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A Topographic Map Of Words Parables Of Cartography In William Least Heat,Moon's Prairyerth, O. Alan Weltzien

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In "Thought and Landscape," geographer Yi-Fu Tuan describes an essential double perspective required for any comprehensive understanding of rural landscape. A geographer studies landscape "from 'above,'" for example, but "The side view ... is personal, moral, and aesthetic. A person is in the landscape ... from a particular spot and not from an abstract point in space. If the essential character of landscape is that it combines these two views (objective and subjective), it is clear that the combination can take place only in the mind's eye. Landscape appears to us through an effort of the imagination .... It is …

Title And Contents- Spring 1999

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 19/ Number 2 / Spring 1999

Contents

Introduction: Imagining Literary Landscapes

History And Nature: Representations Of The Great Plains In The Work Of Sharon Butala And Wallace Stegner

The "In-Between": Landscapes Of Transformation In Ted Kooser's Weather Central

A Topographic Map Of Words: Parables Of Cartography In William Least Heat-Moon's Prairyerth

Essay On Place: The Map As Big As The World

Review Essay: Crime And Responsibility

Book Reviews

Book Notes

Notes And News

Review Of Frontiers Of Historical Imagination: Narrating The European Conquest Of Native America, 1890-1990 By Kerwin Lee Klein, Alex Long

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Frontiers of Historical Imagination, Kerwin Klein traces the changes in the historical discourse of the European conquest of Native America. This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study synthesizes twentieth-century historiography, encompassing debates in history, anthropology, literary criticism, and the philosophy of history. While Frederick Jackson Turner's writings serve as organizing texts for Klein's account, the changing interpretations and narratives of the American frontier provide the thematic focus.

Klein arranges his study into four books, each in turn, organized around a trope-a la Hayden White's Metahistory: metaphor ("The Language of History")' metonym ("From Spirit to System"), synecdoche ("Time Immemorial"), and …

Factors In Rural Community Survival: Review Of Insights From Thriving Small Towns, Milan Wall

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

During the 1980s crisis in the agricultural economy, some observers claimed that many towns were too small, too isolated, or too distant from larger population centers to survive in times of economic turmoil. We decided to evaluate these assumptions through a series of in-depth case studies of thriving small communities in the Great Plains. The communities we studied fit the general description of towns that were doing better than expected. Using an anthropological approach, the teams of field researchers from the Heartland Center for Leadership Development visited communities, ranging in size from 300 to 6,000, in Colorado, the Dakotas, Kansas, …

Late Prehistoric High Plains Foragers: Starving Nomads, Affluent Foragers?, Luann Wandsnider

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Past human groups of the High Plains have been variously characterized as starving nomads and affluent foragers. In fact, these terms do not capture the multi-faceted nature of the human foraging experience on the High Plains. Relying on human ecology and archaeological interpretations, this paper examines the coping strategies used by Late Prehistoric foragers in the high variance environment of the High Plains, which was relatively less variable during the early part of the Late Prehistoric time period and more variable in the later part.

Great Plains Research, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 1999 - Contents

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Table of contents

Letter From The Social Sciences Associate Director

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Exciting changes at Great Plains Research (GPR) are occurring. As the new Associate Editor for the social sciences, I will be encouraging and handling submissions relevant to the social sciences, including anthropology, cultural science, economics, ethnography, family science, psychology, and sociology. Our aim is to expand the scope of high quality submissions to GPR in several ways. First, we are working to add major abstract and indexing services in the social sciences. We understand the importance of promoting the impact of our published work. Second, we are soliciting synthesis and thoughtful reviews of major social issues for the Great Plains …

Review Of The Origins Of Native Americans: Evidence From Anthropological Genetics By Michael H. Crawford, Theodore Schurr

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Since the presentation of the tripartite model of Native American languages, genes, and cultures by Joseph H. Greenberg and others (1986), there have been few attempts to synthesize anthropological genetic data from New World populations to evaluate various models of the peopling of the Americas. Although offering no new theoretical paradigm to explain the observed patterns of biological diversity in the New World, The Origins of Native Americans presents a thorough review of the current genetic data from Siberian and Native American populations. Rather than taking an explicitly historical view of these anthropological genetic studies, the book instead examines the …

Review Of In Search Of Ancient Alberta By Barbara Huck And Doug Whiteway, Raymond Le Blanc

