North Dakota State Bison

called Energy Transfer Partners wants to build a pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois to transport oil. They say that this is the safest way to carry oil. The pipeline would be near the Stand Rock Sioux tribe, and could negatively affect them. The Native Americans believe that the pipeline would destroy their land and contaminate their water source. Thousands of people have come to protest the building of this pipeline. Should the North Dakota pipelines be built near Native American Land? A…

Introduction Recently Dakota Access pipeline is running the headlines. Native American tribes and their partners, drove by the Standing Rock Sioux, have been challenging the Dakota Access pipeline, a venture that would transport oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and Montana over the Plains to Illinois. The nonconformists, numbering in the thousands and including individuals from several distinct tribes, contend that finishing the pipeline would profane hereditary grounds, undermine…

The Dakota Access Pipeline has received a lot of attention in the media for the past several months and once again constitute a polemic topic in our nation. It is hard for the U.S. government to understand the value and to even know which places are sacred for Native Americans. However, I believe by now U.S government should better understand their religion and beliefs. I mean they acknowledge that it’s a consistent problem they face, As legal scholar Stephen Pevar tells us, in the article…

In North Dakota, thousands of people stood together to protest against the production of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protesters’ main camp was on government land, so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering said that they would start arresting them. The purpose of the pipeline is to connect oil rich areas from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline is being built near an American Indian Reservation, and they feel that by building the pipeline their environmental and economic well-being would be…

Historical Fiction: Chickadee I have chosen the novel Chickadee by Louise Erdrich for the exploration assignment to address what the historical novel is able to accomplish that a conventional text of the same subject could not. Chickadee is the continuation of a story and fourth book in a series by Erdrich that began with the novel The Birchbark House that introduced a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl named Omakayas. Chickadee takes place in mid-1800 Minnesota and picks up the story with Omakayas…

emotions, and soothe your pains. The protestors are acting as healers to the indigenous people by protesting and standing up for them, and listening to and acknowledging their pain. I believe the Arbiter in this conflict is the President of the United States, Barack Obama. Barrack is the individual that has the ultimate say in the conflict, and both parties must ultimately agree with his decision. Barrack Obama is the one who was responsible for stopping the pipeline from crossing under Lake…

organization on Facebook like Defend Big Bend, T.E.J.A.S, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. They encourage people like it, follow it, and contribute to it. I also received three papers include Pipeline Spills, North Dakota People Fighting Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice Network. After I read these papers, I have a link to the movie “The Cherokee Word for Water” which I watched in the movie program. This movie was based on the true story of Bell…

The Mandan Indians faced many challenges in their lives, from the environment and climate to pests and other human beings. Many of the introductions into their world had both positive and negative effects. How were they able to survive and what drove them on a daily basis? The Mandans were like other tribes of their time in that they searched for a place to live that provided the resources necessary to maintain their life. They also made sure the place could be protected from attacking or…

not think about on a daily basis outside of school. Our lessons made me think in new ways about different concepts. The two things that made me most interested were learning about the Dakota Access Pipeline involving the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the requirements for voting for the President of the United States. DAPL made me more aware of our environment and realize how one thing could drastically affect so many areas of our world. It also made me see that there are many cons but there…

Marnie Reed Crowell is what the North Country is all about! Marnie is a conservationist and a natural history writer and poet. She received her master’s degree in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Marnie is a believer in using art to speak for nature. She writes an environmental column in the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. Growing up from a young age Marnie learned to appreciate the natural world. In her first book, Greener Pastures she writes about her life with her husband on their farm…