Great Plains Poem

After continual expansion of the American colonies, many Indian tribes were forced to leave their native land and move westward. Bryant explains that this had a major impact on the mound people, "The red man came/ The roaming hunter tribes, warlike and fierce, / And the mound-builders vanished from the earth" (L 58-61). Then Bryant becomes extremely compassionate for the vanquished "mound people" when he says, "All—save the piles of earth that hold their bones--/ The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods--/ The barriers which they builded from the soil/ To keep the foe at bay—till o'er the walls/ The wild beleaguerers broke, and one by one, / The strong holds of the plain were forced, and heaped/ With corpses" (L 64-71). After taking over the prairies form the mound people, the Indians then lived peacefully until they again come in contact with the colonists. The colonist way on life is what again forces the Indians to leave because all of the bison had been killed. Later in the poem Bryant then shows sympathetic feelings toward the Indians after their way of life was changed by the colonists when he states, "The white man's face—among Missouri's springs,/ And pools whose issues swell the Oregan,/ He rears his little Venice. In the plains/ The bison feeds no more" (L 95-98).

In my world, there is a dichotomy between the comfort of my hometown and the excitement of the unknown. Flat and uninterrupted, the Nebraskan landscape is as uniform as the political and religious attitudes of those who occupy it. I know that when I step

The Black Hills are an isolated mountain range rising 3000 to 4000 feet above the surrounding plains of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana (Sundstrom et al. 1996). The importance of this land to the Sioux Nation goes beyond dedication to the place they have lived in for generations. The Lakota creation story itself incorporates the Black Hills in particular as central to their identity as a people. The Black Hills are not only regarded as the birthplace of Sioux culture in religious songs and legends, but as the first place created on Earth—literally the heart of the Earth, which is seen as Mother. Sioux spiritual lore utilizes metaphor both to explain and to embody the thing signified—the Black Hills are the heart of the Earth, and that concept is

The Great Plains is a grassland that went through the western central area of the United States.

The Plain Indians had interesting geography and landscape to learn about. The Plains were located from Texas to Montana and all the way to Canada. The location causes good weather for farming year round. In the exhibit the location is shown by the Rocky Mountains on the bottom of the exhibit and the Mississippi River on the top of the exhibit. Trees were scarce in the Plains. The trees supplied wood for the Indians so they could make new weapons. In the exhibit this is shown by the Mississippi River. Rivers helped out the Indians by supplying them with fresh food, water, and good soil for farming. In this exhibit the river is shown on the top. In conclusion the Plains Indians rely on natural resources to live a structured

The Plain Indians live by the Mississippi and Rocky mountains. The Plains live in tepees because they lived on flat ground so it was easy to move them.The tepees are located in the front right of the exhibit. The Plain Indians had access to fresh water they stored their water in watersheds.The watershed is located in the back middle by the hill in the exhibit. The Plain Indians had farms. They had farms because if they didn’t have any meat they have something to eat. The farm is located next to the tepees in the exhibit. They had tall grass where ever they didn’t have trails. The tall grass is located to the left of our tepees in the exhibit. The Plains indians used their landscape to kill animals without using as much energy.

I have been a Central Academy Cougar for the past three years. I suppose it’s about time for me to try something else my senior year. Perhaps I’ll try to be a Monroe High Redhawk. I’ll learn how to do things the “Redhawk” way, I’ll get rid of my Cougar terminology and adapt the Redhawk slang.

In The Prairie, William Cullen Bryant uses the prairies to convey the hopefulness of Romanticism and Manifest Destiny and how that hope would lead to drastic changes in the physical space and social relationships of the land. The hopefulness of Romanticism is shown in the line, “Man hath no part in this glorious work,” and the hopefulness of Manifest Destiny is shown through the line, “The sound of that advancing multitude.”

Ever changing, the world promised a comfort of shared misery and remained reliable. Brutal truths are instilled, early and sudden, as lasting lessons always present and impossible to ignore. When bold questions slither into a mind as to why anything is and what may be the reason for the continued existence, people find or create places of unjustifiable magnificence. Paha Sapa, “the heart of everything that is,” is this place for the Sioux. The War of the Black Hills between the Sioux Nation Lakota and the U.S. Americans has lasted for more than a century, and continues in the courts, in the lives of its warriors, and is protested through stone.

“Home on the Range,” the state song of Kansas and the musical embodiment of the American West. With its original composition dated in the early 1870’s and continued popularity around campfires today, this song offers listeners a chance to remember the true West – a land “where the buffalo roam, and the deer and the antelope play… and the skies are not cloudy all day.” This song describes a beautiful, open frontier where humanity admires nature and the two live in harmony with one another. An area full of wild animals and natural landscapes alongside cowboys and farmers. With this song in mind, people of the past and present may envision wilderness alongside tranquility, a place characterized by its mutually beneficial relationship with the land. Although many envision the 19th century American frontier as an open land full of forests, plains, buffalo, cowboys, and Indians, the actual American frontier was a large industrial system – blinded by capital – that relied on the exploitation of the natural world, technology to transform this nature into capital, and trains to link together this vast industrial frontier.

“Quantie’s weak body shuddered from a blast of cold wind. Still, the proud wife of the Cherokee chief John Ross wrapped a woolen blanket around her shoulders and grabbed the reins.” Leading the final group of Cherokee Indians from their home lands, Chief John Ross thought of an old story that was told by the chiefs before him, of a place where the earth and sky met in the west, this was the place where death awaits. He could not help but fear that this place of death was where his beloved people were being taken after years of persecution and injustice at the hands of white Americans, the proud Indian people were being forced to vacate their lands, leaving behind their homes, businesses and almost everything they owned while traveling to

The United States fosters the pioneer mindset, and now more than ever, encourages people of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, cultures, and genders to strive for greatness, to succeed, and to break new ground. A personal manifest destiny is the conviction that you will succeed. It’s the belief that it’s your natural right to succeed, and that you can change not only your world, but the one around you as well 一 for the better. The prairie represents the free market that nurtures these

West — the mountains, plains, and vast spaces — are in her bones, she says. She

As the moon sets its peak, Coyotes sit and cry You cannot begin to feel, The way they do when loved ones die Hunger, disease, many ways Fighting it for many days Newborns suffer in pain As the drought drips none with rain The hot sun has killed most life On this cursed hill, Has the Lord took a knife And found even more to kill?

Soon, the cattle groups were vanishing nearly as instantaneously as the trees were chopped. Fields of grain lost their nutrients from overuse, turning the once rich, dark brown soil to dust. With the loss of the land and all of its resources, the Impauwaka people fell into a deep famine. Chief Leader, Big Tree Warrior, finally rose from his tent and ordered the tribe to pack up their little belongings they had left. The Impauwakans were in shock- for only two of the oldest tribal members have ever heard him speak. Because of this, they knew that what he was planning must have been important. He led them out of familiar grounds into crowded forests and large fields, forcing their pace into a sprint in the darkness and a quick tread upon sunrise. Over time, his people grew weaker and weaker as the moons turned on, but the tribe knew better than to disobey their leader. So, they pressed on with increasingly heavy legs and cramping stomachs. That is, until young Tall Drum became the first to consult the great Chief. They passed over a soft plot of green earth when the little boy asked, “Big Tree Warrior, let us live here. The ground is soft and good. We will live strong again. Let us settle here.” Big Tree Warrior’s only response was a slight pause followed by a faster tread.