Indigenous peoples of America‚ including the Sioux tribe‚ have suffered continuously because of the settlers and eventually their government. The Sioux tribe is recently taking a stand by protesting the plan for the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota that could seriously jeopardize the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. This pipeline also would cross through sacred ancestral lands of the Sioux tribe. Leaders of the Sioux tribe explain that they did not properly communicate with
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1.|What happened to the Plains Indian population between 1780 and 1870?Ø The population declined by half because of disease and as the Sioux pushed west‚ they defeated weaker opposition. Cheyenne warrior anguished‚ disease shifted balance of power | 2.|Explain the Indian wars on the Great Plains:Ø It marked its last resistance of its population devastated by disease and demoralized by the removal policy pursued by the government. Some tribes including the crow‚ Arikara‚ Pawnee and Shoshoni fought
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My education at Dakota has contributed immensely to who I am today. Without the faculty and community of Dakota‚ I would be a completely different person. The positive impact they have had on me will benefit me throughout my entire life. The teachers at Dakota have instilled in me a work ethic that will stick with me for the rest of my life. They pushed me to do challenging assignments and take on projects that I never thought I would be able to accomplish. While I may have hated it at the time
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want to miss out on the current oil boom in North Dakota. The oil is in the Bakken Shale deposit. PlentErgy has the skills and experience in hydraulic fracturing‚ also called “fracking‚” which is the process used for releasing oil and gas from rock formations like the Bakken Shale found in North Dakota. PlentErgy is confident in their ability to use fracking safely and successfully in order to release oil and gas from sites they will lease North Dakota. However‚ there are ethical concerns with fracking
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The Dakota access pipeline has much risk in the aspects of environmental impact and the thousands of people protesting for the protection indian reservation‚ but these pipelines bring in huge economic gain. In the article‚ “Dakota Access Pipeline: What’s at stake?” Written by Holly Yan‚ she explores the possible pros and cons of piping oil through North Dakota to Illinois. People are arguing that piping oil could be hazardous to native american land‚ but others say the U.S. needs the money. While
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It was a great time of despair for the Native American people whose life’s were drastically changed by the expansion of the United States westward forced relocations onto reservations disrupted their cultural lifestyle for hundreds of years. The “Ghost Dance” was created to give the native people some hope at a time where disease‚ death and oppression peaked. reasons for the Indian’s predicament at this time in their history included: lack of hunting‚ decease of the buffalo‚ forced abandonment
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When I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made history with them being the ones who left the battlefield as winners. When stories are told‚ or when the media dares to tamper with history‚ it is usually the American Indians who are looked upon as the
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given to the people long ago‚ and now the government building a project over it‚ while having no say to oppose the project. Being stuck in a realm where the people voices are heard‚ but everything will be taken away no matter what conditions. The Dakota Access Pipeline project has caused various obligations to the Indigenous people‚ but the citizens also‚ because of the decisions the government made there will be negative outcomes due to them investing their money and time to this project‚ such as
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Introduction Many authors and directors write about the things they are passionate about‚ have knowledge and experience in or have a fundamental issue they want to raise. The purpose of this inquiry is to answer the question‚ does living in significant settings‚ time periods or personal experiences of the authors influence and/or develop their work? This report will go on to examine whether the following authors work was influenced and/or developed by them growing up in a significant setting
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As a defining factor of life in the modern world‚ social media is an essential tool for advancing social activist movements such as the recent protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Perhaps more commonly known by its hashtags on Facebook and Twitter‚ the #NoDAPL campaign existed as early as Oct. 2014 and has gained more momentum in the recent weeks. These protests sweeping across the nation revolves around the bitter reaction to the proposed construction of Energy Transfer Partners’
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