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Review Of Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion By Bob Beal And Rod Macleod, George Woodcock

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The North-West Rebellion is one of those events in Canadian history about which much has been written without the mass of available information having been put together in a single comprehensive account. There have been narratives of participants on both sides in the rebellion and biographies of leading figures like Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont, Poundmaker and Big Bear. The causes of the rebellion have been established in regional histories like George F. Stanley's The Birth of Western Canada, and the military aspects of the incident have been described in books like Desmond Morton's The Last War Drums. …

The Emergence Of The American Agriculture Movement, 1977-1979, John Dinse, William P. Browne

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Beginning in late 1977, the media, television in particular, portrayed as a unique cultural phenomenon an emerging American Agriculture Movement (AAM), a pending farm strike, and a depressed farm economy that had caused this mobilization. Much was indeed unique, especially to the individual farmers and the specific manner in which they were attempting to apply political pressures, but the American Agriculture Movement itself was similar to other organizational attempts that have taken place in rural America.

In the following paper we chronicle the emergence of the American Agriculture Movement as a distinct entity, identify the common features in the emergence …

The Garden-Desert Continuum Competing Views Of The Great Plains In The Nineteenth Century, John L. Allen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the central portion of the great American continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert which, for many a long year, served as a barrier against the advance of civilization. From the Cordillera to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado in the south, is a region of desolation and silence . . . enormous plains which, in winter, are white with snow and, in summer, are gray with the saline alkali dust. They all preserve the common characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality, and misery . ... In this stretch of country there is no …

Index- Fall 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Index (8 Pages)

Fall 1985

Title And Contents- Fall 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

FALL 1985 VOL. 5 NO.4

CONTENTS

THE GARDEN-DESERT CONTINUUM: COMPETING VIEWS OF THE GREAT PLAINS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY John L. Allen

THE EMERGENCE OF THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURE MOVEMENT, 1977-1979 William P. Browne and John Dinse

MAPPING THE QUALITY OF LAND FOR AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN CANADA James M. Richtik

BENJAMIN HARRISON AND THE AMERICAN WEST Homer E. Socolofsky

BOOK REVIEWS

Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion

Riel and the Rebellion 1885 Reconsidered

The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos

NOTES & NEWS

INDEX

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Notes & News- Fall 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

NOTES & NEWS

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Review Of Riel And The Rebellion 1885 Reconsidered By Thomas Flanagan, John E. Foster

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Professor Flanagan's latest revisionist publication heralds the centenary of the 1885 Saskatchewan Rebellion with a series of developmentally related essays, expressed as chapters, that challenge the conventional wisdom as to the factors responsible for one Plains Metis community, under Louis Riel, taking up arms to redress their grievances. At the same time Flanagan fails to address one longstanding deficiency in the literature.

Flanagan's scholarly strengths lie in his analyses of political issues and processes. His two chapters on the land issues in relation to the Rebellion are without equal. His discussion of aboriginal title is of interest in its own …

Review Of The Roots Of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, And Social Change Among The Choctaws, Pawnees, And Navajos By Richard White, David Reed Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In his 1954 essay entitled "Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison," Fred Eggan called for studies to define carefully the parameters of research "combining the sound anthropological concepts of structure and function with the ethnological concepts of process and history." Historian Richard White presents an important contribution with this monograph, which exemplifies a response to the challenge put forth almost thirty years ago. White's decision to blend methodological and descriptive devices, drawing on the literature of several disciplines, demonstrates his willingness to present the complexity of human interactions in an effort to reconstruct the perspectives of three Indian …

Agreement Between Reporters And Editors In Mississippi, Will Norton Jr., John W. Windhauser, Allyn Boone

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

Both newspaper editors and reporters act as decision makers in their selections of "newsworthy" events to be published. But what editors include in newspapers is influenced by the news values of their colleagues or superiors. Studies of gatekeepers who control the flow of news have reported such results about the news selection process. Individual opinions of editors, newsroom schedules and publication technicalities, and news sources were found to affect choices of stories. Similarly, selected social and structural characteristics of media organizations had "subjective" implications for media "output." Other studies suggested that a high degree of similarity occurred in the news …

The Development Of An Instructional Design Model For Equal Opportunity In The Nebraska Army National Guard, Rodney Leon Moore

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Factors Which Influence Females To Enroll In High School Vocational Agriculture Classes In Nebraska, James David Wesely

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.

