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Introduction- Summer/Fall 1997, Frances W. Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This special double issue of Great Plains Quarterly has been a long time in the making. Unlike the yearly special issues that showcase papers from our annual symposia, this number of the Quarterly contains four articles submitted at various times, revised and expanded, and collected together. All deal with EuroNorth Americans' misperceptions of indigenous peoples and the consequences of those misperceptions for all peoples of the Great Plains.

In "The Sacred Black Hills," Linea Sundstrom painstakingly contradicts the view many researchers have proposed that Cheyenne and Lakota beliefs and oral traditions about the sacredness of the Black Hills had been …

The Sacred Black Hills An Ethnohistorical Review, Linea Sundstrom

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Black Hills area is widely recognized as sacred in the context of traditional Lakota and Cheyenne belief systems. Questions arise, however, regarding the authenticity and historical depth of these beliefs.¹ Some researchers assert that the concept of the sacred Black Hills is little more than a twentieth century scheme to promote tourism or part of a legal strategy to gain the return of Black Hills lands to Lakota and Cheyenne tribal governments.² While many Lakotas and Cheyennes today express a strong spiritual link to the Black Hills,³ some historians have questioned whether today's beliefs about the …

Quality Of Life Of Rural Nebraskans: Results From The 1997 Annual Nebraska Rural Poll, John C. Allen, Sam Cordes, Rebecca Filkins, Amy M. Smith, Eric Jarecki

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

This working paper presents findings from the second annual Nebraska Rural Poll. The study is based on 3,264 responses from households in the 87 nonmetropolitan counties in the state. The objectives of this paper are to answer the following questions:

1. Has the well-being of rural Nebraskans changed from what they reported in the first annual Rural Poll?
2. All things considered, do rural Nebraskans believe they are better off today than five years ago, and do they believe they are better off than their parents were at their age?
3. Do rural Nebraskans believe they will be better or …

The Value Of Additional Central Flyway Wetlands In Nebraska’S Rainwater Basin Wetland Region, Joan Poor

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

Nebraska’s Rainwater Basin wetland region is recognized internationally as a significant wetland complex for migratory waterfowl habitat. A contingent valuation study was undertaken to determine Nebraskan’s willingness-to-pay for government acquisition/management programs for this resource. The study consisted of a double bounded referendum format. A censored regression model was utilized for data analysis.

Approaches To Managerial Influence In The People’S Republic Of China, Kathleen J. Krone, Ling Chen, Hongwei Xia

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This study identifies approaches to managerial influence in the People’s Republic of China and examines the reflection of cultural themes in these approaches. Forty-eight factory directors from state-owned enterprises completed a survey in which they reported what they would say to workers in obligatory and nonobligatory work situations. Descriptive coding was used to develop message category systems for each situation. A more interpretive form of analysis was used to identify how the cultural themes of values, political ideology, and changing managerial roles were reflected in the influence approaches reported. The interrelated cultural values of group-centeredness, hierarchy, and face concern were …

The World As A Multilevel Mosaic: Understanding Regions, Robert Stoddard

Geography Program: Faculty Publications

The geographic concern with the organization of area involves the concept of regions and regionalization—the spatial division of Earth’s surface into homogeneous classes. Because regions provide a construct that helps in comprehending the complex variations in the world, they are an essential teaching element. ... Teachers can help students understand that people construct regions to interpret Earth’s complexity. Mastering that concept is essential because understanding the idea of region and the process of regionalization is fundamental to being geographically informed.

The Cost Of Interlibrary Loan Services In A Medium-Sized Academic Library, Ted Naylor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Interlibrary loan has traditionally been the main access to information beyond the individual library collection. The increase in access to document delivery services and full-text databases, however, has created the need to evaluate interlibrary loan services within the overall access environment. One of the most important factors in this evaluation concerns the cost to provide interlibrary loan. The purpose of this article is to provide the results of a study of one year's interlibrary loan expense at the Library at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The study was conducted to identify areas of greater and lesser interlibrary loan expense, …

Political And Economic Analysis Of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, F. Gregory Hayden, Steven R. Bolduc

