Indigenous peoples of America‚ including the Sioux tribe‚ have suffered continuously because of the settlers and eventually their government. The Sioux tribe is recently taking a stand by protesting the plan for the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota that could seriously jeopardize the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. This pipeline also would cross through sacred ancestral lands of the Sioux tribe. Leaders of the Sioux tribe explain that they did not properly communicate
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advised to tell the chief that‚ in order to cure his daughter‚ he must lay her beside this tree‚ and that he must have the tree dug up. This advice was carried out to the letter. While the people were at work and the young woman lay there‚ a young man came along. He was very angry and said: "it is not all right to destroy this tree. Its fruit is all that we have to live on." With this remark he gave the young woman who lay there ill a shove with his foot‚ causing her to fall into th hole that had
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Alice Walker was born on February ninth 1944‚ the youngest of eight children raised by Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. As a child Alice’s parents worked hard‚ her mother worked for eleven hours for $17 per week. When walker was young her mother defended her kids from working in other peoples fields by saying "You might have some black children somewhere‚ but they don’t live in this house. Don’t you ever come around here again talking about how my children don’t need to learn how
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Women by Alice Walker Women have been through a lot‚ they always seem to be over worked yet under appreciated. Even during the biblical times‚ women were expected to be housekeepers‚ cooks‚ as well as care givers‚ while still having to satisfy their husband needs and desires. It was very seldom in these societies as well as present societies that someone openly and sincerely appreciates all the things that women have done for them and the people around them. In “Women"‚ Alice Walker breaks through
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The story The Flowers‚ by Alice Walker‚ is the story that has the best use of description. You can tell the author loves to write descriptively because she uses it throughout the whole piece. In the beginning‚ there is much description about the day the story takes place. For example‚ “The air held a keenness that made her nose twitch.” and‚ “... made each day a golden surprise...”. “A keenness that made her nose twitch” is an extremely pure description because it is deeply felt and understood by
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The Kaw native american tribe was and still are a fascinating tribe that lived in Great Plains.The Kaw head a spoke but was never a written language‚ also the way they dressed was very different from the way people today‚ they cooperated with other small tribes to insure their survival and to not make enemies. The Kaw’s language was almost lost withe when their last fluent speaker died in the late 20th century‚ but most people of the tribe are trying to bring it back. The Kaw didn’t go to war very
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‘peaceful all people’ or better known as the Hopi tribe. Not all people called them that‚ the Spanish misunderstood the Hopi word mo`ki and thought that mo`ki was the tribe’s name. Moqui actually meaning death. The Hopi spoke a Shoshonean form of the Uto-Aztecan language family. The Hopi lived in now what is known as Arizona. The Hopi were first found in the summer of 1540. Marriage in the Hopi tribe was essential to the existence of the tribe. The Hopis couldn’t marry anyone from their own clan
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The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma is signifigant to our states history. They had a happy life in Northwest Ohio and Southern Michigan‚ until they got pushed out. Southwest Wisconsin was there new home for a little while. Oklahoma was then their last stop‚ along with Texas and Kansas. The nickname for the Kickapoo “Kiwigapawa” refers to them moving from place to place‚ because the word itself means “he moves from here to there”. Tribes across Oklahoma have had these same struggles of moving from many
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alexis snodgrass block 4 8-30-17 Shawnee The Shawnee was a tribe that was originly from Tennesse. Later on the Shawny moved to other places such as Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ Ohio‚ South Carolina‚ Pennsylvania‚‚ and Kansas. Following the Civil War the Shawnee Tribe decided to start moving and blending into the Cherokee tribe. That blended them both which lead to the Cherokee Shawnee tribe. The Shwnee tribe moved around alot. Which ment they never really had permenat shelters. They usually lived in wigwams
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Elizabeth Miller ES 2400 Sec 01: Intro American Indian Studies Final Research Paper The Ojibwa Tribe and their Dances and Ceremonies “When Ah-ki’ (the Earth) was young‚ it was said that the Earth had a family. Nee-ba-gee’-sis (the Moon) is called Grandmother‚ and Gee’-sis (the Sun) is called Grandfather. The Creator of this family is called Gi’-tchie Man-i-to’(Great Mystery or Creator). The Earth is said to be a woman. In this way it is understood that woman preceded man on the Earth. She is
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