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Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, Sarah Carter Jan 1992

Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, Sarah Carter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The essays in this innovative and significant book look at the effects of European occupation on the people and the environment of semiarid regions on several continents. It is the book's comparative and interdisciplinary approach that makes it particularly original and provocative. Included are the lands of the indigenous people of the North American Plains, the Australian Aborigines, the Kazakhs of what was once the USSR, the Maasai of Kenya, several groups in South Africa, Alaskan, and Lapp (Saami) people. Contributors are from anthropology, economics, English, law, history, religion, Native American studies, and environmental studies and they are John W. …

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Review Of Go West And Grow Up With The Country': An Exhibition Of Nineteenth-Century Guides To The American West In The Collections Of The American Antiquarian Society., Martha H. Kennedy Jan 1992

Review Of Go West And Grow Up With The Country': An Exhibition Of Nineteenth-Century Guides To The American West In The Collections Of The American Antiquarian Society., Martha H. Kennedy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

George Miles, curator of western Americana at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has written an excellent catalogue of an exhibition of guides to the American West in the American Antiquarian Society's collections. In his introduction, Miles notes that in addition to the traditional notion of guides as "books or pamphlets that described how to go west," the term can be usefully expanded to include "literature that helped guide them [western pioneers] in establishing their homesteads, in setting up their businesses, in educating themselves and their children, and in creating new territories and states." He then presents annotated entries …

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Review Of The Cowgirls, Karen Morin Jan 1992

Review Of The Cowgirls, Karen Morin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If this book suffers from anything it's too much enthusiasm for its subject. Joyce Roach sets out to prove that the cowgirl is our "foremost genuine American heroine," and while this is at least arguable, she tends to overstate her case at the expense of the early suffragists (cowgirls, not they, were the "advance guard of the feminist movement") and in particular at the expense of other western women: "Other frontier women were more or less forgotten with the passing of the frontier. The life of the farm woman, for instance, was never heroic, just miserable . . . and …

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Review Of A Hannony Of The Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol., Ron Tyler Jan 1992

Review Of A Hannony Of The Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol., Ron Tyler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Public buildings have been seen as reflections of society's culture and politics for centuries, and it has been a long-accepted corollary that Americans view their state capitols as palaces of democratic government. This handsome volume, with essays by Frederick C. Luebke, H. Keith Sawyers, David Murphy, Dale L. Gibbs, Joan Woodside and Betsy Gabb, Norman Geske and Jon Nelson, and Robert C. Ripley, richly documents the story of one of the more unusual American capitol buildings: Bertram Goodhue's Nebraska State Capitol. It, too, is a paean to democracy, but it is a delightful and surprising architectural maverick.

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Review Of American Indian Water Rights And The Limits Of Law, John R. Wunder Jan 1992

Review Of American Indian Water Rights And The Limits Of Law, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Do Indians have a right to water on their reservations? An answer to such a question seems obvious. Water is a part of land, and if you have sovereignty or ownership over the land, even limited sovereignty, rights to the water should follow.

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The Ambivalence Of John Steuart Curry's Justice Defeating Mob Violence, Stephen C. Behrendt Jan 1992

The Ambivalence Of John Steuart Curry's Justice Defeating Mob Violence, Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Steuart Curry's mural Justice Defeating Mob Violence (Fig. 1), painted in 1936-37 for the United States Department of Justice, offers viewers a revealing perspective on the cultural values inherent in then-current notions of law and order. In approaching his mural, Curry assumed the traditional role of the history painter as it had been known in post-Renaissance Europe, especially in the eighteenth century; he undertook to present for public approbation and public edification a moralistic allegorical statement about the relations between societal disorder and both the institutions designed to control such disorder and the agents appointed to enforce that control. …

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Battered Pioneers: Jules Sandoz And The Physical Abuse Of Wives On The American Frontier, Betsy Downey Jan 1992

Battered Pioneers: Jules Sandoz And The Physical Abuse Of Wives On The American Frontier, Betsy Downey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One of the most compelling aspects of Mari Sandoz' biography of her father, OldJules, is her account of the violence that Jules Sandoz inflicted upon his family. Jules Sandoz had left his native Switzerland in a fit of temper and ended up in northwestern Nebraska in 1884. Well educated and from a well-to-do professional family, he was nevertheless a character by any standards. He had a violent temper matched by unflagging paranoia and contentiousness. He was remarkable for personal filth and filthy stories. But he was also a gregarious center of community life, an outstanding horticulturalist, a voracious reader …

