North Dakota

liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom” (hooks). Oppression and exploitation is destroyed when love comes in and can only be destroyed when everyone as a community decided to take action. Like in North Dakota when even veterans decide to support. Thousands of veterans from around the country traveled to the standing rock and kneeled down to support the water protesters who have been peacefully protesting. Love won and the so did the protestors because

Hoopster basketball magazine, inviting him and some of his players to the camp on Wednesday, June 22. The camp has a long history of North Dakota players attending who’ve eventually made it to the major leagues, including Travis Hafner, former No. 1 overall pick Darin Erstad, and 2008 World Series Champion Chris Coste. “All the kids that are in the major leagues for North Dakota came to this camp,” Dix said. Hanson himself has been a part of this event

arrests because of the violence they promote. Many people across North Dakota have been taking drastic measures such as blocking highways and roads, killing livestock, and violent fights.These people are upset because this pipeline runs across some sacred burial sites of the ancient Native American tribe leaders. The Bakken Shale formation is one of the largest oil and gas industries, it covers over 200,000 square miles in just North Dakota, Montana, and Canada.(Carter,2013) The pipeline is 12inches wide

The Dakota Access, LLC is a company of Energy Transfer Partners formed to create the Dakota Access Pipeline Project (DAPL) in attempt to transport crude oil in a safer, more direct, and cost effective way. The pipeline will stretch 1,172 miles through 50 counties in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. This $3.7 billion project will be able to transport 479,000 barrels of crude oil a day which is enough oil to produce 374.3 million gallons of gasoline per day. According to daplpipelinefacts

father’s first miracle” (5), “the second, I suppose, is that the doctor turned out wrong about the brain damage” (5), “Dad’s third miracle-and one of the most startling, if not consequential- happened in the middle of the night, in the middle of North Dakota, just after I turned 11” (5). The third miracle is referring to the night of a hunting trip when Reuben killed his first kill. He talks about the bird just hovering above him. I feel that if anyone has any question regarding faith and miracles

in Little Falls, Minnesota, and raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota by her mother, a Chippewa, and father, a German. The daughter of two Wahpeton Indian School teachers and the granddaughter of the tribal chair for the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation, Erdrich was bathed in the culture, life, myth, of the reservation and Native American culture. In 1976, Erdrich received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth and soon moved back to North Dakota to pursue teaching. However, two years later Erdrich

surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline Project is becoming increasingly harder to ignore, as Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Susan Sarandon, and Shailene Woodley have even shown their support for protest. Similar to the denied Keystone XL oil pipeline, this massive creation would only be seven miles shorter. The on-again off-again construction of the pipeline is due to an overwhelming amount of pros and cons, making it hard to determine what the final outcome will be.  The projected Dakota Access Pipeline

Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich was born on June 7, 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota. She grew up in Wahpeton North Dakota near Turtle Mountain reservation, where her grandfather Pat Tourneau was a Tribal chairman. Erdrich uses characters not only to demonstrate the experiences of Native Americans, but also the heartache and pain she has gone through in her life. Erdrich’s family was far from normal, they faced many obstacles, but unfortunately they were not able to overcome them

strangers that formed in the town of Williston, North Dakota was no different, ultimately becoming a source of conflict that forced the metaphorical moral hands of nearly everyone they surrounded. In recent years, the North Dakota oil boom has attracted men and women looking for wealth and success from all over the United States. In some cases, these people packed up nearly everything they have, left everything they had ever known, and made the hike to North Dakota to seek a job in the oil industry that

instance, there is a big protest that is taking place in North Dakota, that involves the construction of the $3.8bn oil pipeline being constructed on sacred land. Protesters are opposed to this construction since this pipeline would transport oil crossing the Missouri River less than a mile away from the Standing Rock Reservation. Not long after construction crews began doing their work, the protest started to get violent. In the article, “North Dakota Pipeline Protest