A Rating Of Human Relations Competencies By Mechanized Agriculture Graduates, Harry L. Field

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Mechanized Agriculture/Agricultural Mechanization programs have been in existence since the early 1900's, but no researcher has attempted to determine the human relations competencies that are important for the graduates of these programs to possess. This dissertation attempted to remedy this situation by determining the importance level graduates placed on a list of 80 human relations competencies. The level of importance for the competencies was determined by analyzing the results of a questionnaire sent to 120 graduates of the University of Nebraska's Mechanized Agriculture program. The questionnaire included two demographic questions, one on job category and one on graduation period, and …

Recovery Of Helminths From Prehistoric Feces: The Cultural Ecology Of Ancient Parasitism, Karl J. Reinhard

Karl Reinhard Publications

Several helminth parasites have been recovered from archaeological sites on the Colorado Plateau. These include Ascaris, Trichuris, Enterobius, Moniliformis, and tapeworms in the families Hymenolepidae and Taeniidae. The recovery of these animals demonstrates that cross-temporal: comparison of parasitism between different prehistoric lifestyles is possible. Such comparison might elucidate the effects of changing lifestyle and subsistance pattern on human parasitism.

Desiccated feces recovered from archaelogical deposits were studied. Hunter-gatherer feces were selected from Dust Devil Cave in southeastern Utah. Agriculturalist feces were studied from Antelope House, a cave site in northeastern Arizona, and Salmon Ruins, a Pueblo …

Wpa News 9 (1985), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (July 1985), number 9

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Pawnee Geography Historical And Sacred, Waldo R. Wedel, Douglas R. Parks

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The earth is a fundamental religious symbol for American Indian peoples. Among horticultural and hunting tribes alike, Mother Earth is the female principle, the expression of fertility and creator of life, begetting vegetation, animals, and humans. In this elemental role she often appears conspicuously in religious rituals. For many American Indian peoples, specific geographical features on the earth also figured prominently in tribal conceptions of the sacral world. The Pawnee Indians, who formerly lived in east central Nebraska, provide an instructive example of a people who had an elaborate and unique set of beliefs about such landmarks and who incorporated …

Review Of Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux By Raymond Wilson, Janet Goldenstein-Ahler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Charles Eastman, Ohiyesa, was a Santee Sioux whose life invites curiosity in a different way than for great Native American leaders like Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, or Crazy Horse. Eastman was one of a very few Native Americans of his time who lived competently in two worlds. Raymond Wilson offers a picture of the whole lifetime in one concise, readable volume, showing Eastman's' life as fraught with difficulties and controversies. The work is based primarily on government documents, correspondence, others' accounts, and Eastman's own books and articles.

Eastman's maternal grandfather, Seth Eastman, was a U.S. Army captain who left his …

Notes And News- Summer 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

NOTES & NEWS

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UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Review Of A Guide To American Indian Resource Materials In Great Plains Repositories By Joseph G. Svoboda, Herbert T. Hoover

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The frequent users of primary sources are ever grateful for any index, catalogue, guide, or list that can help direct them through manuscripts, published documents, oral histories, and other original materials. Here is no exception; they will appreciate the efforts of Joseph Svoboda and staff for a helpful tool, even though it is one with serious limitations.

It is the product of a questionnaire mailing to which less than one third of the recipients responded. Of these, less than two thirds submitted relevant information. More disconcerting than this, Svoboda's Guide lists not only materials on Great Plains Indian peoples, but …

Title And Contents- Summer 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

SUMMER 1985 VOL. 5 NO.3

CONTENTS

PAWNEE GEOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL AND SACRED Douglas R. Parks and Waldo R. Wedel

MAPPING KANSAS AND NEBRASKA: THE ROLE OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE Ronald E. Grim

BOOK REVIEWS

Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1852

Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux

A Guide to American Indian Resource Materials in Great Plains Repositories

NOTES & NEWS

PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES

Mapping Kansas And Nebraska The Role Of The General Land Office, Ronald E. Grim

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The rectangular alignment of fields, farmsteads, and roads is one of the most striking characteristics of the settlement pattern of the Great Plains. As most students of this region's cultural landscape are aware, the dominant factor in the formation of this regular, geometric pattern was the federal government's rectangular survey system. The basic features of this survey system (base lines, principal meridians, 36-square-mile townships, sections, and quarter sections) have been outlined in introductory geography and cartography textbooks, while historical and cultural geographers have examined the system's effect on the landscape.¹ In addition, much has been written about the land …

Review Of Kinsmen Of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations In The Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650- 1852 By Gary Clayton Anderson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Gary Clayton Anderson's objective, indicated in the subtitle, is to provide an account of the long sweep of history leading up to the Sioux hostilities in Minnesota which began in mid-August of 1862 and culminated in the hanging of thirty-eight of the participants on 26 December of the same year. Although there is a large body of literature on the 1862 conflict, this book is a welcome addition because most studies have concentrated on the incidents comprising the uprising itself and Indian-white relationships immediately prior to the outbreak of hostilities.

Anderson theorizes that kinship was the organizing principle within and …

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 1984-85, Bruce B. Johnson, Ronald J. Hanson

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

The market for farm real estate is complex and ever-changing. In addition to the uniqueness for each parcel of land, countless factors influence the nature of market participation between buyers and sellers, negotiated selling price, means of financing purchases, rate of ownership transfers, etc. Also, in the current economic environment these dynamic elements are even more pronounced.

