Plain view doctrine

top spot on the list of infamous environmental calamities. One listed candidate is the catastrophic Dust Bowl of the 1930s, as described in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. The Dust Bowl choked the lands, animals, and people of the American plains, dislocating tens of thousands of people and…

Different families with different professions came out to the West for a better life in 1845. They faced struggles particularly in adapting to their new life, but they managed to get by and start a new life. Some adaptations made by the newly Westerners were shelter, professions, and lastly the danger and risks that come along with moving to the West. In particular Ranchers they were a group of people new to the west. The dangers and hardships to be overcame and adjusted to in that profession…

Within the Great Depression, farming and agriculture in the South came to a standstill at the hands of the Dust Bowl. Land that was too dry and overused was made to dust that ravaged Southern sharecroppers, leaving them with nothing. This lead to families moving west in search of jobs and houses. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck narrates the reality that many Americans face during the Dust Bowl. The American Dream is a prevalent goal for many American families suffering from the Dust Bowl,…

The Nez Percé were one of the most numerous and powerful Native American tribes originating from the Columbia River Plateau region, or modern-day Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana. This region consisted of warm summers and cold, snowy winters. The Nez Percé lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, moving with the food supply, fishing, hunting, or gathering wild plants for food. Fish, specifically salmon, was a staple. They practiced traditional religion based on Animism, which integrated their…

The first major stream of farmers wandered into the Southern Plains lured by the lush greenery and vast expanse of farmland. The farmers overlooked the vicious cycle of rain and drought and aggressively exploited every inch of land to make profit. However, in the 1930’s, the rain ceased to pour and stopped replenishing the dry farmlands. The dusty storms started all throughout the plains of Oklahoma and Texas as well as the borders of the southern flatlands. Powerful dust storms carried tons of…

The name Sioux comes from Natawesiwak, that means enemy. The Chippewa gave this name. They were called themselves as Lakota, Dakota or Nakota, which means friend. These names are the dialects that their language evolved. They come from the area of forests, and the constant conflicts with Ojibwa enemies forced them to lead a nomadic life on the meadows. It was a nomadic and warlike people, and their traditional house was the Tipi, it is a kind of tent made of wooden poles and skins. In this era…

Bear Butte Bear Butte is a very sacred site to many different Indigenous people’s cultures. Each of these cultures has their own origin story for the Butte. Bear Butte was the most sacred to the Cheyenne and to the Lakota peoples. The Cheyenne called it Noaha vose and Nahkohe vose meaning the giving hill and bear hill. The buttes origin story for the Cheyenne comes from the legend of Sweet Medicine. (Kinsella “Bear Butte: Crossroads of History”). Sweet Medicine travelled to the sacred butte,…

It was a amalgamation of droughts and farming conditions that spearheaded the coming storm. Crops and grasses that had once held soil in its place disappeared and made it easy for wind storms to lift the top soil until everything was covered in a copious layer of silt. Not only, had the winds displaced the top soil, but they had had also displaced many families as well. While, countless farmers had been suffering along for decades, the dust bowl buried them financially. Under those circumstances…

The Dust Bowl Benton Berger The dust bowl was a drastic time for “the breadbasket of the USA” (Western U.S.A.) The dust bowl was the result of farmers trying to get the most money possible and not using correct farming practices. Many people had to abandon homes and farmland. The dust bowl started when farmers were trying to make more money, caused many things for people, and had a bad outcome on the land for a long time. The beginning of the dust bowl may have been in the 1930s but one cause…

In the 1930’s, there was a lot of things going on, such as the Great Depression, racial slurs, stock market crashes, etc. Not far behind, the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” was published in 1960. There were a lot of things that occurred in that time period that relate to this book, such as The Dust Bowl. Crops died so people didn’t have a lot of money, which is the connection with this book and The Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl, known as the Dirty 30’s, was a period of dust storms that greatly damaged…