North Dakota

The North and South have always followed different paths and by the mid 1800’s the differences were even more pronounced. The North was becoming more industrial, dedicated to immigration, free labor and supported a federal government. Slavery was not common in the North and it was even banned in some states. The South’s agricultural economy was founded on slavery and cotton and they supported a government that allowed states to make their own rules. Southerners viewed the North and their views…

example, in the American Yawp, said that “northern workers felt that slavery suppressed wages and stole land that could have bend used by poor white Americans to achieve economic independence” (TAY). This quote means that slave has migrate to the north and it is unbalance over the lower class people. In addition, lower white people has a lot of competition in jobs due to that slavery are trying to find a jobs as well. This maybe lead the economy to produce money slowly because most slavery do…

Unlike the North, Southern states did not industrialize and remained primarily rural. The North and the South started to become very different when Elie Wiesel invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin could work as fast as 50 people working by hand. Since cotton could be processed more easily, Southern planters wanted to grow more cotton on fields. White landowners that started a business selling cotton depended on slave labor to plant and pick cotton. Later on, the South only accounted for only…

The Black Hills were part of the Dakota Territory and was a rich reserve of natural resources used by the Sioux Indians for many years. Though the region also contained populations of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, they were collectively referred to when in mention of the Sioux, who were…

Recovering the Landscape of the Ioway by Lance M. Foster goes into great detail about what Iowa, or how the Indians who were natives here called it, Ioway, was once like. Foster states that the state of Iowa was once a vast prairie, but today less than 0.1 percent of that prairie remains. He states that Americans typically associate the buffalo with the great plains, rather than thinking of them once being in the tallgrass prairie that once covered Iowa and Illinois. Foster, being a member of…

reservation looks empty. The only place where we can see some community life is the pub and the community room, where an IBA agent tried to convince the tribe to sell their lands. 2. Later the characters visit the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In what sense is it different? The living conditions in Pine Ridge Reservation are the same, however, the people’s attitude towards their culture, their heritage is a bit different. The audience can see…

unique and alike to one another. From how the director was going with the theme of the movies and where there are really trying to get at. Dances with wolves; has a story and setting in the time frame of 1864 based in the great plains of south dakota where there is this guy named (John j. Dunbar) goes onto a trip to an abandoned Fort Sedgewick. But then he starts to encounter Sioux indians while…

Sitting Bull used many tools in his speach to his fellow Natives. He spoke of the land and what it means to them, and he spoke of their ancestors. The most effective tool the Sitting Bull used, however, is his comparisons of the people, the animals, and the land they roam. Animals were an incredibly important aspect of the natives lives. They provided food, and most other things that the natives used in their every day lives. They only took what they needed and did not waste any part of the…

During the 1890’s racism was a big deal in America. African Americans faced major racial problems and the right to be free. Native Americans faced having to move from their ancestral lands. The United States army had no justification to attack Native Americans at Wounded Knee. During the time of the battle of Wounded Knee there were also other huge events and things happening such as congress taking Oklahoma from Indians and forcing them from their lands in the east. Battle of Little Bighorn…

protect the lands and traditions of the Lakota from white men who wanted to take the Native Americans’ land. He was known as a visionary and great warrior. His Sioux name was Ta-sunko-witko. Crazy Horse was born near what would be Rapid City, South Dakota, around 1842. In 1865, Crazy Horse lead war parties to stop roads to goldfields from being built. To discourage white settlers from moving to his lands, he helped massacre Captain William J. Fetterman and his soldiers. Crazy Horse refused the…