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Review Of Economic Adaptation: Alternatives For Nonmetropolitan Areas By David L. Barkley, Richard L. Meile
Review Of Economic Adaptation: Alternatives For Nonmetropolitan Areas By David L. Barkley, Richard L. Meile
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The purpose of David L. Barkley's edited work is to examine critically the policy and practice of rural economic development in the United States during the last quarter century. To that end Barkley has brought together leading economists, regional scientists, and several sociologists to review and evaluate the current status of rural economic development.
Many of the contributors to the volume, especially Professors Lobao and Summers, allude to the significance of a globalized economy to development in non-metropolitan areas of the country. The volume shows, to paraphrase Lobao, that strategies focusing on recapitalizing rural communities do not work everywhere or …
Review Of Roadside History Of South Dakota By Linda Hasselstrom, Darrell Napton
Review Of Roadside History Of South Dakota By Linda Hasselstrom, Darrell Napton
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The best parts of this book are the introductions to South Dakota and to each of the four regions into which Hasselstrom divides the state. In these sixty pages, she distills the state's history and cultural geography. Linda Hasselstrom is one of South Dakota's most accomplished native writers. Her writing is clean and easy to read. She explains what it is to be South Dakotan as only a native could, but retains the ability to step back and see the state objectively.
Intended for an audience of armchair travelers, vacationers, and casual history buffs, the book is organized around four …
Review Of From Columbus To Conagra: The Globalization Of Agriculture And Food, Edited By Allessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch, William Frieland, Lourdes Gouveia, And Enzo Mingione, R. Douglas Hurt
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Despite differing definitions, most scholars agree that the late twentieth century is an age of globalization in agriculture and the food industry. For some, globalization means the elimination of trade barriers; for others it involves the development of international relationships in production and distribution. Globalization, however, is exemplified for all by transnational corporations (TNCs), such as ConAgra, that own and control a variety of world-wide production and distribution systems, thereby controlling millions of workers, manipulating governments, and changing consumption patterns. In contrast to corporations of the past, TNCs essentially exist independently of nation states. Although national and international laws provide …
Review Of Meatpackers And Beef Barons: Company Town In A Global Economy By Carol Andreas, Laura Lacasa
Review Of Meatpackers And Beef Barons: Company Town In A Global Economy By Carol Andreas, Laura Lacasa
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Lamenting the exploitation of meatpackers at the hands of America's multi-billion dollar beef industry, sociologist Carol Andreas presents a case study of ConAgra, Inc.'s operations in Greeley, Colorado. Andreas asserts that large companies purposely exploit labor to survive in a highly competitive global market. Accordingly, she argues that the u.s. meatpacking industry, epitomized by ConAgra's operations, represents a flawed economic system that fails to offer advantages either to blue-collar workers or their communities.
Review Of Interest Group Politics In The Midwestern States By Ronald J. Hrebenar And Clive S. Thomas, Russell Ross
Review Of Interest Group Politics In The Midwestern States By Ronald J. Hrebenar And Clive S. Thomas, Russell Ross
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
This interesting collection of studies considers as "Midwestern" the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Its nineteen contributors, authorities in state politics and government, achieve an overall consistency among their chapters by adhering to the editors' outline of the volume's subject matter. Although published in 1994, much of the book's research was done in the 1980s.
Review Of Alberta's Local Governments: Politics And Democracy By Jack Masson, Louis A. Knafla
Review Of Alberta's Local Governments: Politics And Democracy By Jack Masson, Louis A. Knafla
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The authors, of the University of Alberta, have presented here a lengthy examination of democracy and political practice in the province's rural and urban communities, essentially from the 1880s to 1994. In addition to the communities themselves, the authors also examine the relations between municipalities and the provincial government, the growth of greater local self-government, representation and accountability, the territorial decentralization of municipal economic activity, and the recent transfer of the costs of local government from the province to municipalities.
Multivariate Analysis Of Quality Of Life And Migration In North Dakota, Mohammad Hemmasi
Multivariate Analysis Of Quality Of Life And Migration In North Dakota, Mohammad Hemmasi
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Principle components analysis and multiple regression were used to examine spatial variations in quality of life indicators, and relationships between quality of life indicators and net migration rates for North Dakota counties between 1980 and 1990. Three quality of life dimensions were identified: Affluence, Suffering, and Demography. Of the three derived indicators, Affluence was the best overall statistical determinant of county migration rates. Adverse quality of life and migration trends were especially evident for counties with high non-white population proportions; such counties may need special development policies.
