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Review Of Uprising! Woody Crumbo's Indian Art By Robert Perry, Robert B. Pickering

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In any discussion of important Indian artists of the twentieth century, Woody Crumbo (1912-1989) is a pivotal player. His dynamic figures, brilliant colors, and traditional themes were combined to create a new kind of art. He used traditional art forms and themes from his Potawatomi background as well as themes and incidents from other tribal traditions to inspire his work. Not satisfied with just creating art, Crumbo mentored other artists, and for much of his life he was personally involved in the business of art-creating new opportunities for himself and other Indian artists.

Review Of Taming The Land: The Lost Postcard Photographs Of The Texas High Plains By John Miller Morris, Anne E. Peterson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The advent of the real photographic postcard (RPPC) and the burgeoning growth in the early twentieth century of the Texas Panhandle area of the southern Great Plains coincide. More than 100,000 "optimists" spilled into the region after 1906. The frontier receded as farmsteads grew around railroad towns. The era also witnessed a surge in popularity of the real photographic postcard from 1906 into the 1920s, mailed by the tens of thousands and collected in albums documenting the region. As the population grew, photographers increasingly worked for land developers making images of farmland and also of excursionists traveling to see the …

Review Of A Nation In Transition: Douglas Henry Johnston And The Chickasaws, 1898-1939 By Michael W. Lovegrove, Lisa K. Neuman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

What happens when a Native American nation is gradually and purposefully dismantled in order to make way for a new state government? How do tribal leaders meet the challenges of an impending dissolution of their own government and simultaneously fight against the erosion of their tribal sovereignty? These compelling questions inform A Nation in Transition: Douglas Henry Johnston and the Chickasaws, 1898-1939, a new history of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and its leadership under Governor Douglas Henry Johnston (1898-1902; 1904-1939), whose tenure, according to author Michael W. Lovegrove, was longer than that of any other American Indian executive. …

Review Of Faces Of The Frontier: Photographic Portraits From The American West, 1845-1924 By Frank H. Goodyear Iii, With An Essay By Richard White And Contributions By Maya E. Foo And Amy L. Baskette, Mary Murphy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The rise of photography in the United States coincided with the spread of Manifest Destiny, and this handsome exhibit catalogue presents a veritable photographic who's who of the men (and a few women) who were pivotal actors in both the conquest and representation of the American West. The National Portrait Gallery organized the exhibition, Faces of the Frontier, in 2009, with travels to the San Diego Historical Society and the Gilcrease Museum in 2010. The book consists of essays by curator Frank H. Goodyear III and Richard White and the portraits themselves, accompanied by biographical captions.

Four thematic sections …

Review Of Indian Tribes Of Oklahoma: A Guide By Blue Clark, Ron Mccoy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Oklahoma's license plates, which formerly displayed an Osage shield, now depict a representation of Native son Allan Houser's evocative sculpture of a fellow Apache preparing to fire an arrow at the sky. The legend running across the bottom of the plate reads: "Native America." This is an apt statement about Oklahoma, site of pre-Columbian Indian settlements, westernmost extension of Mississippian mound building cultures, home for Kiowa and Comanche buffalo hunters, and adopted land of Cherokees and others forced to abandon familiar stomping grounds east of the Mississippi River. On a per capita basis, Oklahoma boasts the nation's largest Native American …

Review Of Charles Deas And 1840s America By Carol Clark, With Contributions By Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Frederick E. Hoxie, And Guy Jordan, Gail E. Husch

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

His known works are not many-ninety-eight paintings, drawings, and prints are listed in Carol Clark's catalogue at the end of this richly documented volume-and almost half have not been located. Most of the artist's extant paintings were produced between 1833 and 1849. By the age of thirty, Charles Deas (1818-1867) was disturbed enough to require institutionalization; he spent the rest of his days in one asylum or another. With a career of such apparently limited scope and scale, one might wonder whether the artist deserves the attention he is given in this book and in the exhibition at the Denver …

Review Of Lanterns On The Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs Of Walter Mcclintock Edited By Steven L. Grafe, With Contributions By William E. Farr, Sherry L. Smith, And Darrell Robes Kipp, Brian W. Dippie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Walter McClintock (1870-1949) is principally known for two books, The Old North Trail; or Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians (1910) and Old Indian Trails (1923). Both are illustrated with McClintock's photographs, The Old North Trail generously so. They convey an idealized vision of the traditional Blackfeet culture that captivated McClintock when, as a Yale graduate aspiring to a career in forestry, he visited the Blackfeet reservation in Montana in 1896. On subsequent visits through 1912 his collection grew to over 2,000 photographs, and he established himself as an authority on the tribe, delivering lectures in America and …

