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    Travels with Charlie

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    the different regions Steinbeck visits‚ he finds that people seem very impacted by their surroundings. For instances when he travels to The Badlands in South Dakota. “Such a place the Fallen Angels might have built as a spite to Heaven‚ dry and sharp‚ desolate and dangerous‚ and filled me with foreboding.”pg‚### As he was driving to the Dakotas‚ he was fine and happy. Though when he reaches the badlands‚ and takes in their “dry‚ sharp‚ desolate‚ and dangerous” features his mood drops. He recalls that

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    Generally speaking I loved the idea that Plenty Coup had in making sure the story and history of the crow tribe was told. Lear’s formulating thoughts and ideas about Coupe and the crow tribe history help organize the story in a way that much of the content seemed more mythical than real. The main point I got from the first chapter was the discovering of what life meant for someone after facing great defeat or mishaps in life. Initially the idea that life seemed unbearable and dull‚ not worth living

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    id the homestead Act

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    arm so they fought and shot back at the Native Americans. The Battle of Wounded Knee ended the Indian wars. C.) The Battle of Wounded Knee occurred December 29‚ 1890. D.) The Battle of Wounded Knee took place near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. 5. What were the actions of the “white men” related to buffalo? The buffalo were killed for profit such as clothing‚ housing‚ food‚ & hygienic needs. How did they impact the Western Plains farmers? The white men no longer had their main

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    new dance was a war dance. They called for army protection. Army was called in to try to curbed this new religion before it could start a war. The Sioux band tougher led by Little Big Foot. They were heading to Pine RidgeReservation in South Dakota‚ when the army stopped them and held them at gun pointovernight. Big Foot’s group contained about 300 people two-thirds of them were women and children. While the soldiers numbered around 500 and were armed with automatic weapons. The next

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    June Morrisey

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    June holds the novel together. The story begins with June Kashpaw‚ whose death in the opening chapter haunts this book. Moving from man to man‚ tired beyond her years‚ June abandons her latest one-night stand as he sleeps in his car on the cold North Dakota plains. She stands alone under the night sky and begins to walk. A woman who has seen everything and has really come to the very end of her despair begins to walk toward home‚ not knowing that she is going to pass into an Easter blizzard. And that

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    The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal‚ have the rights to life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness‚ and have control of the government when it becomes destructive‚ these rights ‚ although stated in Americas constitution‚ were not granted to the Native Americans. The Native Americans were made to endure the hardships of being forced out of their land‚ being killed‚ thrown into countless wars‚ and promised lies. The 1830’s and 1890’s proved to be some of the worst

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    Annie Tall Research Paper

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    was a board member and then became the president. In 1897‚ she moved to Sturgis and wrote her book The Black Hills‚ or Last Hunting Grounds of the Dakotahs. She passed away in 1901. She had a monument built for her at the old Gordon Stockade (South Dakota State Historical Society). This monument is meant to represent her heroism and resourcefulness of pioneer women. Along with the monument‚ she had an elementary school which was built in 1950. However‚ in 1994‚ the Rapid City Board of Education dismissed

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    In 1874‚ George Armstrong Custer discovered gold in the Black Hills of Dakota where is Sioux’s reservation. Before the gold rich‚ in 1875‚ the U.S. Government made a negotiation with the Sioux for buying the Black Hills; however‚ the offer was refused because the Sioux considered this land as the sacred region. Ignoring the treaty agreements between the Sioux people and the Americans‚ the U.S. Army decided to invade this lands led to the battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. To the Sioux tribe

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    Montana 1948 Summary

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    compromise. When Marie is found dead‚ Frank convinces the family it is a result of the illness‚ however David proves (with many reservations) that Frank had murdered her‚ in order to silence her. Marie’s parents choose to have her buried in North Dakota. The family faces much turmoil as Wes attempts to remain loyal to justice and family‚ but his inability to make a choice leaves him to imprison his brother in the basement. At this stage‚ David’s grandfather intervenes‚ showing his clear favour for

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    Giants in the Earth

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    O.E. Rölvaag’s thesis in the novel Giants in the Earthis well hidden throughout the text of the novel‚ but his purpose is very clear. The purpose of the book is to give the reader a full experience of how life was like for an immigrant to start all over again in an unknown‚ unexplored habitat. It also furnishes the reader with the knowledge of the hardship and consequences that the alien settlers dealt with on the prairie. The topics that Rölvaag writes about in the novel are those

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