River Protection In Texas: Up A Creek Without A Policy, Michelle S. Pettit, F. Andrew Schoolmaster
River Protection In Texas: Up A Creek Without A Policy, Michelle S. Pettit, F. Andrew Schoolmaster
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Federal river protection in the us. began in 1968 with passage of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (P.L. 90-542). In addition to the federal system, 33 states have enacted some type of state-level river protection legislation. Currently, over 400 river segments and 15,000 river miles are protected by the state programs. Texas, which contains 23 major river basins and over 80,000 linear miles of streambed, has made numerous attempts to establish a state-level protection program; however, each has failed. With a growing population of more than 17.6 million, competition for water resources will intensify, including demands for various …
Review Of Skeletal Biology In The Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health And Subsistence By Douglas W. Owsley And Richard L. Jantz, Luann Wandsnider
Review Of Skeletal Biology In The Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health And Subsistence By Douglas W. Owsley And Richard L. Jantz, Luann Wandsnider
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
This volume reports the results of studies on skeletal remains throughout the Great Plains from early to recent times. Skeletons from the W. H. Over Museum Collection in South Dakota, excavated by Over, William Bass, and W. R. Hurt, form the volume's analytic core, with other collections providing necessary context. Portions of the Over skeletal collection have been reported on previously. When the collection was mandated for reburial in 1985, however, Owsley and Jantz arranged for comprehensive osteological analysis by numerous specialists, resulting in this volume.
Thirty-two chapters by 39 authors are offered on the topics of Great Plains disease …
Review Of Apache Mothers And Daughters: Four Generations Of A Family By Ruth Mcdonald Boyer And Narcissus Duffy Gayton, Beth Ritter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Apache Mothers and Daughters is the narrative saga of four generations of Chiricahua Apache mothers and daughters. Against a poignant background of Chiricahua raiding and warfare, imprisonment, relocation, reservation confinement, and forced acculturation, this intensely personal history of four remarkable women's lives unfolds. The book's strength lies in its masterful weaving of solid ethnohistoric research with the oral history provided by Narcissus Duffy Gayton (and other informants) about herself, her mother Christine Kozine, her grandmother Beshad-e, and her great grandmother Dilth-cleyhen.
Letters To The Editor - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995
Letters To The Editor - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
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Review Of Braid Of Feathers: American Indian Law And Contemporary Tribal Life By Frank Pommersheim, Erin Hogan Fouberg
Review Of Braid Of Feathers: American Indian Law And Contemporary Tribal Life By Frank Pommersheim, Erin Hogan Fouberg
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The goal of Indian termination policy in the 1950s was to eliminate the reservations and thus eradicate the "Indian problem." Frank Pommersheim, professor of law at the University of South Dakota and member of the appellate court for the Cheyenne River and Rosebud Sioux tribes, convincingly argues that eliminating reservations would be disastrous for Indian tribes in the west. The establishment of reservations guaranteed tribes a measured separatism; today, they are the only places where tribes and their cultures are likely to survive. The author examines the portions ofthe United States legally designated Indian country and finds that Indian land …
Review Of Lakota And Cheyenne: Indian Views Of The Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 By Jerome A. Greene, William Bridges
Review Of Lakota And Cheyenne: Indian Views Of The Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 By Jerome A. Greene, William Bridges
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
In 1874 and 1875, whites, lured by the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, poured into the northern Plains and encountered the indigenous Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, remembered by most Americans for Custer's Last Stand in June 1876, sprang from this contact. While Custer and over two hundred of his men lost their lives at the Battle of Little Big Horn, the Cheyenne and Sioux lost far more. By shattering the largest unified resistance to white incursions into Indian territory, the Great Sioux War went a long way to assuring whites supremacy …
Secondary School Curriculum Change In Rural Nebraska, Erwin Goldenstein, L. James Walter
Secondary School Curriculum Change In Rural Nebraska, Erwin Goldenstein, L. James Walter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Critics of education in the United States asserted that high school students' performance fell after 1960. The decline has been linked to high school curricula which lost academic rigor in comparison to high school curricula in earlier decades. This study investigates the curricula of selected high schools in Nebraska, using random samples of graduating seniors taken every 10 years from 1953 to 1983. Findings show that the proportions of students' programs devoted to more demanding English, social sciences, mathematics, business, and natural science courses diminished during the study period. Grade inflation was observed in smaller public schools, but not in …
Review Of Restoring Prairie Wetlands: An Ecological Approach By Susan M. Galatowitsch And Arnold G. Van Der Valko, John Ortmann, James L. Stubbendieck
Review Of Restoring Prairie Wetlands: An Ecological Approach By Susan M. Galatowitsch And Arnold G. Van Der Valko, John Ortmann, James L. Stubbendieck
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
For reasons of national policy, environmental need, and funding availability, wetlands have become one of the most active areas for ecological restoration. But, as this timely and useful book points out, such projects too often have consisted of plugging the drain tile or ditch and letting nature do the rest. This approach has resulted in failure more often than recognized. Failure is obvious when a restored "wetland" remains dry because the regional water table has dropped, more subtle when natural plant communities fail to regenerate spontaneously, or nearly invisible when predation exceeds waterfowl production. Lack of planning and basic understanding …
Review Of Apache Mothers And Daughters: Four Generations Of A Family By Ruth Mcdonald Boyer And Narcissus Duffy Gayton, Beth Ritter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Apache Mothers and Daughters is the narrative saga of four generations of Chiricahua Apache mothers and daughters. Against a poignant background of Chiricahua raiding and warfare, imprisonment, relocation, reservation confinement, and forced acculturation, this intensely personal history of four remarkable women's lives unfolds. The book's strength lies in its masterful weaving of solid ethnohistoric research with the oral history provided by Narcissus Duffy Gayton (and other informants) about herself, her mother Christine Kozine, her grandmother Beshad-e, and her great grandmother Dilth-c1eyhen.
