Process Paper
Earlier this year in our American History class we
watched a video on the Lakota Sioux tribe. It was about a man who was friends
with the Sioux tribes on a reservation today. He was talking about how the
Government is still trying to take away the Black Hills from the Indians. We
thought it was really interesting how the Lakota tribe is still struggling today
because of what happened so many years ago. As the National History Day project
rolled around we started brainstorming ideas. We both thought this idea would be
really interesting. We figured out that just doing our project on the Black
Hills was way too narrow so we broadened our project by just doing it on the
Lakota Sioux.
We started searching for information. The first thing
we searched for were all the primary source documents, all the Acts and Treaties
that were a part of this subject. Then we started searching for more secondary
sources, like websites, about the different subjects. We looked for a lot of
pictures to use on our website. We decided that we were going to split the
information into different sections on our websites, so we looked specifically
at websites about the Wounded Knee Massacre, The Battle of Little Bighorn, and
the Dawes Act. Once we found quite a bit of information about each we decided to
look for quotes. The quotes for the Dawes Act were a little bit harder to find
than the other and took quite a bit of scouring the internet to find, but the
other quotes were pretty easy to find on the internet.
We chose to do
a website as our category because we both really like technology, and we thought
it would be a really cool experience to be able to make our own website. We
spent a lot of our given class time researching, so a lot of the actual making
of the website was done on our own time. We worked on our website before and
after school. We also met at each others houses several times a week to work on
it. We made an outline of our website, of what we wanted the pages to look like
before we even started the website. After the outline was done, we put it all
into the website.
Our theme ties in with rights and responsibility
very clearly. The government took away many rights from the Sioux Indians. The
Native Americans lost their rights to land, religion, freedom of speech. They
Native Americans were expected to live and act like a white settler, even going
as far as to stop practicing their given religion. The government was
responsible for all the suffering the Sioux tribe has gone through, taking
everything the Sioux had and replacing it with something the tribe did not want.
Earlier this year in our American History class we
watched a video on the Lakota Sioux tribe. It was about a man who was friends
with the Sioux tribes on a reservation today. He was talking about how the
Government is still trying to take away the Black Hills from the Indians. We
thought it was really interesting how the Lakota tribe is still struggling today
because of what happened so many years ago. As the National History Day project
rolled around we started brainstorming ideas. We both thought this idea would be
really interesting. We figured out that just doing our project on the Black
Hills was way too narrow so we broadened our project by just doing it on the
Lakota Sioux.
We started searching for information. The first thing
we searched for were all the primary source documents, all the Acts and Treaties
that were a part of this subject. Then we started searching for more secondary
sources, like websites, about the different subjects. We looked for a lot of
pictures to use on our website. We decided that we were going to split the
information into different sections on our websites, so we looked specifically
at websites about the Wounded Knee Massacre, The Battle of Little Bighorn, and
the Dawes Act. Once we found quite a bit of information about each we decided to
look for quotes. The quotes for the Dawes Act were a little bit harder to find
than the other and took quite a bit of scouring the internet to find, but the
other quotes were pretty easy to find on the internet.
We chose to do
a website as our category because we both really like technology, and we thought
it would be a really cool experience to be able to make our own website. We
spent a lot of our given class time researching, so a lot of the actual making
of the website was done on our own time. We worked on our website before and
after school. We also met at each others houses several times a week to work on
it. We made an outline of our website, of what we wanted the pages to look like
before we even started the website. After the outline was done, we put it all
into the website.
Our theme ties in with rights and responsibility
very clearly. The government took away many rights from the Sioux Indians. The
Native Americans lost their rights to land, religion, freedom of speech. They
Native Americans were expected to live and act like a white settler, even going
as far as to stop practicing their given religion. The government was
responsible for all the suffering the Sioux tribe has gone through, taking
everything the Sioux had and replacing it with something the tribe did not want.