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    Ethics- Is Polygamy Ethical?

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    DW.DE | null." DW Top Stories. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2012. . Metaphysics Research Lab Center. "Results for Polygamy." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Standford University‚ n.d. Web. 5 Mar. 2012. . Moorehead‚ J.H. “The Developmental Cycle of Cheyenne Polygyny.” American Indian Quarterly 15.3 (1991): 311. Literary Reference Center. Web. 2 March 2012 "Mormon Polygamy Facts That Cause Some LDS Folk to Struggle." Mormon Stories Podcast Nyanseor‚ Siahyonkron. " Polygyny (Polygamy) Is Already A Practice

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    The 1860’s brought hardship between whites and Indians. As our people slowly moved into the tribe’s land‚ no friendship was bound to be created. Little by little‚ we nudged the Indians into a limited area of land where they felt the need to fight back. Included in this retaliation was three massacres. The bloodiest battle according to the rest of the US military that was not murdered‚ was titled the Fetterman Massacre. The last two Massacres took place in territories such as Colorado and Missouri

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    Imagine being blind. Now imagine being kidnapped while being blind. Cheyenne has to endure a difficult situation that most normal people would just give up. Instead she stays hopeful and strong that she can make it. In the story Girl‚ Stolen the author teaches us that nothing is impossible‚ and you should never give up hope. In Girl‚ Stolen the author uses conflict to teach us that nothing is impossible. For example‚ Cheyenne is a blind girl that has been accidentally kidnapped by car thieves. Despite

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    stuttered up at his mother. “Is she okay?” He and his cousin had grown very close over the last year. All though they were both too young to understand much of what had happened‚ they were able to comfort the other. They did almost everything together. Cheyenne‚ much like her eldest brother‚ did not like her younger cousin for she hated no longer being the only girl child in the household‚ and envied how her mother looked upon her cousin. “Mother I don’t feel well. I’m off to bed for the night. I am not

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    constant warfare between the Native Americans and the white settlers( notes outline). A specific example of this is the sand creek massacre where Cheyenne and Arapaho indians were forced into Sand Creek reservation due to gold mining. Many battles started from tensions between the Government and the Cheyenne indians until eventually after many casualties the Cheyenne surrendered. The militia massacred about 150 indians who had been promised immunity and protective custody from the government. Many more wars

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    River Reservation was not a Kiowa reservation‚ rather that of the Shoshone and Cheyenne. As a result‚ Greeves spent her time surrounded by the work of other tribes and learned a verity of cosmologies and cultures in addition to her Kiowa heritage. She grew up in her mother’s trading post‚ crawling around beadwork and other native art. She began learning beadwork at eight with the help of her aunties‚ Shoshone and Cheyenne women from the reservation. As a result‚ Greeves works with many different

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    of success and happiness and he never complained about getting bucked off‚ or if the bulls were too tough. If you ever had the pleasure to meet Lane‚ you would always leave with a smile on your face. Lane was inducted into two hall of fame’s the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame and the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame (“Lane Frost”). He was also inducted in the Oklahoma Sports Museum. Lane will always be remembered in the rodeo

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    being partners along the same journey. The Native American woman worked as hard as her partner in the journey of life. Native Americans established their relationships from being a descendent from a common ancestor‚ or through a clan system. The Cheyenne Tribe also traced their ancestry through the woman ’s linage. Moore (1996‚ Pg. 154) shows this when he say ’s "Such marriages‚ where the groom comes to live in the bride ’s band‚ are called matrilocal". The Montagnais-Naskapi a hunting society‚ stated

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    meets the Mississippi at Vicksburg. The Atchafalaya River in Louisiana is a major distributary of the Mississippi. The Mississippi river flows with history. The area of the Mississippi valley was first settled by Native American tribes‚ such as the Cheyenne‚ Sioux‚ Ojibwe‚ Potawatomi‚ Ho-Chunk‚ Fox‚ Kickapoo‚ Tamaroa‚

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    the United States. This song is a recount of the story of some regiments of the post-Civil War. These regiments where formed by black men commanded to fight (pro white interests). “They [the Africans] fought for a quarter of a century against the Cheyenne‚ Comanche‚ Kiowa‚ Apache‚ Ute and Sioux. In the end‚ fourteen key black campaigners‚ whom the Indians had dubbed "buffalo soldiers‚" were awarded the Medal of Honor as part of a public relations move to justify and glorify the genocide of Native

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