Indeed, more than ever, North Dakota communities are determined to employ their fierce spirit to overcome these obstacles as they have others.
There's certainly a free, sometimes fierce spirit to the arrangements brewed by Lee and co-producers Arthur Jeffes and Jamie Orchard-Lisle (both of Penguin Cafe).
Shugden Buddhists say they have been mistreated in Tibetan exile communities because the Dalai Lama has banned them from worshipping the fierce spirit known as Dolgyal or Shugden.
Sara Ruffin Costello, a contributing editor for T, pens a love letter to her adopted new home, New Orleans, finding an aesthete's paradise in this hyper-creative, mixed-up, problem-ridden city with its decrepit beauty and fierce spirit.
They have shown the same fierce spirit in taking hold of the Lewis and Clark bicentennial in their state, despite opposition from some Sioux elders, and some initial snubs from other tribes.
Verdi and Tchaikovsky composed operas about her; Shakespeare and Shaw wrote plays about her; Ingrid Bergman, Jean Seberg and Milla Jovovich have all played her in films, to say nothing of the hundreds of lesser-known poets, painters and musicians who have claimed her fierce spirit as their own.