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

This year's Veblen-Commons Award recipient, Seymour Melman, has warned that the laws and decisions allowing and encouraging the spread of cost-plus contracts have diminished productive capacity, increased production costs, created unearned profits, and weakened democratic institutions [Melman 1983, 1993]. The concern of this paper is the political organization of the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact (CIC) and the cost-plus contract system that it proposes to use in establishing a low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) facility. The current plan is to transport radioactive waste from the LLRW generators in Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to a disposal facility at the …

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 1996-97, Bruce B. Johnson, Bart Miller

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

Agricultural real estate values in Nebraska rose an average of 7.6 percent during the year ending February 1, 1997, with the all-land average value climbing to $654 per acre. This represented the tenth consecutive year of value increases, but the percentage increase was the largest for the all-state average since 1988. The basis of these findings is the UNL Farm Real Estate Market Survey now in its 20th year.

Land value increases occurred across the entire state, although largest gains were associated with cropland in the predominantly cash-grain areas. A combination offavorable crop prices, good yields in 1996, and transition …

Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him: Client-Centered Technical Services, Mary K. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Academics are being admonished to be "client-centered"--generally used to mean consumer or customer-oriented. This paper looks at the origins of "client-centeredness" in mental health care, and explores the idea of "client-centered" academic institutions, specifically the technical services functions of academic libraries. Philosophical and practical recommendations for a client-centered technical services operation conclude the paper.

Coming To Terms With Heritability, Scott F. Stoltenberg

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The complex mechanisms of heredity are little appreciated by nonspecialists, in some measure, because of misunderstandings that are perpetuated when words used for technical terms have other, more widely understood, folk meanings. When a word has both technical and folk meanings, it is the responsibility of the specialist to avoid promoting confusion by either using extremely cautious and precise language when using the term or, in cases when confusion is inevitable, abandoning the term in favor of one without a widely understood folk meaning. The study of heredity is beset by such confusion, and the term heritability appears to be …

Institutional, Evolutionary, And Demographic Contexts Of Gender Roles: A Case Study Of !Kung Bushmen, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

In this chapter I have two objectives. One is to detail the consequences of changes in social structure for gender roles and to show how economic change affects the lives of males and females. The second objective is to explain how my perspective on the relationship between behavior and social structure has changed over time. More particularly, I have been influenced by ideas in evolutionary biology. Although I still see human beings as embedded in a cultural context, I also see that other insights come by viewing humans as another mammalian and primate species. These ideas will be elaborated more …

Wpa News 53 (1997), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (May 1997), number 53

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Integrating Agroforestry Into Usda Programs: A Task Force Report To The Usda Interagency Working Group On Agroforestry, W. J. Rietveld, James P. Lassoie, Charles A. Francis, William Farris, Catalino Blanche, Bruce Wight

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The task force collected and synthesized infonnation and recommended actions to develop the potential of agroforestry to help attain USDA sustainable development goals.

Restoring The Pre-Settlement Landscape In Stanley County, South Dakota, Susan E. Boettcher, W. Carter Johnson

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

Settlement of the western United States resulted in clearing and degradation of many wooded areas. The loss of biodiversity and erosion of soil which followed produced a landscape which is still being restored. The first section of the paper reviews the settlement history of western South Dakota, describing the ecological effects of rapid population growth upon the landscape. The second part focuses on a smaller area, that of a family's ranch, which has undergone land management changes and woodland restoration since 1950. Studies which document an increase in woody species diversity and abundance, the population structure of trees, and the …

Farmsteads As Mirrors Of Cultural Adjustments And Change: The Ukrainian Canadian Experience, James W. Darlington

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

Farmsteads reflect more than the nature and health of agricultural activity on individual farms and across geographic regions; they provide a reliable record of other aspects of cultural and economic adjustment and change. This paper considers the farmsteads constructed by the Ukrainian immigrants and their descendants who settled in one district of the Canadian prairies beginning in 1896. A field survey of four townships reveals that between the time of initial settlement and the present four distinct generations of farm structures were erected. These generations of buildings-labeled here pioneer, traditional, transitional, and modern provide clear evidence of the economic progress …

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

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Review Of The Sjovold Site: A River Crossing Campsite In The Northern Plains Ian Dyck And Richard E. Morlan, Henry T. Epp

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

While reading this book, I found myself visited repeatedly by a phrase encapsulating its essence: archaeological science. Regardless of whether the site function hypothesis presented in the conclusion is ultimately confirmed or falsified through further testing, the book will remain a model of the application of science to archaeology. How is this so? Reduction, synthesis, hypothesis formulation, falsification of alternative hypotheses, explanation- all of these methods and goals are there, although not always defined or in sequence.

