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The Pender Vs Parker case was first brought to light when there was an opportunity for the Omaha Nation to legally tax the all liquor sales throughout the Omaha Tribal Reservation. In 2006, the Omaha Nation Tribal Council elected to tax and regulate liquor sales on the reservation to help stimulate economic development. The tribe’s liquor regulations require licenses for the businesses that sell alcohol and a 10 percent tax on alcohol purchases. A group of retailers sued in federal court in 2007…

Camp David Accords, understandings amidst Israel and Egypt stamped on September 17, 1978, that drove in the going with year of a peaceful course of action between those two countries, the first such deal amidst Israel and any of its Arab neighbors. Facilitated by U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian Pres. Anwar el Sadat and formally titled the "Framework for Peace in the Middle East," the understandings became known as the Camp David Accords in light…

The Ancient Greeks celebrated religion on a different level than is currently done. The Greeks practiced a civic religion that combined the city, its people, and religion together and insinuated itself into their everyday lives. This was through their system of polytheism, their orthopraxic rituals, democratically elected religious officials, the patron deities of their Polis, and the rites of passage that every citizen went through. Civic religion in ancient Greece was the way that the ancient…

The controversial abortion case, Roe vs Wade, has recently celebrated its 42nd birthday but despite its age, the case is far from out-of-date and irrelevant. Abortion is still a hot-button topic; maybe even more than it was in 1973. People opposed to abortion make outrageous arguments against the medical procedure; arguments that liken the practical, safe, and often necessary operation to genocide. But these people and the government seem to have conveniently forgotten - or ignored – that other…

struggle to preserve their culture and land. It resembles the life and people of Turtle mountain reservation in North Dakota. The novel is a true window to the cultural life of Chippewa tribe. It is set during the historical period of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. The novel is presented in nine chapters. It narrates the life of Chippewa community living in North Dakota between the winter of 1912 and the spring of 1924. Each chapter is identified by year and by season, and the Chippewa name…

the safeguarding of personality. This is essential in that is requires a group of people to have more than only a mutual history, additionally "basic organizations and practices. Some of the oppression upon the Indian people began with the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887, this act allowed the President to survey and divide Indian tribal lands and distribute property to individual Indians, totally negating previous Indian tradition. “Kill the Indian, save the man.” The Dawes Act was essentially…

The Iron Curtain first began to manifest itself at two conferences designed to navigate postwar peace, held between the leaders of the big three in 1945. The first, held in Yalta in February 1945 , was the final meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Stalin and Winston Churchill . The Yalta conference aimed to coordinate post war elections in occupied Europe as well as establish an agreement on the division of Germany after the Nazi’s impending surrender . At first glance the conference…

In a guided self-assessment of study habits and strategies, ED 3100 students have been challenged to embark on a journey of self-exploration in an effort to better understand our own learning processes, as well as determine how different methods of studying and learning may affect our overall success. Dr. Demars (2015) explains that exploration and knowledge of our own techniques and learning strategies will then empower us, as future educators, to facilitate the same attributes in our students.…

A dangerous atmospheric deviation is influencing the world at a disturbing rate; the fundamental driver of this threatening atmospheric divergence is absolutely an important conflict that we need to be informed about and should assume responsibility to ensure this is not a problem for the next generations. Recently, temperatures have not been ascending at a normal rate each year; they are escalating aggressively. Numerous analysts, environmental advocates, and scientists are communicating…

Is Islam and violence like a peanut butter and jelly combination? Do they always get along with each other? The growth of terrorist groups such as Boko Haram, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, who have Muslims as their group members, baffle the non-Islamic people regarding the true nature of Islam. Most analysts argue that the terrorist threat is unquestionably Islamic and is not much a deviation from Muslim tradition, whereas others defend that…