Mandan

On Monday, January 23rd, I was fortunate enough to listen to Vern Dosch, President and Chief Executive Officer of National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC). Mr. Dosch is a life long resident of Bismarck-Mandan, where he lives with his wife, Lynne. Vern and Lynne are married with 3 children, and 5 grandchildren. Vern Dosch has a Bachelor of Science degree, along with a Masters of Management degree from the University of Mary. As CEO, Vern believes if you “do the right thing always” your…

astronomer and surveyor to explore the Red River Valley in the southern portion of the new territory. (Fraser 223, 225). The result of these expeditions, Jefferson expeditions reports opened opportunities to adventurers and traders, resulting in the Mandans, Nez Perce, and others tribes the loss of theirs…

fantastic job of demonstrating the intersection of kinship, the informal economy, ceremonial exchanges of goods, government assistance programs, and the cash economy on the reservation, Ft. Berthold, which is home to the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, the Arikara and the Hidatsa, in North Dakota the three tribes settled there in the 1860’s.…

along the Ohio River and its minor tributaries. At the time, American and European adventurers had just infiltrated what might turn out to be every end of the Lewis and Clark Trail up the Missouri a few miles to the trapper central command at Fort Mandan and up the Columbia a tad over a hundred miles to a point a little past present-day Portland,…

Would it be hard to believe that almost a one quarter of modern day United States was purchased in one large transaction? Specifically 828,000 square miles of land. The Louisiana Purchase more than doubled the size of the United States in 1803. After signing a secret treaty to return the Louisiana territory to France, France wanted to sell the Louisiana territory because they did not believe it was worth the money or the trouble since they were having a hard time holding on to Saint Dominique in…

The members of the expedition “unwittingly brought new diseases [smallpox] to the area that decimated the local native population. Where the Mandans had a thriving and sophisticated trading center when Lewis and Clark arrived in 1804, by the late 1830s their total population had been reduced to less than 150” (“Exploration: Lewis and Clark”). A comparison can be made between Christopher Columbus…

Patriarchal societies, by definition, are dominated by the male presence and female subordination. Men decide on political, social, and religious policies while women are restricted to managing the household and taking care of children. In many past and present patriarchal societies, women are reduced to mere property. Masculinity symbolizes strength while femininity reflects weakness. Although the position of women has improved in most societies with feminist movements, most men and women still…

(9.2) In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson took office and he promised to shrink the government, including executive powers. He resumed the capitol building project and designed additions to the White House. The 1803Louisiana Purchase made people angry people both inside and out of his own political party. Many believed the president didn't have the constitutional authority to make such a decision on his own. His political opponents in the Essex Junta conspired with Vice President Aaron Burr in…

in high school. Also, high school has been the time of my life thus far.. Even though high school held some of the worst times, it also held the best. For instance, I have finished some of the hardest assignments inside the classrooms that make up Mandan High School. Specifically, my junior year of high school I sat in Mrs. Saur’s class and she handed out a packet as thick as a brick. When I read the top of the paper my eyes met my doom called a literary analysis. This was the paper that past…

There can be no doubt that the Lewis and Clark expedition was a monumental juncture in American history – the lands that they explored more than two hundred years ago are today home to millions of Americans. However, at the time, most Americans had only a faint conception of what genuinely existed west of their homes. They could not have imagined the spectacular lands of the Pacific coast, territory that would become, arguably, the nation 's most highly sought-after within 50 years. However,…