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Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom
Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom
Great Plains Quarterly
The title of this book is a fine indicator of its essential theme, for this is the story of how the prevailing images of Omaha determined the objectives of city planning. From 1945 to 1973, Omaha's economy changed fundamentally, and this reality eventually changed how local decision- makers perceived their community. These new perceptions finally brought a new orientation in planning for the heart of the city
Review Of Roadside History Of Oklahoma, Brad Bays
Review Of Roadside History Of Oklahoma, Brad Bays
Great Plains Quarterly
Writing local history for the general reader requires a harmonization of scholarship and literary skill. Roadside History of Oklahoma at best provides stereotypical entertainment at the expense of regional coherence, accuracy, and pluralistic interpretation
Review Of People Of The Willows: The Prehistory And Early History Of The Hidatsa Indians, Gregory L. Fox
Review Of People Of The Willows: The Prehistory And Early History Of The Hidatsa Indians, Gregory L. Fox
Great Plains Quarterly
Research concerning the Plains Village tradition in the Middle Missouri subarea has been a primary focus of Northern Plains archaeology for the past hundred years. Peoples of the Willows incorporates results of those investigations along with more recent work stemming from the National Park Service-sponsored research program at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site into a definitive and readable volume on the Hidatsa people of North Dakota.
Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, Cynthia E. Willis
Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, Cynthia E. Willis
Great Plains Quarterly
Russell Thornton provides a scholarly and comprehensive review of the population variations of an American Indian tribe after contact first with European and then United States' cultural, institutional, and economic policies. He notes population fluctuations along with historical events that occurred after first contact. Governmental policies including accommodation, paternalism, assimilation, extermination, and relocation and isolation of the Cherokees clearly affected population totals. Thornton concludes by acknowledging the Cherokees' own never-ending search for self-determination and viability.
Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood
Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood
Great Plains Quarterly
"W elcome to Dodge City, the biggest, wildest, wickedest little city on the continent," was the exuberant greeting given out-of-town visitors to Dodge's Fourth ofJuly celebration in 1883. The assessment projected was a selfcongratulatory one shared and frequently envied by the rest of the United States. Dodge was enjoying the peak of its cattle-town fame and prosperity as the quintessential frontier boom town, unrestrained by convention, the "very embodiment of waywardness and wantonness." Few communities seemed more at odds with the national social values and mores that later generations would label Victorian. As a mecca for free-spending cowboys it was …
Exploring The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton
Exploring The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton
Great Plains Quarterly
The essays presented in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly were originally delivered at the sixteenth annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies, at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, in April 1992, under the title, "American Encounters: Exploring the Great Plains." Other essays from the conference will appear in future issues of the Quarterly and in Great Plains Research.
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly
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The North Dakota Anit-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflictand Religious Strife, Linda Grathwohl
The North Dakota Anit-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflictand Religious Strife, Linda Grathwohl
Great Plains Quarterly
In a little known but apparently not uncommon practice in twentieth-century American education, public school systems across the nation, lacking teachers or money, employed Catholic nuns as teachers. Those opposed to employing sisters as teachers challenged their right to wear their habit, or religious garb, while teaching in a public school. 1 This paper provides the constitutional and religious background to this legal controversy and explores the issues in depth through a case study of sisters teaching in the state of North Dakota from the 1930s to the early 1960s.
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.1
Review Of The Custer Reader, James Brisco
Review Of The Custer Reader, James Brisco
Great Plains Quarterly
In the nearly 120 years since Custer died at the Little Big Hom, about the only thing that historians can agree upon about him is that he was flamboyant. Thus far, the literature about him has either been favorable or very antiCuster in nature. Paul Andrew Hutton has assembled a collection of some of the more classic articles on Custer. Some of these are more favorable accounts, and some are less flattering articles about Custer's career as a soldier.
Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey
Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey
Great Plains Quarterly
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 War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, Mark Mattern
Review Of War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, Mark Mattern
Great Plains Quarterly
Powers' stated goal in this book is to "provide some background, including the history, the continuity, and the change" that he has witnessed in American Indian culture from the perspective of musical performance over the last thirty to forty years. He has easily succeeded in this task. As an observer and participant in Indian song and dance since 1947 as an eighth grader, Powers knows his material. He writes from the vantage point of a veteran surveying his field, offering description and analysis of it.
