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Review Of Rivers Of Change: Essays On Early Agriculture In Eastern North America By Bruce D. Smith, Karl J. Reinhard

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

Between 1970 and 1990 there was a burst of paleoethnobotanical research into prehistoric Native American subsistence practices across North America which has resulted recently in numerous regional syntheses. No synthesis is more salient or cogent than that presented for eastern North America by Bruce D. Smith who has been a key researcher in the area of prehistoric subsistence.

Review Of American Wildflower Florilegium By Jean Andrews, David M. Sutherland

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

This book is a collection of 50 watercolor paintings of American wildflowers ("florilegium" means, literally, "a gathering of flowers"). Accompanying each full-page painting is a summary of general information about the plant, including notes about its botanical classification, the etymology of its name, life history, distribution, description, flowering period, pollination, and propagation.

Review Of Aboriginal Land Claims In Canada: A Regional Perspective By Ken Coates, Oiive Patricia Dickason

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

This informative collection of eight essays by different authors plus an introduction by the editor surveys the present state of aboriginal land claims across Canada. Each essay deals with a separate province or region, providing regional detail that fleshes out the overview. A selection of excerpts from pertinent documents at the end of each essay adds substantially to the usefulness of the work.

As David R. McNab, formerly of the Native Affairs Secretariat of the Province of Ontario, points out in his article, the aboriginal peoples have never been conquered, so that Canada's acquisition of their lands has been by …

Review Of Integrated Characterization Of Permian Basin Reservoirs, University Lands, West Texas: Targeting The Remaining Resource For Advanced Oil Recovery By Noel Tyler, Jack A. Babcock

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

The authors of Permian Basin Reservoirs have discovered two billion barrels of recoverable oil! Even better, they found this oil in existing fields, on lands owned by their employer, the University of Texas. They also assert that the oil can be recovered at low cost.

Three ideas summarize the findings of the 5-year study that forms the basis of this book: 1. Significant quantities of unexpected oil can be recovered, using low-cost, low-risk techniques, from existing fields. 2. The resources are concentrated in a few geologic plays, or reservoir types, so that most of the oil can be recovered from …

Review Of Rural Information Systems: New Directions In Data Collection And Retrieval By Rueben C. Buse And James L. Driscoll, Paul H. Gessaman

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

For most of us collecting, compiling, and drawing inferences from data are never-ending activities. Some data-based decisions, such as decisions of a driver who observes and responds to a traffic control device, can be readily completed. Others, e.g., decisions that adjudicate stream flow among competing users, can require complex and protracted decision processes. The capability of a society to make sound data-based decisions is founded on accurate and timely data that are readily available without undue cost. The presumption that such data are not presently available to persons working with rural problems, issues, and policies provides the guiding thesis of …

The Iconography Of Plants Collected On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Linda Rossi, Alfred E. Schuyler

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

FrederickPursh 's Flora Americae Septentrionalis (1814) is considered to be the standard flora of the nineteenth century. Additional floras of this period were developed by Nuttall, Elliott, and Torrey and Gray. We know that Meriwether Lewis collected some herbarium specimens that contributed to Pursh's Flora during the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. Pursh's Flora was the first to include plants of the Pacific Northwest. A number of the specimens Lewis collected are in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Those who use the Herbarium know and appreciate the contribution of Lewis to botany. Twenty-four of the illustration …

Review Of Homes In Alberta: Building, Trends, And Design 1870-1967 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, Peter Caron

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

I must admit right off that I was preparing for reviewing a dry piece of work. I believe that most readers including myself will be pleasantly surprised if not more accurately impressed with the obvious mountain of research and effort that was needed to compile this publication. The presentation of the information is very well done indeed. It is entertaining in the early chapters on Settlement and the Modern House, and continues to be so throughout. The consistent use of quotes from architects, newspapers, builders, and planners from the eras being discussed definitely give a great deal of insight into …

