South Dakota

Recovering the Landscape of the Ioway by Lance M. Foster goes into great detail about what Iowa, or how the Indians who were natives here called it, Ioway, was once like. Foster states that the state of Iowa was once a vast prairie, but today less than 0.1 percent of that prairie remains. He states that Americans typically associate the buffalo with the great plains, rather than thinking of them once being in the tallgrass prairie that once covered Iowa and Illinois. Foster, being a member of…

Sitting Bull used many tools in his speach to his fellow Natives. He spoke of the land and what it means to them, and he spoke of their ancestors. The most effective tool the Sitting Bull used, however, is his comparisons of the people, the animals, and the land they roam. Animals were an incredibly important aspect of the natives lives. They provided food, and most other things that the natives used in their every day lives. They only took what they needed and did not waste any part of the…

Hello, Chad~~ Great topic. Ft. Laramie was the second fort to be built by the Government as a series to protect the settlers traveling through the Oregon Trail. The fort was the most important port was the scene of several signings in the Treaty, which was the Ft. Laramie of 1868. Immigrants, miners, wagon train and U. S. troops began to enter the main resources for the buffalo hunt, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribe area. In 1866 Red Cloud refused to sign the non-aggression treaty in Fort Laramie,…

Monuments are delicate topics in the sense that one may find reason to see it not be built. Thus, there are factors for a group or agency should consider in memorializing an event or person and in creating a monument, those factors being: will it take away the main purpose of the monument, is there any reason this monument should not be one and can it easily be threatened? Source C discusses the possibility of putting up a monument that perhaps should not be one. Namely, Mount Rushmore. As the…

Did you know that Pawnee are known. for their beautiful hide paintings, pottery and woven baskets. And Pawnee was known for other stuff like there location. facts and traditions. They are a native American tribe. This is about Pawnees location. They had to hunt mostly Buffalo because that was the common food source for there area. The Pawnee could be found along the Platte river and the Republican river which is known as Nebraska. The Pawnee were forced to move to Oklahoma in 1800 and…

The Dakota pipeline is a 1,172 mile pipeline designed to carry over 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois, and will cost around $3.8 billion to construct. The pipeline is full of ethical issues because the tribes were not properly consulted before construction began, and the pipeline passes within half a mile of the reservation, through burial sites and sacred landmarks, and crosses the Missouri River and Lake Oahe, which provide the tribe’s drinking water.It is due…

snakes. The Wakantanka, which means “the Great Spirit” or “the Great Mysterious”, refers to the 16 deities and was derived from the number 4 (multiplied by the number itself). The number 4 was a sacred number and it refers to the 4 directions (north, south, east, and west). The Wakantanka was known at the Creator. The Inktomi, which means spider, was a trickster figure. He was a spirit that could take any shape, (shapeshifter). Even though he helped and protected Lakota people, he was a bad…

Approximately ten miles from downtown Atlanta, one thousand six hundred eighty-three feet above sea level stands Stone Mountain. Stone Mountain is, simply, an enormous rock that is made of granite. The mountain can be seen from Kennesaw Mountain (West), Amicalola Falls State Park (North), and Mount Yonah (Northeast). On the northwest side of the mountain, there are currently faces of three men carved into the granite: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis. “Stone Mountain…

Supreme Court Case Essay South Dakota v. Dole The Twenty-first Amendment allowed states to regulate alcohol. In 1984, Congress enacted a withhold of funds to any state that did not raise their legal drinking age to 21 years of age. Many states, who didn't already have a 21-year-old minimun drinking age, fell in suit. Except for South Dakota, who had a 19-year-old minimun drinking age, who challenged the law. They believed that Congress was violating the Twenty-first Amendment by taking away…

Moot Court Case South Dakota v Dole Petitioners (South Dakota) -Main Arguments: South Dakota allows people 19 or older to be able to purchase beer that has up to 3.2% alcohol The Secretary of Transportation would take away 5% of the state’s highway fundings if the state didn’t make their legal drinking age 21. South Dakota said violates the constitutional limitations on congressional exercise of the spending power and violates the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution…