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Book Review: Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West, Molly P. Rozum Jan 2006

Book Review: Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West, Molly P. Rozum

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"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 …

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Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert Jan 2006

Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Judging from the title, one might expect this book to offer some resolution to America's ongoing debate regarding the teaching of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. It is, instead, Janovy's attempt to shake higher education by the shoulders and bring it to its senses, asking that university instruction shift its focus from content to larger questions of process and values (for want of a better term: liberal arts and sciences). As Janovy states, "I contend that the arts and sciences ideals - breadth of understanding, courage to explore anywhere, patience with disagreement - are the best antidotes to our current …

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Changes In Post-Marital Residence Rules In An Era Of National Reform: The Urban To Rural Disjunction In Contemporary China, Michaela S. Clemens Jan 2006

Changes In Post-Marital Residence Rules In An Era Of National Reform: The Urban To Rural Disjunction In Contemporary China, Michaela S. Clemens

Nebraska Anthropologist

Alternatives to the traditional practice of patrilocal postmarital residence exist in modern day China and vary from urban to rural areas. Social and economic reforms that were instituted in postMao China had an influence on post-marital residence rules. These reforms include marriage laws, reproduction restrictions, the return to family farms, and greater access to employment. Government reforms had different impacts on urban and rural families, creating different family structures and compositions. Family customs, like post-marital residence, also diverged along rural and urban lines. In rural areas, patrilocality persists, but matrilocal marriage arrangements are increasing. In urban areas, a strong preference …

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An Understanding Of The Relationship Between Maquiladoras And Women's Rights In Central America, Mara D. Giles Jan 2006

An Understanding Of The Relationship Between Maquiladoras And Women's Rights In Central America, Mara D. Giles

Nebraska Anthropologist

The impacts of globalization, deregulation, and free trade on Central American women, whether married or single, are numerous. On either side of the political borders, individual lives and cultures are impacted, often with dire results. Because of traditional gendered roles in these cultures, women's entrance into the formal economic sector has been slow and difficult. Maquiladoras created by globalization provide jobs for poor and undereducated women with few other options of employment. Because of the natures of the global economic system and issues of gender, the positions of these women of poverty are easily exploited. Though the consequences can be …

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Lakota Struggles For Cultural Survival: History, Health, And Reservation Life, Benjamin Jewell Jan 2006

Lakota Struggles For Cultural Survival: History, Health, And Reservation Life, Benjamin Jewell

Nebraska Anthropologist

The effects of alcohol use on Pine Ridge are epidemic and have had a devastating impact on the current status of the residents. The historic effect of u.s. colonial relations with the Lakota has engendered a system of dependency, making the transition from an independent trading economy to capitalism difficult. This paper is an attempt to investigate the current life of Pine Ridge residents and relate how the past has shaped the present through a successful attempt by the u.s. to bring an end to the life-ways of the Lakota. This analysis will include a detailed statement of the economic …

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Homosexuals In The Periphery: Gay And Lesbian Rights In Developing Africa, Brett Kennedy Jan 2006

Homosexuals In The Periphery: Gay And Lesbian Rights In Developing Africa, Brett Kennedy

Nebraska Anthropologist

Slowly but surely American and Western European culture is being eased into an approximate acceptance of homosexuality and other non-heterosexual orientations. Great leaps have been taken in the past four decades to improve the quality of life for non-heterosexuals in almost all parts of the developed world However, in those countries which lie on the outside of this small core group of economic power, the issue of gay rights is often not even considered In this analysis, I will be looking at the attitudes and treatment of homosexuals in developing Africa. Primarily, the focus will rest on South Africa and …

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Concept-Demand Theory And The Evolution Of Human Language, Rory M. Larson Jan 2006

Concept-Demand Theory And The Evolution Of Human Language, Rory M. Larson

Nebraska Anthropologist

A model of language and its evolution is proposed, based on the theory of concept and demand as essential features of human language. A continuous and plausible series of evolutionary stages from the origins of communication to modern human languages is suggested. It is argued that the differentiation of concept from demand is the crucial step which bridges the gap between animal communication systems and human language.

