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Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Current Awareness Bibliography, Sue Ann Gardner, D. Landry, J. Riley Oct 1994

Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Current Awareness Bibliography, Sue Ann Gardner, D. Landry, J. Riley

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

This bibliography is a compilation of current publications (citations with abstracts) from a wide variety of electronic and print information sources relating to offshore oil and gas development.

Subject categories covered include:
Biology: Ecological, anatomical, and physiological effects of oil and/or gas, Species as biomarkers, PAH uptake and bioaccumulation, etc.
Chemistry/Geochemistry/Geology: Biochemistry, Biodegradation, Bioremediation, Hydrocarbon degradation, Environmental sampling, Soil contamination, etc.
Engineering/Physics: Technological advancements in facility/equipment design and use, Spill response and recovery equipment, Physical properties of oil and gas, etc.
Environment/Ecosystem Management/Spills: Environmental assessment and management, Oil and/or gas spill description and analysis, etc.
Socioeconomic/Regulation/General: Social and economic ramifications, …

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Bioarchaeology And Cod Fisheries: A New Source Of Evidence, Thomas Amorosi, Thomas H. Mcgovern, Sophia Perdikaris Oct 1994

Bioarchaeology And Cod Fisheries: A New Source Of Evidence, Thomas Amorosi, Thomas H. Mcgovern, Sophia Perdikaris

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

Archaeological excavations in the North Atlantic basin over the past two decades have recovered large amounts of fishbones from datable deposits extending back over 8000 years in some areas. Coverage of the last 1000 years (with particular emphasis on the climatic cooling of the “Little Ice Age”) is increasingly complete. Recent research makes it possible to reconstruct live lengths from commonly recovered fishbone elements. Preliminary findings indicate that cod of 1 to 1.5 m were being regularly taken in the eleventh to nineteenth centuries throughout the North Atlantic. Changes in fish size and mix of species taken probably reflect technological …

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Reorganizations: An Interview With Staff From The University Of Arizona Libraries, Joan Giesecke Sep 1994

Reorganizations: An Interview With Staff From The University Of Arizona Libraries, Joan Giesecke

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

The University of Arizona is in the midst of a major reorganization as the library changes from a traditional organizational structure to a team- centered, user-focused organization. At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Los Angeles, I had an opportunity to meet with a group of librarians from the University of Arizona who are actively involved in the change process. This was not a traditional interview, but more of a conversation with ten members of the library staff who spoke jointly about their experiences with the reorganization of their library. Answers reflect the comments of the group members; individuals are not …

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Profile And The Organization, Kent Hendrickson, Joan Giesecke Sep 1994

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Profile And The Organization, Kent Hendrickson, Joan Giesecke

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

In this article, we describe how we have used MBTI effectively in our organization as a way to understand the overall "personality" of the organization. We also discuss the implications of this profile for managing the organization to achieve organizational goals.

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Diet And Disease On The Plain: Diabetes Among The Omaha, Lisa Hug Aug 1994

Diet And Disease On The Plain: Diabetes Among The Omaha, Lisa Hug

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Non-insulin dependent diabetes is a rising health concern among the Omaha Tribe. The problem has developed from negligible levels in the 1960s to a significant health threat today. As of 1992, 35% of the Omaha Tribe adult population residing on the reservation had been diagnosed with the condition. and the actual proportion of people with the condition is probably much higher. The age of onset of the disease is decreasing so that people as young as 10 years of age are diabetics. The increase in diabetes is at least partly due to changes in diet practices that include the emergence …

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Director's Note - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994, John R. Wunder Aug 1994

Director's Note - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This issue marks an end of an era for Great Plains Research. Begun in 1990 as a path breaking regional interdisciplinary science and social science journal, Great Plains Research is now poised for its fifth year of existence. Recently giving it a strong vote of confidence was a review panel chosen from the Fellows of the Center for Great Plains Studies to evaluate GPR. Their report issued in the spring of 1994 noted that because of the high quality of its initial editing and article submissions, the journal has quickly established itself as a quality scientific scholarly publication with …

