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Gubernatorial Electoral Coalitions In The Great Plains, Thomas M. Carsey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This paper examines the nature of the electoral coalitions that develop surrounding gubernatorial candidates in the states of the Great Plains. It focuses on the contribution various groups make toward the electoral success or failure of gubernatorial candidates, highlighting the underlying political divisions within a state's population. This paper marks a first step into the study of these coalitions by offering a basic description of them. Some discussion of how electoral coalitions respond to candidate and campaign- related factors is presented. The implications of these findings are discussed, along with several considerations for further research. The data used for this …

Farmsteads As Mirrors Of Cultural Adjustments And Change: The Ukrainian Canadian Experience, James W. Darlington

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Farmsteads reflect more than the nature and health of agricultural activity on individual farms and across geographic regions; they provide a reliable record of other aspects of cultural and economic adjustment and change. This paper considers the farmsteads constructed by the Ukrainian immigrants and their descendants who settled in one district of the Canadian prairies beginning in 1896. A field survey of four townships reveals that between the time of initial settlement and the present four distinct generations of farm structures were erected. These generations of buildings-labeled here pioneer, traditional, transitional, and modern provide clear evidence of the economic progress …

Review Of Retracing Major Stephen H. Long's Expedition: The Itinerary And Botany By George J. Goodman And Cheryl A. Lawson, Robert B. Kaul

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Earlier expeditions made incidental collections of plants and animals in Louisiana Territory, but the Long Expedition of 1820 was the first deliberately staffed with scientists assigned to that task. Authorized by President Monroe and Secretary of War Calhoun, the Expedition was directed to document plant and animal life and geology in the intimidating country between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains and to find the source of the Platte and Red Rivers in the mountains. All this was to be done quickly and, in fact, took only 100 days, June 6-September 13, 1820. Starting near present-day Omaha, the Expedition …

Review Of American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum By Teresa D. Lafromboise, Lee Little Soldier

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This resource provides excellent suggestions for teachers and counselors working with Native American youth at the upper elementary and secondary levels. Its recommended curriculum is divided into seven sections, each dealing with skills important for survival in today's world.

The book's first two sections furnish lesson plans for building self-esteem and exploring emotions and stress, issues essential to Native American youngsters' well-being that are often overlooked in school curricula. Problem solving skills are stressed in the third section. The fourth, fifth, and sixth sections deal with issues surrounding suicide. Given the disproportionately high suicide rate for Native American youth, these …

Review Of The Institutionalized Cabinet: Governing The Western Provinces By Christopher Dunn, Paul Barker

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The Institutionalized Cabinet seeks to discover the forces behind the emergence and persistence of the major change in government cabinets in three of Canada's four western provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia (Alberta declined to participate). For Christopher Dunn, the change itself is quite clear: the traditional or unaided cabinet of the past has been transformed into the more complex institutionalized cabinet. Less evident, though, are the causes of this development. Attempts have been made to explain the appearance of the institutionalized cabinet in both Western Canada and elsewhere in the nation, but they have yielded few insights. There are …

Review Of State Trust Lands: History, Management And Sustainable Use By John A. Souder And Sally K. Fairfax, Clive S. Thomas

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

According to its authors, the dual purpose of this book is to raise its readers' consciousness about state trust lands and to diversify our thinking about the hows and whys of all public resources. They have succeeded admirably on both counts. Everyone interested in the history, politics, economics, and management of western lands and natural resources has much to learn from this study. Souder and Fairfax have produced the benchmark work on the subject.

When most people, including those who consider ourselves "experts" on public affairs in the West, think of public lands we usually think of federal lands with …

The Prairie Indian Vote In Canadian Politics 1965-1993: A Critical Case Study From Alberta, Russel Lawrence Barsh, Michelle Fraser, Faye Morning Bull, Toby Provost, Kirby Smith

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Voting behavior in the three largest Aboriginal communities of Alberta-Blood Tribe, Peigan Nation, and Four Nations-is contrasted with non-Aboriginal voting behavior using polling-station counts from 16 general elections and the 1992 constitutional referendum. Lower voter turnout and distinctive patterns of party preferences among Aboriginal voters are examined more closely using data collected through standardized, open-ended interviews conducted in conjunction with a voter mobilization effort on the Peigan Reserve in 1996. Although respondents did not report refraining from participation in Federal or Provincial elections to avoid compromising their sovereignty-an argument sometimes made by national Aboriginal organizations-the responses often exhibited pessimism or …

Contents - Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1997

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Content:

Articles
Book Reviews
News and Notes
Leslie Hewes Award

Review Of Reinventing Nature? Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction Edited By Michael E. Soule And Gary Lease, Thomas J. Lyon

