Laramie

On October 6, 1998 two men took Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, about a mile outside of Laramie, Wyoming, after being lured away from a bar. These men took him out to a split-rail fence, bust his skull open with a .375 Magnum, then left him for dead. He was found later the next day by two bikers, only eighteen hours after the being brutally assaulted just because of his sexuality. When the bikers first saw Matthew tied to the fence, they thought that he was a scarecrow, but sooner…

Ever since the begging of time crime has always been a huge part of the human race. But as time seemed to go on not only did crime progress, it progressed in a way that was targeted towards specific groups of people. This type of crime is classified as a hate crime. A hate crime is defined as a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. In America and around…

citizens. Now, with no place to live Native Americans were then pressured to live on reservations, land set aside for the tribes to live on. Document 3 shows a map of the amount of land that the Native Americans were given to live on. In 1868, the Laramie Treaty was signed stating that no U.S. settlers were allowed on the Dakota Territories. Although, when the gold rush came many white settlers ignored the treaty, pushing Native Americans off of their own land once again. As shown in the map,…

Our country has a history of fighting wars, creating conflicts, and devastating relations once held throughout the world. We learn about these events because they have played and continue playing important roles in society; but what about the events that the United States has been involved with, that may not have been important to the world, but was important to a certain race of people who ultimately got their freedom taken away from them. The race we never largely learned about in school, and…

Utah is a great place, and it has its own very unique history , it was the land where the pioneers planned to settle , away from persecution . This state was settled by the Mormon Pioneers ( members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) who were led across the country by the church leader at the time Brigham Young. Their trek started in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois in the year of 1846, and it ended in Salt Lake City, Utah in the year of 1847.There were many explorations of new…

Therefore, the government created The Fort Laramie Treaty that would limit the white settlers from entering those areas, but failed to follow it through. Because of the fights the Sioux were causing, the government created a “Great Sioux” reservation and suggested the Indians to relocate to this camp…

buildings. There must also be better transportation, like trains. The settlers wanted to modernize the land, so they claimed it as theirs and felt a need to use it for financial reasons. This includes the digging of gold like how in the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the U.S. government agreed to allow the Sioux and Cheyenne keep their land “forever” and that it would not be disturbed by any trespassers. This treaty was broken when soon afterwards, the settlers arrived to…

Rocky Mountains can be divided into multiple sections, the Brooks Range, Northern Rockies, Middle Rockies, Southern Rockies, and the Wyoming Basin area. Of these zones the farthest-eastern “belt” comprises of the Front Range, the Wet Mountains, the Laramie, and the Medicine Bow. The Main Range consists of the Sangre de Cristo, Sawatch, Gore, Park and Mosquito Mountains. To the southwest, the San Juan Mountains fill the area and consist of volcanic rocks. The middle rockies are made of mainly the…

What if General Washing ton had been killed in battle during the American Revolution? What if the North had lost the Civil War to the South? To think about these occurrences, you have to imagine the unimaginable. What would the world look like without America? The United States has been even nicknames from its own citizens and people of other countries, such as, “Idiots,Powerful, Overrated, and Self-Absorbed.” America is an idea that people can acquire wealth not by taking it, but by earning it.…

Standing Rock protesters VS Army Corps of Engineers. A group of 200 Native Americans stood among the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on April 1st, 2016 to protest against the 3.7 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is a pipeline that transfers 470,000 barrels of unpurified oil from Bakken North Dakota to a terminus near Patoka, Illinois (Epstien, 2016). On July 26th, 2016, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the final word for the land easement and water…