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Book Review: General Crook And The Western Frontier By Charles M. Robinson Iii, Michael L. Tate
Book Review: General Crook And The Western Frontier By Charles M. Robinson Iii, Michael L. Tate
History Faculty Publications
Few frontier military officers could claim a more varied and significant combat career during the second half of the nineteenth century than George Crook. Beginning with service as a young lieutenant in the Rogue River War and the Yakima War of the 1850s, he learned quickly about the weaknesses of an army that suffered from underfunding, congressional neglect, low morale, and petty bickering among its officer corps. Despite his commanding troops during the next three decades in some of the most celebrated Indian wars of the Great Plains and Southwest, he also developed an empathy for his adversaries who suffered …
Good Friday In Omaha, Nebraska: A Mexican Celebration, Maria S. Arbelaez
Good Friday In Omaha, Nebraska: A Mexican Celebration, Maria S. Arbelaez
History Faculty Publications
Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Nebraska commemorate Holy Week with a popular display of religious fervor. In semblance with the old religious traditions in Mexico, the Mexicanos, old and new residents, parade through the Omaha streets following the Way of the Cross on Good Friday. Processions, rituals, and plays are not only a yearly Catholic ritual in the streets of Omaha but an essential part of Mexican American and Latino cultural identity. Palm Sunday and the Way of the Cross are but a few of the constituent elements of the growing manifestations of Latino popular culture in the state. The …