What Is The Meaning Of North Dakota By Marquart

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Governor Henry Hastings Sibley is a memorable figure in Minnesota history, but one that is laced with controversy and suspicion. These controversies extend from his early career in fur trading to his leadership of Minnesota’s militia in the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862. The criticism of Governor Sibley was mainly because of his hesitation to engage with the Indians and his constant complaints to territorial governor Alexander Ramsey about lack of men and supplies, but is simply not justified when the full scope of his problems are understood.

1. Utah is both a product of the times in which it emerged but also a unique entity that worked to shape its own future. Robbins and Malone both describe how the west, and by a large extent Utah is a part of the great narrative of the American West and sometimes differing from it entirely. By exploring the different facets and predominant activities of 1850's and beyond we can find clues as to the origins and ultimate fate of the region . By exploring Western American capitalism, various functions of manifest destiny, and how settlers adhered to the frontier pioneer spirit we can learn the overall narrative in which the region participates.

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In a Bill Moyer’s interview “Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Borders”, Moyer’s interviews Native American author and poet Sherman Alexie. In the Moyer’s and Company interview, Alexie shares his story about the struggles that he endured during his time on a Native American reservation located at Wellpinit, Washington. During the interview, Alexie goes in-depth about his conflicts that plagued the reservation. In an award-winning book by Sherman Alexie called “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, Alexie writes semi-autobiography that reveals his harsh life on the reservation through a fictional character named Arnold Spirit Junior. In Alexie’s semi-autobiography, Alexie shares his struggles of a poor and alcoholic family, the

Ann Marie Low’s diary opens in 1927 when she is a teenager living with her family on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. Low’s diary tells the story of her family's struggle to maintain a way of life, keeping their farm, and educate their children. She discusses her family and friends, descendants of homesteaders, through the next ten years, a time when entire communities lost their homes to mortgages and to government recovery programs. Low’s faces economic hardship, unfortunate family circumstances, and the restrictions that society had placed on women. Low's diary is about life in during the Dust Bowl, and Great Depression.

Unfortunately for Marquart’s grandparents, North Dakota was not only disappointing in terms of vividness, but it is also overvalued by the media. Entertainment describes a kind of false-facade in correspondence with North Dakota. This is a state where directors get their actors to be “blond, fresh-faced and midwestern” in order to make their “descent into ruthless behavior in places like Los Angeles and New York all the more tragic”. Even the people already living there are so monotone that film writers make characters midwestern for shock-value. Because everyone knows how boring the people are in North Dakota, when characters in entertainment begin to meet their downfall, it is actually seen as a surprise, as if everyone in North Dakota are idols. By juxtaposing midwestern women with the adventurous cities of New York and Los Angeles, Marquart successful shows the contrast of the secluded and undesired area of North Dakota. Marquart shows the difference between the point of view of Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, from A Prairie Home Companion, “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average” and the film Fargo, “the macabre land of murder-by-wood-chipper”. Although the two stories make North Dakota seem like an attractive, exciting place, unfortunately, these two tales are just myths- nothing more. The real North Dakota claims to have “easy inclines and farmable plains”, yet an official surveyor,

“The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo” is a fictional novel based on true events written by the popular American author, Kent Nerburn. Nerburn connected the reader to the ways of the Native Americans and non-Natives. Many non-Natives believe they have a basic understanding of the Native Americans, and what they have dealt with the US government. However, Nerburn provides a different perspective in comprehending the irritation the Native Americans thought of Americans not fully realizing they are heckling the Natives in this manner. Kent Nerburn had some issues with the Natives in not thinking through his decisions when confronting a Native about any questions he may have resulting in mounts of annoyance of the Natives.

Throughout the streets of Portland stands the walls of a house that saw some of North Dakota’s most historical events. Built in 1880, John E. Fladeland was able to call this house his home. Fladeland was born in Winona, Minnesota in 1861 and moved to Portland, North Dakota as a young adult where he bought Forbes and Soldahl drug stores and managed the move theatre in town. After moving to North Dakota, the pharmacist ended up owning drug stores in Sutton, Luverne, and Bottineau.

Such as, her mother has always been embarrassed of their small Mennonite town in Manitoba , she has felt as if the town and the people that are situated in it hold her back. To Trudy, the town does not allow her to live her life how she wants, nor live it to the fullest. Nomi and her sister, Tash, would often ask each other “Is our mother crazy in a cool, fun way or has she now stepped over the line into disturbing, crazy that we would like to see stopped?”(12). Not only did other in the town think their mother was mad, Nomi along with many others knew that Trudie, her mother, had an eye for travel and that most topics she discussed were about had to do with how amazing and wonderful everything outside their town was, like for example

She wants them to believe that people from North Dakota are just like any other human beings and that their hom is a beautiful place. She wants everyone to be open-minded about the place she grew up in. Even though she speaks badly about it, she does it so that others can see what it looks like to speak badly about a place someone calls home.

Traditions and old teachings are essential to Native American culture; however growing up in the modern west creates a distance and ignorance about one’s identity. In the beginning, the narrator is in the hospital while as his father lies on his death bed, when he than encounters fellow Native Americans. One of these men talks about an elderly Indian Scholar who paradoxically discussed identity, “She had taken nostalgia as her false idol-her thin blanket-and it was murdering her” (6). The nostalgia represents the old Native American ways. The woman can’t seem to let go of the past, which in turn creates confusion for the man to why she can’t let it go because she was lecturing “…separate indigenous literary identity which was ironic considering that she was speaking English in a room full of white professors”(6). The man’s ignorance with the elderly woman’s message creates a further cultural identity struggle. Once more in the hospital, the narrator talks to another Native American man who similarly feels a divide with his culture. “The Indian world is filled with charlatan, men and women who pretend…”

The government may call us Bay Stater's, traditionalists may call us Massachusite’s, but anybody else would consider us Masshole’s. Having lived in Massachusetts the first eighteen years of my life, and now taking on college in Maine, I can truly see that I am no Mainer. From the way we speak, the words we say, the way we drive, the things we eat, and the pride we have, our Massachusetts’ cultures truly differ from those of other states.

An important factor in shaping Jeannette was being born in Missoula, Montana. It is important to this report to understand the community where Jeannette grew up. It was a factor in the formation of her worldviews. John and Olive settled in a beautiful area of the Missoula valley called Grant Creek. Even to today, Grant Creek is a lush, tranquil setting that has a quiet sense of Jeannette 's world 130 years ago. Again, Lewis and Clark had visited the Missoula valley only 75 years before Jeannette was born. It was a vibrant, diverse community. John Rankin was amongst its first settlers and treated the local Native Americans as he would any other neighbor.

The Nebraska prairie of the novel is an ethnic mishmash joining American-conceived pioneers with an extensive variety of European settlers, particularly eastern and northern Europeans, for example, the Bohemian Shimerdas, the Russians Peter and Pavel, and the Norwegian Lena. The novel makes a thoughtful representation of the numerous hardships that migrants confronted, including serious yearning to go home , failure to communicate in English, and a confounding cluster of social and religious contrasts that the novel's foreigners must overcome on the off chance that they wish to fit in with the regularly entirely judgmental American pilgrims who make up the monetary and social standard in Black Hawk. Due to the inflexible social pecking order of Black Hawk, essentially getting by can be extremely troublesome for the workers, who do not have the same open doors as the Americans Jim goes to class, for case, while Ántonia must help her family squeeze out a presence after her dad's