North Dakota

Jordan Wilson Ms. Levine AP Language and Composition 20 November 2014 In Debra Marquart’s 2006 memoir, The Horizontal World, Marquart tells about growing up in North Dakota. Through her use of allusions, descriptive language, and anecdotes in her memoir, Debra Marquart characterizes her beloved home of North Dakota as bland and ordinary, yet meaningful. Throughout the passage, Marquart frequently alludes to some of the upper Midwest’s assessors such as Sylvia Griffith Wheeler and Edwin…

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…

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…

Environmental justice is very ambiguous term as it denotes the need for not only environmental sustainability but also social liberation. Regrettably, not every citizen, politician or business owner is apprehensive about our wilting global environment. To this very day, there are scholars and politicians that contend that climate change and global warming is the rhetorical vehicle for which liberal propaganda can be transported. Consequently, these same leaders in their lofty positions deny that…

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…

“Adulthood is a scary time in every person’s life, for the soul fact that you have to choose a career to become a working member of society.” These words, spoken by Chad Koel, are a true statement. Trying to find a career is hard, and it takes almost of all of your young adult life to decide what you’re going to do. Job offers will lead you in a certain direction, but then passion for another will pull you back the opposite way. Where does it end? Chad will tell you that going to do something…

The Dakota Pipeline is still an ongoing battle. The determined Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their many supporters are still protesting at full force. However the Deputy secretary of the Army will grant the permit to complete the pipeline. The Army working on the pipeline planned on granting a 30-year easement but it was hailed by Congressional Republicans and decried by Standing Rock Sioux tribe. In recent documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Army…

In the short story, The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, we are introduced to two brothers by the name of Lyman and Henry. The story takes place in North Dakota on an Indian Reservation where the two brothers and their family both live. Throughout the story we are introduced to two main symbols such as The red convertible car and the red river which impacts the two brothers journey. The Journey in which the both brothers part take in, brings us through their quest or also known as their…

Assinoboin. his first war was with the crow when he was 14. he soon gained a reputation for bravery in battle. much of his life was based on the struggles against america expanding its nation. in 1865 sitting bull led an attack on fort rice (modern day north Dakota). his skills and the respect he'd gained made him become chief of the Latoka nation in 1868. a little bit before the 1870's gold was discovered in the black hills, which was a sacred area to the native Americans. the Americans made…

the camp of Standing Rock calling themselves water protectors. A 1,200-mile-long pipeline is being constructed by a Texas based energy company called Energy Transfer. The pipeline also known as the Dakota Access Pipeline, is designed to transport 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois. The Pipeline project originally proposed to go over the Missouri River but was rejected due to the fact that it was too close to residential areas, roads, and lands. Approved by a…