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Many researchers have gone in depth trying to find the lost colony of Roanoke, but haven’t yet found it. The quest to discover the colony has continued throughout the years, and several clues have been uncovered. Each clue itself is one step closer to finding the lost colony. Archaeologists investigate every clue found with great care in hopes that it will be the one to lead them on the search for the disappearing colony. While there are many theories about what happened to the lost Roanoke…

What happened to the Roanoke Colony? This was the first English colony, mysteriously all the colonists disappeared and many historians have different theories on what happened to them. Did the people from Roanoke Island really disappear or did get attacked by indian tribes? Start your reason 2 There had been three different groups of people that had disappeared from Roanoke Island. The first group arrived in 1984 and came to the island to map it out for resources. The second group arrived…

Roanoke island is an island in Dare County on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States. It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration. The lost colonists were the third group of English arrivals on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, settling near the modern-day town of Manteo. Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World. It was…

Beginning with the earliest source, Empires, Nations, and Families. A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860, written by Anne Hyde, the fur trade is portrayed as the main concept in the development of the West. Hyde argues that family and friendly relationships with the Natives, from 1800-1860, were essential in the building of different empires in the West. Those that created allies with Indian nations proved to be more successful than those who did not try to relate and bond with…

The Indian removal was a conflict between the five civilized tribes, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and the white settlers. The conflicts between both sides happened for many years but the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830. Some Indian tribes lived in the Louisiana territory, but the five civilized tribes in the American settler territories. The reasons for the tribes to have to move was white settlers wanted more land to have control over. The Indians view of land is…

Early American frontiersman, Daniel Boone, is responsible for the development of the state known today, as Kentucky. Boone, born in 1734 in Pennsylvania, was a lifelong outdoorsman. Boone “had very little formal education.”i and “appears to have been a scrappy lad who loved hunting, the wilderness, and independence.”ii while most Americans recognize the name Daniel Boone, not everyone knows what Boone actually accomplished during his life; the settlement of Kentucky. Boone traveled to…

graduate we will have a bond that will never be broken. That also goes along with all of the fans and the supporters. There are so many parents that have supported and became close with the team and that bond will never be broken. In the past years the Fort Osage football team has done big things. We have made it to state in Saint Louis two times in the past 6 years. I know that our Indians this year will continue that tradition and keep doing great things. I hope that this year we get the…

Alternative schools often carry misperceptions that hinder their reputation. Dr. Wendy McChristy, retired principal from the Fort Osage School District’s Lewis & Clark Academy, dispelled some of these false assumptions. An alternative school is an educational setting designed to accommodate academic, behavioral, and/or medical needs of children and adolescents that cannot be sufficiently addressed in a traditional school environment. Dr. McChristy’s passion for alternative education is…

During my observation, I was guest to the classroom of Mrs. Peryn, a fourth grade teacher at Cler-Mont elementary school in the Fort Osage R-1 district. Mrs. Peryn is a veteran teacher, with more than a dozen years of experience with students. Where she remembers a projector and overhead, is now a SMART board flanked by a pair of spare chargers for student Chromebooks. Even with the implementation and ready interactions with technology, the inside (and outside) walls of her classroom are covered…

starts when I was six years old and I just got done playing my soccer game at the Blue Valley Activity Center (BVAC). It was a warm summer day and our game was over and it was time to go home. My parents were building a house on 24 highway between Fort Osage High School and Buckner. They were going to check up on the house to see how it was coming along; of course me being a little kid i wanted to come along with them to see the house. So my grandma took my sister and they went out to eat while…