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Review Of The Night Has A Naked Soul: Witchcraft And Sorcery Among The Western Cherokee. By Alan Kilpatrick, Pekka Hamalainen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This fascinating, slim volume provides a rare glimpse of the supernatural world of the' Cherokee Indians, a topic shielded by linguis.-" tic, cultural, and mental barriers. The Chero~ kees possess an extraordinary corpus of magical texts, recorded over one hundred and fifty yearsby their folk healers in small ledger notebooks .. These texts, written in the Sequoyah syllabary and known as idi:gawe:sdi, contain a large body of knowledge of such occult subjects as love magic, rainmaking, and protective charms. In The Night Has a Naked Soul, Alan Kilpatrick, an associate professor of American Indian studies at San Diego State …

Review Of Readings In American Indian Law: Recalling The Rhythm Of Survival Edited By Jo Carrillo, Bruce E. Johansen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In most law school curricula, the study of "American Indian law" concentrates on cases involving Native Americans in United States courts and usually has little to do with the systems Native Americans used to govern interpersonal relations before they began to interact with their conqueror's courts. This anthology of readings attempts, in the words of its jacket copy, to "expand doctrinal discussions into understandings of culture, strategy, history, identity, and hopes for the future ... [with] an array of alternative paradigms as strong antidotes to our usual conceptions of federal Indian law."

The book fulfills part of that bold promise. …

Review Of First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories Edited By Andrew Garrod And Colleen Larimore, Kimberli M. Stafford

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When Dartmouth College recommitted itself to recruiting and enrolling Native American students in 1970, it had graduated only nineteen Native Americans in its two hundred year history, though it was founded in 1769 with the explicit mission of educating Indian youth, as stated in its British charter. All of the essays collected here are by Native American students or graduates of Dartmouth College from 1970 to the present. The book translates the grim statistics of Native American representation and involvement in post-secondary education into potent personal stories that delineate the obstacles to institutional success for Native Americans within the academy …

Review Of Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman Of The Lakota Sioux By Robert W. Larson, R. Eli Paul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

I first met Robert Larson at the 1993 conference of the Western History Association at Tulsa, Oklahoma. As I write this review en route to the 1998 WHA meeting in Sacramento, I can reflect on the passage of time and feel satisfied that these five years have not been wasted ones. At that first encounter Bob and I began our friendship, one initially based on a growing respect and admiration for a remarkable nineteenth-century man. We concluded that this Oglala leader had been underappreciated by too many Western historians. Bob's goal was the writing of a new biography of Red …

Review Of Contemporary Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration And Creativity By Carol Herselle Krinsky, Amos Rapoport

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

American architectural writing has generally slighted non-western cultures, though this is changing. When Native Americanbuilt environments have been considered, as in Nabokov and Easton's Native American Architecture (1989), the emphasis has been on "traditional" forms, usually at the expense of contemporary work and culture;specific design. Yet this neglect begs important questions about the possible role of built environments in expressing cultural identity. Thus the subject Carol Herselle Krinsky addresses is .timely, important, and relevant to broader conceptual and theoretical issues. Unfortunately, a number of flaws make her book less useful and convincing than her subject merits.

Lacking a conceptual or …

Review Of Indians And Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. And The Critique Of Anthropology Edited By Thomas Biolsi And Larry J. Zimmerman, Donald D. Stull

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

North American anthropology can be divided into two ages: BD and AD-Before and After Deloria. In 1969 cultural anthropology in the United States was shaken by Vine Deloria's witty diatribe, Custer Died for Your Sins. Twenty years later, cultural anthropologist Tom Biolsi and archaeologist Larry Zimmerman organized a symposium on the subsequent relationship between anthropologists and American Indians. Indians and Anthropologists assembles several of these papers and some new ones in what will certainly be an often-cited collection.

The book's introduction reviews "What's Changed, What Hasn't" since Deloria fired his shot across anthropology's bow in Custer's chapter on "Anthropologists …

Review Of Powerful Images: Portrayals Of Native America By Sarah E. Boehme Et Al. Foreword By Peter Hassrick, Lydia L. Wyckoff

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This thought-provoking book is designed to accompany an exhibition which, unfortunately, I have not seen. The focus of both the exhibition and the catalogue is the relationship between Native American art and culture and that of dominant European Americans.