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Using the backdrop of geological, palaeontological, and archaeological data, the authors state their objective as offering "readers an accessible, route-oriented approach to more than 65 outstanding sites in the province, before it was a province." The book is a guide providing basic descriptions of these sites, lavishly supplemented with numerous color photographs and information on how to visit each one. In attempting to strike a fine balance among its different themes, it is neither overwhelming in its detail, nor so superficial as to be useless to all but the complete novice. As an academic and an archaeologist, I approached the …

Hopewell Archeology: Volume 3, Number 2, April 1999, N'Omi B. Greber, John E. Kelly, Mark Schurr

United States National Park Service: Publications

1. Correlating Maps of the Hopewell Site, 1820-1993 By N'omi B. Greber, Ph.D. Curator of Archaeology Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Introduction

Eight maps, covering nearly two hundred years of research at the Hopewell site, were used to make a "best guess" reconstruction of the site as it was seen in 1800, just before human activities considerably accelerated erosion and other natural processes that altered the original Hopewellian landscape. Information from extant associated field notes, publications, museum curation records, modern aerial photographs, and limited ground survey provided additional data. Using both Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and old fashioned paper …

Anglo (Mis)Understandings Of Latino Newcomers: A North Georgia Case Study, Edmund T. Hamann

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This paper examines how Anglos in a small north Georgia city imagined, or conceptualized, Hispanics during the late 1990s as thousands of Spanish-speaking immigrant newcomers transformed the community’s demography. Based on two years of ethnographic research, the paper outlines the local play of several macro-social dynamics, such as businesses’ externalization of indirect costs, the ethnic segmentation of the work force, the use of sojourner labor, and the role of mediating institutions. The paper uses these dynamics to explain the emergence and sustenance of what Suárez-Orozco (1998) calls the “pro-immigration” and “anti-immigration scripts” and illustrates how these can be used to …

Book Review - On The Border Of Opportunity: Education, Community, And Language At The U.S.–Mexico Line, Edmund T. Hamann

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

On the Border of Opportunity is a good, important, but limited book. Marleen Pugach describes the links between school and community that she, her two school-aged children, and a graduate assistant encountered during a seven-month stint in a New Mexico border town (pseudonymously called Havens). She extensively considers how binationalism was and could have been promoted in the local schools and how such promotion could distinguish the education on offer there. Pugach seems unsure whether to characterize Havens as an exemplary binational, inclusive community or whether to present a critique of Havens by chronicling what it could be but was …

Jan 1999, Tractor Museum

Lester F. Larsen Tractor Museum: Planning and Development Documents

Museum Open House Officer Elections UN Museum

Teen Pregnancy: A Cross-Cultural Phenomenon But A Western Problem?, Tina Brown

Nebraska Anthropologist

Teen pregnancy (broadened to "premarital pregnancy" for research purposes) was investigated cross-culturally. Using the electronic Human Relations Area Files and literature review, attitudes toward premarital pregnancy, the incidence of premarital pregnancies, and outcomes of premarital pregnancies were compared in "African" and "Eurasian" social systems (as defined by Goody, 1976). Despite considerahle variance, there were no significant differences in approval or disapproval of premarital sex or pregnancy in African and Eurasian systems. There was no difference in incidence rates of premarital pregnancy in African and Eurasian systems; however. not taking marital status into consideration. developing countries have higher rates of adolescent …

Slavery In The Platte Region, H. Jason Combs

Nebraska Anthropologist

Missouri's bid for statehood reflected the struggle to extend the southern slave culture onto the western frontier of settlement. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Missouri Compromise set specific geographic boundaries for the extension of slavery, which in turn created distinctive patterns of migration and settlement on the frontier. The Platte Purchase region of northwest Missouri is one of the areas that reflect slavery's influence on settlement. This paper will discuss slave ownership, the need for slavery, and explain the geographic distribution of slaves in the Platte region.

Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 15: 1999-2000 Table Of Contents

Nebraska Anthropologist

Conservation Ethics: The Web Linking Human and Environmental Rights (Meghan Sittler)

Slavery in the Platte Region (H. Jason Combs)

Still an Open Book: Analysis of the Current Pre-Clovis vs. Debate from the Site of Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Pennsylvania and Monte Verde, Chile (Jay T. Sturdevant)

Mormon Polygamy in the Nineteenth Century: The Practice of "The Principle" in Reality (William Volf)

Teen Pregnancy: A Cross Cultural Phenomenon but a Western Problem? (Tina Brown)

Fact and Fiction of Vikings in America (Karri L Springer)

Commercialization in Archaeology: Problems, Old and New (Ann C. Bauermeister)

Geophysical Survey as a Conservation Tool (Anne M. Kern) …

Review Of Blessing For A Long Time: The Sacred Pole Of The Omaha Tribe By Robin Ridington And Dennis Hastings, Michael L. Tate

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Omahas occupied a strategic position on the Missouri River and served as important middle men in the rapidly expanding fur trade. By mid-century, however, epidemics and white incursions having devastated their way of life, they were confined to a small reservation in northeastern Nebraska. As with other tribes, their culture came under continuous assault by missionaries, agents, and reformers who wished to accelerate their assimilation into mainstream American society.

In the face of these unwelcome changes, tribal elder Yellow Smoke worried that he would not be able to maintain his role as Keeper …

Review Of Seeing The White Buffalo By Robert B. Pickering, Lee Irwin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For those unfamiliar with the White Buffalo and its relationship with Native American spirituality, this is the book to read. The author, curator of anthropology for the Denver Museum of Natural History, has written an accessible, informative guide that surveys the popular response to Miracle, the female white buffalo calf born in 1994. Pickering covers four areas: first, the personal perspectives of Dave and Val Heider, the Janesville, Minnesota, couple who run a small buffalo herd in which Miracle was born; then the "historical-cultural perspectives of American Indians"; the "spiritual perspectives" of Native and non-Native peoples toward Miracle; and the …

Review Of With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History By Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun And Josephine Waggoner, Bea Medicine

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With My Own Eyes represents an historic event for this reviewer, who grew up on Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota where the name Josephine Waggoner was known and remembered. In my view, she represented a local Native intellectual who had a great interest in the history of the reservation. It was known by my father's generation that she had interviewed local headmen (itancan or "chiefs"). She also represents the companionship of Lakota women as they aged. Her literary partnership with Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun was a fortuitous and productive bonding.

It is amazing that this history is finally published. …

Index

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Pages 323-331 (9 pages)

Review Of Satanta: The Life And Death Of A War Chief. By Charles M. Robinson Iii, Benjamin R. Kracht

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Set-t' ainte, or "White Bear," whose name was Anglicized into Satanta, was one of the most feared Southern Plains warriors and raiders in the mid-nineteenth century. Robinson's biography of Satanta also remembered as the "Orator of the Plains"-grew out of the author's research into the history of Fort Richardson and the May 1871 killing of seven teamsters outside the nearby town of Jacksboro, Texas. White Bear and Big Tree, the two Kiowa warriors held responsible for the teamsters' deaths, were the first American Indian leaders to be tried in a civil court (State of Texas v. Satanta and Big …

Title And Contents- Winter 1999

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Great Plains Quarterly

Volume 19/ Number 1 / Winter 1999

Contents

The Death Of Edward Mcmurty

Litigation, Mitigation, And The American Indian Religious Freedom Act: The Bear Butte Example

Literacy Practices At The Genoa Industrial Indian School

Book Reviews

Notes And News

Review Of The Night Has A Naked Soul: Witchcraft And Sorcery Among The Western Cherokee. By Alan Kilpatrick, Pekka Hamalainen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This fascinating, slim volume provides a rare glimpse of the supernatural world of the' Cherokee Indians, a topic shielded by linguis.-" tic, cultural, and mental barriers. The Chero~ kees possess an extraordinary corpus of magical texts, recorded over one hundred and fifty yearsby their folk healers in small ledger notebooks .. These texts, written in the Sequoyah syllabary and known as idi:gawe:sdi, contain a large body of knowledge of such occult subjects as love magic, rainmaking, and protective charms. In The Night Has a Naked Soul, Alan Kilpatrick, an associate professor of American Indian studies at San Diego State …

Review Of Indians And Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. And The Critique Of Anthropology Edited By Thomas Biolsi And Larry J. Zimmerman, Donald D. Stull

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

North American anthropology can be divided into two ages: BD and AD-Before and After Deloria. In 1969 cultural anthropology in the United States was shaken by Vine Deloria's witty diatribe, Custer Died for Your Sins. Twenty years later, cultural anthropologist Tom Biolsi and archaeologist Larry Zimmerman organized a symposium on the subsequent relationship between anthropologists and American Indians. Indians and Anthropologists assembles several of these papers and some new ones in what will certainly be an often-cited collection.

