The Dakota

Sitting Bull: The Stubborn Chief Is there anyone that has made the general population change their whole perception on a whole race? Sitting bull was born on the plains near the black hills in South Dakota. Growing up in a traditional native tribe he was pretty sheltered to the rest of the world. As a young child he was just an average child with nothing specifically special about him. When he was ten he killed his first buffalo which officially made him a man. At the age of fourteen he was…

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…

Controversy over a pipeline “What to Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests” by Justin Worland is an informative piece about The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protesting a plan to put in a 1,200-mile pipeline to transport crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. The plan came to be in 2014 and has been ongoing since. National attention has since been gained and the opposing sides are preparing for a long battle that may be through the winter full of harsh weather and snow. The Sioux tribe…

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…

The largest mass execution in U.S History, The Dakota Conflict, took place in 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota. Such a gruesome event, ended with 38 Dakota warriors hung at the same time. This all began with Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny is the belief that the United States was destined by God to expand land from coast to coast. White business men having had this strong idea in their minds caused many difficulties between them and the Native Americans. Native Americans were unable to read or…

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…

“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…

Originating from the Missouri River in Western North Dakota the Heart River flows. Passing through Lake Tschida, formed by the Heart Butte Dam, the river turns northeast into Morton County and joins the Missouri at Mandan. Here the Mandan people built villages, relish in culture and became an agricultural powerhouse in the 19th century. Although the birthplace of the Mandan people is uncertain, remnants of this once thriving people allow us a glimpse into their world and what it meant to be “the…

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…