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Book Review: Travelling Knowledges: Positioning The Immigrant Reader Of Aboriginal Literatures In Canada, Rob Appleford
Book Review: Travelling Knowledges: Positioning The Immigrant Reader Of Aboriginal Literatures In Canada, Rob Appleford
Great Plains Quarterly
Canadian Aboriginal writing has blossomed in the past two decades and made a major contribution to the cultural life of both Aboriginal peoples and the general public. Given this wealth, it becomes necessary for the non-Aboriginal literary critic to develop sensitive models for approaching this creative and critical work, both in the classroom and in academic research. The question becomes: how can a non-Aboriginal critic use her "outsider" status in an enabling way when teaching and studying this culturally-specific material? In Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the 1m/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada, Renate Eigenbrod has attempted to use her …
Book Review: Flood Stage And Rising, Shiela Coghill
Book Review: Flood Stage And Rising, Shiela Coghill
Great Plains Quarterly
Jane Varley's Flood Stage and Rising opens with what becomes the haunting echo of the narrative, "how far north should we go?" The "north" of the Great Plains impresses itself on Varley's consciousness immediately when she observes, "the land was flat. So flat it looked bizarre." In order to begin her PhD studies, she and her husband Gary move from one landscape (the lush greenery and hills of Virginia) to the rich diluvian river bed of Grand Forks, North Dakota. A Great Plains town that inspires tall tales, Grand Forks is built on the edge of the Red River, the …
Book Review: As For Sinclair Ross, Peter Dickinson
Book Review: As For Sinclair Ross, Peter Dickinson
Great Plains Quarterly
Long admired by academics and fellow writers for his finely wrought portraits of small-town prairie life in Canada between the wars, and of the restless, complex, desiring souls contained within and by this landscape, Sinclair Ross was an intensely private man who nevertheless craved a wider popular audience for his work. It is thus somewhat ironic that his greatest public notoriety should have come as a result of his posthumous outing by Keath Fraser in As for Me and My Body (1997), a memoir documenting Fraser's twenty-seven-year friendship with the author that was affectionately written but rather salaciously reviewed. Even …
Book Review: Calamity Jane: The Woman And The Legend, Herbert T. Hoover
Book Review: Calamity Jane: The Woman And The Legend, Herbert T. Hoover
Great Plains Quarterly
No scholar might be better qualified to write a biography of Calamity Jane than James McLaird. During a protracted career as a professor of history at Dakota Wesleyan University, he prepared a grassroots bibliography for South Dakota and published articles about exploration west of the Missouri River while he collected and marketed rare books about the history of the northern Great Plains. He makes the point that had Calamity Jane never existed, substantive themes in either state or regional history would not have been affected but western folklore would have diminished.
Book Review: Keeping Heart On Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior Culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs, And The Sacred, Harvey Markowitz
Book Review: Keeping Heart On Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior Culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs, And The Sacred, Harvey Markowitz
Great Plains Quarterly
For most outsiders to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, the subtitle of Vic Glover's book will probably seem little more than an odd (and slightly blasphemous) melange of disassociated categories. For the Oglala Lakota residents of Pine Ridge, however, these categories are bound together by a cultural and spiritual logic embedded in their daily experiences. It is a testimony to Glover's status as a participant in and keen observer of Pine Ridge life that readers of the forty-four vignettes comprising his collection will come away with a deep appreciation of the strengths, weaknesses, tragedies, and joys that characterize this American …
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion To Willa Cather, Mary R. Ryder
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion To Willa Cather, Mary R. Ryder
Great Plains Quarterly
In this collection of thirteen essays Lindemann successfully meets her goal of offering recent criticism that recenters Cather as a writer who responded fully to the "changing social and demographic conditions" of her time. The essays indeed encourage reading "against the grain of Cather's escapism" in a range of "interpretative possibilities." Particularly useful are essays exploring little-examined areas of Cather scholarship, including the late Susan Rosowski's study of the comic sense of self in Cather's works and Lisa Marcus's discussion of Cather and the "geography of Jewishness." Rosowski resituates Claude Wheeler's yearning for something splendid in One of Ours within …
