Native Americans

An Act of Courage

SuAnne was a Native American. There were a lot of discriminations against Native Americans in Pine Ridge. For example, some people used violence on Indian drunken person. Some played a hoax on Indians. Although there were those kinds of discriminations, SuAnne joined the Pine Ridge basketball team. In the fall of 1987, she succeeded her playing. Her play was the coolest and bravest achievement at that time. Almost all the people on Pine Ridge know her story and they always talked about it cheerfully. I think there are a lot of discriminations in the world yet, and there are many people who are doing resistance movements. They are very brave about their life. I think I have to consider those problems more deeply.


Honoring Warriors from Both the Past and the Present
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
This article describes about Crazy Horse who is the great Sioux chief. There was a riding horse event which people crossed that rolling prairie by using horse from Nebraska to South Dakota. It was called Crazy Horse Ride and this had been held every year. Many riders came from the Pine Ridge Reservation. This event was held in order to show their honor to Crazy Horse. Riders reflect Crazy Horse’s courage and strength and they really proud of him. Horse was killed in 1877 at Fort Robinson. He was buried in Hay Springs, Neb. Riders camped near this place. His grave has been kept secret.


Black Elk

Black Elk is the great Sioux elder. He was over 60 years old and almost blind. He reflected on the invasion between 1863 and 1980. He said that he can’t forget the Wasichu‘s (white man) massacre against Buffaloes. When he was 10 years old, he saw white men for the first time. Before they came to the land in which he lived, humans and animals lived together in perfect harmony in his home land. However, Wasichus made little islands for Native American people and for their animals, and then they made those islands smaller and smaller. As for the massacre, Wasichus killed so many baffaloes to get their hides and tongues, or just because they wanted to kill then.