Nebraska Quilts, 1870-1989: Perspectives On Traditions And Change, Patricia Cox Crews, Wendelin Rich
Nebraska Quilts, 1870-1989: Perspectives On Traditions And Change, Patricia Cox Crews, Wendelin Rich
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
This study of Nebraska-made quilts spans the years from the 1870s through the 1980s, which extends from the early settlement of the state through the recent farm crisis. The descriptive profile of Nebraska quilts that emerged highlights the many similarities of Nebraska-made quilts to other American quilts of the same periods. Analysis shows that Nebraska quilts reflected the technological, artistic, and social trends of the times and points to changes in popularity of quilt types and pieced and applique patterns over the years. Although distinctive quilt types, styles, and quilting practices were reported in other states, Nebraska quilts are notable …
What Kind Of Woman Would Work In Meatpacking, Anyway? World War Ii And The Road To Fair Employment, Deborah Fink
What Kind Of Woman Would Work In Meatpacking, Anyway? World War Ii And The Road To Fair Employment, Deborah Fink
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
World War II accelerated the movement of rural and small town Iowa women into manufacturing industry. Scholars have debated the significance of World War II for gender relations, but the recent consensus is that only focused studies of particular localities can address the complexity of the changes effected by the War. This study looks at Iowa women in meatpacking plants. Assessing the economic background, their prior efforts to enter packing plants, and the resistance they met in the plants makes their limited gains understandable. Women of rural and small town wage earning households had always been workers, usually in the …
Using Soils To Delineate South Dakota Physiographic Regions, Rex R. Johnson, Kenneth F. Higgins, Daniel E. Hubbard
Using Soils To Delineate South Dakota Physiographic Regions, Rex R. Johnson, Kenneth F. Higgins, Daniel E. Hubbard
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Physiographic regions are natural landforms valuable for research and management landscape stratification. Accurate regional delineations may increase research sampling and management effectiveness. Soils data in the us. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) State Soil Geographic Data Base (STATSGO) were used in a Geographic Information System to delineate 13 South Dakota physiographic regions. Soil mapping units were selected within physiographic regions in the STATSGO coverage in ARC/INFO to delineate geographic features. Several modifications to prior South Dakota physiographic region delineations are proposed. Soils data may be used to provide detailed and objective delineations of natural landforms. A map …
Annual Index - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995
Annual Index - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Annual index
Table Of Contents - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995
Table Of Contents - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Contents:
Articles
Book Reviews
Letters to the Editor
News and Notes
Index
News And Notes - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995
News And Notes - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1995
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Contents: Calls for papers
Conferences
Review Of This Fragile Land: A Natural History Of The Nebraska Sandhills By Paul A. Johnsgard, Paul G. Risser
Review Of This Fragile Land: A Natural History Of The Nebraska Sandhills By Paul A. Johnsgard, Paul G. Risser
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Books like this are rarely written. Today, most writings about natural features and charismatic landscapes tend to be of two types: those with subjective, generalized descriptions written for the layperson, or technical articles with great detail but little in the way of human emotion. This book, written by a professor who spent fifteen summers in the Nebraska Sandhills, presents sufficient technical detail to satisfy the professional, but at the same time conveys the images and emotions of the Sandhills plants, animals, and people.