Book Review: At Home On This Moveable Earth, David R. Pichaske
Book Review: At Home On This Moveable Earth, David R. Pichaske
Great Plains Quarterly
In this third of a projected four-book memoir, William Kloefkorn examines his late high school and early college years, a time of physical growth and intellectual exploration, of redefining relationships with parents and community, and of laying the foundation for his career as a teacher, scholar, and Nebraska State Poet. Adolescence is the time for what Robert Bly aptly calls "the road of ashes," a period of metaphorical "basement work in the kitchen" (Iron John: A Book About Men). Kloefkorn's reminiscences focus on basement and earth and tedious physical exertion: excavating a foundation for the Zenda Co-op Grain …
Review Essay: The Making Of Margaret Laurence's Epic Voice, David Stouck
Review Essay: The Making Of Margaret Laurence's Epic Voice, David Stouck
Great Plains Quarterly
George Woodcock, international man of letters, once referred to Margaret Laurence as Canada's Tolstoy. To some the comparison seems far-fetched, out of scale, but for others it has substance. Certainly, both writers were from continental plains and were drawn to large events in their country's history; they wrote at length about the relations of the sexes, about injustice and the harsh impact of war, and about the plight of poor people. One could also note they both turned away from writing fiction in midcareer, feeling they had lost the gift, and instead addressed with moral authority the pressing issues of …
Book Review: Powwow, Clifford E. Trafzer
Book Review: Powwow, Clifford E. Trafzer
Great Plains Quarterly
Powwow invites readers into the dancing circle where a cornucopia of information, analysis, and interpretation vibrates, telling us about the popular intertribal celebration. The topic of American Indian powwows creates strong emotions and colorful stories, and the editors invite several authors into the "dance arena" of this book to share their research and experiences. As a result, readers will hear the drum, see traditional and fancy dancers, smell the sizzling fry bread, and feel the spirit that is the American Indian powwow. The editors point out that powwows vary in size from the larger Red Earth gathering on the Great …
Book Review: Westerns In A Changing America, 1955-2000, Edward Buscombe
Book Review: Westerns In A Changing America, 1955-2000, Edward Buscombe
Great Plains Quarterly
This is a survey of Western movies made over the past half century which attempts to plot their meanings against the social and political history of America during that time. Using his own personal observations and the ideas of a small number of historians, the author finds that the films closely reflect changes in American society during this period.
Book Review: Promise: Bozeman's Trail To Destiny, Michael Cassity
Book Review: Promise: Bozeman's Trail To Destiny, Michael Cassity
Great Plains Quarterly
The transformation of the area along the Bozeman Trail through Wyoming and Montana in the 1860s provides a key to understanding the larger forces at work reshaping the American West in the late nineteenth century. The complex dynamics at work within the Native American cultures in the area and between them and the intruders hold a great potential for substantive historical inquiry. The present volume is a broad collection, a miscellany, of historical documents, personal reminiscences, and oral histories, as well as observations by professional historians; it even contains some fictional narratives drawing on the events at hand. Not surprisingly, …
Book Review: Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West, Molly P. Rozum
Book Review: Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West, Molly P. Rozum
Great Plains Quarterly
"To me what is most important is to come to grips with both colonial history and contemporary life," writes Emma LaRocque in her essay, "When the 'Wild West' Is Me," on de-mythologizing the cowboys and Indians of popular culture. What makes this new collection fresh is its emphasis on connections between past and present communities in the Canadian West. Eighteen thought-provoking articles are organized in three parts: "Images of the West," "Challenging Western History and Frontier Myth-Making," and "New Frontiers." A scholarly introduction and editorial analyses between the various sections bind the articles to key themes of community building and …
Great Plains Quarterly Editorial Matter, Summer 2006
Great Plains Quarterly Editorial Matter, Summer 2006
Great Plains Quarterly
Table of Contents, Notes and News.
Book Review: Imagining The African American West, Jere W. Roberson
Book Review: Imagining The African American West, Jere W. Roberson
Great Plains Quarterly
Blake Allmendinger invites us into an old/new West that is not a place on a map, but rather a place in the psyche-always imagined, out there, over there, someplace, not here. He challenges us to cease thinking of the West only in geographic terms and to envision it as an image, this time with black figures in it and writing about it.
