Standing Rock Indian Reservation

Beginning in July of 2016 and continuing on to the present day, protesters have been actively camped out near Cannon Ball, North Dakota; protesting as, or in solidarity with, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. Calling themselves “Water Protectors”, they are actively protesting a 1,172-mile long oil pipeline being built by a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners named Dakota Access (Time 1). The pipeline is proposed to run diagonally from Stanley, North Dakota all the way…

between all parties involved, and it just absolutely baffles me as to the reasoning why the new route is suggested. While the pipeline does not technically touch the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, if you were to ignore the Sioux Territory Under the 1851 Treaty of Ft. Laramie, it does cut through a waterway that borders the reservation. It is this waterway, the Missouri River to be exact, that is the reason the original route of the pipeline was changed. There were concerns over the drinking…

My expectation is to see through quantitative data that many are displeased with unemployment, education, sanitation, housing, and environmental issues. Because the government oversees reservations, things like the economy on reservations may be determined by the government. Companies have difficulty starting up because of excess regulation, and getting loans is tricky because of less land ownership (Regan 1). Native Americans are victims of police brutality as well and account for 2% of deaths…

issue in regards to Indian versus non-Indian oppositions about the growth of Indian reservation casinos. She begins by explaining the ill treatment of Native Americans in the United States from the time when Columbus came to shore and proceeds to explain how this led to their handling and stereotyping by the non-Indian population. To this day, the assumptions made about Native Americans contribute to non-Indian opinions about the development of casinos on Indian reservations and reflect…

Blood is the protagonist. The narrator in House Made of Dawn rarely speaks. However, both of the narrators have some sort of connection with American Indian culture. Additionally, both of the narrators are on some sort of journey of discovery. By connecting both of the narrators’ similarities, it is possible to see how they impact the understanding of Indian culture as a whole. The narrator for Winter in the Blood uses first person, while the narrator in House Made of Dawn uses third person.…

anti-Indian and expansionist. To clear out more space for expansion, Jackson forced the six American Indian nations to relocate into American Indian reservations far away from the Atlantic Ocean (Doc D). The most notorious case of the Indian removal was the Trail of Tears, in which President Jackson ignored the ruling of the Supreme Court and forced the Cherokee nation to relocate. During the harsh winter, the Cherokee walked through four different states (Doc D) to reach the American Indian…

The reservation of Indian The reservation of Indian was filled of bloody at first. In the early 19th century, the United States was expanding territory. They hold the" go west", which triggered the conflict between new immigrants and the local Indians. In order to protect the new immigrants, at that time, the U.S. government established many so-called Indians "reservation", so a large number of Indians were rushed to the barren reservation. This so-called reservation is prisoner and even…

The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, focuses on the effects of colonialism on Native Americans, the pressures of assimilation historically and contemporarily, and cultural appropriation. Junior, a Spokane Indian teen who chooses to leave his reservation school, Wellpinit, attends a predominantly white school off-reservation called Reardan. While there, many of Junior’s friends and family die from alcohol related incidents. It is interesting that this occurs because…

hroughout his journey from his poor Indian reservation to a neighboring all white school. Arnold Spirit, the main character in “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian”. By Sherman Alexie Junior experiences on and off the reservation helped him understand to ignore all the hate, so you can focus on more important thing and follow your dreams even if other disagree. (Body #1: One of the life lesson that Junior learned through his experience was to follow your dreams even if other…

. Sherman Alexie is an author who grew up in Spokane, Washington and spent his childhood on the spoken Indian reservation but later on left to get a better education in Reardan, Washington, then later on went to Washington University. In Washington University, he met a professor name Alex Kuo who mentored him and taught him to connect to on-native literature that also inspired him to be a writer. After meeting Kou he went on to create his own native literature first…