Sioux Indians

Let s take the case of one of the most popular current herbal therapies echinacea. Way back in 1871 Dr. H.C.F. Meyer of Pawnee City, Nebraska, discovered that the Sioux Indians... 

Situated along a lonely stretch of 1-90, Billings is the largest city in Montana. About 50 miles south of Billings, sightseers and historians will want to visit the Little Big Horn National Monument, the site of General Custer s defeat at the hands of the Sioux Indians. 

But many other images that are emotionally resonant are culturally relative. For instance, an angel might be emotionally resonant in Christian Western cultures, but not necessarily to the Eskimos. An eagle s feather might be emotionally resonant to the Sioux Indians, but not necessarily to Russians. 

Sioux Indians Manufacturing Plastic Helmets for U.S. Army [Allied Spectra]. Plastics News, p. 4, Jan. 1990. 

Sioux Faiis, S.D.—More American indians using Ecstasy. 

The best bow-makers on the plains were the Sioux and the Crows. Like nearly all of the other Indians in the West, they used a bow about four feet long In the East a longer bow was used by some tribes, but the short bow is the common Indian type. This short length is one of the chief ways in which Indian bows... 

But for John to label pre-tribal savage Indians "barbarians, contradicts his own definition. Indians at the tribalist level were enslaved, not by Whites, but by other Indians. Savages such as the Sioux, Comanches, Cheyenne and Apaches could no more be enslaved than could wolves or coyotes be broken to herd sheep. They had neither the intelligence nor the social maturity to be pressed into any useful occupation, even to their own advantage. 

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