Book Review: Writing Out Of Place: Regionalism, Women, And American Literary Culture, Kathleen Boardman
Book Review: Writing Out Of Place: Regionalism, Women, And American Literary Culture, Kathleen Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly
Although it has everything to do with location, nineteenth-century American literary regionalism is nor "about" natural geographic boundaries, according to Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. That is, issues of vantage point, marginalization, and gender and racial positioning are crucial to this literature, and the lens of feminist standpoint theory brings it sharply into focus. In contrast, the habit of categorizing by setting - Sarah Orne Jewett and the Maine coast or Mary Austin in the California desert - suggests geographic determinism and distracts us from what these writers might have in common: regionalism as "a discourse or a mode elf …
Book Review: Myself And Strangers: A Memoir Of Apprenticeship, Mark Busby
Book Review: Myself And Strangers: A Memoir Of Apprenticeship, Mark Busby
Great Plains Quarterly
Over the years John Graves, Texas's most noted environmental writer, has lamented time wasted on trying to produce a major work of fiction, a subject that becomes especially clear in Graves's memoir, Myself and Strangers, where he suggests that he should have produced more but was too often distracted.
Book Review: Finding Sand Creek: History, Archeology, And The 1864 Massacre Site, Lincoln Faller
Book Review: Finding Sand Creek: History, Archeology, And The 1864 Massacre Site, Lincoln Faller
Great Plains Quarterly
Metal detritus of war and an old map, recently discovered in Chicago helped an interdisciplinary team of historians, archeologists, geomorphologists, ethnographers, remote imagers, and descendants of the victims of the Sand Creek Massacre to find the exact site where that atrocity was enacted; so this book reports,
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter, Table of Contents, and Book Notes.
Book Review: Viet Cong At Wounded Knee: The Trail Of A Blackfeet Activist, Tom Holm
Book Review: Viet Cong At Wounded Knee: The Trail Of A Blackfeet Activist, Tom Holm
Great Plains Quarterly
Woody Kipp's life story is a reflection of a new generation of Native writers and activists. His autobiography has nothing to do with trying to save the white world from itself or to explain Indians to a curious and perhaps even sympathetic white audience. The white world literally and figuratively took aim at Woody Kipp (and a number of other American Indian Vietnam veterans) for daring to oppose the injustices he saw in Indian life. He became, as the title of his book indicates, the then-current enemy of the American state. He was, ironically, a domestic version of the Viet …
Book Review: Alien Heart: The Life And Work Of Margaret Laurence, Frances W. Kaye
Book Review: Alien Heart: The Life And Work Of Margaret Laurence, Frances W. Kaye
Great Plains Quarterly
The best introduction to Margaret Laurence will always be the writings of Margaret Laurence, especially the five Manawaka books, the three published volumes of her correspondence, and her memoir. But after one has become acquainted with that complex, vulnerable, wise, generous, and conflicted woman/writer, Alien Heart is a good source for recapitulation and further detail. Without blinking at or emphasizing Margaret's drinking and sometimes self-destructive relationships, Powers strongly recalls her kindness, her passion, her idiom, and her "place to stand upon."
Book Review: The Bar U And Canadian Ranching History, A. A. Den Otter
Book Review: The Bar U And Canadian Ranching History, A. A. Den Otter
Great Plains Quarterly
Located almost directly south of Calgary, Alberta, the North West Cattle Company, or Bar U, is one of the longest surviving large ranches on the Canadian Prairies, Founded in 1881 during a land rush, it was one of several to acquire large leases on government land, Under the management of Fred Stimson, an experienced farmer from Quebec, the Bar U prospered, partly because of cheap land hut mainly because of solid management and good marketing and transportation strategies,
Book Review: Standing Bear Is A Person: The True Story Of A Native American's Quest For Justice, Kyle C. Wyatt
Book Review: Standing Bear Is A Person: The True Story Of A Native American's Quest For Justice, Kyle C. Wyatt
Great Plains Quarterly
Poncas still remember the events surrounding the 1879 verdict that first recognized Constitutionally protected Native rights. Descendants - some only one generation removed from the forced march that preceded the trial - continue to live on the Great Plains and share the stories of the long walk to Indian Territory. Unfortunately, this text docs not attempt to incorporate contemporary Native voices that can enrich such an important historical narrative.
Writing Red: A Tribute To Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933-2005), Holly Boomer
Writing Red: A Tribute To Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933-2005), Holly Boomer
Great Plains Quarterly
Mention the word vine in Indian country and most people know that you are talking about a writer rather than talking about gardening. Easily identified by only his first name, Vine Deloria, Jr., has achieved iconic status in the American Indian community. He wasn't the first American Indian writer, but he was the most prolific and enduring writer of Indian issues. Vine was not afraid to tackle Indian issues. He was a warrior who used words as weapons.