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The Mystery Of Francis Jeffrey Dickens, N.W.M.P., And Eric Nicol's Dickens Of The Mounted, Robert Thacker Jan 1992

The Mystery Of Francis Jeffrey Dickens, N.W.M.P., And Eric Nicol's Dickens Of The Mounted, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Almost from its inception in 1873, but certainly since its "Great March" west during the summer of 1874 across "the Great Lone Land" of the Plains that had been the Hudson's Bay Company's domain only a few years before, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been among the world's most famous corporate entities; it is, perhaps, the most famous police force. 2 Its reputation is rooted in the very real heroism of its early years and the high standards of excellent service it has had since then; but the mythic quality of that reputation-as a cadre of judicious superheroes-has been …

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1992 Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 1992

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1992 Vol. 12 No. 1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Review Of Catlin And His Contemporaries; The Politics Of Patronage, Colin G. Calloway Jan 1992

Review Of Catlin And His Contemporaries; The Politics Of Patronage, Colin G. Calloway

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Brian Dippie provides a corrective to the image of George Catlin as a hopeless romantic. Stung by criticism in eastern artistic circles, Catlin headed west on "a new path to fame and fortune" (p. 11). After a few years visiting the Indians, he spent more than thirty years hustling to find a patron and to market his work. That he failed to do so was not for want of effort. According to Dippie, Catlin would "try anything to make a dollar from his art" (p. 21) and Indians were worth more to him dead than alive once he had captured …

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Review Of The Enduring Indians Of Kansas: A Century And A Half Of Acculturation, James A. Clifton Jan 1992

Review Of The Enduring Indians Of Kansas: A Century And A Half Of Acculturation, James A. Clifton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In a region as well mapped and paved as Kansas Indian studies, anyone promising better roads to improved understanding faces large obstacles. The author pledges himself to a "true picture" of certain Kansas Indians as "multidimensional human beings," one that shows how they "strategically utilized their syncretic cultures in order to survive in a hostile Kansas." If not obvious, the latter statement is conceptual garbage, while the story he tells is everything but multidimensional. On the contrary, what this author does is to impose on the historical record his own version of the currently popular, orthodox Indian Story: his "enduring …

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Review Of Renderbrook: A Century Under The Spade Brand, James W. Cox Jan 1992

Review Of Renderbrook: A Century Under The Spade Brand, James W. Cox

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the context of the current concern over the disappearance of the family farm, this work is important because it presents the story of one successful family enterprise. In the late nineteenth century l. L. Ellwood applied a fortune made from barbed wire to create a model cattle operation in west Texas that exists today. His business expanded through careful management and an eye toward innovation. Kelton draws in various aspects of the operation that influenced the evolution of the ranch by considering new technology, diversification, changes in daily ranch operation, and the new role of the cowboy in keeping …

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Review Of It's Not The End Of The Earth, But You Can See It From Here: Tales Of The Great Plains, Linda M. Hasselstorm Jan 1992

Review Of It's Not The End Of The Earth, But You Can See It From Here: Tales Of The Great Plains, Linda M. Hasselstorm

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If Roger Welsch didn't exist, a writer would invent him. He became known for a single action incomprehensible to the city-bred majority of folks: leaving a comfortable professor's life in a Nebraska city for a farm on the arid central plains. Instead of disappearing into obscurity while academics mused on his self-destruction, he became famous writing about country ways. Still, he's sometimes seen as a mere record-keeper for a simpler way of life that is disappearing into the busy blandness of American society.

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Review Of Contours Of Discovery: Printed Maps Delineating The Texas And Southwestern Chapters In The Cartographic History Of North America, 1513- 1930, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1992

Review Of Contours Of Discovery: Printed Maps Delineating The Texas And Southwestern Chapters In The Cartographic History Of North America, 1513- 1930, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is unusual to review a book that is a decade old, as Contours of Discovery is, but this is an unusual publication. As fresh and vital today as it was ten years ago, it consists of two parts: The first is a portfolio of twenty-two historical maps reproduced in color, all of which relate to Texas history; the second is a paper-bound "user's guide" that offers both an essay on cartographic history as it pertains to Texas and a section of commentaries on each of the maps included in the portfolio.