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Reviews Of Battles And Skirmishes Of The Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View By Jerome A. Greene, Gary P. Smith Aug 1994

Reviews Of Battles And Skirmishes Of The Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View By Jerome A. Greene, Gary P. Smith

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Jerome Greene, a well known historian of the Indian War period, has written another important contribution to our understanding of the Indian Wars. This book, as the title suggests, describes the history of the Sioux War from the military perspective. Drawing from primary sources Greene uses historical descriptions generated by individuals who either participated in the actual conflict or were present during a battle or skirmish. This approach gives the book an original and fresh look at the events of the Indian-White conflict.

The book contains fifteen chapters dealing with individual battles or skirmishes. The preface and introduction provide a …

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Will The House Win: Does Sovereignty Rule In Indian Casinos?, Beth M. Wilkins, Beth R. Ritter Aug 1994

Will The House Win: Does Sovereignty Rule In Indian Casinos?, Beth M. Wilkins, Beth R. Ritter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The historical conflict of interest between states and American Indian nations has encompassed jurisdictional disputes ranging from land rights, water rights. and taxation to civil and criminal issues. Many of these political. legal and economic disputes currently center on Indian gaming on reservations within state boundaries. The tribes have been put in the position. yet again. of fighting to define and articulate the exercise of their perceived sovereignty rights vis-a-vis the rights of the states. The federal role, as designated trustee of the tribes, has been and continues to be. an ambiguous. dynamic one. This paper explores the history, current …

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Review Of The First Americans: Photographs From The Library Of Congress By William H. Goetzmann, Mary Beth Klauer Aug 1994

Review Of The First Americans: Photographs From The Library Of Congress By William H. Goetzmann, Mary Beth Klauer

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

For his The First Americans, Goetzmann selected photographs from the Library of Congress collection. Since their prints were offered for sale, turn-of- the-century photographers submitted copies of their work for federal copyrights. The collection does not include anthropological photographs since they were not generally sold to the public. The photos are indicative of the fascination with Native Americans which existed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Goetzmann notes that this fascination centers on the aspect of "lost innocence" from a classical, romantic point of view.

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Review Of Battlefields And Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle To Protect Ancestral Graves In The United States By Roger C. Echo-Hawk And Walter R. Echo-Hawk, Larry J. Zimmerman Aug 1994

Review Of Battlefields And Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle To Protect Ancestral Graves In The United States By Roger C. Echo-Hawk And Walter R. Echo-Hawk, Larry J. Zimmerman

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Pawnee efforts during the late 1980s to have the remains of their ancestors returned for reburial drew international attention. Their eventual victory set many legal and ethical precedents for proper treatment of American Indian human remains. Battlefields and Burial Grounds tells the Pawnee story, but in the broader context of the national reburial issue. It is a story of dominant society science versus indigenous beliefs and rights.

The collection and study of Indian remains grew hand in hand with colonialism and the development of American archaeology. Even though there is more than adequate evidence that some of the first collectors …

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Review Of Archaeology, History, And Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined By Richard Allan Fox, Jr, Mark F. Baumler Aug 1994

Review Of Archaeology, History, And Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined By Richard Allan Fox, Jr, Mark F. Baumler

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Already the subject of official inquiry, interviews, innumerable articles, books, symposia, movies, recreations, demonstrations, and undoubtedly more than one barroom fight-one could legitimately ask: is there anything new left to be said about Custer's' 'Last Stand" at the battle of the Little Big Horn? To the delight of some and the dismay of others, this book answers forthrightly in the affirmative and it does so convincingly.