Five essays attempt to present the complexities of two diverse contemporary views with distinct historical perspectives. The first pair juxtapose indigenous and European American points of view in a focused and mutually intelligible manner. Emma Hanson examines the art of the Plains and the Southwest. Although her primary concern is the Plains, I believe her generalizations would be acceptable to most …

Literacy Practices At The Genoa Industrial Indian School, Amy M. Goodburn

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the past twenty-five years, historical studies on Indian boarding schools have proliferated, ranging from analyses of federal policies regarding Indian education (Adams, Coleman, Prucha) to particular institutional histories such as They Called It Prairie Light, The Phoenix Indian School, Cultivating the Rosebuds, To Change Them Forever, and Out of the Depths. While the specifics of instititional practices may differ, for the most part scholars of American Indian education agree that the boarding school experience was and continues to be a seminal moment for generations of Indian families. Although initial histories of federal Indian boarding schools mainly relied upon …

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Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Romantic Women And La Lucha Denise Chavez's Face Of An Angel, Francine K. Ramsey Richter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Denise Chavez's skillful and evocative Face of an Angel (1994) examines the inequitable and discomfiting, yet somehow powerful, place of women in New Mexico border culture.! Their lives are mainly devoted to the hard work of serving others, and Chavez connects the past and present of the women of the area through the life story of the main character Soveida Dosamantes (born in 1948). Much of what makes up Soveida's present, everyday existence has its origins over the border in Old Mexico, and the established customs and traditions have a great deal of impact upon Soveida and her family in …

Review Of Thomas Jefferson And The Changing West: From Conquest To Conservation, James P. Ronda, Ed., John Lauritz Larson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Thomas Jefferson would have liked the idea of this book (if not all the essays themselves) since the American West was a canvas on which he loved to paint. Obvious links to western history can be found in Jefferson's 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory and his central role in launching the subsequent expedition of Lewis and Clark. Of more subtle relevance was Jefferson's propensity to construct worlds in his imagination, usually filled with sturdy yeomen laboring virtuously on freehold farms carved out of a continental wilderness that he preferred to think of as empty and inviting. Hence the monument …

Review Of William Lindsay White, 1900-1973: In The Shadow Of His Father By E. Jay Jernigan, Joel Mathis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

E. Jay Jernigan's biography of Bill White results from deep research through personal family correspondence and unindexed Gazette files, as well as the libraries of several Kansas universities. Jernigan uses this research to paint a multifaceted portrait of Bill White, whose Eastern sensibilities made his fellow Emporians regard him as an elitist, yet whose capabilities, Jernigan says, often exceeded those of his more famous father. The end result is a fascinating biography of a man who never entirely escaped his father's shadow-but made every effort to cast one of his own.

Review Of Creating The New Woman: The Rise Of Southern Women's Progressive Culture In Texas By Judith N. Mcarthur, Nancy Baker Jones

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is another significant contribution to the growing list of scholarly studies of the history of Texas women. Within the larger contexts of southern culture, the Progressive Movement, and the history of feminism, McArthur has produced a convincing chronology of the transformation of middle-class, white Texas women from members of a "patriarchal, evangelical culture that discouraged the formation of independent women's networks" to "volunteerists" who worked openly for social and political reform through their own clubs and associations. Between the 1890s and World War I, women's increasing use of "maternalist politics" challenged male dominance of the public sphere, thereby …

Review Of Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story Of Albert B. Fall By David H. Stratton, Roy Lujan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

David H. Stratton has written a brilliant, comprehensive biography of Albert B. Fall, Secretary of Interior during the Harding administration and the first cabinet member ever convicted and imprisoned for crimes committed while holding office. Fall had leased to Harry E. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny naval oil reserves in Wyoming's Teapot Dome and California's Elk Mountain and accepted $404,000 from these oil tycoons. The book proposes that out of his early career as a western speculator and corporation lawyer, Fall developed an anti-conservation philosophy and espoused unrestrained and immediate disposition of public lands to private enterprise. Thus, had he …

Review Of Gendered Justice In The American West: Women Prisoners In Men's Penitentiaries By Anne M. Butler, Sharon E. Wood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Butler writes with conviction, her passion for her subject occasionally leading her to press her point further than the evidence will go. Several times she seems to claim that women prisoners were representative of all women confronting the criminal justice system, writing, for example, "when a child died from a mother's assault, conviction was a certainty." But this claim can only be tested by examining local police and court records to see if all women accused were convicted (they weren't). Women in penitentiaries were not representative; they were the absolute losers in a system that was, admittedly, stacked against them. …

Review Of Texas Women: Frontier To Future By Ann Fears Crawford And Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Rebecca Sharpless