Review Of Preserving The Great Plains And Rocky Mountains By Elaine Freed, Lawrence Sommer

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

Preserving the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains is a welcome addition to the body of historic preservation literature because it focuses on a region of the United States that is all to often ignored by architectural historians and other scholars writing about historic preservation matters. Elaine Freed deserves much credit for producing a volume that illustrates a thorough understanding of the issues confronting anyone trying to preserve the region's cultural resources. To complete this study, Freed spent several years doing extensive research, conducting literally hundreds of interviews and traveling thousands of miles across this vast and sparsely populated section of …

Review Of The End Of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety From The Old West To The New Deal By David M. Wrobel, Frederick Luebke

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

This slender volume, a revision of a recent doctoral dissertation, is an exercise in intellectual history that examines attitudes, concerns, and beliefs about the passing of the frontier and its consequences for American civilization. It is a study of elite opinion; common folk and their ideas are not treated here. Of the many intellectuals discussed writers, journalists, academicians, prominent politicians none receives more attention than Frederick Jackson Turner, the eminent historian who synthesized his famous frontier thesis exactly a century ago.

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Court: From Termination To Self-Determination, George D. Watson Jr.

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

In 1976, a study by the Judicial Services Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs concluded that insufficient information is available on Indian tribal courts, suggesting that they have been largely ignored by historians and political scientists alike. By examining a specific court the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court a fuller understanding of its vital role in the operation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation can be gained.

From 1870 to the present, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court has experienced a series of changes dictated by federal Indian policy including the replacement of tribal legal traditions with federal laws such as …

Review Of For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic By Georges E. Sioui, Lisa E. Emmerich

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

For an Amerindian Autohistory is a provocative, intensely personal appeal for the development of a "new" history grounded in Amerindian cultures and intellectual traditions. Georges Sioui argues that the only way to net North American Indian history is to the people themselves. He challenges those working in the field to develop intellectual and professional partnerships with native peoples, to engage in "autohistory." Intercultural collaboration via this paradigm can, he believes, help map a new, good, and decidedly "red" road into historical territory long considered off-limits to its very own residents.

Review Of Useful Pleasures: The Shaping Of Leisure In Alberta, 1896-1945 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, David Weaver

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

Modestly touted as a preliminary exploration of leisure themes and topics in Alberta during the first half of the twentieth century, this book at first glance might be rejected as too esoteric by potential readers who are neither leisure specialists nor Albertans. This would be unfortunate, since the authors have produced a most informative and relevant work with implications reaching far beyond its intended geographical and topical scope. The first three chapters constituting Part One examine the institutional, social, and technological context within which leisure in early Alberta developed, while the last eight chapters (Part Two) focus upon a comprehensive …

Soil Moisture And Clay Measurement Of Volcaniclastic Soils Of Western Nebraska, N. B. Stolpe, D. T. Lewis, G. A. Uzochukwu, Stephanie L. Hartung

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

Several soils of western Nebraska have exhibited unusually high water content at 15 bars tension (an estimate of the water content where plants begin to wilt) relative to the percent measured clay. These same soils are known to form in volcanically derived sediments. The objective of the study was to identify a mineralogical cause for the discrepancy. Representative samples from the Busher, Epping, Keith, Mitchell, Otero, and Tripp soils were collected and characterized to determine the relationship between soil moisture and measured clay contents. Calculated ratios of soil water content at 15 bars tension to the percent measured clay equaled …

In Whose Backyard?: Concern About Sitting A Nuclear Waste Facility, Robert D. Benford, Helen A. Moore, J. Allen Williams Jr.

