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- 31: Correctly Political: A Look into the Dynamics of Political Correctness
- ... altered to contain more inclusive language. Another intriguing illustration of applied political correctness is the “ Dates to Remember” list on the California Teachers Association 1995-96 calendar: Massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee Day (December 29), Internment of Japanese- Americans Day (February 19), Diwali (October 23), the Birthday of Mahavira, the founder of Jainism (April 30), National Coming Out Day ...
- 32: Significance of Ritual in North American Indian Religion
- ... before Europeans arrived and attempted to ‘teach' them religion. WORKS CITED LIST Brown, Joseph Van Epes. The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. Coorigan, Samuel W, ed. Readings in Aboriginal Studies Brandon, Manitoba: Bearpaw Publishing, 1995. Hultkrantz, Ake. Belief and Worship in Native North America. Ed ...
- 33: Impact of the Spanish American War
- ... champion hammer thrower Jim Mitchell, and many others of championship caliber would overawe any Spanish regiment. They would scorn Spanish bullets." The paper went on to suggest that six hundred Sioux Indians be sent to scalp Spaniards in Cuba. The New York World was equally rabbit. It printed: "Thirty thousand Indian fighters under colonel Buffalo bill Cody would clear the Spaniards ...
- 34: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... town of Sharpsburg and along the Antietam Creek. It killed and wounded 26,000 men, it was and still is the single bloodiest day in all of American History. The Sioux Indians were starving and mad that they were taken from their land and killed more than 200 settlers in one day. They held trials for two months to decide upon ...
- 35: Jay vs. Dave: Battle of the Late Night Television
- ... all we are sup sed be following the same format, remember? Rolling in three, two, one action! “Ladies and gentlemen tonight in my right hand, from the home office in Sioux City, Iowa, Top Ten ways Bill Clinton can use a cigar” I know there is a time zone difference, ut please remember that these are pre-recorded shows, so we ...
- 36: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... their sperm as well as the immune system and behavior of offspring. West, Peter. 1992. "Indians Go On Offensive To Fight Alcohol's Effects". Education Week. p.1+. The Oglala Sioux Indians, who live on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation estimate that twenty-five percent of their children are born with FAS or FAE. The locals say that FAS is ...
- 37: Custer's Last Stand
- ... The Battle of Little Bighorn". My troops and I were in the Montana Territory. My troops were starting to get restless. We were out there trying to round up the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians and move them to reservations. I was under the command of General Alfred H. Terry, who was heading the expedition. General Terry ordered me to get in ...
- 38: The Journey of Lewis and Clark
- ... of the Expedition The expedition started up the Missouri River occasionally passing groups of fur traders or parties of Indians, They were mostly friendly to the white men, but a Sioux tribe did threaten to halt the expedition, but the captains acted sternly with them and the party continued upriver. One soldier became sick and died, the only death of the ...
- 39: Bilingual Education
- ... either German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish. Then there will be the demand to those who can speak the local languages. For example, Lakota is widely used on most Sioux reservations in the US, so many parents may want their children to learn Lakota instead of Chinese. More money will be needed to fund all of these language programs, since ...
- 40: Native Americans
- ... Among the Indians Early explorers and settlers tended to think of the Indians as a single people, but the Indians themselves did not. An Indian considered himself a Delaware, a Sioux, or a Navajo. The name of many tribes meant "the people" in the tribe's language. Other tribes were considered foreigners--even enemies Variations in Indian Languages The separation into ...
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