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The Indians Of Texas: An Annotatcd Research Bibliography., Joseph B. Herring

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Michael Tate has provided scholars and students alike with a valuable and comprehensive bibliography of the various Indian tribes that once lived within the boundaries of the present state of Texas. Included are 3,796 citations on the native Coahuiltecan, Karankawa, Tonkaw'a, Jumano, \X/ichita, Caddo, Atakapa, Comanche, and Kiowa peoples a:; well as the emigrant Cherokees, AlabamaCoushattas, Seminoles, and Kickapoos who moved to Texas during the first half of the nineteenth century. The work is divided into two books. The first is a tribal arrangement focusing on Indian cultures, and the second is a chronological arrangement of Indian-white rclations from the …

State And Local Regulations For Reducing Agricultural Erosion And Ecological Planning For Farmland Preservation, Charles Deknatel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The authority to plan and regulate land use in the U.S. belongs to the states and is largely delegated to local governments. Agricultural policy is defined at the national level. These reports introduce planners to two major conservation problems in agriculture-soil erosion and conversion of farmland to other uses. Both documents offer guidance, methods and strategies aimed primarily at local and state action. Neither report offers conclusive analysis nor addresses the national and international market influences on agriculture policy.

Leadership Selection In Canadian Indian Communities, Reforming The Present And Incorporating The Past, J Anthony Long, Menno Boldt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With improving prospects of achieving a greater measure of political autonomy for their governments, native Indian leaders in Canada are beginning to look seriously at reforming internal tribal/band political structures. Their objectives arc to establish band governments that meet the present social and economic needs of Indian peoples as well as reflect traditional political values. A "hand" is a legal entity specified in the Indian Act, a federal statute that has governed Indians in Canada since shortly after Confederation. In most instances the band corresponds to traditional tribal social and political organization, and these concepts are now often used interchangeably. …

Review Of Union Busting In The Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas, And Missouri Metal Workers' Strike Of 1935., Arrell Morgan Gibson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The National Industry Recovery Act (1933) and National Labor Relations Act (1935) substantially improved the lot of most American workers by assuring their federally-mandated right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. Union Busting reveals a worker community-the Tri-State District (Southwest Missouri centering on Joplin, Southeast Kansas centering on Galena/Baxter Springs, and Northeast Oklahoma centering on Picher/ Commerce/Miami)-that was denied the benefits of that reform legislation. Opened in the 1840s, by 1900 this bonanza was rated the richest lead and zinc mining region in the world, and the industry it sustained was valued at one billion dollars.

Review Of Prairie Women: Images In American And Canadian Fiction, Susan J. Rosowski

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction, Carol Fairbanks has taken materials suitable for a fine annotated bibliography, then, disappointingly, presented them in the guise of critical interpretation.

From Wasteland To Utopia: Changing Images Of The Canadian In The Nineteeth Century, R. Douglas Francis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is common knowledge that what one perceives is greatly conditioned by what one wants or expects to see. Perception is not an objective act that occurs independently of the observer. One is an active agent in the process and brings to one's awareness certain preconceived values, or a priori assumptions, that enable one to organize the deluge of objects, experiences, and impressions into some meaningful and comprehensive world view. Perception changes as new information or altered perspectives are integrated and thus, one's view of the "objective" external world is affected.

Acculturation By Design: Architectural Determinism And The Montana Indian Reservations, 1870-1930, Carroll Van West

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Everything the Power of the World docs is done in a circle. The sky is round like a hall, and [ have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs i, the same religion ;1S ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon docs the same, and both arc round. Even the seasons form a great ,circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our teepees …

Review Of The Prairie West: Historical Readings, John C. Scott O.S.B.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Prairie West makes available thirty-two essays which provide "both overview interpretations and current research" on the history of the Canadian Prairie West. Although the book lacks an index (which would make its content more easily accessible for readers with very specific interests), each of the volume's fourteen sections is preceded by a very competent and instructive introduction as well as a "Selected Bibliography."

The Indian Reorganization Act And The Loss Of Tribal Sovereignty: Constitutions On The Rosebud And Pine Ridge Reservations, Richmond L. Clow

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The rhetoric of the Indian New Deal has directed scholars to study tribal political activities only after the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Graham D. Taylor expressed the prevailing opinion when he claimed that "the tribal governments established under the Indian Reorganization Act constitute a totally new and unfamiliar level of organization for many Indian groups.'" Although the flurry of new tribal constitutions adopted after 1934 overshadowed previous constitutional activities, Taylor and others overstate the case. Indian tribes had always had the right to determine their own form of government, and many tribes, beginning with the Cherokee in 1827, had …

Baronets And Buffalo: The British Sportsman In The American West, 1833-1881, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book, "a narrative history of the American West as seen through the eyes and exploits of British sportsmen," begins with an epigraph from George Frederick Ruxton: "Although liable to an accusation of barbarism, I must confess that the very happiest moments of my life have been spent in the wilderness of the Far West" (v,iv). Ruxton was but one of scores of British sportsmen who wandered through the American plains during the nineteenth century-killing buffalo and elk, seeing (and sometimes fleeing) Indians, undergoing hardships, and generally revelling in the wildness they found beyond the frontier. After spending 1846-47 in …

