1) Name: Sitting Bull Indian Name: Tatanka Iyotanka Birth: 1831 Death: 12-15-1890 Nation: Hunkpapa Sioux Why: He is seen as a symbol of resistance by American Indians, especially the Lakota Nation. In a 1997 documentary titled The Great Tribes, he is noted as a renaissance man, holy man, great warrior, hard-bargaining politician, composer of songs ...
I accept the label of environmentalist that many have applied to me; it is something I may not completely deserve, but something I strive for. But to me, environmentalism doesn’t mean just writing letters or emails, participating in demonstrations, and spray-painting SUVs. Environmentalism means living every part of your life with an awareness of how ...
Native American Tribes, familiarly called Indians, have lived in New York State since the beginning of the 15th century, almost 100 years before Columbus arrived in the New World. Some sources date the tribes from as far back as the 12th or 13th century. They are referred to as the Iroquois Confederacy. The Iroquois Confederacy ...
How many times can you honestly say you felt swept away? When was the last time you felt like you were living a page torn from some storybook fantasy? Take a visit to Belhurst Castle in Geneva, New York and you’ll feel all that and more! I’d heard there was a castle not far from ...
The world has come a long way in securing human rights and promoting high moral grounding. However, a fundamental problem exists with capital punishment in this country – its inability to be reversed and the flaw-ridden system which invokes it. Capital punishment sentences innocent men/women to their deaths using a defective legal system and shaky ...
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