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Review Of The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony And Healing., Beatrice Medicine Jan 1992

Review Of The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony And Healing., Beatrice Medicine

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As a Lakota person, it seems more pertinent to me that those publications that deal with specific groups, i.e., Oglala, be reviewed by persons from that band. Tribally controlled colleges on reservations could possibly be sources for the reviews.

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Review Of Native Americans: Five Centuries Of Changing Images., Joseph C. Porter Jan 1992

Review Of Native Americans: Five Centuries Of Changing Images., Joseph C. Porter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Native Americans is a lavishly illustrated, attractive "coffee table" book intended for the general reader, and such volumes are significant because they reach wide audiences who frequently learn about complex and important topics from such general works. In Native Americans Trenton and Houlihan essay the imagery of the Native American in European and Euro-American art. They utilize an "integrated" anthropological and art-historical critique" (p. 7), and they use the concept of "cultural areas" to organize their text.

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Review Of Bull Threshers And Bindlestiffs: Harvesting And Threshing On The North American Plains And Plains Folk Ii: The Romance Of The Landscape, Leon Satterfield Jan 1992

Review Of Bull Threshers And Bindlestiffs: Harvesting And Threshing On The North American Plains And Plains Folk Ii: The Romance Of The Landscape, Leon Satterfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For thirty years or so, I've wondered how to spell the word that referred to those little metal nipples I used to pump grease into when I was helping my dad grow wheat. It's not in any dictionary I've ever seen, but it is in Thomas Isem's account of the culture surrounding the reaping and threshing of small grains before the advent of the combine.

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Are Religious Experiences Too Extraordinary To Be Trusted?, Georg Herlitz Jan 1992

Are Religious Experiences Too Extraordinary To Be Trusted?, Georg Herlitz

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

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Aberrant Mormon Settlers: The Homesteaders Of Highland, Utah, David T. Durfey Jan 1992

Aberrant Mormon Settlers: The Homesteaders Of Highland, Utah, David T. Durfey

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a history of the original thirty-seven homesteaders of Highland, Utah. It covers a period of about twenty-five years, 1875-1900. The study provides an example of a aberrant community which was not established in the same, distinctive style of settlement as the typical Mormon village. In addition it describes the relationship between the original residents and non-residents of Highland with the surrounding villages of Lehi, American Fork, and Alpine.

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Objectivity In The Interpretation Of The Archaeology Of Ghana, E. Kofi Agorsah Jan 1992

Objectivity In The Interpretation Of The Archaeology Of Ghana, E. Kofi Agorsah

Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

One of the desires of the majority of archaeologists is to obtain from their analyses an objective knowledge of the societies they study. However, the mere desire to obtain objectivity does not ensure its attainment especially where biases cannot be controlled. Added to this difficulty of obtaining objectivity is that not only is the subject matter of archaeology vast and varied, but also archaeologists disagree on directions of study and interpretations, and in many cases very few scholars attempt to put themselves at a standpoint from which to measure the inadequacies and unevenness of their interpretations. Fundamental to interpretations in …

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The Confidentiality Of Library Users’ Records, John A. Drobnicki Jan 1992

The Confidentiality Of Library Users’ Records, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Many activities that take place in the library, including circulation and inter!ibrary loan and reserve requests, result in the creation of records linking clients to specific kinds of information. Several groups, including law enforcement officials, have attempted on various occasions to gain access to these records. This research paper provides a broad overview of the legal and ethical issues regarding the confidentiality of library user's records, including federal, state, and court protection for the confidentiality of library records, the status of library records that are part of a public institution, and a minor's right to privacy. The paper also discusses …

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[Review Of] Richard Jensen, Et. Al. Eyewitness At Wounded Knee, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Richard Jensen, Et. Al. Eyewitness At Wounded Knee, Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Any student of the relations between Native Americans and the US government and anyone who has read with deep interest Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee should add this work to his or her library or reading list. James A. Handson, Director of the Nebraska State Historical Society, provides an excellent foreword. He indicates that it has been the main intention of the work to interpret the photographs taken by men, many of whom were from Nebraska, in the light of the centennial of the massacre in 1990; also, the work is published in commemoration of the sesquicentennial …