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Proponents of hazardous and nuclear waste depositories label opponents to local siting of such facilities "NIMBYs" (Not In My Backyard). This study assesses the extent to which the NIMBY label and the strategies of industry proponents to reduce opposition function on a reasonable set of assumptions. Using survey data and multiple regression techniques, the levels of concern of residents living in the county selected as the site of a low level radioactive wane disposal facility (imminent threat condition) are compared with a statewide sample (hypothetical threat condition). Consistent with proponents' theoretical assumptions, the levels of concern are greater for respondents …

Ten Reasons To Attend Law School, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Each year, approximately 1.5 billion otherwise sane college graduates enter law school. (This figure includes at least 350 students a year in countries other than the United States. ) These new law students come from all walks of life-laid-off brokers, laid-off autoworkers, unemployed M.B.A.s, disillusioned public school teachers, political science majors, political science majors, and more political science majors. Three years later, they emerge-the best and brightest nonproductive professionals that any struggling debtor nation has ever produced, the core of America's hopes for the twenty-first century.

Why do they do it? What is it about law school that attracts so …

What Happens If Roe Is Overruled? Extraterritorial Regulation Of Abortion By The States, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Since 1973, states have effectively been prohibited from regulating most abortions. As every lawyer, law student, and almost every other American adult knows, the United States Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that a woman has a constitutional right to have an abortion. It is also common knowledge that in recent years the Supreme Court has been slowly restricting, or refusing to extend, that right.

The future of Roe v. Wade is uncertain, particularly after the Supreme Court's most recent abortion decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The actual restrictions on abortion upheld in Casey are less important than the …

Justification Defenses And Just Convictions, Robert F. Schopp

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The fully competent, culpable, and malevolent Spike azttacks Mother Beneficence with a tire iron in order to steal the alms she has collected for the poor. Mother Beneficence defends herself by kicking Spike in the shins, and Dudley Doright rushes to her rescue, punching Spike in the nose, knocking him to the ground, and holding him until the police arrive. Dudley acts solely for the purposes of preventing harm to Mother Beneficence and bringing Spike to justice.

Both Mother Beneficence and Dudley fulfill the offense elements for assault in that they purposely cause bodily injury to another human being. Most …

International Human Rights, Morality In War, And The Structure Of Rights, Edward C. O'Dowd, Robert F. Schopp

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

A careful analysis of certain issues of morality in war demonstrates important differences in the duties recognized by Western and Chinese military) officers toward their soldiers. These differences reflect fundamentally different theories of social morality in the societies these officers represent. Although Western countries and China have endorsed a common set of internationally recognized human rights, a meaningful consensus regarding human rights must remain consistent across three levels of analysis. The putative contemporary) consensus among Chinese and liberal societies fails because the fundamental differences in underlying principles of social morality that give rise to divergent principles of morality in war …

Behavioral Sex Differences In Children Of Diverse Cultures: The Case Of Nurturance To Infants, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This chapter draws on the data from the Children of Different Worlds study (Whiting & Edwards, 1988) to consider the origin of sex differences in children’s behavior worldwide, in particular: (1) how different kinds of social behavior are elicited by different contexts of socialization (defined by the sex, age, status, and kinship of social interactants, ongoing activities, and other potent dimensions of setting); (2) how these contexts of socialization are distributed across cultures and associated with various adult subsistence strategies, family structures, household patterns, and forms of social networks; and (3) how boys and girls of each age in diverse …

Statement By Former U. S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, Clayton K. Yeutter

Clayton K. Yeutter, United States Secretary of Agriculture: Papers

When the Uruguay Round was launched in 1986, those of us who were present expected it to be completed in four years. Regrettably it took seven. The delay reflects the turmoil and disruptions of a global recession, termination of the Cold War, and political turnover among some of the major trading nations. But persistence paid off, this very ambitious Round is now successfully concluded, and the world will be better off for it.

Protecting The Hidden Resource: The Quiet Crisis In Nebraska Pesticide And Ground Water Protection Policies, J. David Aiken

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

This 1993 Creighton Law Review article reviews Nebraska legislation for protecting ground water quality from agricultural chemical use, the 1991 EPA Pesticides and Ground-Water Strategy, and proposed Nebraska pesticide regulation legislation.