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Texas Women might serve as a suitable introduction to elite white women in Texas, but will not serve a deeper purpose because of its lack of original research. (A number of the subjects, such as Ames, Porter, and Martin, have already been subjects of monographs, and others would make interesting full-length studies.) It is not suitable for classroom use because of its lack of multicultural inclusiveness, which could have been easily overcome. Perhdps heavily documented, deeply researched scholarly monographs are not for a popular audience. But popular writing can still reflect the richness of women's experience in Texas. Crawford and …

Review Of Writing The Range: Race, Class, And Culture In The Women's West Edited With Introduction By Elizabeth Jameson And Susan Armitage, Angel Kwolek-Folland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This collection of twenty-nine essays, some previously published, aspires to assemble some of the most important new work on women in the multicultural West and to challenge a monocultural national narrative. The focus on the West assumes that region is a meaningful analytical category. In addition, the editors argue that the dynamic of waves of migration to contested territory could stand as a process common to the nation's entire history. Because of the nature of an essay collection, the latter aspiration is difficult to sustain as a coherent argument. Nonetheless, the collection succeeds as a fairly comprehensive introduction to the …

Review Of Wallace Stegner: His Life And Work By Jackson J. Benson, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When he died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in April of 1993, Wallace Stegner left a list of eight writing projects he had yet to do pinned above his desk, awaiting his return. Noting this fact toward the end of this thorough biography, Benson writes that "Stegner's career as a novelist followed a pattern of lifelong growth, reaching its zenith near the end." He was, his biographer says, "simply, by far, the brightest man I've ever known," and ultimately Benson concludes that "Perhaps Wallace Stegner's greatest creation was himself-a good man who always did the best he could. …

Review Of Cather Studies Volume 3. Edited By Susan J. Rosowski, Patrick W. Shaw

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With some notable exceptions, the fourteen essays in this collection come from critics well-known to the most casual reader of Cather scholarship-John J. Murphy, Merrill Maguire Skaggs, and Marilyn Arnold, for example. Because their views and interdependence are familiar, the reader should be at ease traveling through some of the best traditional criticism of Willa Cather's fiction.

The collection is at its best, however, in essays that deviate from the familiar and traditional. Ann Romines's "Her Mortal Enemy's Daughter: Cather and the Writing of Age" is its finest piece. Immediately following John J. Murphy's "Gilt Diana and Ivory Christ: Love …

Review Of Constitutionalism And Native Americans, 1903 - 1968. Volume 2 Of Native Americans And The Law: Contemporary And Historical Perspectives On American Indian Rights, Freedoms, And SovereigntyEdited With Introductions By John R. Wunder, Jill Norgren

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The previously published essays selected by editor John R. Wunder for volume two of this six book series take up the legal, political, and economic issues of Native American sovereignty at the critical moment of the 1903 Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock United States Supreme Court decision (treated in volume one). In his brief introduction to volume two, Wunder describes the period from 1903 to 1968 as one in which the tension between federally enforced tribal constitutionalism and "residual sovereign rights" was played out. Excerpts from Charles Wilkinson's American Indians, Time, and the Law (1987) provide an opening framework to explain …

Review Of Plains Indian History And Culture: Essays On Continuity And Change By John C. Ewers, Herbert T. Hoover

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Twelve chapters form a collection of essays mainly about northern Great Plains tribal cultures and experiences with non-Indians in the past. The omission of a summary essay at the end indicates an absence of unifying themes. Topics related to tribal relations include the clothing of women, women's roles in intertribal wars, the creation of maps by tribal soldiers, and the goals of inter-tribal warfare. Subjects pertaining to Indian-white relations include reciprocal ethnic images, symbols of chief-making by outsiders, reasons for tribal participation in the fur trade, and consequences of disease epidemics.

All chapters originally appeared elsewhere, but their publication under …

Notes And News- Summer 1998

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Notes and News

Big Bend Studies Conference

Research Fellowship In Southwest Studies

Half A Century Of Saskatchewan History

Rural Studies Meeting In Texas

Title And Contents- Summer 1998

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

SUMMER 1998 VOL. 18 NO.3

CONTENTS

FRAMING THE TOURIST GAZE: RAILWAY JOURNEYS ACROSS NEBRASKA, 1866-1906 Jean P. Retzinger

FEATURE FOLIO: IMAGES OF GREAT PLAINS TRAIN TRAVEL TRAINS THROUGH THE PLAINS: THE GREAT PLAINS LANDSCAPE OF VICTORIAN WOMEN TRAVELERS Karen Morin