Nowhere Left To Go: Montana's Crees, Metis, And Chippewas And The Creation Of Rocky Boy's Resevation, Larry Burt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the last third of the nineteenth century, the federal governments of Canada and the United States asserted their jurisdiction over the Great Plains through a series of treaties that established reservations for the various Indian tribes of the area. By the turn of the century, three small native groups found themselves homeless relics of a distant past long after other peoples had moved to their reservations. Several bands of Cree Indians and a number of mixed-bloods, who called themselves Metis, had used lands on both sides of the line that had become the border between the state of Montana …

Thunderstorm Morphology And Dynamics, Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged., Alec H. Paul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is Volume 2 in the three-volume series Thunderstorms: A Social, Scientific, and Technological Documentary. The first, The Thunderstorm in Human Affairs, was reviewed in Great Plains Quarterly, Summer 1984. This second offering is also a fine product but is highly technical in places, much larger, more detailed, and considerably more expensive. It is a book for the thunderstorm specialist rather than for the general reader.

Tom Benton And His Drawings: A Biographical Essay And A Collection Of His Sketches, Studies, And Mural Cartoons, Richard W. Etulain

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This volume, which reproduces about two hundred of Thomas Hart Benton's more than two thousand works, is a valuable scholarly study as well as a handsomely produced book about one of the modern West's most significant artists. As such, it avoids the major limitation of many recent works on western art in which academic excellence is sacrificed to the larger-and less notable-aim of producing a visually appealing book with sales potential.

Navitism Or Not? Perceptions Of British Investments In Kansas, 1882-1901, Larry A. Mcfarlane

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A recurring topic in the historiography of Populism has been the extent to which the Populists and other agrarian radicals were nativist or anti..Semitic in the tenor of some of their reforms. In this article I trace the progress of legislation intended to restrict or eliminate absentee ownership of Kansas lands by aliens, particularly British landlords, from the first demand for such restriction in 1882 through the enactment of restrictive legislation in 1891 to its repeal in 1901. I parallel this study by following the currents of anti..alien rhetoric of the agrarian radicals who advocated the restrictions. While it is …

On The Nature Of The Horse Of The American West In Nineteenth Century Art, Martin E. Petersen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In nineteenth century America the horse was identified with the frontier and served as an image of independence and unrestrained freedom. Western travelers published in their diaries and journals accounts of sighting mustangs, the wild horses of the prairies. Washington Irving's vivid descriptions in his Tour on the Prairirs (1835) were among the earliest. In painting, literature's sister art, however, images of the western horse do not correspond with the written descriptions of the livestock that actually inhabited the area. The artists, rather, painted the ideal Arahian horse, a recognizable type developed throughout the century. The Arahian, considered the oldest …

The Transition From Farming To Ranching In The Kansas Flint Hills, Joseph V. Hickey, Charels E. Webb

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For more than a century the Flint Hills have been a stronghold of the livestock industry, an area of Kansas devoted almost exclusively to the feeding and breeding of cattle. One of the last large segments of tall grass prairie that once stretched from Canada to Texas and from Kansas to Indiana, the Flint Hills region covers some five thousand square miles of rolling hills and narrow valleys in east central Kansas. The Flint Hills embrace all or parts of thirteen counties: Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Geary, Greenwood, Lyon, Marion, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and Wabaunsee (fig. 1).¹

Cities Of The Prairie Revisited: The Closing Of The Metropolitan Frontier, John C. Schneider

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In a series of highly-regarded publications during the early 1970s, Daniel Elazar selected ten medium-sized communities he believed were representative of urban America, placed them in a broad historical context, and examined their ability to respond politically to the changes and problems confronting them in the years between World War II and the Kennedy administration. Elazar now returns to those same communities (predominantly in Illinois) and picks up the story where he left off, carrying it down through the Great Society, Vietnam, and Nixon's New Federalism.

At Home On The Range: Essays On The History Of Western Social And Domestic Life., Glenda Riley

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Wunder has performed a service to those interested in the social side of western life by bringing these useful and interesting essays together. Part of the Contributions in American History series, this volume contains perspectives on agricultural history that range from the analytical to first-person observation.

The Plains Indians Of The Twentieth Century., Thomas F. Schilz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Peter Iverson's The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century is an attempt to document some of contemporary Plains Indian life. Iverson's collaborators include a number of well-known writers on Indian history and social issues, but their contributions are drawn from previously published works rather than being written for this anthology.

Nature In Don Segundo Sombra And The Virginian, John Donahue

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Environment and culture shape human beings, both as individuals and as societies. In all the vast plains of the Americas where a cattle industry developed, a human type evolved a distinct way of life: the gaucho in Argentina, the charro in Mexico, the llanero in Venezuela, the guaso in Chile, and the cowboy in the United States and Canada. ¹ Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, an Argentine intellectual who was an avid reader of James Fenimore Cooper, was perhaps the first to state clearly in regard to the Americas that wherever a similar combination of geographical features occurs, parallel customs and occupations …

Notes & News (Great Plains Quarterly 7:1, Winter 1987)

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Eleventh annual conference 18-20 March 1987 on "Women's Culture in the Great Plains."