Notes And News For Vol.13 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For manY'African Americans, Malcolm is a shining black prince, a charismatic leader, and the ideological founder of the movement toward a black awakening. He is a cultural and political icon, and as such, belongs to all of us. For Bruce Perry, Malcolm is a chameleon and a man in conflict. His Malcolm is a political opportunist, who yearned for happiness and love but courted failure, longed for freedom but shunned it until it was too late, hungered for the approval of the very authority figures he defied. Rather than view Malcolm as an individual thinker who could publicly change his …

Review Of Groundwater Exploitation In The High Plains And Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On The Trail Of The Corn Belt Farmer, 1909, Sam Kepfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

David Kromm and Stephen White, both professors of geography at Kansas State University and experts on water use in the West, have gathered pieces by water experts. The result, Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains, is a first-rate exploration of the methods and problems of groundwater utilization in the Ogallala Aquifer and the states overlying it-Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.

Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy, Ernest Rouske

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Millions of years ago earth crust movements caused a sixty-four-square mile area near what is now Great Bend in central Kansas to drop, creating a shallow, poorly drained basin. These wetlands, called Cheyenne Bottoms, draw hordes of waterfowl and shorebirds during spring and fall migrations. Its importance is such that it is considered one of the three major stop-over places for shorebirds east of the Rockies, "an oasis in a parched and wind seared landscape beckoning the greatest travelers on the globe."

Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Albro Martin has authored a masterful account of the pivotal role of railroads in shaping American economic and social life. The foremost historian of American railroads, Martin examines the emergence of the railroad system in the antebellum era, the growth of the great transcontinental lines, and the numerous difficulties experienced by railroads in the twentieth century. He pictures the railroads as agents of change, noting that railroads were instrumental in opening the prairie states for settlement, facilitating industrialization, and forging a national market for goods. As America's first big business, the railroads also compelled the formulation of new legal rules …

New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains Of North America, John L. Allen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Arising partly from the debates, scholarly and otherwise, surrounding the commemoration of the Columbian Quincentennial, the claim has been made that the European discovery and exploration of the New World was a process that had "meaning only in terms of European ignorance, not in terms of any contribution to universal knowledge"¹ and that the study of exploration and discovery is therefore ethnocentric or (worse) racist. Such a claim, which denies the mechanisms of exploration and discovery their important place in the broader epistemological process of how we know and understand the world, is contentious.

Review Of Nebraska Moments: Glimpses Of Nebraska's Past, Micheal W. Schuyler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nebraska Moments, by Donald Hickey, professor of history at Wayne State College in Nebraska, is a collection of thirty-nine essays about the state's past. The essays, which range in length from six to twelve pages, discuss personalities, institutions, places, and events that have shaped the state's history. Biographical sketches of such political figures as David Butler (Nebraska's first Governor), J. Sterling Morton, William Jennings Bryan, and George W. Norris; western and military heroes such as Buffalo Bill Cody and John J. Pershing; Native Americans such as Red Cloud and Standing Bear; and intellectual figures such as Louise Pound, Willa …

The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A storm of controversy arose in April 1949 when Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan unveiled the Truman administration's postwar policy for agriculture. The most controversial aspect of the so-called Brannan plan was its production payments feature, a direct, undisguised farm subsidy designed to bring relief to producers and consumers alike. Other aspects of the complex plan also elicited both praise and blame, but disagreements during this fractious time were not limited to farm questions. In a year of apparent victories for the world's communist monolith, spy trials, and labor unrest, discussions of farm policy on the Great Plains and …

Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

World War II left thousands of lives over much of the world fundamentally changed. Thus, it is not too surprising to find that Native Americans were also profoundly touched by the war and its aftermath. Alison R. Bernstein develops and proves this theme in her well written book that fills the void between the several studies of the Indian New Deal and recent works considering the termination movement of the 1950s.