Homesteading

The Foxfire project was initially a series of magazine articles generated as a by-product of Professor, Eliot Wigginton, as an effort to get his high school students interested in writing efficiently. The novels, however, accomplished far more than they ever set out to. The stories were able to propel Appalachian folklore and culture into the spotlight for not only the nation, but furthermore the world to enjoy and reflect on. The books were listed as a best seller, and received a plethora of…

Hunting has always been influential to all living organisms on Earth. The act of killing another animal is a common trait in the animal kingdom. Humans were different as they did not start practicing hunting as often as other predators have done. In the past few decades, hunting has become a sport in this society. Recently studies have shown that mass hunting of some species is endangering them or harming the environment. After these discoveries were released to the public, a lot of controversy…

people feel they had no choice but to suffer through the drudgery of life in eastern cities…. America has always rightfully been called the “land of opportunity,” and never in its history has that title been more appropriate than during the homesteading era. Agriculture in America was largely expanded and revolutionized by the Homestead Act. While the western lands on which many homesteaded were often bleak and dry, many of them were fit for the production of crops that otherwise would…

purposes after crossing the Appalachian mountains in the late eighteenth century. Broad purposes for expansion from the early nineteenth century to the civil war include the idea of manifest destiny, national economic profit through settling and homesteading, and the expansion of land mass and resource for political power and influence. Manifest destiny is the ideology that the United states was destined to expand from coast to coast…

Due to this disadvantage, it is understandable that some believe that the purpose of the Dawes Act was to divide Native Americans and to eliminate their culture. Then, more than half of Native Americans’ reservation land was lost as a result of homesteading. Because of this, the Native American population in the United States decreased drastically between 1850 and 1900. Furthermore, General Francis A. Walker, who was appointed as Commissioner of Indian affairs, moved many Native Americans onto…

Christopher Bullock famously said “Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes”. Recent advances in genetic engineering or genology promises us of immortality by slowing down the process of ageing. Today we cannot be sure that death will be inevitable in the future. The situation with respect to taxes is exactly the opposite. After all why do we pay taxes? The justification for taxation varied at different points of time. In ancient times, taxes were collected for funding war…

The author of the Little House series, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was a mother, a teacher, a farmer, a journalist, a loyal democrat, and an active political protester extraordinaire. However she is also the mysterious writer with her fans always asking what is true or fake in her books. ⅝ of her “Little House” books won Newbery awards. Laura even has a literacy award named after her called the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award”. She was the first awarded in 1954. l. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was…

Wealth Matters: Loss of Black Land Ownership "Finders Keepers, Loser 's Weepers." --Unknown Introduction Finders keepers, losers weepers is a childhood adage that means whatever a person finds can be kept and whatever a person loses cannot be reclaimed. There is no principle of law that supports an individual is entitled to keep whatever is found while the original owner bears the loss. Principles related to personal and real property lost by one individual and found by another have been…

She was a Native American activist and a writer, who was born at the Yankton Reservation in South Dakota. Some of her books introduced her struggles in dealing with the conflicts between the Native American heritage and the popular white culture. She founded the political organization called the National Council of American Indians. Elected as the secretary-treasurer of the Society of American Indian, she criticized the assimilation policies and lobby for the Indians’ rights to full American…

The locavore movement is becoming more popular in many communities across the country. Locavores are people who like to grow or buy food that is grown locally. Food produced on small farms close to where it is consumed, or “local food” for short, accounts for only about two percent of all the food that is produced in the United States today, but demand for it is growing rapidly (Dancs). A small restaurant where I work called Della Terra, meaning “of the earth”, only buys local produce and…