Fox's contribution to previous efforts (both scholarly and otherwise) derives from the field of archaeology-a relative newcomer to the discussion surrounding the events of June 25, 1876. Using the material remains of the battle …

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Review Of What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village By Janet D. Spector, Jennifer S. H. Brown Aug 1994

Review Of What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village By Janet D. Spector, Jennifer S. H. Brown

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In the summer of 1980, Janet Spector began to conduct a University of Minnesota archaeological field school at Lillie Rapids on the Minnesota River, forty-five miles southwest of Minneapolis. The site was occupied in the early to mid-1800s by a Wahpeton Dakota summer village. Her challenge was not only to teach archaeology but constructively to combine evidence from the ground with documentary data from missionaries and others who had written about Native people and communities in the area.

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“Make-Believe White-Men” And The Omaha Land Allotments Of 1871-1900, Mark J. Awakuni-Swetland Aug 1994

“Make-Believe White-Men” And The Omaha Land Allotments Of 1871-1900, Mark J. Awakuni-Swetland

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The (Dawes) General Allotment Act of 1887 was meant to fulfill the United States Government policy of allotting individual parcels of Indian reservation lands in an effort to break up communal societies, forcing tribes to move towards the white man's ideal of civilized culture. Three decades earlier, Article 6 of the Treaty of 1854 allowed for the survey and allotting of the Omaha's northeastern Nebraska reservation, placing the Omaha Nation at the leading edge of federal policy a generation before the Dawes Act. Two interrelated groups of tribal members identified as "Make-Believe White-Men" and the "Progressives" who signed an 1882 …

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The Evolution Of Bilingual Education In An American Indian Community : A Decade Of Evaluation As Applied Anthropology, Janet Goldenstein Ahler Aug 1994

The Evolution Of Bilingual Education In An American Indian Community : A Decade Of Evaluation As Applied Anthropology, Janet Goldenstein Ahler

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Applied anthropology has much to offer the educational evaluator role. especially in cross-cultural settings concerning language and bilingual education programs. This study examines the evolution of an elementary school Indian language and bilingual education program in a small. northern plains American Indian reservation community, the use of anthropological research methods. and the role of the external evaluator. Findings suggest that evaluation and change recommendations are more likely to be accepted when they are derived from the participants in the program rather than from an external evaluator.

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Review Of The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 1877-1900 By Orlan J. Svingen, Michael L. Tate Aug 1994

Review Of The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 1877-1900 By Orlan J. Svingen, Michael L. Tate

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In the larger context of Plains Indian history, the Northern Cheyenne seem to drop from public consciousness following their military defeat in the campaigns of 1876-77 and their subsequent removal to an arid reservation in western Indian Territory. Mari Sandoz somewhat rescued these people from obscurity in her partially fictionalized Cheyenne Autumn (1953), which dramatized their mistreatment on the reservation, their heroic efforts to return to traditional homelands in Montana, and the bloody 1879 breakout from Ft. Robinson, Nebraska. Yet it is on that note of tragedy that their story seems to end, amid the battered bodies of fifty or …

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The Politics Of Retribalization: The Northern Ponca Case, Beth Ritter Aug 1994

The Politics Of Retribalization: The Northern Ponca Case, Beth Ritter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The recently restored Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has faced considerable challenges to the expression of their tribalism throughout the contact period. As a small. prairie-plains tribe the Ponca have endured the ravages of epidemic disease. land cessions. dispossession and removal. assimilation and finally in 1962. the outright termination of their status as a federally recognized tribe. The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has been granted the opportunity to attempt retribalization with the 1990 Congressional restoration of their recognized status. The historical circumstances which have contributed to the assaults on their political and cultural identity will be explored within the larger framework …

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Kiowa Powwows: Tribal Identity Through The Continuity Of The Gourd Dance, Benjamin R. Kracht Aug 1994

Kiowa Powwows: Tribal Identity Through The Continuity Of The Gourd Dance, Benjamin R. Kracht

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Today, intertribal participants at Southern Plains powwows (Oklahoma and Texas) celebrate common history and culture-their sense of "Indianness"-through the enactment of ceremonial song and dance. The Kiowa playa central and assertive role in the Southern Plains powwow network. and they use the Gourd Dance as the vehicle to identify their "Kiowaness." The thesis of this paper is that the Kiowa continue to maintain their tribal identity through performances of the Gourd Dance. which they claim as their own. The maintenance of identity is traced from the late nineteenth century through the evolution of Kiowa dances leading up to the Gourd …