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[Review Of] Toni Morrison. Jazz, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Toni Morrison. Jazz, Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Francis Davis, writing about jazz in the Atlantic Monthly (August 1988, p.71), defined it as "a protean music with a sense of manifest destiny." I personally feel this definition may be well used to accurately describe Morrison's latest fiction. Stylistically and structurally it is a masterpiece, for mood and mode match. The stories about its main characters are told in the book's sections, and yet the sections are interwoven because of the interrelationships of these characters. In each such section time past and present are also interwoven in a "seamless" way. The lyricism of many of the passages spoken by …

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Seaall Officer Election Materials, 1992, Seaall Jan 1992

Seaall Officer Election Materials, 1992, Seaall

Administrative Materials

The material for the 1992 Officer Election includes a letter to Mary Cross from Alva Stone (dated April 3, 1992), candidate biographical sketches, a letter to the SEAALL Community from Alva Stone with enclosed ballot, candidate biographical sketches, and bylaws (dated April 17, 1992), and a fax with letter to Mary Cross from Alva Stone (dated May 26, 1992).

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Glucose, Exercise, And Short-Term Memory, Brenda Davidson, Cheryle Sanders, Gwendolyn K. Murdock Jan 1992

Glucose, Exercise, And Short-Term Memory, Brenda Davidson, Cheryle Sanders, Gwendolyn K. Murdock

Modern Psychological Studies

This investigation determined the short-term memory effects of glucose and exercise. It was hypothesized that (a) glucose enhances short-term memory and (b) intense exercise diminishes short-term memory. Subjects were middle-aged volunteers who regularly exercise. Two within-subjects variables were (a) glucose vs. no-glucose, and (b) before- vs. after exercise. A between-subjects variable was no-glucose beverage type: aspartame, saccharin, or water. Performance on Subtest IV of the Wechsler Memory Scale was the dependent variable. A glucose by exercise interaction suggested an influence of fitness level. In a second experiment, short-term memory was assessed before, and at 20-min. intervals after exercise. Weight and …

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The Priming Effects Of Parental Divorce On Relationship Attitudes, Donna Wetzel, Faye D. Plascak-Craig Jan 1992

The Priming Effects Of Parental Divorce On Relationship Attitudes, Donna Wetzel, Faye D. Plascak-Craig

Modern Psychological Studies

Past findings frequently reported that children with divorced parents exhibit negative behaviors at some time following the divorce, however, data have not consistently demonstrated attitudinal effects. In this study, 70 college undergraduates, half with divorced parents and half with intact families, were administered an original survey for recording ratings of relationship attitudes and eight semantic differential scales. Although adult children of divorced parents rated their parents relationships less positively than did those from intact families, there were no differences by parental history in their relationship fears. There were semantic differences in ratings of five constructs (FAMILY, FATHER, MARRIAGE, PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, …

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The L-Word : January 1, 1992, The L-Word Jan 1992

The L-Word : January 1, 1992, The L-Word

The L-Word

No abstract provided.

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Pamphlet: A Brief Guide To Politics '92, Americans For Peace Now Jan 1992

Pamphlet: A Brief Guide To Politics '92, Americans For Peace Now

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Pamphlet issued by Americans for Peace Now, an American Jewish membership organization and support group for Israel’s largest peace group - Shalom Achshav. The brochure urges candidates to consider their positions on U.S. policy toward Israel and the Middle East. Date: 1992 Box 23 Folder 10

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The Mickey Leland Papers, Texas Southern University Jan 1992

The Mickey Leland Papers, Texas Southern University

Mickey Leland Center on Hunger, Poverty, and World Peace Reports

The collection features early attempts to catalog and archive feature papers and records of the civic leader Mickey Leland. The collection codifies the expanse and influence of Mickey Leland over his career.

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Remembering The Past: !Kung Life History Narratives, Patricia Draper Jan 1992

Remembering The Past: !Kung Life History Narratives, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

This chapter will examine the social and economic changes that !Kung women have experienced in the last seventy or so years by means of life history narratives collected from five older !Kung or "Zhun/wa" women, as the !Kung call themselves. The women whose stories form the basis of this report were all living in the western Kalahari Desert of Ngamiland, Botswana in 1987-88 when the author was carrying out anthropological field work. Many changes have affected the !Kung in the last several decades. A brief discussion of these changes is given below to provide a background for the interpretation of …

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