"If The Lord's Willing And The Creek Don't Rise" Flood Control And The Displaced Rural Communities Of Irving And Broughton, Kansas, Robin A. Hanson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this case study, I examine how the residents of two displaced rural Kansas towns, and their descendants, exhibit a sense of identity common to small farm communities throughout the Great Plains, and how tenacious these ties are even after the physical reminder of their communal bonds no longer exists. By examining the struggles to survive faced by these two towns, Irving and Broughton, the resiliency of the people who called them home, and the continuing expression of community solidarity by the individuals associated with them, I propose that the individuals living within these communities created a transcendental identity similar …

Review Of "I Am A Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey For Justice By Joe Starita, John M. Coward

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On the night of January 2, 1879, Standing Bear and thirty other Ponca men, women, and children slipped away from their disease-ridden new home in Indian Territory. Standing Bear was on a mission, leading his band back to the tribe's ancestral lands along the Nebraska-South Dakota border where he could honor his dying son's last wish, to be buried near the sacred chalk bluffs above the Missouri River.

As author Joe Starita explains, Standing Bear's journey was plagued by subzero temperatures and gales. When their Omaha Indian friends went out to meet them 600 miles and two months later, Starita …

Review Of He Was Some Kind Of A Man: Masculinities In The B Western By Roderick Mcgillis, John M. Clum

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It takes something of a masochist to watch close to two hundred B westerns, but Roderick McGillis claims to have done that in researching this book. For those of you who are not film history buffs, a B movie was a cheap, relatively short (sixty to seventy-five minutes), formulaic genre film made to be the second half of a double feature. A lot of B movies were westerns because they were cheap and popular, particularly with boys and young men. They had their own stars, many of whom moved on to television, which killed the B movie: Roy Rogers, Gene …

Wish List Wilderness Endgame In The Black Hills National Forest, Robert Wellman Campbell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In January 1979 Dave Foreman loosened his tie, propped his cowboy boots up on his desk, and brooded awhile on RARE II. In a second try at Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE), the u.s. Forest Service had just spent two years deciding once and for all how much of its undeveloped land should be designated Wilderness. To Foreman, a Washington executive of the Wilderness Society, RARE II tasted of bitter defeat, and he lonesomely "popped the top on another Stroh's" as he brooded. The Forest Service had just recommended increasing its Wilderness acres from 18 million to 33 million, …

Review Of The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story By Elliott West, Dennis Baird

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Nez Perce people (who call themselves Nimiipuu) are ancient inhabitants of Idaho's Clearwater Valley and of the Wallowa Mountains of eastern Oregon. Driven by both curiosity and economics, they have a rich history of travels to distant places, including California, the Rio Grande Valley, and across the Plains to Missouri. Buffalo drew large segments of the tribe to the Great Plains, where many leaders where born. They have an equally rich history of generosity to visitors, a category that included Lewis and Clark, fur traders and missionaries, and eventually the miners and settlers who helped various federal officials …

The Grizzly, September 30, 2010, Katie Callahan, Michael Delaney, Lisa Jobe, Danielle Chmelewski, Christopher Michael, Traci Johnson, Alyse Reid, Jessica Orbon, Sean Miller, Kaitlyn Ott, Sarah Bollert, Elizabeth Burns, Robert Dawley, Ellen Dawley, Elisa Diprinzio, Stephen Hayman, Jennifer Beigel, Joshua C. Walsh, Kyu Chul Shin, Shane Eachus, Kate Kehoe, Nick Pane, Jarod Groome, Sara Sherr

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

President Emeritus John R. Strassburger: In Memoriam • Moving Memorial Service in Bomberger Hall Honors Late President • Students Test Out New Foods with SASA • Student Achievement in the Arts • The Makings of a More Colorful Ursinus Campus • UC Fringe Festival • Family Day Brings Community Together • Video Games Heighten Reflexes • UC SERV Changes Name to UC EMS • UC Alumni: Reflections on a Legacy • Seeking Tenure: Dr. Louise Woodstock • Strassburger Supports Biology • Strassburger Leaves UC with Pride • Remembering President Emeritus John Strassburger • President Strassburger Revitalizes Courts to Scoreboards • …

The Grizzly, September 23, 2010, Katie Callahan, Danielle Chmelewski, Alyse Reid, Elisa Diprinzio, Lisa Jobe, Allison Nichols, Sara Hourwitz, Traci Johnson, Jennifer Beigel, Maggie Mcmahon, Sara Sherr, Kayla Ann Mcleod, Dixon Speaker, Kyu Chul Shin, Bree Gaddy, Briana Brukilacchio, Kate Lechleitner

