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In her book The Roundhouse, Louise Erdrich brings those problems to light. She gives her readers a feel of what it is like to be Native American by illustrating the struggles through the life of Joe, a 13-year-old Native American boy living on a North Dakota reservation. This book explores an avenue of advocacy against social injustices. The most observable plight Joe suffers is figuring out how to deal with the injustice acted against his mother, which has caused strife within his entire family and

is what is at stake with the possible construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (White). The Dakota Access Pipeline, or commonly known as DAPL on the Internet, is a 1,172-mile pipeline that would carry oil. The pipeline is being proposed to have a route that would travel through the Standing Rock Native American reservation (Donnella). The reservation spans across both North and South Dakota. The reservation is inhabited by Lakota and Dakota nations, or commonly known as the Sioux Native Americans

“There does not seem to be one definitive definition of indigenous people, but generally indigenous people are those that have historically belonged to a particular region or country, before its colonization or transformation into a nation state, and may have different—often unique—cultural, linguistic, traditional, and other characteristics to those of the dominant culture of that region or state” (Rights) The land to Native Americans is a very sacred object. To us, as nonnative individuals, we

XL Pipeline vs. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Introduction Throughout this paper I will try to prove that the proposed establishment of the Keystone XL Pipeline is a direct infringement upon the human rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. In order to make this claim I shall directly address three elements: First, the evidence of possible inequality of this situation, secondly the explanatory progress of how and why this situation has come to be as it is, and finally the justice

on the far western side of the state. This area of North Dakota is well-known for its beautiful badlands and rolling hills of buffalo

their roots, the Native Americans were able to hold on to their historical culture and traditions and were so much more than mere survival. The Round House, written by Louise Erdrich is a fictional novel that focuses on a Chippewa family in a North Dakota Indian reservation. The story is written from the perspective of a young man, Joe Coutts, who is the son of a tribal judge, Bazil Coutts, and his mother, Geraldine, who was brutally raped by a white man, Lindin Lark, in a savage act of vengeance

religious practice of Ghost Dance (Fiero). At Standing Rock today, the Sioux “nations are fighting against the 1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline, which would transport oil from the Bakken oil fields to pipelines in Illinois, and is set to come within a half-mile of the Standing Rock reservation, threatening its water supply” (Ward). The Standing Rock protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline reveals a recurrence of Native American abuse. Wounded Knee and Standing Rock are different, but the similarities

Elizabeth A. Fenn challenges researchers of Native American history to reevaluate the ways that we see and compose such history. All the way, Fenn inundates perusers in an entirely Native world particularly, the Mandan people groups of present-day North Dakota where everything from the names of the seasons to the spaces the Mandan possessed or adored are remade from the Mandan point of view. Some of the most important things the Mandan did are influence the people around them, which customs would be

The Pipeline Massacre The Sioux Tribe in North Dakota and The Energy Transfer Partners Company have been in a disagreement over the pipeline that is supposed to go through the Standing Rock Indian reserve last month. Sadly, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved the construction of the pipeline and now the Sioux tribe has resorted to chaining themselves to backhoes and tractors to get their attention. This article shows, showing the issue of constructing a pipeline through an Indian reserve

while using visuals, allusion, and anecdote to give the reader the sense of the Midwest. Visual plays a great factor in the passage, Marquarts want to describe how the Midwest gets looked down. Marquart uses visuals “ .. through the state of North Dakota, you’ll encounter a road so lonely, treeless and devoid of rising and curves in places that it will feel like a long-held pedal steel guitar note”. The visuals are used to print a picture in the reader's mind showing the reader that long rides