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Essay Instructions: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indian History of the American West. Dee Brown

"After completing the book, choose one tribe that particularly instrested you and trace its history during and after the conquest of the West.""

I would like the Dakotas (Sioux)

Essay Instructions: Book: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown.
Essay, MLA Format.
Emphasize the strengths of Native Americans in the face of adversity. At
least 4 MLA citations must be included.
The paper must evaluate, analyze, and synthesize the information.
Paper must site 2 primary and 2 secondary sources.
Paper should discuss theme, setting, character, metaphor and symbols.

Essay Instructions: Sources used in the preparation must be cited using endnotes and a bibliography. The professor recommended the book as a resource "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". I need the back ground on the group of Indians "Cheyenne" and the "Ghost Dance" and their reaction to living on the reservations. Please make it simple no need for Million dollar words as the professor put it. thanks.

Essay Instructions: Source Materials to be used are:
Introduction to Native North America by Mark Q. Sutton
Native American Testimony by Peter Nabokov
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Essay 1:
Using the source material, select one of the Great Plains Tribes and discuss the cultural & historical background that expands and explains their response to the Ghost Dance. This essay is 2 pages
Essay 2:
The interaction between the Eastern Woodlands tribes, the Great Plains tribes & the European settlers in many ways created the stereotypes of Native Americans that embedded in the attitudes of many early colonists, explorers and the historians of the times. In what ways were these attitudes based on realities and in what ways were they distortions of realities?
This essay is 4 pages
American Anthropological Association (AAA) format, 12 pt font, double spaced, Times New Roman, one inch margin.