South Dakota

What happens at the end of Bear v. Shark? Who wins? In the end of Bear v. Shark, there is no clearly stated who wins the battle. I think there is going to have a rematch between them and it is called Bear v. Shark III. It will always continous to have a rematch so that people will be entertain. There is a chapter talking about the third coming on page 246. The author states: “Two years is simply too long to wait. People start shouting themselves in the heads and beating up their kids. We've got…

The recent protests in North Dakota has turned the world’s attention to the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reserve, where a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline will be built if approved. Native Americans argue that the proposed pipeline will damage their vital water sources and affect the whole reserve, making their water undrinkable and harming their health. Crude oil pipelines, usually buried underground, can easily contaminate water (“How Can You Identify Pipeline.”), which in turn toxifies the…

Umar Malick 2SW, IWA, Q2 In her memoir Debra Marquart writes about her heartfelt and sincere love for the upper Midwest even though this region is often critically stereotyped in the media; the people, the land and even fictional characters hailing from that region. The area is described as "uninhabitable" and yet Ms. Marquart still avers that the upper Midwest is not as second-rate as it seems to be. Throughout the passage Ms. Marquart uses multiple rhetorical strategies to profess her…

Historical Fiction: Chickadee I have chosen the novel Chickadee by Louise Erdrich for the exploration assignment to address what the historical novel is able to accomplish that a conventional text of the same subject could not. Chickadee is the continuation of a story and fourth book in a series by Erdrich that began with the novel The Birchbark House that introduced a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl named Omakayas. Chickadee takes place in mid-1800 Minnesota and picks up the story with Omakayas…

Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees is an exemplary novel which reveals the racism, sexism, and overall discrimination that unfolded in the south. The Secret Life of Bees transports the reader to the year of 1964 in South Carolina, where racial tensions were almost as high as the temperatures and people were surrounded by oppression. During this humid summer a young girl named Lily Owens runs away from her abusive father T. Ray, in search of her mother's past and the truth behind her tragic…

organization on Facebook like Defend Big Bend, T.E.J.A.S, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. They encourage people like it, follow it, and contribute to it. I also received three papers include Pipeline Spills, North Dakota People Fighting Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice Network. After I read these papers, I have a link to the movie “The Cherokee Word for Water” which I watched in the movie program. This movie was based on the true story of Bell…

The Mandan Indians faced many challenges in their lives, from the environment and climate to pests and other human beings. Many of the introductions into their world had both positive and negative effects. How were they able to survive and what drove them on a daily basis? The Mandans were like other tribes of their time in that they searched for a place to live that provided the resources necessary to maintain their life. They also made sure the place could be protected from attacking or…

This semester in history, we talked about many things that I would not think about on a daily basis outside of school. Our lessons made me think in new ways about different concepts. The two things that made me most interested were learning about the Dakota Access Pipeline involving the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the requirements for voting for the President of the United States. DAPL made me more aware of our environment and realize how one thing could drastically affect so many areas of…

"The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich, is a short story that depicts the relationship between two Native American brothers Lyman and Henry Junior. The story revolves around a red Oldsmobile convertible that they both purchased after Lyman received a large insurance check. It then continues to focus on the events of their lives up until the point where Lyman loses his brother. Erdrich uses first person narration for Lyman in the passage. I think it is very important to the reader because he is…

In the short story, The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, we are introduced to two brothers by the name of Lyman and Henry. The story takes place in North Dakota on an Indian Reservation where the two brothers and their family both live. Throughout the story we are introduced to two main symbols such as The red convertible car and the red river which impacts the two brothers journey. The Journey in which the both brothers part take in, brings us through their quest or also known as their…