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The essays gathered here respond to a series of conferences collectively titled "Reinventing Nature," planned by the University of California at Irvine and held at various UC campuses in 1992 and 1993. More generally (and more importantly), they respond to a watershed in contemporary thinking vis-a-vis "the environment," "nature," and "wilderness." On one side of the divide stand traditionalists who believe in the substantial reality of nature, and on the other postmodernists who are greatly impressed with the degree to which nature is a cultural construction. The authors of Reinventing Nature? are spiritedly critical of the postmodern, deconstructionist view. The …

Review Of The Sjovold Site: A River Crossing Campsite In The Northern Plains Ian Dyck And Richard E. Morlan, Henry T. Epp

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

While reading this book, I found myself visited repeatedly by a phrase encapsulating its essence: archaeological science. Regardless of whether the site function hypothesis presented in the conclusion is ultimately confirmed or falsified through further testing, the book will remain a model of the application of science to archaeology. How is this so? Reduction, synthesis, hypothesis formulation, falsification of alternative hypotheses, explanation- all of these methods and goals are there, although not always defined or in sequence.

As site reports go, this is one of the most thoroughly researched to appear anywhere in Canada. The detail presented is almost …

Review Of Sovereign Nations Or Reservations? An Economic History Of American Indians By Terry L. Anderson, Nicholas J. Aieta

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

As editor of the 1992 Property Rights and Indian Economics, Terry L. Anderson wrote that Native Americans need to be in control of their own lives to experience success. Tribal sovereignty, he argued, is the key to leaving poverty behind. Anderson, an economics professor at Montana State University, addresses this issue more directly in Sovereign Nations or Reservations? In each chapter he examines age-old questions about Native American concepts of property rights, law, economics, and the ever changing relationships between Native Americans and Anglo-Europeans.

Anderson considers the general relationship among property rights, culture, and economic activity. Discussing Native American …

Review Of Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, And Image Building In Small-Town America By Richard V. Francaviglia, Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In this excellent and unusual book, Richard Francaviglia traces the evolution of Main Street in America's small towns, examining patterns of growth, decay, and revitalization within the framework of Time, Space, and Image. No absolute "time frame" is offered, but an 1840s streetscape of London, Ohio, reproduced from Howe's History of Ohio, suggests a beginning date. Period illustrations and carefully chosen black and white photographs direct the reader on a 150 year journey to the present.

A discussion of the development of commercial establishments along the main thoroughfare begins with residential architecture. Ground floors were occupied by shops and …

Review Of Wyoming: A Source Book By Roy A. Jordan And S. Brett Deboer, Jerry L. Godbey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Wyoming's average year-round wind speed of 13 mph ranks first in the nation. The last stagecoach robbery in the U.S. occurred in Yellowstone National Park in 1915. The "equality state" boasts the highest population of elk, moose, mule deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse in the United States. The state of Wyoming is larger in surface area than 50% of the nations of the world. These are a few of the intriguing details offered in this useful volume.

Wyoming: A Source Book contains a wealth of information on the "cowboy state."A retired history professor from Northwest College in Powell, …

Review Of The Nebraska Sand Hills: The Human Landscape By Charles Barron Mcintosh, Philip J. Gersmehl

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This is a remarkable volume. The ninety-first of 107 figures is a good example of what makes this book so remarkable. Figure 91 has a baker's dozen (13) small hand-drawn sketches that show how different landowners went back to the land office and claimed an additional 480 acres (Kincaid additions) to expand their 160-acre homesteads into units that might be more viable in the semi-arid climate of central Nebraska. These 13 examples come from ten different counties, which sprawl over an area larger than three of the original 13 colonies (as illustrated in Figure 1, which goes the extra step …

Review Of The Community In Canada: Rural And Urban Edited By Satadal Dasgupta, Paul Gingrich

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This book surveys studies of rural, small town, and urban community in Canada. The first third of the book, written by Dasgupta, provides definitions and perspectives of community. The remainder of the book contains a selection of studies of communities in Canada, mostly sociological and mostly from the 1960s and 1970s.

