The Cheyenne Sioux Tribe and the Nez Perce Tribe

The United States of America used to be a land that was inhabited by the different sovereignties and nations of the Native Americans. They have since been exterminated or more recently pushed into Reservations but are still recognised as having a sovereign power. These Reservations are spread around America many of which incorporate more than one tribe. For instance the Cheyenne Sioux Tribe is the combined Cheyenne tribe and the Sioux tribe.
The Cheyenne Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has a website that seems to lean towards the more traditional ideas of the Native Americans. http://www.sioux.org/land_flash.php . When you first enter the website traditional music is played and the background is a stereotype of what many think of as a Native American way of life. The website holds many aspects of the Cheyenne Sioux tribe. the information on their history is not very detailed with explanations of the buffalo and then the conflict with the 'white man'. In the explanation of the battles with the 'white man' the writer seems very detatched from their own history. It seems to be more a series of events that could have happened to anyone, than an event that shaped the way they currently lived their lives. The only time I really felt any emotion eminating from the author was when they questioned the right of the 'white man' to escape religious persecution in Europe, only to persecute a new type of religion in the New World.
The tribe also includes some a more contemporary aspect in the form of their Tribal Government, Cultural Preservation Programs and their Education. In the tribal Government no internal information is freely given, instead names and titles are told with the districts mapped out. Some secrets are left as secrets for a kind that had lost much.
The Cultural Preservation Programs is much more forthcoming. The information given is the paperwork for the cultural ordinances, outlining the language and education of the people within that tribe.
The lack of information about their internal politics and the openness of the ordinances suggests that the Cheyenne Sioux Tribe is an independent people that are trying to allow others to understand them and yet they will not let all parts of their ideology and philosophy or politics be aired to anybody.
The Nez Perce Tribes website seems to be more 'hip'. http://www.nezperce.org/
Information about the events of the tribe are freely told on the home page of the website, including their census information and their election process. Pointing to a more democratic view of the Native Americans than stereotypes suggested, or an incorporation of the United States government into their internal political spectrum.
The website seems to be more of what one would expect a state website to appear. The members of the committee have pictures on the site along with the date that their title expires; All the different departments have their own page and when it comes to history, the factual parts such as the repression of these people is not told. Only tales of how the flag came to be are shown within the site.
The layout of the Nez Perce tribe in comparison to the Cheyenne Sioux tribe is that the Nez Perce tribe seem to be trying to incorporate themselves into the American society and social norm. They do not bring up the touchy parts of history when they were almost wiped out, instead they embrace the democracy that was introduced to them from across the seas. The tribe even has primaries for its elective process. Whereas the Cheyenne Sioux tribe is trying to hold on to the tradition and values that it once had, and remember the time when they were an indangered people, although with the way the author writes, that is a time that is either draining from a collective memory or simply ceasing to be a concern in a land that doesn't care about another the natives of the land.