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Annual Index – Volume 5, Number 2, August 1994 Aug 1994

Annual Index – Volume 5, Number 2, August 1994

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Index

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Table Of Contents - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994 Aug 1994

Table Of Contents - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Contents:

Articles
Book Reviews
News and Notes
Annual Index

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Introduction - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994, John R. Wunder Aug 1994

Introduction - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This special issue of Great Plains Research was edited by Clare McKanna, Jr., and Beth R. Ritter. The issue represents a unique interdisciplinary examination of a number of current issues facing Plains Indian peoples. These issues include gaming, education, medical problems, land titles, retribalization, and cultural retention.

Initially the idea of a special issue was proposed by Beth R. Ritter. Clare McKanna, Jr., editor of Great Plains Research, decided this would be an excellent opportunity to pursue a variety of social science approaches to Native studies, and he agreed to the proposal. Together McKanna and Ritter selected possible essays …

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News And Notes - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994 Aug 1994

News And Notes - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Contents:

Call for papers

Conferences

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Review Of Visions Of The People: A Pictorial History Of Plains Indian Life By Evan M. Maurer, Richmond L. Clow Aug 1994

Review Of Visions Of The People: A Pictorial History Of Plains Indian Life By Evan M. Maurer, Richmond L. Clow

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The Minneapolis Institute of Art opened an exhibit in the fall of 1992 titled Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life "to honor the evolving Plains tradition by constructing a general overview of their representational arts in all media and time periods" (pp. 6-7). To achieve that goal, the curators assembled works produced by as many "known artists" as possible to end both the namelessness and facelessness which frequently accompanies older pieces of tribal art. An exhibit catalogue, which included five essays, was published to accompany the exhibit.

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Review Of Native American Dance: Ceremonies And Social Traditions By Charlotte Heth, Eric J. Jolly Aug 1994

Review Of Native American Dance: Ceremonies And Social Traditions By Charlotte Heth, Eric J. Jolly

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Native American Dance attempts to capture in picture and words life itself across the span of time and the people of the Americas. This is an ambitious project that seeks to identify many of the worlds and peoples of the Americas through their dance and its drama.

The photographs and plates of this books are rich, striking, and full of detail. So much so that one could be lulled into expecting that the oversize volume would serve best as a browsing volume that creates coffee table impressions. Indeed, the scope of this work precludes a detailed text from being developed …

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Review Of Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, And United States Law In The Nineteenth Century By Sidney L. Harring, Richmond L. Clow Aug 1994

Review Of Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, And United States Law In The Nineteenth Century By Sidney L. Harring, Richmond L. Clow

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In Crow Dog's Case, Sidney L. Harring's objective was to correct the omission of tribal legal traditions from United States Indian law. The reason for this exclusion, according to Harring, is that federal Indian law historically focused on policy questions outside of tribal cultural and historical contexts while at the same time, the tribes' cultural-based legal traditions remained rooted in tribal culture and history. Confined to this policy-based judicial vision, nineteenth century courts made "ahistorical" decisions which distorted or ignored tribal jurisprudence and created a legacy of ongoing misconceptions of tribal legal traditions and customs.

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Review Of The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity And Dispossession At A Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920 By Melissa L. Meyer, Jerry A. Schultz Aug 1994

Review Of The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity And Dispossession At A Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920 By Melissa L. Meyer, Jerry A. Schultz

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In this work Meyer draws primarily upon the substantial resources available from the colonial U.S. bureaucracy and other written and unwritten materials. The focus of this study is the incorporation of the Anishinaabe land and resources by Euro-Americans and the concomitant marginalization of the Anishinaabe people in Minnesota.

