Great Plains

Have you ever divinely connected with a particular landscape that associated with your current feelings? In Willa Cather memoir, “My Antonia” the setting and landscape throughout the story mirrors the characters feelings, foreshadows events changes, and past memories. Jim, just one particular character made many connections with the Nebraska landscape. Willa Cather the first child of a farm family was in born Virginia in 1873. At the age of nine, Cather moved to a farm in Nebraska, and then…

Powwow Highway Task Sheet 1. How does Powwow Highway depict the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana? The reservation is depicted in a way which clearly shows that the people there are living below the average. Most of the houses have no windows, pylons are rare and the whole reservation looks empty. The only place where we can see some community life is the pub and the community room, where an IBA agent tried to convince the tribe to sell their lands. 2. Later the characters…

Omakayas has gained strength and knowledge through the seasons. There were many hard times for Omakayas but that is what made her stronger throughout the book. Omakayas has gone through things like getting tackled by a bear, getting low on food and even something like her little brother dying because of a sickness from the people that are trying to take over the native americans land. As you can see the whole family has grown in some way during all the seasons. In the Summer Omakayas’s…

from 1851 to 1890. There were underwater spirits who controlled all animals and plants. High in the sky, they believed there were spirits called Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds were the most powerful spirits except for the Great Spirit who was the most powerful of all. The Great Spirit was the Sioux God. In the winter, when buffalo were hard to hunt, the Sioux ate dried buffalo meat, called pemmican. Pemmican is like today's beef jerky. The Sioux also ate other meats (bear, deer, antelope,…

Westward expansion in the US started mainly because of money. The west became a home for agriculture. Mining, a new money maker, first started there. The two industries drew people to work either in them, or in the towns where these workers resided. However, all this wouldn’t have been possible without the recently developed railroads. Railroads could transport product and people in a fraction of the time old wagon trains could. This new technology was what really made western expansion possible…

“And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.” (Hesse p.g. 132) The Book Out of The Dust was written by Karen Hesse and is a Historical Fiction novel about a young girl named Billie Jo going through life in the dust bowl. As in accelerated reader, it is worth three points and the grade level is 5.0, there are 277 pages in the novel. The book is about a young girl named Billie Jo…

The continued mistreatment and discrimination against Indigenous people is apparent in light of the Standing Rock protests taking place in North Dakota. Oil companies in North Dakota seek to put a pipeline near Standing Rock, which will ruin water supplies and sacred tribal sites. Although these companies say it will be safe, they altered the location of the pipeline from a city center to Indigenous lands. Protests have continued to take place since April 2016. The protest signifies what has…

I was born in North America in the 1500’s and I live in the wilderness with my people, the Native Americans. We do all we can to survive the wild. We hunt for food, build teepees used for shelter, and make small villages. We do all we can to keep our selves alive. Then, one day we were hunting for buffalo as usual, and we suddenly heard a sound coming from the shore. I couldn’t believe what was happening or who these people where, or where they came from and why, so my first instinct was to…

Along with Paleoindian and Archaic peoples, in the 1981 work O’Neill concludes that there are ten possible tribes to which rock art can possibly attributed to in specific ranges: Various Plains Apache groups, Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache bands, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Pawnee, Osage, and Kanza. He also suggests that the sites “… could be measured in hundreds of years rather than thousands” (O’Neill 1981, 26). This is a broad range of…

a huge tower of rock that blocks out the sun. It was magnificent. You could never see something that spectacular in Philadelphia. I keep looking back at the rock, watching it disappear into the distance, the sunlight fading. Fort Laramie is a great place to call home, if you are a trapper. It is just a trapper trading post. Lots of bison furs were transported back to Saint Louis in the twelve hours that we were at the fort. Just in case the fall prairie winds are bitter this year, I decided…