I am going to Rapid City‚ South Dakota for my vacation. I chose to go here because it is the first family vacation spot I can remember going to as a child with my parents. South Dakota is located in the central part of the United States. Rapid City is located in western South Dakota. The weather here changes with the seasons – cold‚ snowy winters and hot summers. Hotel I am staying at is the Fairfield inn and suites. We will be staying in the Wa Tiki luxury suite. The room has 2 bedrooms
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In the middle of the night in February‚ two hundred members of the Sioux Tribe and AIM came into the small town in South Dakota and took its residents hostage‚ demanding the government follow through on past treaties. Over the course of the next 71 days‚ armed conflict took place between AIM and police forces. Women had a prominent role in the Wounded Knee Incident‚ as they
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winter. Even after going to the informational meeting about the trip to North Dakota‚ I was still less than enthusiastic. I had Signed up only as a favor to my parents so I could put some more volunteer hours on my college applications. I was disappointed to find out that only one of my friends was coming on the trip and all other participants were younger than me. I left for the reservation of Mandaree‚ North Dakota‚ feeling sorry for myself because I would be missing precious days of summer
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Mount Rushmore is a mountain located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. South Dakota is placed in the Midwestern region of the United States. This incredible sculpture portrays the faces of four esteemed presidents‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ George Washington‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ and Abraham Lincoln. They symbolize this nation’s rich history. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began to drill into the six-thousand foot mountain in 1927. After months of diligent work on the mountain‚ the sculptor passed
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The United States is a country that prides itself on diversity and individualism. While these ideals are very much true‚ often times‚ the pursuit of happiness and the American Dream are harder to attain for people of color or those who don’t abide by “social norms”. American policies are set in place to keep heterosexual‚ white males in power thus institutionalizing patriarchal‚ heteronormative and eurocentristic values. The tendency to view all issues from this perspective prevents the voices and
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claims; Mount Rushmore is named in his honor. 1923 South Dakota state historian Doane Robinson writes to eminent Chicago sculptor Lorado Taft proposing that one of the "Needles" -- spiky rock formations -- of the Black Hills be carved in the likenesses of a "notable Sioux such as Red Cloud" and other Western figures. Taft responds by stating that he is in poor health. 1924 Robinson contacts Gutzon
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1970 ’s on the Oglala Sioux Reservation. It is about an actual standoff between FBI agents and Indian activists in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota (Apted Michael‚ 1992). “Thunderheart” tells the story of Ray Levoi (played by Val Kilmer)‚ a mixed-blood FBI agentwho ventures onto the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to solve a murder but finds his Indian identity in the process. At first‚ Levoi’s loyalty clings to the American government and his cultural identity to that
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Sitting Bull was published in the encyclopedia which had a different point of view from the story that was published in 2001. In the 1911 story‚ Sitting Bull comes from a tribe called Dakota Sioux. He led attacks on white settlers in Iowa and Minnesota during the Civil War. His father was also a chief of the Dakota Sioux tribe. Sitting Bull had pretended to make peace with the whites‚ but he attacked them many times. Fearing he would have gotten punished for being in the massacre that killed General
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May 2011 Shifting Trends in Special Education By Janie Scull and Amber M. Winkler SH I FTI NG TREN DS I N SPECIAL EDUCATION > CONTENTS Contents Executive Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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where the movie took place. Most of the movie was filmed on location in South Dakota‚ mainly near Pierre and Rapid City‚ with a few scenes filmed in Wyoming. “Specific locations included the Badlands National Park‚ the Black Hills‚ the Sage Creek Wilderness Area‚ and the Belle Fourche River area”( Southdakota.midwestmovies.com). The buffalo hunt scenes were filmed at the Triple U Buffalo Ranch outside Fort Pierre‚ South Dakota‚ as were the Fort Sedgwick scenes‚ the set being constructed on the property
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