South Dakota

Hidden away in South Dakota lies the forgotten Indigenous people of The Pine Ridge Reservation. The Pine Ridge reservation was established in 1878. It is the second largest reservation in the United States, bigger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The reservation is about 2.7 million acres but only half of it belongs to the Lakota people, it is the home to about 28,000 to 40,000 people in Lakota and Sioux tribes. According to an demographics article, 35 percent of the population is under…

(Hoffman 1C). On the road to the tournament, construction was done on I-90. The border between South Dakota and Minnesota was redone, and the crew began to lay concrete (“Construction Crews Prepare to Lay Concrete on I-90 to Minnesota Border” 1D). Also in Sioux Falls, a golf benefit took place. The Kris Tschetter Celebrity Golf Benefit took place at the Minnehaha Country Club (Whitney 1C). South Dakota was already planning for the fall hunting season with future estimates of pheasant…

Of the many Native American tribes that lived in Oklahoma were the Cheyenne tribe. They settled in present-day Minnesota, Montana, Oklahoma, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota. They were farmers along the Sheyenne River valley. Therefore, they were able to settle in villages and develop a somewhat civilized culture. The Cheyenne tribe holds a great legacy and culture that still exists today (Alchin). After the move westward by the French to the Great Plains, their culture had…

forward to the short-term outcomes of our actions without considering the long-term implications. For instance, the North Dakota Access Pipeline is a 3.7 billion dollar project that will facilitate the transportation of 470,000 crude oil barrels daily to refineries by an underground pipeline (Narayan). The pipeline alignment will be passing through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois states and cross various rivers (Yan). The implications of this project has negative long-term effects…

primitive and the European Americans thought of being superior. It causes cultural issues that led to Reservation Systems which the U.S. Government forced Native Americans tribes to live in certain areas. This act caused rebellious plans such as the Dakota Sioux Uprising of 1862, the Dawes Act of 1887 and Geronimo. Another major conflict were the issues with land, trade, medicine and cultural differences such as the Ghost Dance, even though some Natives accepted the Treaty Process,…

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…

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…

Wounded knee is located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. South Dakota is home to the Sioux tribe and many of its counterparts including the Oglala, Rosebud, and the Yankton Sioux tribes. Wounded Knee, named after a creek on the reservation, was remembered as a place of much resentment, betrayal, of “the white man’s lies and promises,” and of lost hope because of the massacre that took place there in 1890. Eighty-three years later this same site would host a more controversial…

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.…

was to the U of M and, while walking through the campus, I thought I didn't want to visit anywhere else. Today, I know that making that decision would have been the biggest mistake of my life. Later on that year, I visited South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. The moment I walked on campus, I felt at home. The campus itself…