I Need Urgent Help Please!?

Question

I have my oral presentation tomorrow, (it's 11.45pm in Australia right now) and I need any information on Sioux Indians and how they were treated and how the whites delibrately disadvantaged their chances in the world or something :P

Please I really need something to add before I fall asleep!

:) Thanks!

I've also tried all the websites possible in 5 hours. Nothing to say about how they were treated :(

Answer 1

Their land was seized in the 19th century and they were placed on reservations. There was little opportunity for employment and their traditional way of life was disrupted. Many turned to alcohol and live in poverty to this day.

Answer 2

The 1862 Sioux Uprising
Main article: Sioux Uprising
In 1862, after a failed crop the year before and a winter starvation, the federal payment was late to arrive. The local traders would not issue any more credit to the Santee and the local federal agent told the Santee that they were 'free to eat grass or their own dung'. As a result, on August 17, 1862 the Sioux Uprising began when a few Santee men murdered a white farmer and most of his family, igniting further attacks on white settlements along the Minnesota River. The Santee then attacked the trading post, and the federal agent was later found dead with his mouth stuffed full of grass. No one knows the exact number but between 500 to 1000 civilian men, women, and children, mostly German immigrants, were massacred until state and federal forces put down the revolt. Courts-martial tried and condemned 303 Santee for 'war crimes'. Numerous first-hand accounts describe rapes and murders of the whites by the Santee. (Relatively recently published are the first hand accounts of two German-American women who describe the murders they observed of family and friends.) On November 5, 1862 in Minnesota, in courts-martial, 303 Santee Sioux were found guilty of rape and murder of hundreds of white farmers and were sentenced to hang. President Abraham Lincoln remanded the death sentence of 284 of the warriors, signing off on the execution of 38 Santee men by hanging on December 26, 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota, the largest mass-execution in US history.

During and after the revolt, many Santee and their kin fled Minnesota and Eastern Dakota, joining their relatives in the West, or settling in the James River Valley in a short-lived reservation before being forced to move to Crow Creek Reservation on the east bank of the Missouri. Others were able to remain in Minnesota and the east, in small reservations existing into the 21st Century, including Sisseton-Wahpeton, Flandreau, and Devils Lake (Spirit Lake or Fort Totten) Reservations in the Dakotas. Some ended up eventually in Nebraska, where the Santee Sioux Tribe today has a reservation on the south bank of the Missouri.

Answer 3

You only have to use your ordinary knowledge to do this presentation.
Consider everything the whites have done to any Race that they considered to be less than them.

Consider how many Sioux People are left on this earth...
Think about the non-existence of the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean.
Even if you imagine most of it ...you would be right.
Get your pen out!

Answer 4

don't know much on this topic i can only wish you good luck. have a bit less than hlf a glass of wine to reduce tension if ur a bit nervous. u see, u will panic if u r ill prepared for things like this. here are 5 Ps of life.
Prior Preparetion Prevents Poor Performance.

gud luck.

Answer 5

They are really known as the Lakota people. Try this page in Wikipedia...it gives a brief history and details of how they were mistreated once defeated...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_people

Answer 6

try some british highscool websites, i did this topic when i was at school

Answer 7

try this for starters, there's plently out there on lots of sites, good luck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sioux_Reservation

Answer 8

well surely you can find websites that tell you all that, try google.