They appear to be making an invigorating comeback (both on the TV screen and in theatres). Modern movie remakes, such as 3:10 To Yuma (2007) and the Coen Brothers' True Grit (2010) have also paid homage to their mid-20th century predecessors.] See also Filmsite's Greatest Westerns AFI's 10 Top 10 - The Top 10 Western Films See all Greatest Westerns Title Screens This indigenous American art form focuses on the frontier West that existed in North America. D. Kit Carson: Hero Or Villain? Kit Carson is considered the ultimate American hero by some and the most evil of villians by others. CBS This story originally aired on Jan. 7, 2007 The grandeur and majesty of the American West have always overwhelmed. It is landscape that never fails to humble and inspire the visitor. And perhaps that explains the near-mythic stories of the early explorers who came here, laid claim to the land, and conquered the Native Americans.
We imagine those explorers as giants. Christopher Houston Carson, or Kit Carson, couldn't read and couldn't even write his own name, but he knew how to fight and how to kill. He was the hero of America's westward expansion - or its villain. "It's really a book about the conquest of the American west, seen mainly through the eyes of Kit Carson," Sides said. He was lionized in movies, like 1933's "Fighting with Kit Carson" and in the 1950s TV series, "The Adventures of Kit Carson. " There was a lot of excitement, but very little truth.
Copyright 2007 CBS. Les Westerns : l'art et la légende. Un homme, un cheval, et toute l'immensité de Monument Valley, c'est l'image de Western d'une Amérique qui se reconnaît encore dans les mythes de la conquête de l'Ouest. "Le western est le cinéma américain par excellence", écrivit justement le critique et théoricien André Bazin. L'espace entre la côte ouest et les montagnes Rocheuses va constituer la zone privilégiée de la conquête de l'Ouest et du western, au rythme des convois de diligences et des chemins de fer.
Les trappeurs déjà présents sur place servent d'intermédiaire avec les Indiens en entretenant le commerce des fourrures. L'histoire du western se confond le plus souvent avec l'histoire des pionniers de l'Amérique. Lorsqu'on interrogeait Orson Welles sur ses trois réalisateurs préférés, il avait l'habitude de répondre: "John Ford, John Ford et John Ford. " Souvenirs de la Conquête La mythologie En fait le cinéma a restitué l'Ouest traditionnel, et non pas l'Ouest véritable.
Origine des Westerns Naissance Croissance Décadence. Daniel Boone - Daniel Boone Homestead. The Myth of the Frontier: Progress or Lost Freedom. LinkClick.aspx?link=Myth+of+the+West.