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topic. I personally believe that adoption is the right choice because it gives the child a chance to grow in a positive environment. At about two months old, I was adopted from Seoul, South Korea. For the past 18 years I have lived my life here in Sioux Falls. Throughout my life I forget that I’m adopted because of everyday things like going to school and hanging out with friends. But, when I look back, I realize that my life would be totally different then what it is if I hadn’t been adopted.…

In the novel Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog, it tells the life story of Mary "Brave Woman" Crow Dog. However, her story shows not only the happiness but the pain her and a lot of others felt. It also revealed he struggle of the Sioux as they waver between embracing the white man's ways and maintaining their ancestral traditions. Mary’s experiences show struggle, pain and determination in hopes of getting the reader to see both sides of the Indian movement. “The fight for our land is at the core…

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee and Dancing With Wolves are very similar movies. They tell a similar story and theme. Each showed love,family, relationship, and trust. Being a part of a family especially both being an Indian, shows your true colors. Dancing With Wolves is about a man who leaves his home to start a new one out by the frontier, while Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is about white men making reservations for the indians and planning to take their land. These movies were both a book…

that brought itself to the Americas via the Columbian Exchange. Horses heavily aided in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas. However, the Aztecs and Incas would later utilize horses for transportation and combat. Plains Indians such as the Sioux and Comanche would become mobile hunters after the Spanish introduction of the horse. Disease - Like corn and horses, disease was also something transmitted via the Columbian Exchange. The Indians did transmit some diseases over to the…

the east and promising future of peace and prosperity if tribes don’t make war on whites or other tribes. A few days later on August 20, we lost Floyd to what we think was an appendix burst. Ten days following we held a friendly council with Yankton Sioux, making another peace statement. Starting September 7, Cops members began spotting unknown species causing journals and crates to overflow with animals and…

the voting. This election was a closed primary election, which in simpler terms means that only people of the candidates’ parties may vote (Smorada 2C). Sioux Falls applied for the air performers Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, however the city was not chosen for this aerial show (Geddes 2C). Turned in the favor of middle school students, Sioux Falls School District changed its policies to allow students with an aptitude for a sport to play up on varsity (Olson…

1. For me cultural competency is the ability for someone to have knowledge or experiences in other cultures besides their own. This entails actively learning and reflecting on one’s own culture and realizing similarities and differences between cultures. The country we live in is a very diverse place with people of all different walks of life amalgamate together. Being open to learn about different cultures can help create better relationships with people and can help when trying to…

places and see what nature is all about. I think it is fun sitting in the treestand deer hunting and listening to birds and other animals around me. And about traveling when I go deer hunting I hunt on private land 50 miles south of Sioux City by two towns named Little Sioux and Pisga. It is about a 1 hour and 45 minute drive from Little Rock and I get to see cool things when I go down there . It is one of the best things about hunting because of all of the scenery that a person can see. Now…

In the first part of this film, Frank Hopkins had been a courier rider for the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, which made him the messenger for authorizing the Wounded Knee Massacre of the Sioux Indians. However, Hopkins witnesses the genocide of the Sioux, which forces him to follow his conscience and leave military service to join Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Satirically, Hopkins chose to perform as an entertainer, rather continue to live the immoral and unethical lifestyle…

I was heading out the door of my two story home in the middle of nowhere. I held in one last breath of the sweet smelling pines next to my house as I headed to my car for the big trip. My family had finally decided to take a long cross-country trip, and I was included. As I got into the Jeep, I could swear something was wrong, but I couldn't place it. We were on the road for about a half an hour when I realized what I forgot. “I forgot my suitcase with all of my clothes!” I yelled. Our car came…