The Dakota

there. When they left the state of Minnesota they stumbled upon museum of miscellaneous things to look at. On that day the museum had a old claw foot bath tub sitting out in the front that they all took a picture with all of them in it. Also in South Dakota they also stopped at an old car museum because Ruthie liked old cars. When they arrived in the badlands they really took in its natural beauty. They stayed at a pretty nice motel in the badlands, and at night the rangers had been showing…

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…

The Dakota Access Pipeline Controversy Introduction The Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL, is a proposed pipeline that would run one-thousand two-hundred miles from North Dakota to Illinois and carry more than four-hundred and seventy thousand barrels of crude oil. Ninety-nine percent of the land the pipeline covers is private land and does not need federal approval for construction. The Army Corps of Engineers reviewed the remaining one percent and concluded construction would have no serious…

Native American religion and practice traditional sacred ceremonies in order to escape the reality of the psychological and physical mistreatment they face within American society. Mary Crow Dog was a Sioux Indian of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. (Pg.5) As a child Crow Dog attended the St. Francis boarding school where Indian children were forced to assimilate and faced with punishment if they disobeyed. (Pg.4) Crow Dog became involved with the American Indian Movement as a teenager…

On December 29, 1890, the United States’ Seventh Cavalry surrounded a camp of Sioux Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. According to eyewitness to history, Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890, the Cavalry’s mission was to arrest the Miniconjou Lakota’s chief, Big Foot, and disarm his warriors, because of their involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. The conflict quickly arose, as a result of the tension that had been building up between the two sides for the past few months…

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.…

“Adulthood is a scary time in every person’s life, for the soul fact that you have to choose a career to become a working member of society.” These words, spoken by Chad Koel, are a true statement. Trying to find a career is hard, and it takes almost of all of your young adult life to decide what you’re going to do. Job offers will lead you in a certain direction, but then passion for another will pull you back the opposite way. Where does it end? Chad will tell you that going to do something…

Jordan Wilson Ms. Levine AP Language and Composition 20 November 2014 In Debra Marquart’s 2006 memoir, The Horizontal World, Marquart tells about growing up in North Dakota. Through her use of allusions, descriptive language, and anecdotes in her memoir, Debra Marquart characterizes her beloved home of North Dakota as bland and ordinary, yet meaningful. Throughout the passage, Marquart frequently alludes to some of the upper Midwest’s assessors such as Sylvia Griffith Wheeler and Edwin…

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…

their religious beliefs. This pipeline would be a detriment to the ecosystem, and would contaminate the supply of drinking water for the people of many states. On top of all this, a privatized enforcement company sicked dogs on the protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline. They were simply trying to protect their natural resources and sacred ancestor's death rights. The multiple standoffs that have occurred between the protesters and the company's private security force have been cover by a…