Buffalo jumps

Industries – agriculture – Agriculture is very important to the economy of the interior plains, as the plains contain much flat land that can be used for raising livestock and growing plants. Some vegetables that are grown include potatoes, wheat, canola, corn, etc……, as well as various livestock such as cattle. In addition, agriculture can sometimes strengthen the tourism industry in the interior plains. For example, bulls used in agriculture are also needed for major events such as the…

CRACK! The ice breaks under the Inuit hunter, while he is waiting for his chance to catch a walrus or any other food they can find. He tries to jump out of the way of the newly found hole in the ice, but slips. He swerves with all his might to get out of the way of the hole, and barely made it. Now, the ice in the Arctic is melting very fast, due to all the pollution we are causing, and the Inuit are living there, and have to watch as their home begins to melt. In other places, the Iroquois and…

Blackfeet Nation Cultural Paper “The Blackfeet people have occupied the Rocky Mountain region for more than 10,000 years” (Blackfeet Nation, n.d.) The historical structure of the Blackfeet Nation was forever altered by the colonization of the European settlers. Thus the modern structure can never emulate what once was. However, the Tribal council does it’s best to preserve and continue the cultural traditions today. It is on the reservation that the preservation of the Blackfeet…

The coat of a white tiger is not pure white. There are many things about white tigers people didn't know about. Such as, white tiger being bred differently. They are bred through inbreeding which means mom to son, father to daughter, or brother to sister generation after generation. A white tiger is born with defects because the same gene that produces the white coat causes the optical nerve to be wired on the wrong side of the brain. So every white tiger is cross eyed even if they look normal.…

The popularity of Jonathan Demme's movie is likely to last as long as there is a market for being scared. Like “Nosferatu,” “Psycho” and “Halloween,” it illustrates that the best thrillers don't age. Fear is a universal emotion and a timeless one. But “Silence of the Lambs” is not merely a thrill show. It is also about two of the most memorable characters in movie history, Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter, and their strange, strained relationship (“people will say we're in love,” Lecter…

Native Americans weren’t allowed to live on their own land anymore which lead to wars and many deaths, mostly to the Indians. Indians viewed nature as sacred, so when miners came in polluting the waterways and other people came in and killed the buffalo for sport,…

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…

novel, a group of young boys were forced to jump into freezing cold water as a way to prepare the boys for unanticipated war raids or buffalo hunt in the winter air. Although men were inspired by the women in their life to be brave and therefore honor them, being called a female was a terrible insult. A meaningful moment in a boy 's life is when he is given his first horse, but the honor was not as great as his first coup of war or his first buffalo killed, both of which caused for a large…

The Amur Leopard lives in the Russian Far East and can run up to thirty-seven miles per hour. Surprisingly, it can jump more than nineteen feet horizontally and ten feet vertically. Sadly there are only about sixty Amar Ontiveros 5 leopards left. In the early 1905’s there was about 4,000 South China Tigers and in 1996 there was about thirty to eighty left. Now they…

and is continuously being met by challenges along the way. The mouse as he continues on his journey is forced to make sacrifices, his two eyes, in order to get the help he needs to make his journey safely. Kindly, when the two great animals, the buffalo and the wolf, the mouse meets require the assistance of the mouse, he is happy to oblige as he sees the other creatures around him as truly great and therefore deserving of his eyes, especially those doing favours for him. Finally, the Jumping…