Enron Art Foundation has donated its Maximilian-Bodmer Collection to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska

CANPLAINS Data Base indexes all prairie relevant articles from over 140 periodicals

Montana Archaeological Society invites all interested readers to subscribe to Archaeology in Montana

1985 Don D. Walker award for the best article on western literature or culture has been presented to Roger Stein

1985 Robert Heizer award to Waldo Wedel and Douglas Parks

Review Of Indian Education In Canada: Volume 1: The Legacy, Dana Lawrence

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This eight-essay volume offers a historical and regional overview of Indian education in Canada and deals largely with very specific examples of the types of education provided to Canada's Indian people up to the decade of the 1970s. Of note, the essays are mostly written by non-Indian authors, although all appear to be knowledgeable about their topics.

Early Fur Trade On The Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among The Mandan And Hidatsa Indians, 1738-1818., James A. Hanson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The permanent villages of farming Indians on the Upper Missouri were a central focus for trade in prehistoric times. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, both French and Spanish traders had reach ed the area, and by the early nineteenth century, the Mandan- Hidatsa villages had come to be a Parisian entrepot for the buffalo hunting tribes, the St. Louis and Canadian traders, and the artists and explorers of young America. While the drive up the Missouri from St. Louis is well documented, Wood and Thiessen have unveiled for us an exciting story of the important and early Canadian …

Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy In The Dodge City-Panhandle Region, Richard L. Lane

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Dodge City-Panhandle Region, as C. Robert Haywood defines it, encompassed a "ragged, imprecise triangle" with its base in the upper panhandle of Texas and its apex at Dodge City. Haywood persuasively argues that for two formative decades-1868 to 1888-this region was unified not only by "common physiographical and demographical characteristics" but by an economic interdependence that transcended state and territorial boundary lines. As a market, shipping point, and source of supply, Dodge City was the effective, if not political, capital of the region. Such remote and diverse locations as Tascosa, Texas, and Fort Supply, Oklahoma, were linked to Dodge …

Plains Indian Cultures: An Introduction, Frances W. Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In March 1986 more than 200 scholars and other participants came to a symposium entitled "Plains Indian Cultures: Past and Present Meanings." The six articles that follow represent a cross section of the conference. Two separate volumes of conference papers, on international perspectives and on policy issues, are to be published later. We thank Vernon Snow and the Snow Foundation for supporting all of these publications.

In The Land Of Th Indian Woslata: Plains Indian Influences On Reservation Whites, Timothy J. Kloberdanz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If one climbs the high grassy hill that overlooks the town of Fort Yates on the Standing Rock Reservation in south-central North Dakota, the scene that gradually unfolds is an engaging one. Fort Yates is bordered on practically all sides by the expansive waters of Lake Oahe. Except for the fact that the community resembles a veritable island, it looks much like other Great Plains towns, with an assortment of generously spaced old and new structures. From the top of the hill to the north, one can sec for miles across the lake and the Missouri River to the rolling …

The Assault On Assimilation: John Collier And The Origins Of Indian Policy Reform, Henry E. Fritz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

About one quarter of this book is devoted to John Collier's interest in various kinds of social experiments before he discovered the American Indian. One learns a great deal about Collier's family background and his association with Mabel Dodge, Stella Atwood, Tony Luhan, Dr. John R. Haynes, and D. H. Lawrence. No additional research will be needed in reference to these aspects of Collier's reform impulse and orientation.

Plains Indian Sculpture: A Traditional Art From America's Heartland., George P. Horse Capture

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Many years ago as the beauty and importance of Plains Indian art and history became more essential to my life, I felt the impact of Dr. Ewers long before finally meeting him and his wonderful wife, Marge, in Cody at a Plains Indian seminar fish-fry. We soon made friends and this relationship endures to this day. Knowing of this upcoming work and the extensive research Dr. Ewers devoted to the relatively little-known topic of Plains Indian miniature sculpture, I am elated with this latest publication by a master of the field.

Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing The American Dream., Joanne Jacobson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John E. Carter has collected Solomon D. Butcher's photographs of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century rural and small town Nebraska life in the most sharply detailed reproductions and the most generous format yet available. Cataloging the physical and social environment of farm families and ranchers, objects of work and leisure, the construction of prairie sod houses, the arrival of technology and urbane civilization on the frontier, Butcher's work provides an irreplaceable record of the establishment of white culture on the Plains.

After The Buffalo Were Gone: The Louis Warren Hill, Sr., Collection Of Indian Art., Richard W. Etulain

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This catalogue of the Louis W. Hill Collection of Indian art and crafts, evenly divided between the Museum of the Plains Indians in Browning, Montana, and the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, makes available to specialists and general readers a visual portrait of a notable collection. While nearly 170 of the book's 256 pages consist of brief descriptions alongside black-and-white illustrations of items contained in the Hill collection, the volume also includes an account of Louis W. Hill, Glacier Park, and the gathering of the Hill collection by Ann T. Walton; a very brief essay by noted ethnologist …