North Dakota State Bison

A federal appeals court has ordered a temporary halt to construction of the $3.8 billion Bakken pipeline after protests turned violent in southern North Dakota. As reported by the Chicago Tribune, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that it needs more time to consider the emergency injunction. Prior to this announcement, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg confirmed that the pipeline construction was lawful and rejected the Standing Rock…

In December of 2014, a company called Energy Transfer Partners LP proposed the plan to make a pipeline, formally called the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The pipeline was planned to span across four states, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois, and would cost an estimated $3.78 billion to complete (Miller). The purpose of the pipeline is to carry 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from two oil sites, Bakken and Three Forks, to an oil tank farm near Patoka, Illinois. Though the…

battle. I think there is going to have a rematch between them and it is called Bear v. Shark III. It will always continous to have a rematch so that people will be entertain. There is a chapter talking about the third coming on page 246. The author states: “Two years is simply too long to wait. People start shouting themselves in the heads and beating up their kids. We've got to come back soon. Ok, we can do eighteen months" (p. 247). It indicates that people cannot wait longer to have a rematch…

South Dakota. When he was young he was associated with the little wars between different tribes such as, the Crow and Assiniboine tribes. Before he became chief, in his earlier years he had many nicknames such as Jumping Badger. He was also very first Chief to become chief of the whole Lakota Sioux nation. When he raided other villages, he didn’t really focus on killing people because he mainly just stole livestock and crops on military outposts. He had many raids on Fort Buford in North…

Sitting Bull or Tatanka Iyotake was one of the most prominent Native American leaders in all time. He was a Sioux tribe leader who located in the Great Plains region of modern day South Dakota around 1874 when gold was discovered in the Black Hills. Sitting Bull’s main focus was war and opposition of the American settlers. He began training and fighting in battles from the age of fourteen up to his death at age fifty-nine. During Sitting Bull’s early years, he didn’t really interact or witness…

Dakota Nation(Santee) Native cultures of the americas Traditional location of Sioux tribes prior to 1770 (dark green) and their current reservations (orange) Ashley Rodriquez MYP American history (1st hr) October 19, 2015 The Dakota tribe was one of the three bands of Sioux a Native American tribe that resided in the upper lands of North America .The Dakota Sioux to was a nomadic tribe that traveled between Lands to live in the best hunting and gathering grounds. this…

The recent protests in North Dakota has turned the world’s attention to the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reserve, where a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline will be built if approved. Native Americans argue that the proposed pipeline will damage their vital water sources and affect the whole reserve, making their water undrinkable and harming their health. Crude oil pipelines, usually buried underground, can easily contaminate water (“How Can You Identify Pipeline.”), which in turn toxifies the…

Umar Malick 2SW, IWA, Q2 In her memoir Debra Marquart writes about her heartfelt and sincere love for the upper Midwest even though this region is often critically stereotyped in the media; the people, the land and even fictional characters hailing from that region. The area is described as "uninhabitable" and yet Ms. Marquart still avers that the upper Midwest is not as second-rate as it seems to be. Throughout the passage Ms. Marquart uses multiple rhetorical strategies to profess her…

defiled? These hypothetical questions posed to you are the realities of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Tribe right now. The Dakota Access Pipeline debate as to whether or not it should be relocated from the Sioux Native American reservation is presently taking place due to its construction being merely half of a mile downstream from protected sacred land. The Dakota Access Pipeline has already been relocated once before further south from Bismarck due to concerns that pipeline leaks…

more shows, so he began his own company called “Koel Communications”. Chad still works as the head producer and president of his business. “I’m working on a few shows now, some of which are Fresh Tracks with Randy Newman, and Lake Commandos,” Chad states. He mostly works on outdoors shows, but for a while did a few episodes of the hit History Channel show MonsterQuest and a show, which he co-created, called Dirt Knights. Chad loves what he does and does a great job at it. Chad Koel has taken…