As site reports go, this is one of the most thoroughly researched to appear anywhere in Canada. The detail presented is almost …

Review Of The Institutionalized Cabinet: Governing The Western Provinces By Christopher Dunn, Paul Barker

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

The Institutionalized Cabinet seeks to discover the forces behind the emergence and persistence of the major change in government cabinets in three of Canada's four western provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia (Alberta declined to participate). For Christopher Dunn, the change itself is quite clear: the traditional or unaided cabinet of the past has been transformed into the more complex institutionalized cabinet. Less evident, though, are the causes of this development. Attempts have been made to explain the appearance of the institutionalized cabinet in both Western Canada and elsewhere in the nation, but they have yielded few insights. There are …

Review Of The Nebraska Sand Hills: The Human Landscape By Charles Barron Mcintosh, Philip J. Gersmehl

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

This is a remarkable volume. The ninety-first of 107 figures is a good example of what makes this book so remarkable. Figure 91 has a baker's dozen (13) small hand-drawn sketches that show how different landowners went back to the land office and claimed an additional 480 acres (Kincaid additions) to expand their 160-acre homesteads into units that might be more viable in the semi-arid climate of central Nebraska. These 13 examples come from ten different counties, which sprawl over an area larger than three of the original 13 colonies (as illustrated in Figure 1, which goes the extra step …

Review Of The Community In Canada: Rural And Urban Edited By Satadal Dasgupta, Paul Gingrich

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

This book surveys studies of rural, small town, and urban community in Canada. The first third of the book, written by Dasgupta, provides definitions and perspectives of community. The remainder of the book contains a selection of studies of communities in Canada, mostly sociological and mostly from the 1960s and 1970s.

Dasgupta begins with Hillery's 1955 classification of ninety-four definitions of community, noting that all but three of these definitions involve "a group of people in 'social interaction.’” Theories and perspectives on community are organized into five categories: ecological, ethnographic, social system, social or interactional, and conflict approaches. The author …

Review Of Grain Elevators By Lisa Mahar-Keplinger, Robert Duncan

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

In his rhapsodic introduction to this volume, in which he speaks of the grain elevators of the Midwest as "timeless cathedrals," Aldo Rossi quite accurately describes the power of these familiar icons. To artists, as Mahar-Keplinger notes, the elevator as an essentially industrial object has been transformed because of its intimate connections "with the land and the cycles of nature." While Le Corbusier saw the elevator as a universal building form, American artists such as Demuth and Sheeler saw it as a uniquely American object.

Recent American photographers have been fascinated with the way of life represented by the elevator. …

Gubernatorial Electoral Coalitions In The Great Plains, Thomas M. Carsey

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

This paper examines the nature of the electoral coalitions that develop surrounding gubernatorial candidates in the states of the Great Plains. It focuses on the contribution various groups make toward the electoral success or failure of gubernatorial candidates, highlighting the underlying political divisions within a state's population. This paper marks a first step into the study of these coalitions by offering a basic description of them. Some discussion of how electoral coalitions respond to candidate and campaign- related factors is presented. The implications of these findings are discussed, along with several considerations for further research. The data used for this …

Review Of The Jumanos: Hunters And Traders Of The South Plains By Nancy Parrott Hickerson, Yasuhide Kawashima

