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    Into the Circle provides insight into the origins of Oklahoma pow-wows, or Native American gatherings. According to Abe Conklin of the Ponca and Osage tribes, the pow-wows of Oklahoma began in 1877 after the United States army forced the Ponca people from the northern plains of Nebraska into Indian territory in Oklahoma. The conditions associated with this great move were brutal and a number of the Ponca people perished. Despite these tragic events, the spirit of the Ponca people remained…

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    therefore, giving the movie viewers a real sense of the western time and its locations. For example, in the scene inside the cabin was dusk outside and little lighting is used as they bolted doors and shutters because they would be attacked by the Comanche very quickly. Therefore, low-key lighting enhances the overall feeling of desperation and hopelessness as the family wait for their inevitable massacre. Overall, the benefits of the style of lighting used in this movie to create a frightening…

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    Managers focus on white-tailed deer as an economic commodity, as hunting leases can be an important source of income (Bartoskewitz et al. 2003). It is suggested that white-tailed deer are probably the most popular big game animal in the world (Hiller 1996). In the United States, white-tailed deer contribute billions of dollars to the nation’s economy each year in the form of hunts, which support wildlife research and management (Hiller 1996). Many landowners and managers have adopted the use of…

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    culture in the process. The Indians faced drifting, migration, banishment, relocation, concentration, and extinction, most of which were a result of warfare, disease, and encroachment. Among the number of events that affected the Indians include Comanche raiding, captive taking, The Great Sioux war, Battle of Little Big Horn, Battle of Wounded Knee, Ghost Dance, Dawes Act, Extinction of the Buffalo, ethnic issues among others.…

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    Navajo Code Talkers

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    Who would have known that the language of Native Americans, created hundreds of years before the founding of our nation, would prove to be one of America's greatest secret weapons? The Japanese cracked every code that the Army and Navy came up with, but not the Navajo code. Navajo is a spoken language handed down orally from generation to generation. The Code Talkers created a system of native words to represent characters of the English alphabet so that they could spell out English words that…

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    American Quarter Horse

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    There are many breeds of horses all over the world. Not all horses are great buy they are all good for something. There are millions of different breeds of horses and they are all used for something different because they are all built differently. Horses have been very helpful to the world ever since the early 1500’s. The American Quarter Horse, the American Quarter Horse is the most popular horse in America and can be used for all most anything. It came from settlers that crossed english…

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    for all the Native American tribes, that fall under Plain Indians. The Native American Tribes that are part of the first group of Native Americans that fall under the general name of Plains Indians are: Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and…

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    the main characters are white four of the main character actually have pretty diverse ethnicities. Tyler Blackburn ethnicity is English, Yugoslavian/Croatian, Welsh, German, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Czech, Swedish, Cherokee Native American, Comanche Native American. Troian Bellisario ethnicity is Italian, Serbian (father), African-American, Louisiana Creole (African, French) (mother). Shay Mitchell ethnicity is Irish, Scottish, evidently some Spanish (father), Filipino, some Spanish…

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    young boy the tale of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. An idealistic lawyer, he rides with his brother and fellow Texas Rangers in pursuit of the notorious Butch Cavendish. Ambushed by the outlaw and left for dead, John Reid is rescued by the renegade Comanche, Tonto, at the insistence of a mysterious white horse and offers to help him to bring…

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    appearance. Chief Little Raven started his fame as a peacemaker in 1840. He helped the people around his tribe learn to cooperate and share their natural resources. He was able to improve the lives of people in the Southern Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, and Plains Apache. Then, in 1857, Chief Little Raven became worried about the food sources of his tribe. He contacted the American government and asked for farm implements, and instruction on how to use them and grow better crops. As time…

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