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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1994 Vol. 14 No. 3

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Review Of Writing The Circle: Native Women Of Western Canada, Janice C. Miller

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The radiant image of Binaseek in Evelyn Nelson..Kennedy's "Our Modern Powwows" provides a fine invitation to this anthology:

Binaseek...walked with a limp and talked only to herself. The old people said that she had been severely burned in her youth and had never been the same since. Her withered right hand was evidence to the truth of the story. Binaseek had made a belt for her dress. The brown piece of cloth was wrapped around her waist, decorated with oversized buttons. Her stockings lay wrinkled at her ankles. The children laughed at her pathetic attempts at sewing. Binaseek, oblivious to …

Maximilian, Prince Of Wied (1782-1867): Reconsidered, Paul Schach

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On 3 November 1992 the British Society for the History of Natural Sciences convened at the Naturkundliches Museum in Vienna. Since the theme of the six-day convention was "The Exploration and Opening Up of America as Mirrored by Natural History," it is appropriate that one of the papers presented should have been devoted to Maximilian, Prince of Wied, whose complementary expeditions to North and South America have so greatly enriched our knowledge ofIndian cultures that once flourished in Brazil and on the Great Plains. Yet, despite the fact that Maximilian was "by far the best trained scientific observer to explore …

Plains And Prairie Space, History, And The Literary Imagination, In Australia And The United States, Don D. Walker

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In 1825 a space observer orbiting the earth could have looked down on two enormous land masses separated by more than 7000 miles. In the southern hemisphere the great body of land was Australia, an insular continent surrounded by the southern seas. In the northern hemisphere the great body of land was the United States, framed on east and west by oceans, bordered on the north by the even greater land of Canada and on the south by the lesser land of Mexico. Australia and the United States were roughly the same size, some three million square miles.

Review Of The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840, Brad A. Bays

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In her very readable and significant ethnohistorical work The Texas Cherokees, Dianna Everett resourcefully tells the story of this small and little-understood group during their twenty- year tenure in Texas. Everett argues that the Cherokees' migration to, problems in, and expulsion from Texas can best be understood via their traditional yet dichotomous political structure. That is, Cherokee ideals of group consensus and harmony among individuals conflicted with the realities of factionalism; and like most writers, Everett relates that this dichotomy became detrimental only after white contact.

Review Of Indians Of North America: The Creeks, C.B. Clark

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The admirable Chelsea House Publishers' series for young adults treats fifty-eight tribal groups and six additional subjects under the general editorship of Frank W. Porter, III. Scholarly authorities and writers familiar with tribal affairs provide concise overviews of American Indian societies and policies.

Review Of From The Prairies With Hope And My Dear Maggie: Letters From A Western Manitoba Pioneer, Becky Faber

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The frontier of Canada became the new home for many Europeans who believed that they could improve their lives by leaving their homelands. Two such moves to the prairies of Manitoba are chronicled in Aberson's and Wallace's books, both collections of personal reflections on their lives on Manitoba farms.

Review Of The Adventures Of The Woman Homesteader: The Life And Letters Of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Sue Hart

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"My dear, My dear," Elinore Stewart wrote to longtime correspondent Maria Wood on 27 April 1925, "the longer I live the greedier I am for life. I dread inactivity." How fortunate for readers who enjoyed the recounting of her varied activities in the collections of letters describing her life on a Wyoming homestead, Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt, and for those who will come to know her-or know her better-through George's absorbing book!

Review Of The Ghost-Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890, Benjamin R. Kracht

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At last an affordable version of Mooney's classic monograph is available that maintains the integrity of the 1896 Bureau of American Ethnology publication to the last detail, including the information-laden appendixes, illustrations, and the original pagination (pp. 653-1136). Additional features include an updated map depicting the sphere of Ghost Dance influence, five colorized plates, and an introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie delineating Mooney's contributions to ethnographic research in North America.

Review Of Eyewitness At Wounded Knee., Susan A. Miller

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What happened at Wounded Knee Creek on 29 December 1890, was not a battle but a massacre by soldiers of the families comprising Big Foot's band of Minneconjou Lakotas. Surrounded, desperately outnumbered and outgunned, provoked into a hopeless firefight, they ran and were slaughtered to the tiniest infant by mounted soldiers who hunted them for "several hours" (p. 19) and some three miles. About three hundred Lakotas were killed. Because Bigfoot's men had engaged the soldiers, the atrocity has been masked as a battle. Indeed, twenty-eight soldiers received medals of honor for participating in the massacre and associated activities.

