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U S Government U S Army
408 wordsIn the early 1860 s the Oglala Sioux leader Chief Red Cloud fought to keep the U. S. Army from opening the Bozeman Trail, which led to the Montana gold fields through Sioux hunting areas in the Dakota Territory. Between 1866 and 1868 Red Cloud and his allies besieged forts along the trail until in 1868 the U. S. government agreed to abandon it. Red Cloud signed the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie Wyoming on April 29, 1869. The U. S. government agreed to close the Bozeman Trail, and in the treaty inc...
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Middle And Upper Lottery Ticket
1,692 wordsPolicy-makers are assessing the advice from Kenny Rogers, "You got to know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um, know when to walk away and when to run. " They are trying their hand at new and old forms of gambling in the hopes of generating additional revenues. One of the revitalized ideas of the past is to legalize gambling on historic riverboat replicas. Yet riverboat gambling won't be restricted to the Mississippi, but will appear in towns like Gary, Indiana and even our own Jefferson Cit...
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American Indian Movement Washington D C
1,889 wordsAnna Mae Pictou Aquash, a Micmac Indian rights activist, was born on March 27, 1945 in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, the third daughter of Mary Ellen Pictou and Francis Thomas Levi. In 1949 her mother married Noel Super, the son and brother of traditional Micmac chiefs, and the family moved to Pictou's Landing where the family was raised in poverty. Anna lived in a house with no heat, water, or electricity and subsisted largely on the wild turnips and potatoes harvested by her family. Although Anna...
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American Indian Movement Washington D C
1,429 wordsDescribe the overall purpose of their organizational effort Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe, was born in 1937 on the Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota and was raised by his grandparents. Dennis Banks grew up learning the traditional ways of the Ojibwa lifestyle. As a young child he was taken away from practicing his traditional ways and was put into a government boarding school that was designed for Indian children to learn the white culture. After years of attending the b...
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Homestead Act Barbed Wire
1,413 words... ches. Others hired phony claimants or bought abandoned land. The General Land Office was under funded and unable to hire a sufficient number of investigators for its widely scattered local offices. As a result, overworked and underpaid investigators were often susceptible to bribery. Of some 500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders. Small farmers acquired more land under the Homestead Act in the 20 th century tha...
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Men And Women South Dakota
1,469 wordsA Book Report: on The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw 2001. Tom Brokaw is hailing from South Dakota, graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in political science. He started his journalism career in Omaha and Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. During Watergate scandal investigation, Tom Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC news. He had anchored from 1976 to 1981 Today on NBC. Since 1983, he has been sole anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly news. Tom ...
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Death Row Inmates 100 000 Population
1,083 wordsThroughout history, statistics have proven that Capital Punishment or otherwise known as the death penalty, has been an effective deterrent of major crime. Capital Punishment is the lawful infliction of death among criminals and has been used to punish a wide variety of offenses for many years all over the world (Bed 16). When the death penalty is enforced, it shows society that committing a capital crime has deadly consequences. In early times, many methods of Capital Punishment were used to de...
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U S Army Women And Children
1,670 wordsOn December 15, 1890 authorities feared that the Sioux's new Ghost Dance? religion might inspire an uprising. Sitting Bull permitted Grand River people to join the anti white Ghost Dance cult and was therefore arrested by troops. In the fracas that followed, he was shot twice in the head. Sitting Bull followers were apprehended and brought to the U. S Army Camp at Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. Moving among the tipi's, soldiers lifted womens dresses and touched their private pa...
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Quot And Quot Ibm Compatible
1,267 wordsOverview One of the original architects of the business mainframe computer, including IBMs System/ 360 computer line, Amdahl started the IBM-compatible market when he left IBM to found Amdahl Corporation. Amdahl's work has been called brilliant and genius by his peers. The Times of London named him one of the " 1, 000 Makers of the 20 th Century" in 1991, and mainframe magazine Computerworld considered Amdahl one of the 25 people " who changed the world. " He is the founder o...
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Compulsive Gamblers Lottery Tickets
1,345 wordsHow Does Gambling Effect Society? Its just another Saturday night in just about any common town in America. The family sits around the television discussing how much money the twenty tickets in their hands are going to make them. The jackpot is fourteen million. Before the numbers have been shown, the family discusses how to spend the money and how much better their lives are going to be after they win the money. Then finally, the moment of truth. The numbers come across the screen. The first on...
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U S Census Bureau South Dakota
400 wordsSOUTH DAKOTAN SMOKERS: AGES 18 AND OLDER By Karen Kezar A Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for MA 211: Business Statistics Dr. R. L. Freese, Instructor National American University Sioux Falls Campus August 7, 2001 INTRODUCTION Smoking is a great concern in our society. Smoking is a danger to not only the smokers? health but also those around him or her. It is hard to spend a day in public without seeing someone smoking. Is this amount of smoking as common in the rest...
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Minimum Drinking Age Years Of Age
651 wordsIn 1987, the power of the 21 st Amendment of the Constitution was in question by South Dakota and the State Secretary of Transportation (1983 - 87), 1 Elizabeth Dole. The 21 st Amendment declares that states have complete control over production, sale, and transportation of alcohol and that liquor importation and sale are no longer prohibited among states of the US (since the prohibition law of the 18 th Amendment). However, a federal law states that in order for a portion of federal highway fun...
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T Rex South Dakota
711 wordsSue is the largest, most complete, and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex. Fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson discovered her in 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota. The Field Museum purchased Sue at public auction in 1997 with generous financial support from McDonald s Corporation, Walt Disney World Resort, and private individuals. Sue s scientific name is Tyrannosaurus rex, which is from the Greek and Latin for tyrant lizard king. Sue s is from the late Cretaceous period and is 67 million years. Sue...
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