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the traditions of Dakota life before the changes that accompanied the westward expansion of America. Waterlily tells the story of Blue Bird and Waterlily, a mother and daughter who represent two generations of Sioux women. The setting is the Great Plains in the American Midwest. The Sioux people live a nomadic existence. Their social structure is the camp circle, or tiyospaye, which serves to foster relationships as well as breed conflicts. The saga is told through a third person point of view…

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Monuments and memorials have been significant in honoring historical events and people for many years. While monuments bring people together to celebrate and honor historical moments,,some monuments pay homage to sacrifice. When creating and planning for the building of a monument, a group or agency should have proper funding and a desirable location before memorializing an event or person. Proper funding is a key factor to consider when creating a monument. Without proper funding, a monument…

This was built on land that was once sacred Indian grounds. However as said in source C, “I have to admit: Mount Rushmore bothers me. It was bad enough that white men drove the Sioux from hills they still hold sacred; did they have to carve faces all over them too?” Even though the Crazy Horse memorial for the Sioux Indians still hasn’t been completed, both memorials are meant to honor two very different cultures. Monuments should be built for people who have done something significant in…

The Native Americans Zack Lewis Baker College 11/15/16 Introduction I was in grade school told that Christopher Columbus founded America. This was only partly true. Although, he did bring Eastern settlers to the new land which is now called United States of America; there were settlers here before Columbus’ journey. Those people would be the Native Americans. Native Americans were the ones that established America. Columbus just brought it to life to the Eastern region. He made it…

The Resilient Thrive of a Native In all three compositions: the short story Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie, the painting Contemporary Sioux Indian by James Bama, and the poem Without Title by Diane Glancy all exemplify the resiliency in modern Native American culture. Ever since the British came to America the Native American culture has been distorted. Without obtaining resiliency as a Native…

For my topic I choose to do nuclear power plants and according to the European Nuclear Society their definition of a nuclear power plant is “thermal power plant, primarily used for electricity generation, in which the nuclear binding energy released during the nuclear fission in a reactor is converted to heat and subsequently into electrical energy via a water-steam circuit using a turbine and generator”. Nuclear power plants operate in most states and can produce up to 20 percent of the…

legislature to accommodate these peoples; the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were passed in the South, granting blacks equality and the right to vote, and the Treaty of Fort Laramie in the West, reserved the Black Hills for the sole use by the Lakota Sioux. Lastly, the United States government used land management as a tool to control both peoples, sharecropping used in the South and the Dawes Act in the…

their home, the Sioux people of North Dakota protested the pipeline and refused to leave their land. Armed with free speech guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, the Standing Rock Indian tribe refused to compromise their unalienable rights. Pressure from engineers, politicians, and society couldn’t faze the Indians. After months of protests, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers elected to re-route the project. The non-violent vigilance displayed by the Standing Rock Sioux…

Begining the entry of the primary Europeans, the Plight of the Native American's has been managed not without anyone else's input but instead by the early colonialist and the future youthful country the United States would move toward becoming. Show Destiny and American Exceptionalism drove the nonmilitary personnel and government dispositions towards the Native American's and their territories. The U.S. Government has and still is constantly endeavoring to take, control and oversee lands saved…