The Dakota

Question 5: What Makes a Hero? In Frazier’s book, On the Rez, we are introduced to many different people who live on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In the later chapters of the book, however, Frazier shifts his focus to SuAnne Big Crow. SuAnne’s story is famous on the reservation and brings many Native Americans a deep sense of pride. Many revere her as a hero and look up to how she lived her life. SuAnne Big Crow was the missing piece of the book. Chapter twelve provides some…

into the evening to allow shopping after the completion of the daily farm routine. Even though each town set their own schedule, often communities, including Bradley, South Dakota, chose to remain open for business on both Wednesday and Saturday evenings. In the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression of the 1930s, South Dakota prairies thirsted for moisture, wetlands dried up, and months of toil in the fields yielded meager returns. Although the weather mocked the farmers, as dark clouds…

opportunities around me in my daily life. The first and foremost of these people are my parents. I am the child of two small business owners, named Jon and Misty. They run a store that sells sewing machines, located in the small town of Yankton, South Dakota. From an early age, my parents taught me the value of education. My family has never had a large amount of money, and it was my parents who urged me to do my best in school, take my academics seriously, and to make moral decisions in my…

Almost all of humanity can relate to wanting to go out into the wilderness completely alone, leaving the toxic monotony and materialism of daily life and stepping into an environment where your passion determines life or death. For Christopher McCandless and Jon Krakauer, this was their reality for some time. While McCandless is now silenced in the snow of the Alaskan bush, Krakauer continues to explain what happened to McCandless, why they left society, and why the young people of today should…

1.75, which means that it has the lowest overall ranking. It ranked last in adequacy because the current public policy surrounding sales tax applied to online purchases is still primarily based off the 1992 Supreme court hearing of Quill v. North Dakota. This is surprising given the reality that the internet has evolved tremendously since this court ruling. For example, most Americans did not have internet in the homes in the early 1990s and if they did it was a slow dial-up connection.…

sanction the slaughter, the flames of war were ignited when Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux retaliated. All fighting was not targeted at the Americans as disagreements within the Dakota and Lakota tribes of whether military uprising was the only way to retain their homeland or a useless and counterproductive endeavour resulted in the Dakota War of 1865. The Sioux’s had a short lived victory at The Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 in which General Custer’s military detachment was all but…

were given the Noah’s Winery bottle but instead this one said “NEW from North Dakota”. Already, you should see where they were playing at with this experiment. After everyone was done eating and Professor Wansink was able to measure the amount of food and wine left behind by both sets of people he realized that people who were given the “North Dakota Wine” believed that it was actually from North Dakota. Because North Dakota is not known for wine the people who consumed the wine had already set…

The development of monuments acknowledges specific achievements or events faced in history. People have been commemorating significant events through sculpture for ages. With meticulous effort in attention to the details such as purpose and one’s appreciation, the memorial might be rewarded as an acclaimed monument in history. Considering the reason for the construction of the monument assists in the planning process of size, location, and materials. The memorialization of honoring moments of…

Alice Eve has a short film coming out in 2015, and four movies coming out in 2016, three of which are in post-production. The other film is in pre-production. "Lithgow Saint" is the short film that she was in and it has been completed. It stars Eve and Jason Isaacs as the titular character, and was written and directed by Jack Eve. The short film is about a male talk show host and his actress guest. “Criminal”, “Beyond Deceit”, and “The Brits Are Coming” are in post-production. “Criminal” was…

The short story, “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich begins on a small Native American reserve in North Dakota. Through the short we follow and explore the brotherhood between the narrator, Lyman and his older brother Henry. After the loss of Lyman’s store and obtaining insurance money the boys spend it on a red convertible. This convertible, although it was only bought impulsively becomes a major part of the boys lives especially after Henry returns from war. Though Erdrich did not reveal…