North Dakota

that give the reader sort of good view of the Dakota tribe. Essentially, the word Dakota means ally in their language, which is the Dakota Sioux language. The Dakota people are a Native American tribe located in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota and North Dakota. The Dakota people are First Nations band government in North America and the largest division of the Siouan family. The Dakota tribe is divided into the western Dakota and the eastern Dakota. In this paper, I will be explaining…

the lifestyle and values of the Sioux tribe. There are three main disunions of Sioux: Eastern Dakota, Western Dakota, and the Lakota. Many Sioux tribes were nomadic individuals who moved from place to place chasing after bison (buffalo) herds. Much of their lifestyle was built around hunting bison. The Sioux lived in the northern Great Plains in lands that are today the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Tribes voyaged all over the plains, however, and sometimes…

Lakota Tribe The Lakota Tribe was one of the many northern native american tribes. They were the only tribe to win a battle against the Americans, a battle known as the Battle of Little Bighorn.. They still exist today, and live in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota,and Nebraska. Religion, tools, and food were some of the most important things in their culture. The Lakota’s tools were very well-developed. They used bows, arrows, spears, clubs, and shields made from buffalo hide. They also…

The situation centered around the construction of pipeline that runs through the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, and Iowa. Aside from the unexplored environmental damages the creation of the DAPL will bring about, deeper examination of the pipeline proves this is another example of injustice. In the early stages of the DAPL initial schematics…

The Dakota pipeline is a 1,172 mile pipeline designed to carry over 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois, and will cost around $3.8 billion to construct. The pipeline is full of ethical issues because the tribes were not properly consulted before construction began, and the pipeline passes within half a mile of the reservation, through burial sites and sacred landmarks, and crosses the Missouri River and Lake Oahe, which provide the tribe’s drinking water.It is due…

protestors are not fighting for their land; they are fighting for their way of life. The issue of pipelines is not confined to Keystone XL alone. Currently, the Standing Sioux Rock Tribe is protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline which is supposed to span 1,100 miles across North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa. In this case the protestors are also worried about contamination of their sacred water…

In the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore, a large granite peak was dedicated in 1925 to be sculpted into a monument. That monument today is one of the most visited monuments in the United States. Mount Rushmore is a staple of the United States. On it, it has the faces of four of the most important Presidents of the United States. According to the Sculptor Gutzon Borglum “The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification…

For this assignment I chose to interview my Aunt Queta. I interviewed her because she was born in Caracas, Venezuela and was five years old when she came over to the United States of America. My father was also born in Venezuela but was only two years old when his family moved here, so my aunt had more insight on life as an immigrant. The year was 1965 when her mother decided to bring her and her two brothers to America. The original reason they came to America was to see a sick family member.…

resisted developments of the Bozeman trail through Montana territory, and led the opposition against the development of a road through Wyoming and Montana for two years this is a period that came to be known as Red Cloud's War. Red Cloud died in South Dakota in 1909.…

from Red Cloud came to Agent Lee Irwin and told him that Crazy Horse had no right to hosts the feast as he was new to the agency. Also, they tried convincing Agent Irwin that Crazy horse might use the hunting trip as a cover to escape back to the North and once again go on the war path. The two representatives said that Crazy Horse was, “hostile, tricky, and unfaithful to others, and very selfish as to the personal interest of his own tribe.” Because of this developing situation, Irwin canceled…