Review Of The Catch Pen, Jill Morstad

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Folklore is but one facet of the human phenomenon we call culture. In the West, the study of cowboys as "folk," that is, as learners, knowers, performers, observers, and teachers of folklore is increasingly grounded in a wider study of general ethnography and cowboy culture. Clearly, such a wider study is precisely the aim of organizers and participants in the National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration, a selection of whose efforts have been gathered into The Catch Pen. Here, editors Ainsworth and Davis have assembled twenty-five artifacts of lived and living Texas folklore in evidence of the continuing existence of …

Review Of Indians Of North America: The Chickasaw, L.G. Moses

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Chicsa's People, or the Chickasaw, for centuries farmed and hunted in their traditional homeland that encompassed portions of present-day Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The harvest of animal furs and skins encouraged British traders early in the eighteenth century to court favor among the Chickasaw to the exclusion of the Spanish and the French. Once established, tribal allegiance to the British continued until, at the close of the American revolution, the Chickasaw finally and reluctantly allied themselves to the United States. Despite repeated promises to respect the Chickasaw's right to their homeland, U.S. officials in the mid-1830s pressured tribal leaders to …

Review Of Objects Of Change: The Archaeology And History Of Arikara Contact With Europeans, Joseph C. Porter

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J. Daniel Rogers' Objects of Change evaluates Arikara Indian contact with Euro-Americans and with Euro-American technology. He uses the Arikara material culture (or archaeological) record to determine the interactive process between the Arikara and the Euro-Americans. This process of interactions or "acculturation" was "neither standardized nor prescribed" among the Native Americans of the Great Plains (p. 1). "In the long run, the interaction strategies used by both Euro-Americans and natives resulted in the transformation of peoples and their material cultures, but the results were often different and the process almost never the same," Rogers writes. "The single overriding fact of …

Review Of Regional Studies: The Interplay Of Land And Peo~ Ple, James N. Mccrorie

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In 1987 Baylor University sponsored a national symposium on the concepts and applications of regionalism. From all accounts, the three..day conference was a success and the sponsors were persuaded to publish the proceedings. The result is Regional Studies: The Interplay of Land and People, edited by Glen E. Lich.

Review Of Catalog Of The Colorado Flora: A Biodiversity Baseline., Dieter Wilken

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The estimation and documentation of biological diversity has and should continue to be approached from different perspectives. Such include the empirical study of vegetation by ecologists, the study of genetic structure and life histories by population biologists, and the study of evolutionary relationships by systematists. The monograph by Weber and Wittmann represents a product of the latter perspective, a catalog of scientific names for plants (excepting algae) native to or naturalized in Colorado.

Review Of From Cody To The World: The First Seventy~Five Years Of The Buffalo Bill Memorial Association, Lawrence Sommer

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From Cody to the World ... is an interesting little volume about a remarkable place, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center at Cody, Wyoming. Produced in celebration of the seventy' fifth anniversary of the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association (the "parent" organization of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center), this commemorative traces the growth of the center from its log cabin origins in 191 7 to its present status as one of the finest and most important institutions in the United States devoted to the American West.

The Studhorse Man: Translating The Boundries Of Text, Carol L. Beran

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"The voice. The voice." Robert Kroetsch wrote the phrase over and over as he planned his novel The Studhorse Man (1969). "Try: limited third and interior first."¹

"Gone Back To Alberta": Robert Kroetsch Rewriting The Great Plains, Francis W. Kaye, Robert Thacker

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Maybe that did it, I thought-maybe that was one of the things that turned me into a writer-my playing [softball] far out in the field. The playing, and the watching that went with it. The listening, out there. The wanting to enter the game while fearing that someone might hit the ball in my direction. The being isolated, out there in the prairie wind and the summer light; my striking up a conversation with a nearby gopher as I watched the pitched ball. . . . The caring so much, so enduringly, for the movements of small creatures, for the …

Inhabiting The Dangerous Middle Of The Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading Of Kroetsch's Gone Indian, Mary K. Kirtz

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Robert Kroetsch, whose approaches to novel writing extend from the primarily realist novel But We Are Exiles (1965) to the clearly post-modernist What the Crow Said (1978) and the somewhat less postmodern Alibi (1983), has left equally wide..ranging impressions on the English--Canadian critical landscape. Responses extend from those who see, at least in his earlier novels, a sympathy for realist and modernist impulses towards synthesis (Turner, Schaefer) to those who have identified Kroetsch as a preeminent postmodern writer (Hutcheon, Neuman); indeed, Linda Hut.. cheon has called him "Mr. Canadian Post.. modern."2 Even within the two parts of Hutcheon's formulation, however, …

Notes And News For Vol.14 No.3

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Review Of Pioneer Policing In Southern Alberta: Dean Of The Mounties, 1888,1914, Larry D. Ball

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Among law enforcement institutions, the Canadian North..West Mounted Police occu.. pies an exalted place in the public mind. In this present volume, historian William M. Baker provides a helpful corrective to the sometimes exaggerated picture of this famous constabulary by presenting reports and other documents from the papers of Richard Burton Deane, a veteran of more than three decades (1883 .. 1914) as a Mounted Policeman in AI.. berta.