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Transboundary Protected Areas As A Solution To Border Issues, Catherine Pool Jan 2006

Transboundary Protected Areas As A Solution To Border Issues, Catherine Pool

Nebraska Anthropologist

Transboundary Protected areas (TBP As) and peace parks are possible solutions to conflict and environmental problems that can occur along the borders separating countries. Though there are many possible benefits to the parks creation, they can cause problems for those that live along the borders. A series of case studies are examined to determine what factors can help or hinder the success of the parks. Without communication at all levels, from government to locals, the parks are unsuccessful. If the people at the border are not part of the decisions made regarding the parks they are much more likely to …

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Age-Related Body Mass And Reproductive Measurements Of Gray Wolves In Minnesota, L. David Mech Jan 2006

Age-Related Body Mass And Reproductive Measurements Of Gray Wolves In Minnesota, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Based on 65 free-ranging gray wolves (Canis lupus) of known age and 25 of estimated age examined during summers of 1970–2004 in northeastern Minnesota, body mass of both males and females peaked at 5 or 6 years of age, with mean masses of 40.8 kg and 31.2 kg, respectively. Testis size varied as a function of age and month through at least 8 years of age, with length plus width ranging from 1.9 to 7.8 cm. Most females aged 4–9 years bred based on assessment of nipple sizes; those that had not bred had average lower body mass …

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Psychotherapy For Schizophrenia In The Year 2030: Prognosis And Prognostication, William D. Spaulding, Ben C. Nolting Jan 2006

Psychotherapy For Schizophrenia In The Year 2030: Prognosis And Prognostication, William D. Spaulding, Ben C. Nolting

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

A number of psychotherapy techniques have been developed that, to varying degrees, have empirical support demonstrating favorable effects in the treatment of schizophrenia (or serious mental illness [SMI]). These techniques, and the research, vary with respect to theoretical origins, format, treatment targets, and expected outcome. A historical perspective informs understanding of this proliferation. One landmark in psychotherapy research was the recognition of common factors: different therapies embody common therapeutic factors not central to any one school. Importantly, insights about common factors reflected a better theoretical understanding of the psychotherapy process and led to the translation of learning and conditioning theories …

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Sl1 Rna Gene Recovery From Enterobius Vermicularis Ancient Dna In Pre-Columbian Human Coprolites, Alena M. Iñiguez, Karl Reinhard, Marcelo Luiz Carvalho Gonçalves, Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Adauto Araújo, Ana Carolina Paulo Vincente Jan 2006

Sl1 Rna Gene Recovery From Enterobius Vermicularis Ancient Dna In Pre-Columbian Human Coprolites, Alena M. Iñiguez, Karl Reinhard, Marcelo Luiz Carvalho Gonçalves, Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Adauto Araújo, Ana Carolina Paulo Vincente

Karl Reinhard Publications

Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm, is one of the most common helminths worldwide, infecting nearly a billion people at all socio-economic levels. In prehistoric populations the paleoparasitological findings show a pinworm homogeneous distribution among hunter-gatherers in North America, intensified with the advent of agriculture. This same increase also occurred in the transition from nomad hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers in South America, although E. vermicularis infection encompasses only the ancient Andean peoples, with no record among the pre-Colombian populations in the South American lowlands. However, the outline of pinworm paleo epidemiology has been supported by microscopic finding of eggs recovered from coprolites. …

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Guide To Nebraska Map Resources, Sue Ann Gardner Jan 2006

Guide To Nebraska Map Resources, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Includes listings for Doane College, Midland Lutheran College, University of Nebraska-Kearney, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln City Libraries, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, Nebraska Department of Roads, Nebraska Library Commission, Nebraska State Historical Society, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Norfolk Public Library, Douglas County Historical Society Library, Omaha Public Library, and University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Information includes address, personnel, holdings, access, hours, geographic information systems, collection services, and physical facilities.

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Navigating Dangerous Deliberative Waters: Shallow Argument Pools, Group Polarization And Public Debate Pedagogy In Southeast Europe, Gordon R. Mitchell, Damien S. Pfister, Georgeta Bradatan, Dejan Colev, Tsvetelina Manolova, Gligor Mitkovski, Ivanichka Nestorova, Milena Ristic, Gentiana Sheshi Jan 2006

Navigating Dangerous Deliberative Waters: Shallow Argument Pools, Group Polarization And Public Debate Pedagogy In Southeast Europe, Gordon R. Mitchell, Damien S. Pfister, Georgeta Bradatan, Dejan Colev, Tsvetelina Manolova, Gligor Mitkovski, Ivanichka Nestorova, Milena Ristic, Gentiana Sheshi

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

An Albanian social movement called Mjaft ! serves as a synecdoche for wider trends unfolding in Southeast Europe, where student, driven public deliberation is enlivening the political landscape not only in Albania, but also in Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Romania. What do these initiatives suggest about the political dynamics of linkages formed between academic debating groups and civil society organizations? Can public debate democratically energize South, east European citizenries? What general insight does this case study reveal about argumentation as applied critical practice? This paper explores these questions by drawing from collaborative research conducted by the authors under …