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

In the Atlantic region in the seventeenth century, there were several Indian groups, including the Massawomeck, that made a brief appearance in the contemporary documentary records but completely disappeared from the scene thereafter. The Jumanos were a Southwest tribe that faced the same fate. The mysteries surrounding the Jumanos have attracted the attention of such scholars as Adolph Bandelies, Frederick H. Hodge, Herbert Bolton, Carl Sauer, France V. Scholes, and J.Charles Kelley, but by the 1940s the consensus view was established that Jumanos, as used in the Spanish colonial documents, was a general term and did not refer to any …

Review Of Wyoming: A Source Book By Roy A. Jordan And S. Brett Deboer, Jerry L. Godbey

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

Wyoming's average year-round wind speed of 13 mph ranks first in the nation. The last stagecoach robbery in the U.S. occurred in Yellowstone National Park in 1915. The "equality state" boasts the highest population of elk, moose, mule deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse in the United States. The state of Wyoming is larger in surface area than 50% of the nations of the world. These are a few of the intriguing details offered in this useful volume.

Wyoming: A Source Book contains a wealth of information on the "cowboy state."A retired history professor from Northwest College in Powell, …

Review Of American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum By Teresa D. Lafromboise, Lee Little Soldier

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

This resource provides excellent suggestions for teachers and counselors working with Native American youth at the upper elementary and secondary levels. Its recommended curriculum is divided into seven sections, each dealing with skills important for survival in today's world.

The book's first two sections furnish lesson plans for building self-esteem and exploring emotions and stress, issues essential to Native American youngsters' well-being that are often overlooked in school curricula. Problem solving skills are stressed in the third section. The fourth, fifth, and sixth sections deal with issues surrounding suicide. Given the disproportionately high suicide rate for Native American youth, these …

Review Of Saving The Best Of Texas: A Partnership Approach To Conservation By Richard C. Bartlett, Pete A. Y. Gunter

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

This is a book of one basic idea: that conservation succeeds best on a "partnership" approach. The opposite of a partnership approach is confrontational environmental politics, which the author regards as on a par-both in its tenor and its results-with a dog fight. The author's central idea is developed with such detail, however, that the reader immediately becomes absorbed not in the unity of the message but in the sheer diversity of details. This diversity falls into three headings: the problems of the area's streams (a land of rivers, Texas has only one natural lake), the necessity of developing a …

Borderland Interaction In The International Region Of The Great Plains: An Historic-Geographical Perspective, Randy William Widdis

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

Canada as an historically contingent society, developing within the context of its own internal evolution, has always framed its becoming in its changing political, economic, and cultural relationships with the United States. The border takes on special significance for Canadians as it serves as the basic reference point for historical, literal, symbolic, and psychological interpretations of identity. Yet the meanings assigned to the border vary regionally because of different historic-geographical experiences.

This paper examines different types of population, economic, political, and cultural interactions taking place across the border within what can be called the international region of the Great Plains. …

Review Of Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, And Image Building In Small-Town America By Richard V. Francaviglia, Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser

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

In this excellent and unusual book, Richard Francaviglia traces the evolution of Main Street in America's small towns, examining patterns of growth, decay, and revitalization within the framework of Time, Space, and Image. No absolute "time frame" is offered, but an 1840s streetscape of London, Ohio, reproduced from Howe's History of Ohio, suggests a beginning date. Period illustrations and carefully chosen black and white photographs direct the reader on a 150 year journey to the present.

A discussion of the development of commercial establishments along the main thoroughfare begins with residential architecture. Ground floors were occupied by shops and …

Review Of The Minds Of The West: Ethnocultural Evolution In The Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 By Jon Gjerde, John D. Buenker

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

In his paradigm-shifting essay, Frederick Jackson Turner conceptualized a frontier West in which freedom and opportunity inexorably invested millions of European immigrants with a universal American identity. Revisiting the same phenomenon a century later, Jon Gjerde demonstrates convincingly that "the juxtaposition of cultural patterns-the minds-and environmental possibilities in a region diverse in cultural traditions and rich in resources-the West-... was replete with tension, conflict, even paradox." Moreover, he challenges the simplistic notion of undifferentiated "Americanization" with the brilliantly nuanced concepts of "ethnicization," "complementary identity," and "layered allegiances." Although briefly acknowledging that these complex interactions between cultural patterns and economic opportunities …