Native American stories
Dibaajimowinan (Stories)
http://www.umich.edu/~ojibwe/stories/
The site has stories in Anishinaabemowin (Chippewa/Ojibwa Language)
All stories can be downloaded as MP3 files.
This download is not in MP3
Narratives
http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/~jrvalent/ais301/Stories/Stories.html
This is in Oji-Cree. A download is available at the Legends Site
http://legends.knet.on.ca/
Verify Native Indian status
If you wish to verify Native Indian status, you find have to find out which nation, you belong to. You can then contact the enrollment office of that nation. They have a family tree of all members and can check eligibility. If you are eligible they can give you the needed forms.
Red Cloud’s war
Red Cloud’s War is considered the biggest war won by the Native American and was an armed conflict between the Lakota tribe and the United States Government in Wyoming and Montana between 1866 and 1868 . Access to the Montana gold fields was through the Bozeman trail and this encroached on Powder River County in central Wyoming, which resulted in the conflict.
Gold was discovered in 1963 in the Bannack area of Montana, which lead to increase in the number of white settlers in the area. It also lead to the discovery of the Bozeman trail, which ran from Fort Laramie through the Powder River county to Yellowstone and the Bozeman Pass. This affected the hunting grounds of the Lakota in Powder River county. Though a council was called in 1866 to discuss a treaty between the Lakota and United States, it was done in bad faith by the United States government.
As the United States government continued construction along the Bozeman trail, the native Americans organised a resistance against travellers on the trail by targeting traders, emigrants and mail carriers. The biggest defeat was the massacre of Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman’s column just outside Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, in December of 1866. This lead to the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty
Red Cloud
Red Cloud ( Makhpiya-Luta) was one of the most successful native American leaders in the confrontation with the United States Governments consisting of WASPs. He was born near the Platte River near the city of North Platter near Nebraska in 1822. His mother was from the Oglala tribe and he was bought up by his maternal uncle.
After a successful war against the US government over the construction of forts in Native American territory in 1966, the Fort Laramie treaty was signed with the United States government in 1968. In the treaty it was agreed that the United States government would abandon its forts along the Bozeman trail. The Red Cloud Agency was established and it was responsible for issuing rations to the Lakota weekly.
The disputes with the representatives of the United States government continued and in 1878, the Red Cloud Agency was removed to the forks of the White River at the Pine Ridge reservation. He continued to fight for the rights of the Native American people and opposed treaties to sell more Sioux land. He died in 1909 and is buried at the Pine Ridge reservation.