The Land is Ours

dozens with certain languages on the verge of extinction. More languages have been lost in Australia than anywhere else in the world.(Michael Edwards, February 2008) As said by Uncle George Tongerie "Many of us eventually lost our language... When some of us finally met our parents, it was almost impossible to bridge the language and culture gap." The impacts were not only on the culture but on the children as well. Many of the children struggle with loneliness, low self esteem, loss of…

tried to contain or change the Native Americans to fit our standards and needs. From the time explorers arrived in America, white men and natives were in a constant state of fighting and white men were in a constant state of greediness. Americans took the natives as slaves, used them for our own gain only to throw them to the wolves, or rather wilderness, with hardly anything to call their own, forced them onto smaller and smaller pieces of land, and fought countless battles with them.…

By: Tytiana Torrance 12/18/17 “A long time ago, this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go to the river. I see camps of soldiers here on its bank. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo, and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting, I feel sorry.” During this time the Kiowas was located around the Texas panhandle.Westward expansion was when 7 million Americans settlers would move westward trying to secure lands then prosper Native Americans homes. The westward…

The United States has grown to be one of the biggest countries in the world and commonly known as America, “the Land of the Free”. There are people from all over the world that dream of coming to the United States in search of a better future for themselves or for their future generations. I am an immigrant myself, my parents and I traveled to the U.S. in search of a better future, being more my parents say than mine. I was only three years old when I set foot on U.S. soil and my journey began.…

them out. Integrating them to society would also be a financially draining process. Q: Should these Native Brazilians be isolated from our modern society or be brought into our “civilized” lifestyle? What is your plan? A: The Native people should continue to be isolated from the world and Brazil, therefore we should continue letting the Native people live on the land. There is no need for us to put them at further risk them by introducing them to diseases that could wipe out their population,…

the deity punishes Cain by cursing the ground. Genesis 4 reveals that the land plays an active role in the narrative and has agency over humans, yet questions the land’s degree of agency…

the throne’s demigod challenger, Sahli; the destroyer of man and conqueror of southern lands. “You think that my father’s wizardry will work?” before tauntingly adding, “…against me, Evelyn?” Mockingly I smirked; instead focusing my life-force on just that. Meditatively I raised my hands to my chest, aiming both index fingers skyward then abruptly toward my brother as I recited the time slowing spell learnt from our father’s tomes. Sahli’s shock was priceless, reminiscent of when King was still…

finesse, MacDonald shows the journey of one’s soul to his readers through adventures in a land that can only exist in the imagination as a dramatization of the unconscious. Anodos does not keep up with time and space during his stint in Fairy Land, yet it seems as though he crosses an expansive amount of land. He never questions the journey he is on and keeps moving forward “[…] for those who enter Fairy Land, there is no going back. They must go on and go through it” (MacDonald 90). So many…

“Get big or get out” shook our nation in the 1970s as the ‘agribusiness’ boom spread in sweeping waves. Planting from “fence row to fence row” dandelions was replaced by corn and soybeans. Hands were replaced with complicated machines, time was replaced with fertilizers and varied crops by pesticides. Soil and worms were degraded to dust. Cows grazing in open pasture were replaced by concentrated-animal feedlot operations (CAFOs). Farm houses and barns were abandoned, burned to the ground,…

revolutionary tool that can surge past what archaeology on land can do. The shipwreck of the Uluburun exemplifies the importance of this practice. The Uluburun shipwreck reveals the importance of trade during the bronze age in the Mediterranean. It also shows the vital connection of trade between different Mediterranean and Middle East civilizations. The Uluburun shipwreck shows that underwater archaeology can expand beyond the reaches of archaeology on land with the…