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Review Of Shaping Educational Change: The First Century Of The University Of Northern Colorado At Greeley, Maxine Benson Jan 1991

Review Of Shaping Educational Change: The First Century Of The University Of Northern Colorado At Greeley, Maxine Benson

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In 1936, when a young instructor named James Michener was offered a position at the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, his faculty mentors at the Ohio State University summer school warned him not to accept the job: "The sands of the desert are white with the bones of promising young men who went West and perished trying to get back East" (ix). Undeterred, Michener did go to Greeley, where he taught at the school's College High until 1941. He also acquired a master's degree as well as the historical background that he incorporated into his 1974 novel, Centennial …

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Education On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Erwin H. Goldenstein Jan 1991

Education On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Erwin H. Goldenstein

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Few people asked to identify outstanding exemplars of education in the United States would immediately think of the Great Plains or its people. And it may well be that the authors of the Land Ordinance of 1785 were more interested in enticing settlers to the old Northwest Territory than in providing financial support for education when they set aside one section of public land in every thirty-six sections for the support of education. Yet education has become very important to the immigrant peoples who have occupied the Great Plains over the past two centuries, and there can be little doubt …

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Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf Jan 1991

Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf

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Writing Saskatchewan is the gleanings of a symposium celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts held at Fort San in the Qu' Appelle Valley near Regina in June of 1987. Focusing on poetry (the long poem as well as the lyric), the novel, drama, and linked sequences of short stories, these essays collectively suggest the striking richness, range, and vitality of creative writing in the central prairie province-writing that is anything but provincial.

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Review Of Five For The Land And Its People, Howard W. Ottoson Jan 1991

Review Of Five For The Land And Its People, Howard W. Ottoson

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Every institution has its pioneers, its founding fathers, whose personal natures and work were instrumental in shaping the course of its development. This book is an account of five such men whose lives are reflected in what is today North Dakota State University.

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Notes And News For Vol.11 No.3 Jan 1991

Notes And News For Vol.11 No.3

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No abstract provided.

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"Pap" Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies And The Failure Of A Black Settlement In Easter Kansas, Joseph V. Hickey Jan 1991

"Pap" Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies And The Failure Of A Black Settlement In Easter Kansas, Joseph V. Hickey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"T here are gathered at Dunlap and vicinity at the present time between 275 and 300 families of colored people, all of whom are succeeding quite well and many of whom are on the road to prosperity. The plan of Dunlap Colony is very simple, the chief reason, probably, of the success met with, being the fact that every settler is compelled to own his property, no renting being permitted ... as Mr. Atchison expressed it, "everyone is fat and happy . . ."

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Review Of Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse Of Native American Indian Literatures, Kathryn Shanley Jan 1991

Review Of Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse Of Native American Indian Literatures, Kathryn Shanley

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Back about eight or ten years ago, when Punk hit the American youth scene, there was a joke floating around. It went something like this: How did the dead baby get across the road? [Answer: Safety-pinned to the chicken.] Of course, in order to "get" the joke, you have to understand the Punk mentality and be able to recall instantly the joke that (as far as I can tell) has floated around children's playgrounds for the past several decades: Why did the chicken cross the road? [Answer: To get to the other side.] For Punks, the philosophically probing "why" is …

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Index To Fall 1991 Vol.11 No.4 Jan 1991

Index To Fall 1991 Vol.11 No.4

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Review Of Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity And Change., Kenton Bales Jan 1991

Review Of Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity And Change., Kenton Bales

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According to an old Native American axiom cited by Jamake Highwater, "An ear of corn is a very complicated organism. But for the corn plant, it is simple." Likewise, much Native American music seems mysterious and exotic, since it comes from a culture vastly dissimilar to that of Anglo- and Afro-Americans. This book and the accompanying tape do a great deal to clarify the role of music among the organism we call the Ojibways.

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Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era And Education In Oklahoma, Courtney Ann Farr, Jeffrey A. Liles Jan 1991

Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era And Education In Oklahoma, Courtney Ann Farr, Jeffrey A. Liles

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In 1975 a total of sixty-seven Anglo men responded to a letter sent to all its members by the Oklahoma Retired Teachers Association (ORTA), asking them to record in autobiographical sketches their reasons for becoming teachers and the benefits that they had derived from that choice. l A collective portrait of these transitional professional men spans the Progressive Era, the 1920s, and the Great Depression and, in so doing, describes two sets of phenomena: first, the social context within which the men became teachers and administrators-- communities' willingness to pay men more and to exclude women from so-called "male" positions-and …

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Review Of Billy The Kid: A Short And Violent Life, Bill Christophersen Jan 1991

Review Of Billy The Kid: A Short And Violent Life, Bill Christophersen

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Billy the Kid's last trick was his best. Handcuffed, shackled, and condemned to hang, he overwhelmed and killed two deputies and rode, unharmed, out of Lincoln, New Mexico. Months later, in July 1881, the twenty-one-year-old fugitive would stumble into Sheriff Pat Garrett's waiting firearms. But by then the surface had already been primed for the legend that has since been embellished in dime novels and movies- a legend whose veneers award-winning historian Robert M. Utley (Frontier Regulars, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation) strips away. His Billy the Kid is a scrupulously researched, well-paced-but slightly diffuse-biography of …

