The recent protests in North Dakota has turned the world’s attention to the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reserve, where a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline will be built if approved. Native Americans argue that the proposed pipeline will damage their vital water sources and affect the whole reserve, making their water undrinkable and harming their health. Crude oil pipelines, usually buried underground, can easily contaminate water (“How Can You Identify Pipeline.”), which in turn toxifies the…
Jordan Wilson Ms. Levine AP Language and Composition 20 November 2014 In Debra Marquart’s 2006 memoir, The Horizontal World, Marquart tells about growing up in North Dakota. Through her use of allusions, descriptive language, and anecdotes in her memoir, Debra Marquart characterizes her beloved home of North Dakota as bland and ordinary, yet meaningful. Throughout the passage, Marquart frequently alludes to some of the upper Midwest’s assessors such as Sylvia Griffith Wheeler and Edwin…
Originating from the Missouri River in Western North Dakota the Heart River flows. Passing through Lake Tschida, formed by the Heart Butte Dam, the river turns northeast into Morton County and joins the Missouri at Mandan. Here the Mandan people built villages, relish in culture and became an agricultural powerhouse in the 19th century. Although the birthplace of the Mandan people is uncertain, remnants of this once thriving people allow us a glimpse into their world and what it meant to be “the…
As I read of the journey of Elizabeth A. Fenn, a distinguished scholar whose studies focus on the early American west, epidemic diseases, Native American History and environmental history. Fenn provokes her readers to rethink the ways we discern history. Her unique choice of expressing her experience is designed to triangulate your frame of thoughts. From start to finish, Fenn expresses the struggles in the Mandan culture. Her perspective on the epidemics such as small pox spread by the Spanish…
from Standing Rock was a emotional and striking film sharing the fight and pain of indigenous people living in North Dakota and their fight for clean water. Many opposed of the pipeline over the concerns that they will spill into their water. The oil would disturb Native american land and poison the water on the reservation because they get their water from the missouri river. The North Dakota access pipeline wanted to demolish sacred native burial grounds to make way for the new pipes. In…
organization on Facebook like Defend Big Bend, T.E.J.A.S, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. They encourage people like it, follow it, and contribute to it. I also received three papers include Pipeline Spills, North Dakota People Fighting Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice Network. After I read these papers, I have a link to the movie “The Cherokee Word for Water” which I watched in the movie program. This movie was based on the true story of Bell…
The Mandan Indians faced many challenges in their lives, from the environment and climate to pests and other human beings. Many of the introductions into their world had both positive and negative effects. How were they able to survive and what drove them on a daily basis? The Mandans were like other tribes of their time in that they searched for a place to live that provided the resources necessary to maintain their life. They also made sure the place could be protected from attacking or…
Environmental justice is very ambiguous term as it denotes the need for not only environmental sustainability but also social liberation. Regrettably, not every citizen, politician or business owner is apprehensive about our wilting global environment. To this very day, there are scholars and politicians that contend that climate change and global warming is the rhetorical vehicle for which liberal propaganda can be transported. Consequently, these same leaders in their lofty positions deny that…
“Adulthood is a scary time in every person’s life, for the soul fact that you have to choose a career to become a working member of society.” These words, spoken by Chad Koel, are a true statement. Trying to find a career is hard, and it takes almost of all of your young adult life to decide what you’re going to do. Job offers will lead you in a certain direction, but then passion for another will pull you back the opposite way. Where does it end? Chad will tell you that going to do something…
In the short story, The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, we are introduced to two brothers by the name of Lyman and Henry. The story takes place in North Dakota on an Indian Reservation where the two brothers and their family both live. Throughout the story we are introduced to two main symbols such as The red convertible car and the red river which impacts the two brothers journey. The Journey in which the both brothers part take in, brings us through their quest or also known as their…