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Deliberating Debate’S Digital Futures, Carly Woods, Matthew Brigham, Brent Heavner, Takuzo Konishi, John Rief, Brent Saindon, Gordon R. Mitchell Jan 2006

Deliberating Debate’S Digital Futures, Carly Woods, Matthew Brigham, Brent Heavner, Takuzo Konishi, John Rief, Brent Saindon, Gordon R. Mitchell

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Human communities can use collective deliberation to make considered decisions regarding their relationship to technology. Such reflection is particularly warranted, because as sociologist Langdon Winner (1986) observes, "technological artifacts have politics" (p. 19). In other words, choices about technology carry political implications, because patterns of sociality are embedded within technical tools (McMillan and Hyde, 2000). Fortunately, Winner notes, "by far the greatest latitude of choice exists the very first time a particular instrument, system, or technique is introduced" (Winner 1986, p. 29). Winner's insight punctuates the salience and timeliness of this forum exchange, which comes at a moment when the …

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Trends In High Incomes And Behavioral Responses To Taxation: Evidence From Executive Compensation And Statistics Of Income Data, Nada O. Eissa, Seth H. Giertz Jan 2006

Trends In High Incomes And Behavioral Responses To Taxation: Evidence From Executive Compensation And Statistics Of Income Data, Nada O. Eissa, Seth H. Giertz

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

This paper examines income trends from 1992 to 2004 and the responsiveness of different income measures to tax changes for corporate executives and for the very highest income U.S. taxpayers. We detail the growth in executive compensation and break down the components of that growth by sources, such as the value of options and stock grants, as well as bonus income. We then examine income trends at various points in the income distribution for executives and for all taxpayers. An empirical strategy similar to that employed by Goolsbee (2000) is then used to examine the responsiveness to tax rates of …

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Museum Visitors’ Understanding Of Evolution, Amy N. Spiegel, E. Margaret Evans, Wendy Gram, Judy Diamond Jan 2006

Museum Visitors’ Understanding Of Evolution, Amy N. Spiegel, E. Margaret Evans, Wendy Gram, Judy Diamond

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

In spite of overwhelming scientific evidence supporting evolution, a large percentage of the Ameri-can public does not understand or accept the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory. Museums have an important role in educating children and adults about evolution. This paper reviews recent museum visitor studies, which suggest that while visitors are interested in learning about and less likely to reject evolution than the general public, they tend to have a limited understanding of evolutionary concepts. A new conceptual framework, based on developmental research, indicates that visitors reason about evolution differently depending on the type of organism they are considering, applying …

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American Library Association (Ala) Midwinter Meeting Report, Christopher Cox, Hui Hua Chua, M. Claire Stewart, S. G. Ranti Junus Jan 2006

American Library Association (Ala) Midwinter Meeting Report, Christopher Cox, Hui Hua Chua, M. Claire Stewart, S. G. Ranti Junus

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The American Library Association Midwinter Meeting was held in San Antonio, Texas, January 20–25, 2006. The following are highlights from the meeting. We have a range of coverage and reviewers. Christopher Cox gives us an update on groups discussing digital media such as HD-DVD and Blu-ray, electronic reference books, and RFID issues. Hui Hua Chua writes about a discussion on federated searching. M. Claire Stewart reports on the inaugural meeting of the ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting Section’s Digital Preservation Discussion Group and a whirlwind meeting on standards, which included the discussion of five standards and the overall National Information Standards …

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Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses At The Border Of The Blackfeet Reservation And Glacier National Park, Donal Carbaugh, Lisa Rudnick Jan 2006

Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses At The Border Of The Blackfeet Reservation And Glacier National Park, Donal Carbaugh, Lisa Rudnick

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Among every known people, places are named, and in every known place, stories are told. Yet as one place, Jerusalem, makes so abundantly clear, the meanings of the place and the variety of stories attached to it can derive from a variety of traditions and can lead in many different directions. Just as various pilgrims are drawn to some sacred places, so do all people, in all places, come to know the meanings of at least some places through names, with the stories about them capturing their deeper significance, from the sacred to the mundane. Yet for each such place, …

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Book Review: The Western Pursuit Of The American Dream: Selections From The Collection Of Kenneth W. Rendell, Ron Tyler Jan 2006

Book Review: The Western Pursuit Of The American Dream: Selections From The Collection Of Kenneth W. Rendell, Ron Tyler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Like many other lovers of the West, collector and dealer Kenneth Rendell was inspired by his childhood experiences in nature-in his case, his family's annual summer stay at a lakeside cabin sans utilities north of Boston. It was nurtured by his firsthand acquaintance with the original materials of history when he began his dealership in 1959, flourished in his friendship with historian Stephen Ambrose, and reaches its zenith with the stunning collection of materials he shared in a 2004-05 exhibition at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA, and published in this book.