Book Review: Washita: The U.S. Army And The Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869, Bill Corbett
Book Review: Washita: The U.S. Army And The Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869, Bill Corbett
Great Plains Quarterly
At dawn on November 27, 1868, Lt. Col. George A. Custer led troopers of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in an attack on the village of Black Kettle, a Southern Cheyenne peace chief. Custer's men thundered across the frozen, snow encrusted bottom land of the Washita River in what is now Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, surprising and defeating the Cheyennes. In this book the author describes the circumstances that led to this pivotal event and its consequences.
Book Review: The Red Man's On The Warpath: The Image Of The "Indian" And The Second World War, Robert Alexander Innes
Book Review: The Red Man's On The Warpath: The Image Of The "Indian" And The Second World War, Robert Alexander Innes
Great Plains Quarterly
R. Scott Sheffield's study of the images used by bureaucrats and journalists provides an in-depth examination of Anglo-Canadians' perceptions of First Nations people and how these perceptions affected Indian policies.
Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, Linda M. Hasselstrom
Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, Linda M. Hasselstrom
Great Plains Quarterly
The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains is a terrific soapbox for Plains historians, teachers, writers, and residents. I'm not referring only to its size-though standing on it would elevate one nicely for fervent speechmaking.
No, I mean it's the best advertisement I've seen lately for Great Plains reality. The nation's central region has been ignored, abused, misunderstood, and trampled. This collection represents the ardent efforts by the finest scholars in the country to analyze it with respect-even affection-and portray it without the romanticism that has colored too many views.
Alexandre Hogue's Passion: Ecology And Agribusiness In The Crucified Land, Mark Andrew White
Alexandre Hogue's Passion: Ecology And Agribusiness In The Crucified Land, Mark Andrew White
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1939, Texas artist Alexandre Hogue completed The Crucified Land (Fig. 1), a striking comparison of water erosion on a Denton, Texas, wheat farm to the martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth. The Crucified Land was originally intended as the final canvas of Hogue's Erosion series, which the artist began in 1932 as a condemnation of the careless agricultural practices that had produced wind and water erosion in his home state. When Hogue exhibited The Crucified Land that year at the Carnegie International, the painting's provocative religious overtones drew the notice of one critic, who referred to it as the latest …
Book Review: Blackfoot Ways Of Knowing: The Worldview Of The Siksikaitsitapi, Patricia A. Mccormack
Book Review: Blackfoot Ways Of Knowing: The Worldview Of The Siksikaitsitapi, Patricia A. Mccormack
Great Plains Quarterly
Betty Bastien's ambitious goal is no less than the decolonization of Blackfoot ways of knowing as a vehicle to regaining independence, promoting personal and cultural healing, and providing a basis fur a new educational system, It is a "transformational pedagogy" that she has undertaken, employing traditional methods of teaching that involve looking inwardly and using personal experience as a primary source of knowledge. She has worked closely in this project with a small number of elders or "grandparents," men and women who are ceremonial specialists and fluent in the Blackfoot language. Her primary audiences are fellow Siksikaitsitapi - Blackfoot-speakers - …
Book Review: 6666: Portrait Of A Texas Ranch, Luther Smith
Book Review: 6666: Portrait Of A Texas Ranch, Luther Smith
Great Plains Quarterly
This is a coffee-table book about a two-parcel ranch in the Plains of the Texas Panhandle owned by businesswoman and philanthropist Anne Marion. The 6666 ranch occupies 290,000 acres of Texas prairie. The informative text, which includes a foreword by Red Steagall and an afterword by Mike Gibson, the ranch foreman, contains a brief history of the ranch from its purchase in pieces in 1898 by legendary pioneer, businessman, and rancher Burk Burnett to its current stewardship by his great-granddaughter Anne Marion.
Book Review: Treasures Of Gilcrease: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Janet Catherine Berlo
Book Review: Treasures Of Gilcrease: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Janet Catherine Berlo
Great Plains Quarterly
All who study the visual culture of the American West are familiar with the vast holdings of the Gilcrease Museum. This excellent introduction to the museum consists of five essays on its component collections. The introduction to Thomas Gilcrease himself (1890-1962) chronicles his mixed ethnicity (born of European and Muskogee-Creek heritage, he was enrolled as a Creek) and his success in the oil business. His several decades of avidly collecting the American objects, paintings, and manuscripts that would become the Gilcrease Museum (which initially opened in San Antonio, before moving to Tulsa in 1949) is told in a lively though …