Standing Rock Indian Reservation

had finished. In my opinion, this activity will be a good way to bring the Native American culture to everybody today. Notably, they introduce their 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…

317-22) in this case the battle of Little Bighorn was just the start and over the last hundred years the escalation has increased and decreased. In fact in 1973 the established American Indian Movement (AIM) to rally support for their cause and "AIM occupied Wounded Knee Cemetery on Pine Ridge Reservation to alert the world about the vested economic interest the U.S. government held in the Hills and the extent to which that interest governed U.S. governmental policy and federal court cases…

living in a world where my grandmother does not exist. She’s my best friend, my shoulder, my comforter, my prayer warrior, my rock and so much more. From the time I was born, there has been a special connection between us, a connection that my siblings don’t have with her. I grew up on a semi-small Indian reservation in New Mexico. There are six villages on the reservation and I lived in the Paraje/Casa Blanca…

He was born in Western Nevada in 1852 and died in 1932 (Brownst). Jack was the Messiah of his people; his announcements about the whites leaving and the Indians reclaiming their land was the foundation of the Ghost Dance religion and spread to a variety of tribes throughout the American West (Brown, t). At the age of 14, Wovoka’s father died, leaving him to be raised by David Wilson (a white rancher) and…

The terms nation, nationality, and nationalism are ideas that are not only strange but ambiguous. They become very hard terms to define within the real world. They are developed through a myriad of differing parts. These can be both tangible and ideological things. Physically people often identify themselves based on where they live or their ancestors are from. National identity gets more complicated than that because people identify religiously, ideologically, politically or have a sense of…

The teams with the biggest opposition to change their mascot include the MLB team, the Cleveland Indians, and the NFL team, the Washington Redskins. These two teams receive much attention due to their popularity and refusal to eliminate their mascots. Currently, both teams still have not budged on changing their mascots and remain strong in their…

In this section of the course we have been moving away from the frameworks and thought traps in EcoMind, and into accountability and action taking. We have examined this process through several readings in Andrés Edwards book, Thriving Beyond Sustainability: pathways to a resilient society, as well as the article “Childhood’s End” by Tom Prugh. Edwards examines how we as a society can do more than live sustainably; how we can truly begin to thrive in our society and go beyond simply creating…

"Well, use your head, son," he said, smiling. Which really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me." A Partnership Is Formed The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said. As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school. Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate. Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids. We…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…