About 50,000 square kilometers-one-fourth of Nebraska-are covered by the Sandhills, making this the largest area of sand …
Review Of Indian Water In The New West By Thomas R. Mcguire, William B. Lord, And Mary G. Wallace, Otis W. Templer
Review Of Indian Water In The New West By Thomas R. Mcguire, William B. Lord, And Mary G. Wallace, Otis W. Templer
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
This collection of essays on Indian water rights results from a symposium, Indian Water Rights and Water Resources Management, sponsored by the American Water Resources Association and the Northern Lights Research and Education Institute. Held at Missoula, Montana in June, 1989, the symposium was co-sponsored by a number of federal and state agencies and universities. Included among participants were lawyers, engineers, economists, ecologists, anthropologists, mediators, federal officials, and Native Americans who collectively represented a broad range of scholarly and applied expertise and viewpoints. This book is not a collection of papers by academics on the history and development of Indian …
Review Of Aboriginal Peoples In Urban Centres: Report Of The National Round Table On Aboriginal Urban Issues By Royal Commission On Aboriginal Peoples, Russel Lawrence Barsh
Review Of Aboriginal Peoples In Urban Centres: Report Of The National Round Table On Aboriginal Urban Issues By Royal Commission On Aboriginal Peoples, Russel Lawrence Barsh
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Months after Canada's most violent modern-day confrontation with Aboriginal peoples, the month-long standoff between Mohawk "Warriors" and Canadian troops at Kahnesatake, Quebec, in August 1990, the Conservative Government of Brian Mulroney announced the appointment of a Royal Commission to make recommendations for the complete overhaul of Aboriginal policy. Five years, hundreds of hearings and academic studies, and $C60 million later, the Royal Commission has yet to make its report. Jean Chretien's Liberal Government has already announced that it has its own program for Aboriginal "self-government," hinting that the long-awaited Royal Commission findings will be dead-on-arrival. The corpse will not be …
Review Of Accidental Archaeologist: Memoirs Of Jesse D. Jennings By Jesse D. Jennings, Ralph J. Hartley
Review Of Accidental Archaeologist: Memoirs Of Jesse D. Jennings By Jesse D. Jennings, Ralph J. Hartley
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The history of twentieth-century archaeology as told by its early practitioners is finding an appreciative audience in a generation of anthropological archaeologists that has matured under the regulatory eye of federal environmental protective legislation. This book is the story of the life of one of the discipline's foremost practitioners. Although autobiographical in its organization, many of the book's chapters can be read as stand-alone accounts of Jesse Jennings's reflections on conducting archaeological investigations in the southeast, Plains, and desert west of North America, as well as in Polynesia and Guatemala.
A man who considers himself to have been "a minority …
Table Of Contents - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995
Table Of Contents - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Contents: Articles
Book Reviews
News and Notes
Review Of Ogallala: Water For A Dry Land By John Opie, Stephen E. White
Review Of Ogallala: Water For A Dry Land By John Opie, Stephen E. White
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Ogallala is as much about the need for achieving sustainable agriculture in America as it is about the issues surrounding the depletion of groundwater in the High Plains. In some ways, the Ogallala region simply serves as the setting for describing the problems of the energy intensive, high-tech oriented agriculture pervasive throughout much of the U.S. today. Only a portion of the Ogallala, that most impacted during the dust bowl era and extending from about Lubbock, Texas through southwestern Kansas, is treated systematically.
Review Of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities In The Modern Americanwest By Carl Abbott, Eugene P. Moehring
Review Of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities In The Modern Americanwest By Carl Abbott, Eugene P. Moehring
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Carl Abbott enhances his reputation for excellence with this interpretive survey of the modern western city. He begins with World War II when heavy federal spending revitalized urban areas stagnating from twenty years of farm-mine depression. Abbott highlights the findings of Gerald Nash, Greg Hise and others while injecting his own scholarly insights at strategic points, a pattern that continues throughout the book. For example, he expands upon D. W. Meinig's concept of imperial Texas by extending Dallas-Fort Worth's range of influence far up into the Wyoming oil country. Then, building upon his own recently published work, Abbott develops further …
Review Of Colorado: The Place Of Nature, The Nature Of Place By Thomas P. Huber, A. David Hill
Review Of Colorado: The Place Of Nature, The Nature Of Place By Thomas P. Huber, A. David Hill
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Colorado contains profiles of twelve distinctive places, which like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, fit together to form a mosaic that helps describe and explain the state's natural and, to a lesser extent, human history. The opening chapter introduces the lay reader to the broad themes of the state's physical geography-geology, landforms, climate, and vegetation. These topics are then typically covered with specific reference to each of the place profiles that constitute the remaining twelve chapters.
The most intriguing aspect of the book is the selection of the twelve places. Huber said he chose them "to inform, tantalize, and …