Harry thompson voices of the Northern Plains refers to the many different ways that life on this part of the country has been recorded. Either through letters or diaries or journals or photographs or objects as well. By the many, many different varieties of cultures that have lived here. What we wanted to accomplish and emphasized in the material you see in this exhibit is that more information can be gathered by just using the records we have on the second floor, our research core. The archives themselves, and also the research library. 40,000 volumes on the american west. Human habitation of the plains would date from well before the current era. Most anthropologists date north American Indians as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Plains culture. What you will see in this exhibit is much more recent, from about 1700. It is still precontact. Date contact periods in this part of the country from the french expedition along the Missouri River, the Andre Brothers and their father.
Up the legacy and legitimacy of the supreme court. The institution was quite weak when he took over and he built it into a much stronger institution. He is a hero of the american revolution, serving in valley forge with George Washington and alexander hamilton. He was an important figure and a brave soldier in the revolution. He is a key supporter of the constitution in virginia. One of the pivotal ratifying conventions staring down the , barrel of Patrick Henry and george mason. Great figures in American History but folks who oppose the constitution at the ratifying convention. It is a Young Marshall making strong arguments for why we need a stronger government. At the urging of George Washington we have John Marshall , serving in congress and then being asked to be secretary of state for john adams. During the adams administration, he plays a key role in negotiations with france trying to dampen hostility. These negotiations failed but through this experience, he earns the respect of
Plains where we live, i often like to point out the fact it is the immediacy of history. I think for these writers as well. And in the case of frederick manfred, he farmed for a number of years along with his father. But it would have been his grandfather who would have been the first generation that would have moved into this part of the country. In the case of krause, the same would have applied. His grandfather would have been from germany and moved here. One of the early immigrants to this part of the country. We are talking a generation or two generations before. I think in order to understand themselves and to have a perspective on what their role might have been in this vast area called the plains, they only needed to go back one or two generations. What is unique about this part of the country, i would say it is that immediacy. Unlike some of the other areas of the country that go back 200, 300, 400 years, certainly the contact period for the dakotas is much more recent. Announ
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