The Dust Bowl was a treacherous storm‚ which occurred in the 1930’s‚ that affected the midwestern people‚ for example the farmers‚ and which taught us new technologies and methods of farming. As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas‚ families‚ tribes‚ dusted out. Carloads‚ caravans‚ homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two
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Saving Whiteclay Dude‚ lets walk to the liquor store and get some beer. The town of Whiteclay borders the Pine Ridge Reservation‚ and in just walking distance are four local off-sale beer retailers. Whiteclay is known for the huge amount of sale of alcohol. In 2009 between the four liquor stores they have sold approximately 191‚649 cases of beer according to the Nebraska Liquor Commission (Nebraska). Frank LaMere (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) has been advocating stopping the sale of alcohol in
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Black Elk talks‚ about a personal story‚ that has different characteristics of several genders. biography‚ testimony‚ and history. However‚ the black elk is contains of 25 chapters‚ which discovered black elk’s early life. The story draws the black elk as a savior and glorified man that has all the power‚ which ensured to him since he was young. It recorded the shift of the Sioux nation from previous reservation to reservation culture‚because of their engagement in the war of Little Bighorn. Black
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I was born in the year 1840. My name was Cha-O-Ha meaning one with nature. When I was only four years old My Mother died. As a young boy and throughout all my life I had a close friend named Hump. When I was about Fourteen years old I had a vision of myself. I was on horse that rode out of a lake‚ I wore simple clothing without any feathers or warpaint‚ as I rode around bullets and arrows did not touch me. My father Crazy Horse interpreted the vision to mean that if I dressed just like the warrior
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In the film “Dances with Wolves” Kevin Costner has one main goal to achieve in making this film was to do away with any predetermined notions that the viewer might have had about the Native Americans being some sort of savage race. Costner does this by unraveling this in front of the audience of the mysteriousness that was held by the Indian culture and then brings in the viewer to have this connectedness with Indians and their culture. By doing this we the viewer find ourselves feeling some sort
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Imagine waking up each morning having to sweep up dust that blew into homes at night. Nearly starving from lack of food and water then going broke and living without a home with family’s to care for. We’ll that was life during the Dust Bowl having to face the Great Depression and loving in the Southern Plains.The Dust Bowl was a very unexpected tragedy that hit America in the 1930 lasting a whole decade. The dust bowl accrued mostly of high climates mixing with the broken down jet stream in Mexico
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Lakota Sioux Indians The Lakota Sioux Indians resided in the Great Plains where they lived off the land by hunting herds of buffalo and adhering to set customs and rituals sacred to their native culture. Therefore‚ from what I can discern‚ the Lakota Sioux Indians epitomize what for most of us is our basic understanding of Native American Culture. In addition to the initial diplomatic intentions of the U.S. towards the Sioux people via the Lewis and Clark expedition. The lifestyle of the Lakota
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Newspaper Report: Battle of the Wounded Knee Yesterday‚ December 29‚ the continuous American tension with Indians finally shatters into a massacre between the Sioux Indians and the U.S Army’s 7th regiment. It is said that this battle truly begun when an outburst of ghost dancing from the Sioux Indians brought fear of rebellion to James McLaughlin‚ an Indian Agent. McLaughlin later recalls what he had said to his superiors that day‚ “Indians are dancing in the snow and are wild and crazy.
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*** This document is being updated.*** WHY THEORY MUSIC GROUP Presents: MYKE BOGAN CONCERT ● April 12 in Sioux Falls‚ SD @ BIGS SPORTSBAR immediately west of 12th street Kmart (contact info) ○ Opening acts: E Styles‚ K Flowz‚ D.Glove ○ Doors open at 9pm ○ $7 General admission ○ $20 VIP guestlist (INCLUDES drink special and concert tshirt) ○ $50 roundtrip inclusive Party bus (INCLUDES drinks specials‚ concert ticket‚ tshirt‚ food specials‚ raffles. ■ 18+ transportation ● April 13 in Vermillion
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New Life I believe Ivan’s assessment on the American west is fair. The settlers were eager people ready to start a new life and seek what the world has for them. While the Indians were just peaceful inhabitants fighting for their land and rights‚ learning the ways of the white man. The vast majority of their land had been taken from them and their traditional economic systems were obliterated‚ and the buffalo on which they had depended on were slaughtered by the millions. Epidemic diseases such
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