North Dakota

Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and times of Sitting Bull. New York: Henry Holt, 1993. Growing up in East Texas and not knowing much about Indians and not fully comprehending what the Indian way of life was, but one person that new was Sitting Bull. After reading The Lance and the Shield: The Life and times of Sitting Bull by Robert Utley I can fully believe how Sitting Bull actually was as a great leader of the Lakota tribe apart of the Sioux nation and as a great man…

Native Americans Rejects the Construction of North Dakota Pipelines North of America is the home to hundreds of Native American tribes; they live in many different regions of the United States. They all are well known as the primitive people from these lands. People who had been living here for many years even before massive emigration of humans started moving in from New England to the east territory of the US. These native tribes once were taken over their lands by the English colonies who…

In Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo, the main character Otto Ringling journeys through the states to North Dakota. Otto Ringling travels to North Dakota because his parents died in a car crash, and it is the duty of him and his sister to settle the estate. When otto arrives to pick his sister up, she has a very “special” surprise for him. She ends up not going and instead sends her friend Rinpoche on the trip along with Otto. During the beginning of the trip, Otto finds Rinpoche a little…

The North Dakota Board of Nursing consists of regulations, guidelines, and expectancies to provide astonishing client care. The Board reviews the updates and information to successfully care for clients’ individual needs resulting in care that is expected and deserved. Regulatory agency “The boards protect the public by ensuring that standards of nursing practice are met and nurses are competent in their practice”. Mission “The mission of the North Dakota Board of Nursing is to assure North…

Birchfield v. North Dakota (DUII refusal without a warrant) In Scotus blog, the United States Supreme Court judges against a common foe were at their best. It was very easy putting doctrinal clodhopping aside in trying out the amateur court team. Birchfield v. North Dakota a Wednesday court case involving laws imposing on motorists criminal penalties for being suspected of drunken driving (Birchfield v. North Dakota, 2016). This occurred when a chemical test, especially for breath or blood, was…

The original Capitol Building of North Dakota, built during the year of 1883, was not as tall or modern as the more recently built capital building, so when it burned down on December 28 of 1930, it was considered more of an opportunity than a loss. It was constructed five years before North Dakota’s statehood and stood for fair 47 years before burning to the ground. The Original Capitol Building of North Dakota was constructed to house the government of the state and to serve as a…

As non- renewable resources are becoming scarce over time, countries like the United States are increasingly resorting to use their natural resources domestically. Such is the case in the controversial building of the North Dakota Access Pipeline which recently got the green light by an executive order administered by President Trump. While from the surface it appears that this issue is just a matter of building a pipeline in territory that does not cross Native American land, there is more at…

I consider my hometown to be Grand Forks, North Dakota. I was born at the former United Hospital in Grand Forks in 1994, and have lived here for my entire life—with the exception of about a year spent in Walhalla, North Dakota, due to the flood of 1997. The schools that I attended while growing up are all within fifteen minutes of driving from my current house. My parents live just 6.2 miles away from me. Although Grand Forks is my city of birth, it wasn’t until I started college that I really…

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…

1) Massive Oil Pipeline Leak under North Dakota Farmer’s Field The North Dakota farmer found an oil spill the size of seven football fields during harvesting the wheat. The farmer said that the crude was bubbling up out of the ground when he found it and the crude can be smelled for days before the tires of the combines were coated in it. The damage of the pipeline causes the oil spewing and bubbling six inches high. It was one of the largest spills recorded in the stated which was equal to…