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Biology Department Receives $1.3 Million Grant • Shorter Rush Period Impacts Thoughts Surrounding Greeks • Students Continue the Growth of the UC Organic Garden • Lecture on Protecting Manatees Highlights Human Interference • How to Become a "Deep Learner" • Project Pericles to Sponsor "Debating for Democracy" in the Berman Museum Tomorrow • Bed Bug Epidemic Hits College Campuses Across Nation • Professor Seeking Tenure: Dr. Rebecca Jaroff • Opinions: Catholic Church Taking the Next Step Towards Healing; Never-Ending Ordeal of Crossing Main Street • UC Alum Honored with Prestigious Gymnastics Accolade • UC Field Hockey: In it to Win …

The Grizzly, September 16, 2010, Katie Callahan, Rosie Clark, Christine Dobisch, Lisa Jobe, Elizabeth Burns, Kevin Tallon, Joshua C. Walsh, Sara Sherr, Chris Capone, Kyu Chul Shin, James Shelton, Kaitlyn Ott, Shane Eachus

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Activities Fair Brings Light to Organizations • Computer Science Students Begin Exciting New Projects • UC United Society of Leaders Emerges on Campus • Brandon Kamin Launches into MC Role for ABC's Show "Eaglemania" • Calorie Counting Hits Zack's • Theater Preview • Meet up with Two New Professors on Campus • Blend Cafe Hosts Open Mic Night for Students and Community • Opinions: Primaries are More Overrated Than They are Important; Unpredictable Turmoils of the Unreliable Ursinus WiFi • Ursinus Women's Volleyball Heads Into Promising Season

Annual Reports To Shareholders: Historical Collections In Libraries, Judith M. Nixon

Libraries Research Publications

The purpose of this article is to describe the scope and depth of the historic corporate annual report collections in twelve academic/research libraries in North America. For many decades, a few major academic business libraries have been collecting and preserving corporate Annual Reports (ARS), the reports sent to shareholders documenting the financial status and future plans of the company. Today these historic collections provide more than a record of the companies’ finances; they provide a glimpse into the social and cultural thoughts from the past and the corporate stories of individual companies. Digitization of these reports has only just begun; …

The Grizzly, September 9, 2010, Katie Callahan, Brooke Haley, Michael Delaney, Christine Dobisch, Lisa Jobe, Elizabeth Burns, Katie Haldeman, Sara Sherr, Rosie Clark, Maggie Mcmahon, Kevin Tallon, Chris Capone, Carly Siegler, Anna Larouche, Nick Pane, Shane Eachus

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Phi Kappa Sigma Wins Ultimate Honor • Berman Museum Celebrates Opening of Pfeiffer Wing • Board of Trustees Continues Search for New President • Campus Activities Board Gets the Party Started with a Little Foam • Insider's View to Avoiding the Dreaded "Freshman 15" • Living Your Truth with Jenny Boylan • Opinions: Opting Out of Greek Life at Ursinus; Going Greek Without any Regrets; New Wismer Brings Mixed Feelings • UC Women's Soccer Off to Strong Start within Conference • Football Takes Season One Game at a Time

The Grizzly, September 3, 2010, Katie Callahan, Michael Delaney, Katie Haldeman, Giavonna Banner, Lisa Jobe, Derrick Wickward, Thamer Jendoubi, Emily Short, Carly Siegler, Nick Pane

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Students Enjoy Summer Vacation Abroad • Campus Activities Board Brings Fresh Ideas for Fall '10 • A Freshman's Take on the First-Year Orientation Experience • Ursinus Enrollment Finally Under Control, Freshmen Move in with Ease • Greek Life Rushes into Fall Season with New Regulations • Speed Dating with New UC Professors • Summer Fellows: Taking Undergrad Research One Step Further • Ursinus College Alphabet • Opinions: Allow Citizens to Build Mosque in New York City; Build the "Ground Zero" Mosque Somewhere Else • Book Review: A Student's Brief Take on Oscar Wao • McNamara Enjoys Unique Wrestling Trip to …

Lg Ms 018 Maine Won’T Discriminate Archives Finding Aid, Karin A. France

Search the Manuscript Collection (Finding Aids)

Description:

Maine Won't Discriminate (MWD) was an organization created to work toward passing LGBT civil rights legislation in Maine and to advocate against/for citizens referenda that would have overturned/sustained such legislation. The Archives contains organizational records as well as print and audiovisual material created and used by the organization. The majority of the materials relate to MWD’s ultimately successful efforts to oppose referendum Question 1 in 2005, which read: “Do you want to reject the new law that would protect people from discrimination in employment, housing, education, public accommodations and credit based on their sexual orientation?” The materials include polling …

St. Laurent, Louis; Siegel, Bugsy, Howard Bromberg

Book Chapters

Contributions by Howard J. Bromberg to The Forties in America.