The American Indians claimed the island by provisions of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) between the U.S. and the Sioux they said the treaty promised to return all retired‚ abandoned or out-of-use federal lands. Today Alcatraz is a well known prison throughout the world‚ and has attracted many visitors as well. Tourism is very
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(War of 1862). They captured and killed thousands of U.S. settlers during this war. Four hundred of the Dakotas were captured and thirty-seven of them were hanged. To prevent something like this from happening again‚ they created the Treaty of Fort Laramie and the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek. Nevertheless‚ one of the Treaties was broken when gold was found in the Black Hills. This caused the Battle of Little Bighorn. All the Native American tribes successfully defended their land against the Americans
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On October 6‚ 1998 two men brought Matthew Shepard‚ a gay college student‚ about a mile outside of Laramie Wyoming. These men took him out to a split-rail fence‚ tortured him‚ then tied him onto the fence‚ and left him for death. He was found late the next day by two bikers‚ 18 hours after the attack. When the bikers first saw Matthew tied to the fence‚ they thought that Matthew was a scarecrow‚ but realized that it was a person. Matthew remained in a coma until October 12‚ and then died at 12:53
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General (Gen.) Sheridan was the commander assigned to the Northwest Region of the United States. His military supervisor at the time was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant who was the overall commander of the Union Forces during the Civil War. Gen. Grant gave Gen. Sheridan the tactics‚ techniques and procedures to devise a plan to execute the mission accordingly. For example‚ “General Terry was strike west from Fort Abraham Lincoln. General Crook was to push north from Fort Fetterman‚ Wyoming. General Gibbon
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The Dakota War of 1862- It was a rebellion by the Lakota’s in Minnesota in 1862 to try and gain lands back lost from land cessions. In a massacre‚ the Dakota managed to kill 500 settlers and Lincoln decided by sending troops from the Civil War to fight the Dakota’s. The Union ended up winning after 6 weeks. 400 were tried and 40 were set to be hung until the missionaries decided to fight for them and had that number reduced to 38‚ the largest hanging in history. Sand Creek Massacre‚ November
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The first time I walked into my practicum classroom‚ I was so nervous. The students introduced themselves and I introduced who I was‚ then the student’s asked me all sorts of questions. The questions consisted of: what is your major‚ do you have pets‚ and who was your favorite elementary teacher. I told them my favorite teacher was my second grade teacher named Mr. Gagliano‚ who danced on my desk. This made the class so excited because Mr Gagliano had been to their school to talk about the different
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Dr. Carl Hart’s memoir‚ High Price‚ offers insight on the influences of drugs and society and how the myths we falsely rely on are incorrect. Through his scientific research and findings and the community that he was raised in‚ Hart is able to debunk the common misconceptions that are related to drugs. The journey that reader’s go on through Hart’s life story offers insight on how culture‚ racism‚ and other social factors influence the way we see drugs today. High Price displays to readers that
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Chapter 17-The West: Exploiting an Empire Time Period: 1850-1900 1. Beyond the Frontier -line of white settlement at MO timber country by 1840s What’s in the West? What land? -“The Great Plains”/Prairie Plains: rich soil and good rainfall (Wisconsin down to Texas) -High Plains: rough‚ semiarid (Montana down to NMex.) -Rockies: formidable barrier (Alaska to NMex.) -Western Basin: home to many NA‚ desert‚ held in by the Cascades and Sierra Nevada‚ MOST travelers here (Idaho and Utah)
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for the Native Americans to live on (Danzer 410). However‚ by the 1850’s laws were being changed that gave boundaries to this reservation which eventually led to battles between white settlers and the Native American‚ including the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 that forced them to live on reservations around the Mississippi River (Danzer 410). Many of these wars were actually in fact massacres that left thousands of Native Americans dead such as the Massacre at Sand Creek‚ the Red River War‚ and
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World Culture’s Final Exam Terms Intro to the World 1. Cultural Conflict clash of different ways of life over scarce resources‚ religion‚ race‚ land‚ oil‚ water‚ power‚ etc 2. Cultural Relativism judge culture on their own standards and values 3. Culturally different one culture different from every other culture 4. Culture total way of life of someone 5. Diffusion mixing of different cultures from place to place 6. Ethnocentrism belief that ones own culture is superior to
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