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The Dry Creek station of the pony express in Nevada experienced many conflicts; some of those conflicts were between the white settlers and the Indians. This conflict only contributed to getting rid of the pony express, which was only was in operation during April 3, 1860 to October 28, 1861. One of the conflicts that occurred at the dry creek station was when a group of Indians killed a man named Ralph M. Lozier and wounded a man named John Applegate after attacking the station asking Si…

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,…

This map was drawn by Lieutenant Joseph Dixon, United States Topographical Engineers, under the direction of Captain G. Thom. It shows the routes traveled by the Command of Maj. E. Steen, U.S. War Department, in 1860 during campaign against Snake Indians. This survey map is a significant early depiction of of Eastern Oregon, bounded by three rivers, the Willamette, Columbia and Snake Rivers. This map is said to have its origin in Steen's Topographical Memoir of the Command Against the Snake…

Battle of the Wounded Knee The battle of the wounded knee occurred on December 29, 1890. When it occurred, it was near wounded knee creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the US state of South Dakota. Philip Wells Was a mixed-blood sioux who served as an interpreter for the army. He later recounted what he saw that Monday morning. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. Just before the…

Before colonialization, Africa women were occupying good positions as the chiefs, they had rights to so many things such as properties, politics… in their society. Labor were divided equally between men and women in the pre-colonial era. Gender inequality started after colonization, it is an issue that keeps existing in different countries including Nigeria. It is manifesting in different aspect and in different parts of Nigeria. Women are seen as lesser beings and are discriminated in every…

Sitting in my room alone. That’s how i felt. I still feel this way. I’ve felt this way ever since i was little. I guess all the words the kids would say, would reoccur in my head. “Ugly”, “Stupid”, “Nasty.” But as i got older into middle and high school it got worse. “Hoe”, “Slut” ,“Thot”, “Bitch.” There were nights where i would cry all night and nobody would hear. When i said nobody would hear, lowkey meant that nobody really cared to check on me in my room. A house filled with 5 people and…

are occurring. It is obvious that racism is not a good thing as it was many decades ago and it is still occurring in society especially in schools even though the government abolished it several decades ago. Two articles—“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Tatum and “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” by Jonathan Kozol—present two opposite views on the desire to resolve the inequality in public education. On the other hand,…

The book “Why Are All the Black kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria”, written by Beverly Daniel Tatum, attempts to address the racial identity issues present in society. She works beyond fear, denial, and anger to help gain a new understanding of what racism truly is and how it impacts all of society in a negative way. Through reading this book I have learned so much about the definitions of systematic racism and prejudice, my own racial identity, and the state of race relations in the…

important factor in identifying oneself in terms of race and ethnicity. As children enter adolescence they may go from being confident in themselves to being doubtful and uncertain. Beverly Daniel Tatum says in her essay “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria,” children entering adolescence begin to explore their identity, while pointing out how Black children question themselves in terms of their race and ethnicity (Tatum 375). In the essay, Tatum explains the reasons and…

killing them? The answer to this question is a fatal result, which is simply sitting. Besides walking from class to class every 45 minutes for four minutes at a time, the students are sitting back in their desk, not engaging in any physical activity, and this can lead to many pernicious health effects, which no one needs and especially not at such a young age. Furthermore, this issue is exactly what “The Price We Pay for Sitting Too Much” brings about. This article stated that for every…