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Review Of Mixed-Bloods Arul Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis Arul The Quest For Lrulian Identity., Larry Burt Jan 1991

Review Of Mixed-Bloods Arul Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis Arul The Quest For Lrulian Identity., Larry Burt

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Charles Curtis, a one-eighth Kansa mixedblood, was elected vice president of the United States in 1928, the highest station attained by a person of Indian ancestry. Earlier, while serving as a Kansas congressman at the tum of the century, Curtis was instrumental in many government actions that are now generally considered to be some of the worst abuses of Indians and their homelands under a forced assimilation policy. William Unrau demonstrates in this important work that it was no coincidence that a mixed-blood played such a pivotal role in the destruction of tribes. The government had a long-standing record of …

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Review Of The Potawatomi, Nancy Shoemaker Jan 1991

Review Of The Potawatomi, Nancy Shoemaker

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Clifton's The Potawatomi is one of a series of books in American Indian history designed for "young adults." Not-so-young adults will find the book of little use and would be better served by referring to Clifton's article on the Potawatomi in the Handbook of North American Indians.

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Review Of Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View Of The Sioux War Of 1876., Thomas W. Dunlay Jan 1991

Review Of Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View Of The Sioux War Of 1876., Thomas W. Dunlay

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It is only in recent decades that the Trans-Mississippi Indian wars have become the subject of considerable scholarly as well as popular investigation and writing. It is even more recently that such study has gone beyond indignation at the fate of the Indians themselves. Sherry L. Smith's book is an attempt to understand both sides, and in particular those generally unheard participants, the enlisted men of the regular army. William Earl Smith was the author's great-grandfather, and a major part of the book is his journal of the campaign of General George Crook against the Sioux and Northern Cheyennes in …

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Review Of An Illustrated History Of The Arts In South Dakota, Norman A. Geske Jan 1991

Review Of An Illustrated History Of The Arts In South Dakota, Norman A. Geske

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In the concluding pages of this nearly fourhundred- page volume the author acknowledges previous attempts to write the history of the arts in South Dakota and concludes, quite properly, that "the large task lies ahead." One wonders how much larger the task might be in the light of the present work, which covers the performing arts, the visual arts, and the literary arts, with a special section devoted to the arts of the Sioux. It appears in a review of the 132 chapters, many of them dealing with single individuals and organizations, that a conscious effort was made to leave …

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Review Of Ancestral Voice: Conversations With N. Scott Momaday, Kenneth M. Romemer Jan 1991

Review Of Ancestral Voice: Conversations With N. Scott Momaday, Kenneth M. Romemer

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We expect a collection of interviews with an author to provide the types of anecdotes, information, and opinions that often don't get into scholarly articles but do illuminate the author and his or her work. Charles Woodard's Ancestral Voice fulfills those expectations and goes beyond them.

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Review Of The Voice In The Margin: Native American Literature And The Canon, Charles G. Ballard Jan 1991

Review Of The Voice In The Margin: Native American Literature And The Canon, Charles G. Ballard

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Readers will find this heady mixture of postmodernist ideas and qualifications, Indianist viewpoints, and generous helpings of Native American material quite enjoyable and informative. Perhaps in this scholarly book the hors d'oeuvres, or the first several chapters, are formidable enough to drop the reader to his or her knees, but the effort required is indeed worthwhile.

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Review Of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88., H. Elaine Lindgren Jan 1991

Review Of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88., H. Elaine Lindgren

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Mary Dodge Woodward's keen observations, written in her diaries, serve to recreate days of bonanza farming in the Red River Valley of the North in the 1880s. Mary Dodge Woodward came to the Fargo area to live on a bonanza farm managed by her son Walter. A telescope extended Mary Dodge Woodward's view of the land stretching beyond the farmyard. "I stand at the east chamber-which is my observatory- with the spy glass everyday" (82).

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Notes And News For Vol.11 No.4 Jan 1991

Notes And News For Vol.11 No.4

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No abstract provided.

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Review Of Vulcan: The Making Of A Prairie Community, David C. Jones Jan 1991

Review Of Vulcan: The Making Of A Prairie Community, David C. Jones

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Vulcan is a long awaited study of the formation of communities in southern Alberta. It is an insightful rendition of the development of settlement, agriculture, social life, and society in the Canadian West. Starting with the common theoretical explanations of the origin and nature of western communities-including cultural, metropolis, frontier, and environmental hypotheses-it fashions a unique and complex interpretation.