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Writing Red: A Tribute To Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933-2005), Holly Boomer Jan 2006

Writing Red: A Tribute To Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933-2005), Holly Boomer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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.

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Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, Linda M. Hasselstrom Jan 2006

Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, Linda M. Hasselstrom

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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.

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Book Review: Women Of The Northern Plains: Gender And Settlement On The Homestead Frontier, 1870- 1930, Angel Kwolek-Folland Jan 2006

Book Review: Women Of The Northern Plains: Gender And Settlement On The Homestead Frontier, 1870- 1930, Angel Kwolek-Folland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Focusing on the history of North Dakota farm women from the years of settlement and community-building to the transition to an industrial, consumer economy, Handy-Marchello argues that North Dakota farm marriages of necessity were economic partnerships throughout this period.

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Alexandre Hogue's Passion: Ecology And Agribusiness In The Crucified Land, Mark Andrew White Jan 2006

Alexandre Hogue's Passion: Ecology And Agribusiness In The Crucified Land, Mark Andrew White

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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 …

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Book Review: Indians In Unexpected Places, William Bauer Jan 2006

Book Review: Indians In Unexpected Places, William Bauer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In his first book, Playing Indian (1998), Philip Deloria examined the ways that non-Indians used American Indian images to create their own identity. In his latest book, Deloria looks at the American Indians who challenged the assumptions that often informed those representations. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, American Indians appeared in places where non-Indians did not expect to find them-on football fields, in beauty parlors, in Cadillacs. As Indians entered these unexpected places, they challenged notions of modernity, tradition, and the conventional role many people had created for them. Ultimately, though, they failed to change America's …

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Book Review: Treasures Of Gilcrease: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Janet Catherine Berlo Jan 2006

Book Review: Treasures Of Gilcrease: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Janet Catherine Berlo

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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 …

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Fields Of Opportunity: Wind Machines Return To The Plains, Jacob Sowers Jan 2006

Fields Of Opportunity: Wind Machines Return To The Plains, Jacob Sowers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The last two decades have seen a rebirth of wind machines on the rural landscape. In ironic fashion the wind's kinetic energy has grown in significance through its ability to generate commercial amounts of electricity, the commodity that a few generations earlier hastened the demise of the old Great Plains windmill. Yet the reemergence of wind machines on the landscape has been slowed by local opposition. Many places across the country have seen resistance to the construction of vast wind turbine arrays. Although wind energy fulfills both the businessman's requirement for profit and the environmentalist's desire for clean electrical production, …

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"These Is My Words" . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Women's Lives In Two Contemporary Novels, Jenneifer Dawes Adkison Jan 2006

"These Is My Words" . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Women's Lives In Two Contemporary Novels, Jenneifer Dawes Adkison

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In analyzing Gloss's The Jump-Off Creek, and Turner's These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories, I explore how questions of authenticity can help us to understand and situate these novels as well as how these texts playfully reinvent the "authentic" western.

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Book Review: The Making Of A Lynching Culture: Violence And Vigilantism In Central Texas, 1836-1916, Alwyn Barr Jan 2006

Book Review: The Making Of A Lynching Culture: Violence And Vigilantism In Central Texas, 1836-1916, Alwyn Barr

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This Volume focuses on extralegal violence and its Causes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The author is especially interested in the role of historical memory in sustaining the use of violence for a seven-county region in Central Texas on the edge of the Great Plains.

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Book Review: Viet Cong At Wounded Knee: The Trail Of A Blackfeet Activist, Tom Holm Jan 2006

Book Review: Viet Cong At Wounded Knee: The Trail Of A Blackfeet Activist, Tom Holm

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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 …

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Migration Out Of 1930s Rural Eastern Oklahoma: Insights For Climate Change Research, Robert Mcleman Jan 2006

Migration Out Of 1930s Rural Eastern Oklahoma: Insights For Climate Change Research, Robert Mcleman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

I undertook an investigation of how rural populations responded to a period of adverse climatic conditions in rural eastern Oklahoma during the 1930s, with particular interest in those households that adapted by migrating to rural California. This is not the first time that 19305 Oklahoma has been the subject of research into how people and communities adapt to difficult environmental conditions. In the wake of a 1985 conference entitled "Social Adaptation to Semi-Arid Environments" at the Center for Great Plains Studies in Lincoln, Great Plains Quarterly presented a series of papers by well-known scholars exploring human-environment interactions that gave rise …

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