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- 41: Indian Frontier
- ... some of the most widely heard of names in the battles between Indians and whites. These names include Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe, Sitting Bull of the Oglala Sioux, Cochise, Geronimo, and Mangas Coloradas, and John Ross of the Cherokee Nation. These names are still very respected among historians and are seen throughout history books used in schools across ...
- 42: Assassination Of Martin Luther
- ... been dumped into the water. 34 North Dakota The nickname Flickertail State came from the many flickertail ground squirrels found in the state. North Dakota has also been called the Sioux State after the original Indian settlers of the land. A nickname popular today is the Peace Garden State. 35 Ohio The popular nickname Buckeye State comes from the tree that ...
- 43: America Expansion Of 1700s
- ... the Indian Territory, the government minimized the size of Indian Territory by half. Now the Northern half was open for white settlement. As for the western Indians, such as the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapahos, American settlers went around them to settle the California and Oregon. The Americans decided to stay away from further conflict with the native Americans because they knew ...
- 44: Giants In The Earth
- ... island of Dönna, just south of where the Arctic Circle cuts the coast of Norway. Receiving very little education in Norway, Rölvaag traveled across to America where he moved to Sioux City, Iowa and entered Augustana College, a grammar school in South Dakota. He then moved onto St. Oalf College and graduated in 1905. In 1906, he took to teaching at ...
- 45: Around The World In 80 Days
- ... travelers are missing, among them Passepartout. After Passepartout’s disappearance is discovered, Fogg pleads with the brigade stationed at the Fort to assist him in recovering the prisoners from the Sioux. After negotiating, the brigade chief allows half his men to go with Fogg. Two days elapse, and after a fierce battle with the Indians, Fogg returns with Passepartout. However, the ...
- 46: An Observation Of Sacred Hoops
- ... astonishment, I found the book to be very interesting and read most of it in a single sitting. Using the principles of Zen Buddhism and the ideals of the Lakota Sioux warrior, Phil Jackson teaches his players how to work hard even when the spotlight is on someone else. The book continues on subjects like religion, spirituality, and unity among the ...
- 47: Sacred Hoops
- ... astonishment, I found the book to be very interesting and read most of it in a single sitting. Using the principles of Zen Buddhism and the ideals of the Lakota Sioux warrior, Phil Jackson teaches his players how to work hard even when the spotlight is on someone else. The book continues on subjects like religion, spirituality, and unity among the ...
- 48: Argumentative Environment
- ... destroying these ancestors' attempt to preserve nature, not allow "the green world" (Kunitz 123) to be turned into a "death-foxed page" (Kunitz 123) of barrenness. Some pro-environmentalists, like Sioux medicine man John (Fire) Lame Deer, claim that the damage industrialized society has done to nature is both immense and nearly criminal , the result of greed. Lame Deer complains that ...
- 49: Native Americans
- ... have experienced (and won) was the war for the Bozeman trail. From 1866 through 1868, in Montana and Wyoming, under the command of Chief Red Cloud great forces of Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho faced off against The United States Military. This great victory of the Indians was formalized in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Much of the violence that Indians were ...
- 50: Leonard Peltier Essay
- ... But to Native Americans, Peltier has long stood as symbol that there is no equitable treatment of American Indians in the American judicial system. Peltier, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, is serving his eighteenth year in a Levenworth, Kansas, federal prison for murdering two FBI agents. He and his defenders claim that they are innocent, and that they have ...
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