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Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider Jan 1991

Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider

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One aftermath of European colonization of the eastern United States was the westward migration of many eastern Indian tribes. Among the hundreds of tribes that uprooted themselves and sought new lands were the Mesquakie, more commonly referred to as the Fox or Sauk and Fox, who migrated from the area around Green Bay, Wisconsin, into eastern Iowa in the late 1700s and adapted so well to their new home that they took unique steps to become permanent residents. In 1846, under pressure of Iowa statehood, their tribe sold their land in Iowa and moved to Kansas, but in 1856 the …

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Reviw Of Before Lewis And Clark Volume 1: Documents Illustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804 And Before Lewis And Clark Volume 2: Documents Iuustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804, W. Raymond Wood Jan 1991

Reviw Of Before Lewis And Clark Volume 1: Documents Illustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804 And Before Lewis And Clark Volume 2: Documents Iuustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804, W. Raymond Wood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It now has been nearly forty years since the publication of Nasatir's landmark study Before Lewis and Clark. In those decades it has grown to be an indispensable aid in the historical scholarship of the Great Plains. The reason? This history of the pre-Lewis and Clark Missouri River provides a comprehensive data base and summary that is unobtainable in any other form. The original two-volume set, unfortunately, has been out of print for many years, and the great cost of the original volumes (usually in three figures) on the used book market is added testimony to their scholarly value. …

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Review Of Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography Of A West Texas Pioneer., Rebecca J. Davis Jan 1991

Review Of Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography Of A West Texas Pioneer., Rebecca J. Davis

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The destruction in the South caused by the Civil War prompted many Southerners to move to Texas to reconstruct their lives. Ella Elgar Bird Dumont chronicles not only such a move from Mississippi to Texas in 1866 but also the details of her life as a plainswoman in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

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Review Of Lizzie: The Letters Of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864- 1893,, Paula Petrik Jan 1991

Review Of Lizzie: The Letters Of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864- 1893,, Paula Petrik

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Unlike many of the collections of letters or journals written by women chronicling the nineteenth-century western experience that center on rural women's lives or the overland trip, Elizabeth Chester Fisk's letters describe a western woman in an urban environment. From Lizzie's riverboat trip up the Missouri River to Helena, Montana, in 1867 to the death of her mother and correspondent in 1893, the editor has chosen the best from a large collection. Through her letters, the reader glimpses the public and private politics that marked Lizzie's life and the tension between a woman's affiliations with family and the community and …

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Review Of The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations., Daniel Tyler Jan 1991

Review Of The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations., Daniel Tyler

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Readers of The Twentieth Century West are urged to review the prologue (Etulain) and epilogue (Nash) before tackling the works of contributing authors. These two pieces explain the guidelines of the editors and their purpose in dividing the book into five parts: People, Economy, Environment, Politics, and Culture.

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Review Of American Indian Autobiography, Charles Lachance Jan 1991

Review Of American Indian Autobiography, Charles Lachance

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Often a piece of scholarly literature is intriguing not because it is completely right but because it is somewhat wrongheaded. Such is the case with H. David Brumble's historical survey of American Indian autobiography. This is not to imply that Brumble errs in the details of his short history of Indian autobiography. Nor is it to say that he misconceives most of his generalizations on the subject. As an Indian or part Indian myself, I am repeatedly chastened by the formidable expertise displayed by non-Indians like Brumble who write on Native American culture. The argument of Brumble's informative book is …

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Review Of The Art Of Tom Lea., Brian W. Dippie Jan 1991

Review Of The Art Of Tom Lea., Brian W. Dippie

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It is difficult to write objectively about a living artist, and though Tom Lea's accomplishments span seven decades and a critical assessment would seem in order, this book is best considered a handsome homage. Indeed, the textual matter is limited to a brief foreword by Kathleen Hjerter, the book's compiler, and an introduction by William Weber Johnson. The rest-219 pages---consists of plates, many in color, arranged in five chronological divisions but entirely lacking in commentary. The pioneer painter George Catlin in 1870 rejected an offer to publish a complete edition of his Indian outlines because no text was contemplated and …

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Review Of Santa Fe: History Of An Ancient City., Marvin Kanne Jan 1991

Review Of Santa Fe: History Of An Ancient City., Marvin Kanne

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Without doubt, Santa Fe is one of the most fascinating and enchanting cities in this country. Pueblo Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Anglo-Americans have created over the past four centuries a rich, diverse culture of endearing mystique.

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Stephen Crane's "Bride" As Countermyth Of The West, Jules Zanger Jan 1991

Stephen Crane's "Bride" As Countermyth Of The West, Jules Zanger

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It has become a critical cliche to recognize Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" as a parody of the traditional, cliche-ridden Western. His transformations of that form's conventional hero, heroine, and badman, as well as of the climactic, de rigueur shootout are amusing and obvious. In the story Crane depicted the Pullman journey of a middle-aged, honeymooning couple, Jack Potter, a Texas marshal, and his plain, "under-class" bride, to their home in Yellow Sky. There they are confronted by the rampaging Scratchy Wilson, the last of the badmen, who on learning that the marshal has taken a wife, …

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Revie Of Breaking The Iron Bonds: Indian Control Of Energy Development., Russell Lawrence Barsh Jan 1991

Revie Of Breaking The Iron Bonds: Indian Control Of Energy Development., Russell Lawrence Barsh

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Few things were as exhilarating for Indian tribes in the last twenty years, or as controversial, as energy development. There has long been a need for a worthy successor to Jorgensen's critical collection, Native Americans and Energy Development II (Joseph G. Jorgensen, ed. [Boston: Anthropology Resource Center, 1984]). Unfortunately, Ambler does not meet the challenge.

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