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The sound of gun fire echoed across the central plains like deafening crashes of thunder. The rich green grass was slowly turning red with blood, as Native Americans and the United states army were waging war at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Many people know that the Native Americans were victorious over the United states army, which was under the command of General George Custer, but few people know that Custer’s long journey to the Little Big Horn started in the heart of North Dakota, at Fort Abraham Lincoln. Today this beautiful Fort has been reconstructed to have both historical significance as well as a variety of recreational activities, and has been renamed Fort Abraham Lincoln state park. I will be talking about the reconstructed

The Wichita is a tribe that belongs to a small tribe about three hundred and twenty who live in Oklahoma. They are a tribe of Native Americans who were discovered by the Coronado expedition. Like other Native American tribes the Wichita people have their own language, culture and both, social and legal customs. They refer to themselves as Kitikitish which can be taken literally to mean raccoon eyelids. But signifies a tattooed eyelid which is from a former custom among men where they tattooed lines upon their eyelids. Women however tattoo lines upon the chin and among older women there are those with tattooed designs all over their breasts. The Wichita people were primarily sedentary interested in hunting and farming. The men hunted and went for wars for the protection of their families while women farmed and raised children.

Being the strong- willed woman Rose of Sharon is she moves on with life. Then at the end of the

And so life goes on for her, until she meets a couple of women that change her life around.

The relationship between the two fathers and the two sons is a very important theme in this book. Because of their different backgrounds, Reb Saunders and David Malters approached raising a child from two totally different perspectives.

she heads out to endeavor to get the arrangement for her own particular self. At the point when Tom finds her dead,

Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State. Brooks Blevins. Fayetteville, AR. 2009. 242 pages

The setting in this story is a small town in rural Oklahoma in the late hot

time she still stayed as determined as she was before. Hale tried to convince her that John

            Western, Sam. Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming’s Search for Its Soul.

The central character in which the story takes off upon is Mitchell Stephens. He is drawn into this case by his own anger. He has his own sense of suffering and confusion toward his own daughter. Stephens is torn by his urge to save her and his fear that he can't possibly do so. He recalls the flashback of his little girl as a toddler at a near death experience and him as her father while singing to her, held her life in his own hands prepared to perform an emergency tracheotomy. And in that way, Stephens' own experience bonds together with the nightmare of those pain stricken parents: the ultimate unbearable burden of caring for children where strength will be tested beyond its limits. Stephen's own daughter in whom he loves dearly has been taken away from him although she is not dead; she is practically gone out of his life. He is pissed off, "enough rage and helplessness, your love turns to steamy piss." (101). Stephen is set to find the cause, something or someone to blame for their misfortunes and to rage against whatever forces took their child, "I don't know if it was the Vietnam war…I don't know

Oklahoma’s climate, vegetation and topography change so much between the Western High Plains located in the northwest corner, or panhandle, to the Cypress Forest and Swamps in the southeast corner of the state. These variations not only affect the lifestyles that I would have to choose, but also the food sources available to survive. If I were placed in the 1800’s in the middle of what is now Oklahoma, which direction would I go to sustain myself, my family and my tribe?

suffers horribly so that the rest can be happy” (Brooks). The child’s pain and loneliness is a

The following film is inspired by the legends and the facts surrounding the life of Jonathan Hardin, an early pioneer of the Arkansas Territory, who settled near the crossroads of the Springfield-DesArc and Clinton-Little Rock roads where he built a two-story oak hewn log house which served as an Inn and Tavern during an age of outlaws and cattle rustlers but legend also suggests that prior to his death on December 16, 1869, at the age of 69, Hardin not only buried the family gold but may have also buried a few weary travelers who sought a place to lay their head for the night.

Instead of kissing, the grass snarled, bit, and clawed at my ankles. I found myself constantly in a cloud of smoke. The moment I needed sun, all I received was shade; when I wanted shade, I had only sun. I meant nothing to the place that had been my oasis. Nothing obeyed me. In the dark, I feared Tyler would be just around any tree, waiting to do it again. I was afraid to sleep in my camper, as if it