The implications of these current trends are substantial. The level of returns to agricultural assets, the distribution of wealth and land ownership, the degree of farm financial stress and even economic survival -- all are woven into the market fabric for agricultural land. …

Competencies In Farm Credit Needed/Possessed By Members Of The Nebraska Young Farmers/Ranchers Educational Association, Daniel H. Post

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Purpose. The purposes of this study were: (l) to determine the competencies related to farm credit needed by farmers and the degree of each competency needed for successful use of farm credit; (2) to determines the degree to which young farmers/ranchers possess the competencies related to farm credit; (3) to determine sources of training for these competencies; and (4) to provide information needed to plan an educational program that will enable farmers to use farm credit efficiently. Method. The Nebraska Young Farmers/Ranchers Educational Association members were surveyed directly through the use of a questionnaire, giving the members the opportunity to …

Technical Intelligence Bibliography, Robert L. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Purpose: This is a working bibliography I have prepared to aid in a research project I am distributing a few copies because no comparable bibliography on technical intelligence is available.

Definition: I define technical intelligence as the effort to collect, process, and disseminate information about the characteristics of weapons and equipment used by the armed forces of other countries. I also include other activities of technical intelligence organizations of the armed forces like preparation of sanitary surveys by medical intelligence. According to my definition, technical intelligence in the US Army began when technical intelligence sections were set up in the …

Fat Deposition And Usage By Arctic-Nesting Sandhill Cranes During Spring, Gary Krapu, George Iverson, Kenneth Reinecke, Cheryl Boise

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

Body weight, fat, and protein levels of arctic-nesting Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) were measured at several locations during spring migration and on the breeding grounds. Body weights of adult males and females increased by about 34%( 1,129 g) and 30% (953 g) from early March at the Platte River to late April at Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan; average fat content increased from about 250 to 990 g. Rates of weight gain and fat deposition among males and females averaged 25-18 and 16-13 g/day. Body weights and fat content of cranes staging along the North Platte River followed similar …

Review Of Prairie Wildflowers: An Illustrated Manual Of Species Suitable For Cultivation And Grassland Restoration By R. Currah, A. Smreciu, And M. Van Dyk, Paul Barnes

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In recent years, perhaps because of the dwindling virgin prairie in North America, there has been increased public interest in prairie restoration and the cultivation of native species. However, readily accessible information concerning the germination and propagation requirements of many prairie plants, especially the nongrass species or the so-called "wildflowers," has been limited. Prairie Wildflowers is a synthesis of three years of study on the horticultural suitability of more than 140 species of native forbs and shrubs by the University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden.

For each species examined, information is given on botanical characteristics (growth habit; flower, fruit, and …

Review Of The Explorers: Nineteenth Century Expeditions In Africa And The American West By Richard A. Van Orman, William H. Goetzmann

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Recently the history of exploration and discovery has become fashionable-possibly as a relief from the dreary "body count" social histories that have been inflicted upon us for the past decade. The Explorers by Richard A. VanOrman is an attempt to capitalize on the new fashion for exploration history. In this work the author attempts to analyze and compare, as his subtitle indicates, "Nineteenth Century Expeditions in Africa and the American West."

This is an artificial topic since there is no overarching logical reason for comparing the two enterprises-at least none that the author addresses. Moreover, the author's approach to the …

A Widening Horizon Catholic Sisterhoods On The Northern Plains, 1874-1910, Susan C. Peterson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Catholic sisterhoods have been part of American life since the colonial period, first as operators of charitable institutions to aid the needy and then, in the nineteenth century, as teachers of both immigrant children in the East and Indian children at mission schools on reservations in the West. Conventional historical studies have either slighted or ignored their contributions to the settlement of the northern plains, and recent articles on Catholic missions in history journals do little better. In both secular and church histories, Catholic sisters are traditionally pictured as silent representatives of female purity or as extensions of the church …

Women On The Plains An Introduction, Frances W. Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The four essays brought together here are a testimony to the surge of interest in women’s history in general and in the lives of women on the Great plains in particular that has welled up in the last decade. Unlike previous special issues of the Quarterly, which were the results of symposia planned around specific topics, this issue was generated by the articles themselves, which arrived independently on the editor’s desk within a relatively short period of time. Two are Overviews and two are case studies of particular groups of women. Together, the four articles suggest the richness of …

Western Women And True Womanhood Culture And Symbol In History And Literature, June O. Underwood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

History cannot happen," says Henry Nash Smith, "that is, men cannot engage in purposive group behavior without images which simultaneously express collective desires and impose coherence." Although Smith does not mention it, women too engaged in purposive group behavior. They too had images that organized their experiences and gave impetus to action. And since women were part of the great western migration, the images that made sense to them and engaged them in action within the westering experience were formative in their history.¹

This article will look at nineteenth-century western women and the symbols that formed their particular history …