Review Of For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic, H. David Brumble

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The title looks forward to the writing of history from the perspective of Native Amer.. icans. Such history would be autohistory because it would be written by Native Americans themselves-and by those "who have an Amerindian soul" (p. 105). The "social ethic" in the title is to be a whole new "science": "The moral code specific to [Native] America is so distinctive that the study of it, through history, constitutes a science" (p. 104).

Review Of La Frontiera Del Grana (1896-1918): L'Ovest Nella Storia Canadese., Walter Centuori

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Since 1976, Valeria Gennaro Lerda has been a professor of American and Canadian history at the University of Genova, Italy. She is the author of a number of studies, has spent a great deal oftime as a researcher in the United States and Canada, and is currently on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Studies Review and Vice President of the Italian Association for North American Studies.

Review Of Metis Lands In Manitoba., John E. Foster

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In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Dominion of Canada allotted over 1,400,000 acres of crown land in Manitoba to the province's Metis inhabitants as "Half Breed Scrip." The "fairness" of the process of distributing this scrip is the subject of Flanagan's work. Of greater interest to many readers is Flanagan's criticism of advocacy scholarship as it has emerged on the subject of half breed scrip in Manitoba.

Review Of The Administration Of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930., Barry Kaye

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Members of the legal profession have made useful contributions to our knowledge of the history of western Canada. In Manitoba the writings of Roy St. George Stubbs and Dale Gibson come to mind. To be added to that list is Kirk N. Lambrecht, a practicing attorney from Edmonton, Alberta, who has made an important contribution to the literature on the administration and development of Dominion Lands in the western provinces and northern territories of Canada. After the vast areas of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories were transferred from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada on 15 …

Review Of Wedded To The Cause: Ukrainian Canadian Women And Ethnic Identity, 1891 1991, Mary K. Kirtz

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The history of Ukrainian..Canadian women has never before been told so completely from the women's perspective, and Swyripa has made a valuable contribution to the historiography of Canada's female pioneers. By exploring the activities and goals of various women's organizations, she examines these women's sense of their own identity both within the boundaries of the Ukrainian community itself and within the larger Canadian context. Swyripa's main thesis is that a wide gulf exists between what she calls the "grassroots" conception of Ukrainian..Canadian identity, embodied in the apolitical image of Baba the homebody, and the "community elite" conception of a politically …

Review Of Aberhart: Outpourings And Replies, Robert Kroetsch

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From Louis Riel, leader of the Canadian prairie Metis, to Preston Manning, Alberta-based leader of the Reform Party in the Canadian Parliament, men who somehow mix politics and religion have given political expression to the Canadian West. In recent years William van der Zalm spoke from this base for British Columbia. But it was William Aber-hart who gave most radical voice to a complex of political anxieties and resistances that we might now call postcolonial. He enacted, vividly and sometimes confusedly, the resistance of the margin to the center.

Review Of The Cree Language Is Our Identity: The La Range Lectures Af Sarah Whitecalf, Rory Larson

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The late Sarah Whitecalf was born on the Moosomin Reserve in Western Saskatchewan in 1919 and grew up there and on the nearby Sweet Grass Reserve. Raised by her mother and grandparents, she was never sent to school and remained a monolingual speaker of Plains Cree throughout her life. Her last twenty years were spent at Saskatoon, where she became a valued informant for scholars and educators attempting to study or revive Cree traditions.

Review Of Without Reserve: Stories From Urban Natives, Patricia A. Mccormack

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Without Reserve is a set of profiles of nine Native people living in Edmonton, Alberta. Each person's story is told in a separate chapter, with brief anecdotes compiled in two additional chapters. Author Lynda Shorten was formerly a reporter with the Edmonton Journal, where she co-authored a series about urban Natives, the genesis of this broader work. Without Reserve is not an academic book, falling, as it does, into a genre of journalistic narratives about Native peoples, for which a significant public market exists, yet it will also attract a social science audience and will probably be assigned to …

Review Of Surveying The Canadian Pacific: Memoir Of A Railroad Pioneer And The Railway King Of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849,1923, Alec Paul

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Both these books deal with themes related to railways and with events significant to the early economic development of western Can, ada. But there the similarity ends. Rylatt's memoir is a highly personal account of a stint with a survey crew in the Canadian cordillera a decade before the laying of the rails. Flem, ing, on the other hand, gives us a life of William Mackenzie, a railway builder who kept no diary and left very few personal papers to guide the biographer. Thus it is easier to contrast than compare the two volumes.