In class on Monday July 16th, we watched a section that talked about the Black Hills. The Devils Tower is a very attractive mountian for sight-seer’s and mountain climbers. The problem with this is, the mountian is sacred ground to the Lakotah. The tribe uses the mountian for prayers and admiring the nature, and have been doing so for many years. The Lakotah has asked the climbers to stop their climbing because to the tribe “it would be like climbing a church”. The elders that have lived there when being interviewed said ” we take better care of the mountian then the Indians do, they leave there dirty laundry out there” and then the elder man said “we were here first”. The short movie just added more insult to Americans in regards to our knowledge, the elder couple saying that just made me feel as if we aren’t open minded at all. I think many people just think we are supurior to other races, which definetly isn’t correct without the Indians Lands in some places Americans wouldn’t have sources of Oil, Gas or Timber. I feel that if Americans would just learn to listen and care about other people rather than just themselves the relationship between Americans and Indians could improve drastically.
jcramos July 16, 2018
Sean big time topic in class. This tower is a very Special people to those Native people and it is crazy how much the people do not care and kind of are like its just a big rock that helps us connect with the nature. They do not fully understand the history behind it. Seems like a reasonable agreement to at least just shut it down for the month of June and that’s again another showing of how generous the native people are. People have really misunderstood the native people and I hope this would all change one day and we could finally be in peace.
zpete55 July 17, 2018
I agree with what you are saying about how if people were more open minded and didn’t think that they are the all mighty race and would think more of everyone as equals that relationships with all between all races would be better not just with the natives. Thinking about this i was imagining what would have happened instead of whites coming in and taking everything over instead they had coexisted with the natives each having there own respectable spaces that is this tiny plot of land in the middle of nowhere. How much different the world would be today?