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Lecture 8, episode 9; Immigration on the plains describes the cultural make-up and ethnicity of the Great Plain states. As Dr. Isern stated in lecture, immigrants first started coming to this area in the 1880's and 1900's. The first round of immigrants were mostly from N. Europe and the second wave of immigration was from E. Europe. Chain migration, group settlement, and dispersed settlement are terms I was previously not accustomed to but now understand fully what they mean and how they truly reflected the cultural movement to the Great Plains. Currently the Southern Great Plains and now even the Northern area of the Great Plains is seeing another, third, form of immigration. This being Latinos and Mexicans. Anyone moving to this area is great for our community. This is because different ethnicity's bring the goods from their cultures and share them with us in classrooms, restaurants, shops and etc. and help up become a more diverse and accepting community.

Overall I enjoyed this lecture because my heritage is Germans from Russia, which is one of the groups we learned about in this lecture. My dad's family, all 17, of them with me being the 56 grand child were from the Drake area in North Dakota and settled here to farm and create a new lifestyle. As you can tell my family is Catholic!