American People In Alaska

In the book, Race Across Alaska, by Libby Riddles, Libby is an up and coming musher who has no sponsor and no money. However, she takes her love of adventure and the sport to the Iditarod and ends up winning. The first few years, after moving to Alaska, were hard for Libby. She had moved to Alaska from Wisconsin when she was 16 with her brother and decided to become a professional musher. Due to this she's paid very little and her track record was not great, so she was forced to live in a trailer with no heating or electricity. She could only eat the food she hunted. After years of living like this and training Libby decides to race in the Iditarod, an 11,049-mile race .through the tundra, for her third time in 1975, and she ended up winning.

Yes, this book does have a message and it is moral. The main purpose of the author is to tell a story about the Alaskan landscape and about the Alaska experience of a couple who have always wanted a child and when they do have one it dies so they decide to move up to Alaska to start their new life their so that they can forget about their old life. The passage that I am going to use is in Chapter One the Wolverine River, Alaska 1920. “She had imagined that in the Alaska Wilderness silence would be peaceful, like snow falling at night, air filled with promise but no sound, but that was not what she found. Instead, when she swept the plank floor, the broom bristles stitched like some sharp toothed shrew nibbling at her heart. When she washed

During the 1800’s, lives changed for many people. The Klondike Gold Rush began. In the article Klondike Gold Rush written by the Public Domain, the passage from A Women Who Went to Alaska written by May Kellogg Sullivan, and the video City of Gold made by the National Film Board of Canada and narrated Pierre Berton, the points of view of each show the miners’ lives. Each piece has a point of view, which helps the reader understand the miners’ lives through the word choice, and the tone

To Drill or Not To Drill Oil is one of America’s most valuable treasures. In 1980 Congress established the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) in Alaska. It was created to keep animals and plants undisturbed by humans. America suffered through an oil crisis which put more pressure on ANWR. As a result, the United States was importing more than a third of its oil.

In 1925 a diphtheria epidemic broke out in the small Alaskan town of Nome. With the town at the risk of death they urgently needed an antiserum. So twenty dogs sled teams relayed the serum from the town of Nenana to Nome. The hardships of the dogs and mushers went through along with the hero dogs, and teams of mushers and dogs will forever be alive in Alaskan history.This journey is a gratifying accomplishment and a proud moment in Alaskan history.

In addition to this major shift from rural to urban areas, a new wave of immigration increased America’s population significantly, especially in major cities. Immigrants came from war-torn regions of southern and eastern Europe, such as Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Croatia. This new group of immigrants

Recognized as being one of the top 34 degree-granting public research institutions that belongs to the prominent Association of American Universities, the University of Colorado (CU) prides itself on providing a lasting effect on its communities through “collaborative research, innovation and entrepreneurship” (para. 1). This university consists of a system of three other public, not-for-profit universities, which are the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Colorado Denver, and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

The growth of the African-American population in the Pacific Northwest (including Washington State, Idaho and Oregon) expanded by 309 percent, between 1940-1950. Many simply came for employment, as WWII contract work gave African-Americans the ability to find steady work in shipyards, defense production opportunities, federal employee positions, Boeing Airplane Company (need for Machinists) and many other employment opportunities for the growing Northwest cities. With the presence of the military, many African-Americans were assigned to the local military bases, moving them and their families westward, to a region with great opportunities.

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The U.S. Department of the Interior, in 1932, supported the federal government’s treatment of Alaskan Natives as American Indians. The result of American policies impacted Alaskan Native land claims and settlement. The 1885 Major Crimes Act stripped the Tlingit of their right to deal with criminal matters according to traditional customs. The U.S. purchase of Alaska consisted of a profound impact on the Tlingit politically, territorially, culturally, and

Recently, I found out that many of my friends don't watch the news on the election and will not be voting because they don't know a single thing about what's going on in the election. All they know are from the short clips that they found online. Many people that I encounter doesn't trust the media's coverage on the election because they think it's either too left or too right. Personally, I am a liberal and I don't agree with Donald Trump and believe that he shouldn't be our next president but I don't believe that he should receive as much negative media coverage as he already gets.

American Indians and Alaskan Natives have a relationship with the federal government that is unique due to the “trust relationship” between the US and American Indians/Alaskan Natives (AI/ANs) who are entitled to health care services provided by the US government by virtue of their membership in sovereign Indian nations. In order to contextualize the complex nature of Indian health programs it is necessary to become versed in the political and legal status of Indian tribes. Through numerous constitutional, legislative, judicial, executive rulings, and orders that were largely associated with the succession of land and subsequent treaty rights; the health care of AI/ANs has been one of many responsibilities guaranteed by the federal government. The foundations of which can be traced back to the year 1787. The ceded land has been interpreted in courts to mean that healthcare and services were in a sense prepaid by AI/AN tribes and 400 million acres of land. The misconception of “free healthcare” and a conservative political disdain from so called entitlement programs have also led to misconceptions regarding the federal government’s responsibility to provide health care and services to AI/ANs. Rhoades (2000) has argued that tribal sovereignty is the overarching principle guiding Indian health care on a daily basis.1 This paper will examine the history surrounding federally mandated healthcare to AI/ANs, pertinent issues of sovereignty, as well as case studies in tribal

The identity of Alaskan Natives and Native Americans and the ability to delineate tribal affiliation has been a subject of argument for many years. The demands of federal programs determine the blood volume required to be Native. As federal programs increase and decrease so does the blood volume required to obtain these benefits. Blood quantum is the display of colonialism and is gradually eroding and eradicating the roots of indigenous people and sets a precedence that a person’s blood relates to their cultural orientation and identity. “American Indians and non-Indians have defined Indian identity through law, biology, and culture. All three overlap in specific ways, but more significantly, all have ties to outdated blood quantum

Summary: Looking for Alaska is the story of a young boy named Miles Halter who leaves his hometown in Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. This boy loves reading biographies and especially memorizing last words of famous people. At Culver Creek, he meets new friends such as Chip his roommate also called Colonel, Takumi and Alaska a beautiful young girl with whom he will fall in love but cannot have since she already has a boyfriend named Jake. Unfortunately, under their influence, Miles starts smoking and drinking alcohol. One night after having drank a lot of alcohol, Alaska and Miles start to kiss but do not go further because Alaska

Framing is one of the most problematic methods of presenting information to a wide scale audience. It has replaced flatout bias as a more subtle way to persuade audience members, thus leaving uninformed people unable to see the whole of the information without the presenter to completely disclose their values or beliefs. To the uninformed masses, this method removes most, if not all, hope for a straightforward news service. While framing is just a tool used in journalism, without any inherent evils attached to it, we still see it’s abuse from all sources of news. This abuse is what makes framing the most problematic methods of presenting information.