Dasgupta begins with Hillery's 1955 classification of ninety-four definitions of community, noting that all but three of these definitions involve "a group of people in 'social interaction.’” Theories and perspectives on community are organized into five categories: ecological, ethnographic, social system, social or interactional, and conflict approaches. The author …

Review Of The Minds Of The West: Ethnocultural Evolution In The Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 By Jon Gjerde, John D. Buenker

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In his paradigm-shifting essay, Frederick Jackson Turner conceptualized a frontier West in which freedom and opportunity inexorably invested millions of European immigrants with a universal American identity. Revisiting the same phenomenon a century later, Jon Gjerde demonstrates convincingly that "the juxtaposition of cultural patterns-the minds-and environmental possibilities in a region diverse in cultural traditions and rich in resources-the West-... was replete with tension, conflict, even paradox." Moreover, he challenges the simplistic notion of undifferentiated "Americanization" with the brilliantly nuanced concepts of "ethnicization," "complementary identity," and "layered allegiances." Although briefly acknowledging that these complex interactions between cultural patterns and economic opportunities …

Review Of Saving The Best Of Texas: A Partnership Approach To Conservation By Richard C. Bartlett, Pete A. Y. Gunter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This is a book of one basic idea: that conservation succeeds best on a "partnership" approach. The opposite of a partnership approach is confrontational environmental politics, which the author regards as on a par-both in its tenor and its results-with a dog fight. The author's central idea is developed with such detail, however, that the reader immediately becomes absorbed not in the unity of the message but in the sheer diversity of details. This diversity falls into three headings: the problems of the area's streams (a land of rivers, Texas has only one natural lake), the necessity of developing a …

Review Of Economic Thresholds For Integrated Pest Management Edited By Leon G. Higley And Larry P. Pedigo, Richard Plant

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

If one were asked to pick the one scientific paper having the most influence on pest management, it would be hard to argue with the choice of "The Integrated Control Concept" by Stern, Smith, van den Bosch, and Hagen, published in 1959. This paper is generally regarded as having introduced the idea of economic threshold. The term "Integrated Control" soon gave way to "Integrated Management," emphasizing the notion that pest populations need to be managed in order to avoid unnecessary economic loss. Thus was born Integrated Pest Management (lPM). In the intervening four decades there have been some well-known books …

Developing A Language In Education Policy For Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Case Study, Nancy Murray

Dissertations and Theses

The dismantling of apartheid laws, the all-race elections of 1994, and a new Constitution signal opportunities for fundamental change in South Africa's educational system and language policies. This study describes the development, still in progress, of a new language in education policy. The primary focus is on the various issues involved in the making of a policy--the assumptions and principles which provide the foundation for a new policy, the active participants in the policy debate and formulation, the perceptions of the role of English in South African society and schools, English as the medium of instruction, and possible consensus at …

International Service Learning, Harry C. Silcox, Torun E. Leek

International Service Learning & Community Engagement

It is clear that a network of international service learning is in its formative stage, the authors point out. We must not allow the politics of service programs in the U.S. to blind us to the opportunities in other parts of the world that will enable us to advance the theory and ideology of service learning.

Table And Contents- Spring 1997

Great Plains Quarterly

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

SPRING 1997 VOL. 17 NO.2

CONTENTS

POLITICS AND CULTURE OF THE GREAT PLAINS: AN INTRODUCTION John Comer

TREATY SEVEN AND GUARANTEED REPRESENTATION: HOW TREATY RIGHTS CAN EVOLVE INTO PARLIAMENTARY SEATS Kiera Ladner

LIBERAL EDUCATION ON THE GREAT PLAINS: AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS, CANADIAN FLIRTATIONS, 1930-1950 Kevin Brooks

CROSS-BORDER TIES AMONG PROTEST MOVEMENTS: THE GREAT PLAINS CONNECTION Mildred A. Schwartz

CONCEPTIONS OF THE NEBRASKA VOTER IN 1882: PARADOXES AND COMPLEXITIES AMONG "WOMEN" Carmen Heider

BOOK REVIEWS

The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature

Women and Texas History: Selected Essays

A New Life: Danish Emigration to North America as …

Review Of Women And Texas History: Selected Essays Edited By Fane Downs And Nancy Baker Jones, Lucy Eldersveld-Murphy

Great Plains Quarterly

This collection of essays, based on papers prepared for a 1990 conference sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association, provides both an interesting sample of the last decade's scholarship on Texas women and a discussion of areas needing further study. The thirteen articles cover a variety of topics; three additional pieces consider the progress and challenges of scholarship in Texas women's history.