Review Of Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions Of New Mexico, Ralph H. Vigil
Review Of Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions Of New Mexico, Ralph H. Vigil
Great Plains Quarterly
This book is volume 18 of the Spanish Borderlands Source books series. It forms part of a two-volume collection of writings about the missions of New Mexico before and after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The editors note that volumes 17 and 18 both contain "selected articles, excerpts from longer works, and printed mission documents" (p. xiii).
Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder
Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
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.
Review Of Wounded Knee Lest We Forget And Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account., John R. Wunder
Review Of Wounded Knee Lest We Forget And Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account., John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
The meandering Wounded Knee Creek wanders timelessly through south central South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Yet time seemed to stop at least twice on its banks, once at the massacre of several hundred Sioux in Big Foot's band by the Seventh Cavalry in late December 1890 and nearly a century later during the forcible takeover of the settlement of Wounded Knee by the American Indian Movement in late February 1973. Today these events are known as Wounded Knee I and Wounded Knee II.
Review Of Aboriginal Water Rights In Canada: A Study Of Aboriginal Title To Water And Indian Rights, Theron Josephson
Review Of Aboriginal Water Rights In Canada: A Study Of Aboriginal Title To Water And Indian Rights, Theron Josephson
Great Plains Quarterly
This study is one of a series sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Natural Resource Law. Written by Richard Bartlett of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, it is first and foremost a discourse on the current legal status of water rights of Canada's aboriginal peoples.
Review Of Victorian West: Class And Culture In Kansas Cattle Towns, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Victorian West: Class And Culture In Kansas Cattle Towns, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
Since Robert Haywood retired from the academic administration of Washburn University some years ago, he has become a major historian of the Great Plains region. Although he has been interested chiefly in Kansas history, he has produced books of general interest. His latest, Victorian West: Class and Culture in Kansas Cattle Towns, may also be his best.
How Far West Am I?: The Almanac As An Explorer's Yardstick, Arlen J. Large
How Far West Am I?: The Almanac As An Explorer's Yardstick, Arlen J. Large
Great Plains Quarterly
On 14 September 1494, three ships from Spain lay anchored at the southeastern tip of Hispaniola. Their admiral, Christopher Columbus, looked up at a full moon expecting something to happen, and it did.
Susan Laflesche Picotte.Md.: Nineteenth-Century Physician And Reformer, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Susan Laflesche Picotte.Md.: Nineteenth-Century Physician And Reformer, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Great Plains Quarterly
She was laid to rest beside her husband on a fall Sunday in a small Nebraska town. Three clergymen performed the simple service, the pastor of the Walthill Presbyterian Church, the pastor of the Blackbird Hills Mission, and a member of the Presbyterian Home Missions Board. The closing prayer was given by an Omaha tribal elder. That afternoon a moving graveside service was performed by members of the Amethyst Chapter of the Eastern Star. This diverse assemblage, paying their last respects on 19 September 1915 at the family home and at the Bancroft Cemetery, represented only one facet of the …
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.3
Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr.
Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
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 …
The United States Army As A Constabulary On The Northern Plains, Larry D. Ball
The United States Army As A Constabulary On The Northern Plains, Larry D. Ball
Great Plains Quarterly
With the formation of the United States military establishment in the late eighteenth century, the new army undertook many services in the developing republic, including several associated with the frontier movement. While the army considered the suppression of hostile Indians its primary mission in the West, its soldiers routinely supported civilian law enforcement authorities. After the Civil War, white criminals accompanied other American frontiersmen onto the northern Plains, where white desperadoes soon posed a serious problem. In the late 1870s they descended upon the Black Hills mining camps and looted stagecoaches in alarming numbers; brazenly robbed Union Pacific trains and …
The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean
The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean
Great Plains Quarterly
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 …
The Drama Of Law In Nebraska State Capitol: Scupture And Inscription, Robert Haller
The Drama Of Law In Nebraska State Capitol: Scupture And Inscription, Robert Haller
Great Plains Quarterly
Drama is the quality that Hartley Burr Alexander, the "thematic consultant" for the Nebraska State Capitol, admired in the sculpture of his time. In his role as consultant, Alexander fused the ideas of the building's architect, Bertram Goodhue, and its sculptor, Lee Lawrie, into a sustained programmatic interpretation of society and law. This paper discusses the significance and the development of the twenty-one Lawrie sculptural panels around the cornices of the Capitol that illustrate the "Development of Law."1
Review Of Populism: Its Rise And Fall., Homer E. Socolofsky
Review Of Populism: Its Rise And Fall., Homer E. Socolofsky
Great Plains Quarterly
William Alfred Peffer, from Kansas, the first Peoples Party United States Senator, wrote this analysis of Populism for the Chicago Tribune in 1899 where it was published as a series and forgotten. Almost a century later its republication establishes it as an anti-fusion insider's view of what happened to the Populist Party. Editor Peter Argersinger is the author of Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and the Peoples Party and a professor of history at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Review Of Prairyerth (A Deep Map)., Joseph J. Wydeven
Review Of Prairyerth (A Deep Map)., Joseph J. Wydeven
Great Plains Quarterly
This is a splendid book, ambitiously and selfconsciously American, at once contemporary and a throwback to the American Renaissance, calling up Thoreau's travels in Concord and inquiries into nature, as well as hints of Melville's metaphysical grapplings. Whereas in his first book, Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon moved up across American landscapes, here in Prairy Erth he stays put: in Chase County, Kansas, close to the center of America, he sinks down his probes, immerses himself in reports and archives, and holds discourse with all manner of persons, animals, plants, and things.
Review Of Settlers' Children: Growing Up On The Great Plains, Paula M. Nelson
Review Of Settlers' Children: Growing Up On The Great Plains, Paula M. Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly
Elizabeth Hampsten wrote Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains to answer some basic questions about the lives of children during the settlement era in North Dakota (with a few examples added from South Dakota and northwestern Minnesota). "What was it like for children in the first years of settlement ... what did they think of their childhood?" (p. 3) she asks. To provide the answers she examines memoirs and other autobiographical materials written by people who were children on the Plains and also examines the writings of some plains mothers who detailed the lives of their children. Most …
Review Of Land In Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders In North Dakota And Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940, Evelyn Funda
Great Plains Quarterly
Much of the work studying women's role in the American West has served to establish the significance and celebrate the contributions of women to Western American history. Lindgren's book is such a work. Strikingly handsome, it portrays the lives of homesteading women in North Dakota from 1870 to about 1915 by providing excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and from personal interviews with homesteading women and their families, as well as a wealth of photographs and comparative statistics from land records. Lindgren's goals are to dispute the stereotypes of women pioneers and to argue that "women must be recognized as main characters …
Categories And Terrains Of Exclusion: Constructing The "Indian Woman" In The Early Settlement Era In Western Canada, Sarah Carter
Categories And Terrains Of Exclusion: Constructing The "Indian Woman" In The Early Settlement Era In Western Canada, Sarah Carter
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1884 Mary E. Inderwick wrote to her Ontario family from the ranch near Pincher Creek, Alberta, where she had lived with her new husband for six months. 1 The letter provides a perspective on the stratifications of race, gender, and class that were forming as the Euro-Canadian enclave grew in the district of Alberta. Mary Inderwick lamented that it was a lonely life, as she was twenty-two miles from any other women, and she even offered to help some of the men near them to "get their shacks done up if only they will go east and marry some …
Marguerite Laflesche Diddock: Office Of Indian Affairs Field Matron, Lisa E. Emmerich
Marguerite Laflesche Diddock: Office Of Indian Affairs Field Matron, Lisa E. Emmerich
Great Plains Quarterly
"I am an Indian girl fifteen years old .... Sometimes I am sorry that the white people ever came to America. What nice times we used to have before we were old enough to go to school, for then father used to take us on the buffalo hunt."l