The book's introduction reviews "What's Changed, What Hasn't" since Deloria fired his shot across anthropology's bow in Custer's chapter on "Anthropologists …

Late Prehistoric High Plains Foragers: Starving Nomads, Affluent Foragers?, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Past human groups of the High Plains have been variously characterized as starving nomads and affluent foragers. In fact, these terms do not capture the multi-faceted nature of the human foraging experience on the High Plains. Relying on human ecology and archaeological interpretations, this paper examines the coping strategies used by Late Prehistoric foragers in the high variance environment of the High Plains, which was relatively less variable during the early part of the Late Prehistoric time period and more variable in the later part.

Who’S Buried In Custer’S Grave?, P. Willey, Douglas D. Scott

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

On 10 October 1877, the year after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, General George A. Custer’s coffin was transported from a temporary grave in Poughkeepsie, NY, by steamer and cortege to permanent interment in the U.S. Military Academy’s Post Cemetery. The ceremony included the appropriate military and funerary rituals. There were, nevertheless, reasons to believe that Custer’s skeleton may not have been in the coffin—thus, he may have missed his own funeral. Custer’s remains, or part of them, may have been overlooked during the exhumation and left on the battlefield, only to be recovered around 1940. These bones, as …

The Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project: Report Of The 1999 Season, Nicholas K. Rauh, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

In 1999 the team turned attention to an area of mountainous rural hinterland behind Iotape and some 500 m above the valley of the Delice Çay and the village of Kahyalar.Employing coarse interval survey methodology we conducted a sweep of a network of ridges extending from a peak known locally as Nergis Tepesi to the village of Kahyalar below. When evidence of past human activity or disturbances was observed by the team, especially architectural remains or ceramics clusters of more than one sherd per square meter, the area became designated as a 'site', if only for purposes of recording. Once …

From Chiefly Provisioning To Commercial Fishery: Long-Term Economic Change In Arctic Norway, Sophia Perdikaris

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

Stratified farm mounds with excellent organic preservation in the Lofoten and Vesterålen islands in Arctic Norway provide a long-term record of changing human use of fish. In Arctic Norway, zooarchaeological signatures of intensive dried fish production extend back into the Iron Age, indicating a substantial role for cured cod prior to the beginning of the historical stockfish trade in c. AD 1200. North Norwegian chieftains of the late Iron Age and Viking periods clearly disposed of substantial staple surpluses of stockfish as well as the better documented prestige goods (furs and ivory). A comparative study of substantial collections spanning the …

Emergency Archeology In The Missouri River Basin: The Role Of The Missouri River Basin Project And The Midwest Archeological Center In The Interagency Archeological Salvation Program, 1946-1975, Thomas D. Thiessen

United States National Park Service: Publications

Contents

List of Tables .................................................................................. ii
Preface .............................................................................................. v
Early Antecedents .......................................................................... 1
Work Relief Programs .................................................................................... 1
The Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains ............................. 3
The Interagency Archeological Salvage Program ...................................... 9
The River Basin Surveys ........................................................................... 18
The Missouri Basin Project ...................................................................... 22
End of the River Basin Surveys ................................................................... 35
Establishment of the Midwest Archeological Center ................................... 47
Concluding the Salvage Mission: 1969-1975.................................... 51
References Cited ........................................................................... 69

Appendix A: Memorandum of Understanding Between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior [1945] ........................................................................................ 87

Appendix B: Memorandum of Understanding …

Geophysical Survey As A Conservation Tool, Anne M. Kern

Nebraska Anthropologist

With the introduction of cultural resource management and the passage of federal preservation legislation more than thirty years ago, American archeology has recognized the need for noninvasive practices that produce significant, new data while preserving the non-renewable archeological record. In the early I 970s, Thomas Lyons and the National Park Service's Cultural Resource Management Program began to develop a non-invasive paradigm placing new emphasis on remote sensing techniques. Developments in geophysical methods over the past twenty to thirty years allow archeologists to preserve the archeological record, practice Lyons' non-invasive archeology, and collect high-quality data. A discussion of the advantages and …