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Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider
Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider
Great Plains Quarterly
One aftermath of European colonization of the eastern United States was the westward migration of many eastern Indian tribes. Among the hundreds of tribes that uprooted themselves and sought new lands were the Mesquakie, more commonly referred to as the Fox or Sauk and Fox, who migrated from the area around Green Bay, Wisconsin, into eastern Iowa in the late 1700s and adapted so well to their new home that they took unique steps to become permanent residents. In 1846, under pressure of Iowa statehood, their tribe sold their land in Iowa and moved to Kansas, but in 1856 the …
Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart
Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart
Great Plains Quarterly
The objectives of this encyclopedia, as explained by the author in the introduction, are "to present the widest possible body of reference material on the Central West" and also "to offer a readable work, one to be dipped into for enjoyment as well as information" (5). There is no disputing the breadth of the coverage, which extends geographically from North Dakota to Texas and from Nebraska to western Colorado and topically from geology to tourism. Nor can it be denied that the entries are interesting. But conceptually the choice of area is open to dispute, and a close reading of …
Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson
Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson
Great Plains Quarterly
The woman is the foundation on which nations are built.
She is the heart of her nation.
If that heart is weak the people are weak.
If her heart is strong and her mind is clear
then the nation is strong and knows its purpose.
The woman is the centre of everything.
But equally, women must honour men;
If not, then everything is out of balance
and we can have nothing but chaos and pain.
These are the first elements that must be
put back together
or nothing, but nothing
can come right again. 1
Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten
Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten
Great Plains Quarterly
When Gladys Leffler Gist remarked in her reminiscences that she and her husband Ray had witnessed "considerable 'for better and for worse'" during their forty years together, she could just as well have been describing the "marriage" between farmers and the agricultural economy during the same period. Depression and drought, of course, challenged those people making their livings from the land and in many ways dominated their impressions of those years. Of more long-term importance, however, were the "vast and fundamental changes" that, according to Gilbert Fite, stemmed from the "application of new technology, chemistry, and plant and animal sciences" …
Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton
Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton
Great Plains Quarterly
The University of North Texas Press has launched a new series of criticaVbiographical studies of Texas writers and has started, appropriately, with one of the best novelists writing today-in Texas or elsewhere. Elmer Kelton has published twenty-seven novels interpreting the development of Texas from the beginning of settlement by Anglos to the present.
Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim
Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim
Great Plains Quarterly
The definition, surveying, and particularly the marking, with quartzite monuments, of the state boundary between North and South Dakota provide the major themes for this study. It is obvious that the author, who was born and raised in South Dakota and now teaches history in North Dakota, has a special fondness for these monuments. While the study will be of primary interest to North and South Dakota state and local history enthusiasts, the book will also interest political geographers and historians (as a case study in the establishment of two states and their boundary) and cartographic historians (as an example …
Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson
Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson
Great Plains Quarterly
Oklahoma Mammalogy is a very thorough annotated bibliography and checklist for the rich mammal life of that state. Oklahoma has eastern, western, southern, and northern species and a varied topography, emphasized by the Wichita Mountains. Many mammalogists have studied and collected there.
Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf
Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf
Great Plains Quarterly
Writing Saskatchewan is the gleanings of a symposium celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts held at Fort San in the Qu' Appelle Valley near Regina in June of 1987. Focusing on poetry (the long poem as well as the lyric), the novel, drama, and linked sequences of short stories, these essays collectively suggest the striking richness, range, and vitality of creative writing in the central prairie province-writing that is anything but provincial.
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
For most Americans, "The Great Plains" evokes images of grasslands, dust storms, prairie fires, Indians on horseback, cowboys and wheat lands, and perhaps flat valleys crossed by braided rivers carrying a heavy load of sand and gravel, extremes of weather, and a climate typified by an alternation of droughts and wetter periods. Geologists picture such general images, too, but they also see radical changes in the landscape over periods expressed in millions rather than hundreds of years. Geologically speaking, human activities on the Great Plains are too recent to have much of a place in the broad geologic history of …