Migration and cultural reordering were key adaptive strategies of the Anishinaabe. Amalgamation, splintering, intermarriage, and ethnogenesis accompanied all the Anishinaabe migrations. Each migration, whether seasonal migrations before contact with Euro-Americans or the more recent migration to Minnesota, was prompted by different circumstances and led to new cultural adaptations. Meyer undermines the myth …

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Review Of American Indian Law Deskbook By Julie Wrend And Clay Smith, Sidney L. Harring Aug 1994

Review Of American Indian Law Deskbook By Julie Wrend And Clay Smith, Sidney L. Harring

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The problems with this book begin with premises set out in the "Foreword." TheAmerican Indian Law Deskbook is a product of the Conference of Western Attorneys General. It was collectively written by the attorney general's offices of Montana, Utah, Idaho, Washington, North Dakota, Montana, Nevada, and Colorado because these offices "have long felt that they have been hampered [in their work] by the absence of a comprehensive and objective treatise on Indian law" (p. xiv). "Exacerbating the problem [of a complicated legal structure of Indian law] has been a relatively small amount of legal scholarship in the area of …

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Review Of Indians In Prison: Incarcerated Native Americans In Nebraska By Elizabeth S. Grobsmith, Ronet Bachman Aug 1994

Review Of Indians In Prison: Incarcerated Native Americans In Nebraska By Elizabeth S. Grobsmith, Ronet Bachman

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Elizabeth S. Grobsmith provides an intimate glance into the relationship between the bureaucracy of the Nebraska correctional system and American Indian prisoners within the system. Prefaced by an important historical context, the insightful narratives which comprise the bulk of this work offer a detailed examination of the day-to-day struggles encountered by Indian inmates trying to survive in an environment which is, all too often, not cognizant of their needs. In general, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature investigating the relationship between contemporary American Indians and the criminal justice system.

One aspect that I found troubling, however, was …

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Review Of Without Reserve: Stories From Urban Natives By Lynda Shorten, Steve Potts Aug 1994

Review Of Without Reserve: Stories From Urban Natives By Lynda Shorten, Steve Potts

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Canada's urban Natives, like their American cousins to the south, are resilient, proud people who have weathered broken families, unemployment, pervasive alcohol and drug abuse, and rampant racism to retain a strong cultural identity and a hope for better times. Lynda Shorten's moving account of nine urban Native people from Edmonton, Alberta, reveals the complexity and diversity present in contemporary Canadian Native society. Her stories also demonstrate the havoc one culture has wreaked on another.

Shorten, a lawyer, journalist, writer, and activist, became a "walking tape recorder" to produce this book. She notes that she believes in stories; this book …

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Review Of Swords And Ploughshares: War And Agriculture In Western Canada By R. C. Macleod, Ken Leyton-Brown Aug 1994

Review Of Swords And Ploughshares: War And Agriculture In Western Canada By R. C. Macleod, Ken Leyton-Brown

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The title of this collection of articles may suggest to some readers that its subject, in the tradition of John Thompson's Harvests of War, is the impact of war on prairie agriculture. This is not the case, though, since the articles are not confined to prairie subjects and since most of them are not directly related to both "war" and "agriculture"-indeed, some have only a tenuous connection with either. However, what this rather oddly matched collection lacks in focus it makes up in other ways, presenting a number of pieces which address important issues and which deserve a wide …

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Review Of The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation Of The Zulu And The Sioux By James O. Gump, Lynn Williams Aug 1994

Review Of The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation Of The Zulu And The Sioux By James O. Gump, Lynn Williams

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Comparisons have often been made between the 1876 Sioux victory at the Little Big Horn and the 1879 Zulu victory at Isandhlwana, but James O. Gump's The Dust Rose Like Smoke goes beyond examination of these two battles. In fact, the discussion of the battles takes up only one chapter while the main body of the book examines events prior to and subsequent to these famous battles. This is a thorough survey that traces the Sioux and Zulu histories from the time before contact with the conquering powers and continues through the aftermath of the battles into the twentieth century. …

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