FINANCING THE PALLISER TRIANGLE, 1908-1913 John Feldberg and Warren M. Elofson

BOOK REVIEWS

NEWS AND NOTES

Review Of Empire Builder In The Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush By Paul H. Carlson, Ben E. Pingenot

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

William Henry Bush was a manufacturer, rancher, businessman, real estate developer, and philanthropist who rose to prominence and wealth during the last half of the nineteenth century. Born in the state of New York in 1849, Bush tried twice after turning thirteen to run away and join the Union Army as a drummer boy. His mother apprenticed him instead to a store owner in Lowville, New York, which marked the start of his career as a general merchant. At age twenty, he moved to Chicago to work for a wholesale clothing business, King Brothers and Company, at a salary of …

Review Of Native American Law And Colonialism, Before 1776 To 1903. Volume 1 Of Native Americans And The Law: Contemporary And Historical Perspectives On American Indian Rights, Freedoms, And Sovereignty Edited With Introductions By John R. Wunder, William T. Hagan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a worthy project given the growth of activity in Indian law, most of it due to conflicts between states and tribes over gaming and treaty rights, issues proving to be a bonanza for the legal profession and likely to be with us for a long time.

The editor of this new series, John R. Wunder, is well fitted for the task, given his record of research and publication. Volume one's dozen essays, all previously in print, offer something for every reader. Particularly impressive are Joseph C. Burke's "the Cherokee Cases," Wunder's own "No More Treaties," and Sidney L. …

Review Of Native American Verbal Art: Texts And Contexts By William M. Clements, Linda Lizut Herstern

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Native American Verbal Art should be required reading for all teachers of American literature committed to teaching translations from the Native American oral tradition. William Clements's study stands as a companion to The Sixth Grandfather (1984), Raymond DeMallie's account of the textual creation of Black Elk Speaks. Using an historical approach, Clements reveals the problems of translating traditional oratory, including the translator's frequent ignorance of the Native language being translated. (While some translators have worked with a bilingual intermediary, many have simply re-rendered previous translations without reference to the Native language text.)

Clements examines in some depth the practices …

Review Of A New Significance: Re-Envisioning The History Of The American West Edited By Clyde A. Milner Ii, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Playing off the title of the famous essay by Frederick Jackson Turner, this volume of essays and commentaries is, for the most part, the outgrowth of a 1992 Utah State University conference planned as an opportunity for young scholars, as well as a few older ones, to offer new perspectives on the future directions of Western history a century after Turner delivered his influential words. For this collection of essays, several of them previously published in the Western Historical Quarterly, Clyde Milner provides the usual cogent introductory remarks and excellent editing skills we have come to expect of him. …

Review Of The Indian Bill Of Rights, 1968. Volume 3 Of Native Americans And The Law: Contemporary And Historical Perspectives On American Indian Rights, Freedoms, And Sovereignty Edited With Introductions By John R. Wunder, David E. Wilkins

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The extra-constitutional status of indigenous nations and their distinct political relationship with the United States government, no less than the equally distinctive nature of the relationship of individual Indians to their tribal governments and other sovereignties they are more problematically related to, the state and federal governments, is a most complicated subject. Individuals venturing into this intellectual and substantive thicket should be applauded for their academic bravery. The third of the six volume series edited by John R. Wunder sets out to explore that thicket.

Wunder claims the volume is "of particular significance," not only because of its subject matter, …

Review Of From Our Eyes: Learning From Indigenous Peoples Edited By Sylvia O'Meara And Douglas A. West, Pete Hudson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This collection of writings by aboriginal authors, all of whom are academics from a wide range of disciplines, is rescued from what could have been a succession of fragments, few of them of relevance to anyone reader, by each author's scholarly clarity. Moreover, the multiand interdisciplinary quality of the book, manifested within and between each contribution, reinforces a unifying theme: the holistic world view shared by the authors, one that continually seeks to break through boundaries, including those of particular disciplines.

The book's interest and value, however, are not contained in anyone theme. There are themes within themes here, difficult …

Review Of Leaning Into The Wind: Women Write From The Heart Of The West Edited By Edited By Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, And Nancy Curtis., Tisha Gilreath-Mullen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Linda Hasselstrom (rancher and author of Windbreak, Going Over East, Land Circle, and Caught by One Wing), Gaydell Collier (rancher, director of the Crook County Public Library in Wyoming, and co-author of several books on horse training), and Nancy Curtis (rancher and owner-operator of the highly acclaimed High Plains Press) combined talents to edit Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West. Contributors-of which there are at least two hundred-to this anthology of western women's writings offer a counter-balance to High Plains stereotypes popularized by those historians and writers who erased women's existence from …