... of their population. Disease has been the number one killer of the North American Indians from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. These diseases also had grave impact on the North American Indian society: the elders, storytellers and medicine man were the one most susceptible to the diseases. A Wampanoag Indian described the impact as " A long time ago they had wise, men ... the Yankton Delta as "one of the best locations for Agriculture in the West." (Hoover 1988) With this information tens of thousands seeking refuge on American frontier came to the Yankton Delta. Prior to t...

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... across the "Old World" decided to embark on a journey to the "New Country", a land of unending farmland, furs, and rivers in the newly acquired California and Oregon Territories (Schlissel, 19). After the United States annexed the Republic of Texas and the British were out of Oregon, the pioneers wanted to explore their "manifest destiny", or their belief that they had rights to expand across North America (Faragher & Stansell, 310). Most of the men ... and step out of their traditional roles when necessary. Some women herded livestock, drove wagons and sometimes took on guard duty. Whe...

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... this is not unusual... but, unfortunately, not yet accessed by very many in modern society. It is through such journeys and the gathering of groups to share their experiences that much of the `tribal old ways' will be revealed, linking us to that ancient wisdom of natural inter-connection. Thus, I feel shamanism in its many forms can significantly contribute to peace and wellbeing, both personal and global ... and assign a new "significance" or "truth" to such events with equal validity since there is no "standard" or capital "T" truth to judge them by. You are the new techno-shaman of ...

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... Alaska. It had never appeared when the glaciers of the last ice age were at their peak, locking up in the ice millions of cubic miles of precipitation that would normally have gone into the Ocean. The absence of this water lowered the level of the Bering sea more than 300 feet, enough to turn the shallows of the Bering Strait into a bridge of land connecting the two continents. Folsom culture began nearly ... a thousand years or earlier. To reach mid-continent by that time, men must have crossed to Alaska no later than about 15000 years ago-about the time that last ice age was ending a...

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... and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologies. The world was in constant change. July 28, 1914 was a date that would change the world forever. That date marked the unthinkable, a war the would end in what is know as ... first then later they came in huge numbers in the spring and summer of 1918( Lawson, 46). Pershing told the U.S. he would three million troops. These men were called the "doughboys". ...

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