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    Is Peltier Guilty

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    pair of cowboy boots. The agents followed this red pick-up truck onto the hostile Pine Ridge Reservation, Jumping Bull Ranch, where the shootout began when several Indians identified the agents in an unidentified vehicle. There was already internal dispute occurring inside the reservation between the two groups of Indians- full blood Indian and half-Indian. Pine Ridge had more deaths on the reservation than the entire state of South Dakota within just a year. One…

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    The Dakota access pipeline is an affliction to everyone who has a sense of compassion and understanding, especially to indigenous people who are being taxed with decisions and demands from careless people who conceal their true intentions with false facts and reasonings,when all they care about is the green in promising. Recently the $3.8 billion project has become one of America's most followed up protest, for it keeps gaining many people's attention with every protest and support. There are…

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    History of Rosholt Wisconsin Nicholas P. Dobbe High School Abstract This paper will educate you a little about the History of the small village of Rosholt Wisconsin. It will follow the experiences of a few men that contributed into making Rosholt a village. It will talk about why they came, what they did to start a community and how they made the community grow bigger. Gottlieb Stanbly, the first of the few to arrive and, without really knowing, positioned where Rosholt would be, Jens…

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    The recent protests in North Dakota has turned the world’s attention to the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reserve, where a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline will be built if approved. Native Americans argue that the proposed pipeline will damage their vital water sources and affect the whole reserve, making their water undrinkable and harming their health. Crude oil pipelines, usually buried underground, can easily contaminate water (“How Can You Identify Pipeline.”), which in turn toxifies the…

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    William Ury’s The Third Side is about conflict management, fighting and conflicts are natural and normal aspects of life. Ury explains that violence is not inevitable, there is an alternative to being violent, and that is the Third Side. Violence and war is not inevitable, we don’t have to fight and kill each other off. The Third Side offers a promising new way you will view conflict going on in the world and around us. The Third Side is our community that we live in and our surroundings. It…

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    Nature and women intertwine dramatically. They both nourish and reproduce offspring. Even though they are both loving and nourishing, they are abused and misused daily. Typically, nature and women are victims of charismatic men. As humans, we often don’t appreciate the ones who care the most for us. In this analytical essay, I will discuss the intersectionality between three ambitious and empowering women. These women are Winona LaDuke, Wangari Maathai, and Akilah Jaramogi. These women are…

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    This semester in history, we talked about many things that I would not think about on a daily basis outside of school. Our lessons made me think in new ways about different concepts. The two things that made me most interested were learning about the Dakota Access Pipeline involving the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the requirements for voting for the President of the United States. DAPL made me more aware of our environment and realize how one thing could drastically affect so many areas of…

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    The Badlands Formation

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    The Badlands is in the Southeastern corner of South Dakota, located to the East of the Black Hills. It was declared a national monument in 1929, and then was declared a national park though an act of congress in 1978. (Stoffer 2) The park is most known for its rugged, desolate appearance, with jagged rocks and interesting formations. The core of the “badlands” (meaning the “badlands” associated with Badlands National Park) is part of a dissected plateau region bounded by the Cheyenne River (to…

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    Beginning in July of 2016 and continuing on to the present day, protesters have been actively camped out near Cannon Ball, North Dakota; protesting as, or in solidarity with, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. Calling themselves “Water Protectors”, they are actively protesting a 1,172-mile long oil pipeline being built by a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners named Dakota Access (Time 1). The pipeline is proposed to run diagonally from Stanley, North Dakota all the way…

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    Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American. He lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and was arrested after an incident on the property. May events lead up to his arrest. The first incident happened on February 27, 1973. Members of the American Indian Movement, or AIM, staged a seventy-two-day occupation of land called, Wounded Knee. Their mission was to protest injustices against their tribes, such as violations of the many treaties. The United States government responded with a…

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