A particularly strong focus on the Progressive era discloses both individual and group efforts at reform. Studies by Judith N. McArthur and Paul M. Lucko describe campaigns to regulate child labor and modernize the state's prisons. Jacquelyn McElhaney …

Review Of March Of The Columns: A Chronicle Of The 1876 Indian War, June 27-September 16, 1876 By James Willert, Gary A. Trogdon

Great Plains Quarterly

Unbearable heat, driving thunderstorms, endless marching, and poor rations were daily fare for the soldier on the Plains. Weeks of tedious riding culminated in brief moments of sheer terror when the adversary was finally confronted. March of the Columns provides the day by day exploits, movements, and disappointments of US soldiers in pursuit of Cheyenne and Sioux warriors along the Yellowstone, Tongue, and Powder Rivers. The tale begins two days after the defeat of Custer's Seventh Cavalry and culminates with the end of the summer campaign. Sandwiched between are the numerous anecdotes, tragedies, and travels of Generals George Crook and …

Review Of Rudder, Stick, And Throttle: Research And Reminiscences Of Flying In Nebraska By Robert E. Adwers, Wallace C. Peterson

Great Plains Quarterly

This book is a must read for every pilot in Nebraska. Even readers with only a mild interest in fliers and flying will find Robert Adwers's low-key history and reminiscences about flying in Nebraska rewarding.

From his childhood and teenage years in the 1920s until now, Adwers has both keenly observed and actively participated in Nebraska flying, especially in the formative decades of the '20s and '30s. He had his first flight in the spring of 1929 at Steele Field, a cow pasture airport in northeast Omaha on land where a huge power plant now stands. From that time on …

Notes And News- Spring 1997

Great Plains Quarterly

Notes and News

CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

CALL FOR PAPERS

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

A Conference and Celebration

A Place in the Universe

Canadian Cowboy Conference

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Review Of The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger Edited By Thomas R. Buecker And R. Eli Paul, Mark R. Ellis

Great Plains Quarterly

The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, a reproduction- photographed in its original formof the 1876-77 administrative ledger book of the Red Cloud Indian Agency, is an invaluable research tool for historians and Native American genealogists. Included in the ledger book are several censuses, information about agency rations, and documentation on agency passes and transfers.

The greater part of the ledger is devoted to the censuses, which enumerate the Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho who resided or surrendered at Red Cloud Agency during the Sioux War of 1876-77. Army officers conducted censuses in November 1876 and February 1877. Bands surrendering …

Review Of The Perfection Of The Morning: An Apprenticeship In Nature By Sharon Butala, Lisa Knopp

Great Plains Quarterly

"One would hardly have sufficient motive to write an autobiography had not some radical change occurred in his life-conversion, entry into a new life, the operation of Grace," writes theorist Jean Starobinski in his 1980 essay, "Style of Autobiography." The radical change that led to Sharon Butala's transformation occurred in 1976 when, at the age of thirty six, she left the "urban, academic, feminist world" she had known in Saskatoon to marry Peter Butala, a forty-one-year-old bachelor who lived and worked on his family's ranch in extreme southwestern Saskatchewan. Employing the language of conversion, Butala says that her "fateful decision …

Review Of Edmonton: The Life Of A City Edited By Bob Hesketh And Frances Swyripa, L. D. Mccann

Great Plains Quarterly

The essays in Edmonton: The Life of a City were first presented at a conference at the University of Alberta in May of 1995. They have been brought together here to celebrate the past in the bicentennial life of what the editors call (but do not fully investigate) a "great northern city." Offered up by both professional and amateur scholars alike, including -among others-historians and geographers, architects and archivists, literature specialists and political scientists, this diversified collection comprises over thirty well-written chapters. Taken as a whole, they offer a multidisciplinary interpretation of the evolving history of Alberta's largest populated city, …

Review Of Pioneer Children On Thejourney West By Emmy E. Werner, Hannele Paananen

Great Plains Quarterly

Emmy E. Werner, a developmental psychologist specializing in high-risk children, traces stories of pioneer children on the long, arduous overland journey from the banks of the Mississippi to the Pacific shore. She quotes diaries, letters, and memoirs of children and adults who crossed grasslands, mountains, and deserts on the various trails to the American West from 1841 to 1865. Through these eyewitness accounts she gives voice to the children's experiences and their active roles on the westbound wagon trains.

Werner stresses the resilience of these children and young adults who had to overcome great hardship even on an ordinary overland …

Review Of Elijah: No Ordinary Hero By Pauline Comeau, John Pederson

Great Plains Quarterly

A quiet "No" from the only Native member of Manitoba's legislature brought a dramatic halt to Canada's Meech Lake Accord in 1990. Designed as another attempt to establish an acceptable, functional governing agreement among the nation's provinces, Meech Lake was derailed over its slighting of the First Peoples of Canada. Forcing the role of aboriginals into the constitutional debate, Elijah Harper assumed a position of national prominence. For a man from the remote northern Ojibwa-Cree reserve of Red Sucker Lake, and for all of Canada, this was a startling moment. Pauline Comeau, a legislative reporter in 1990, traces Harper's journey …