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Book Review: Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin, Ben Keppel Jan 2006

Book Review: Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin, Ben Keppel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With Mirror to America John Hope Franklin has given his colleagues an extremely valuable document for understanding American society in his lifetime. Franklin grew up in the segregated West. To those who see in segregation a lost world of unity and cohesion, Franklin offers up his account of a boyhood in Rentiesville, Oklahoma. His account leaves no doubt that so-called "black towns" were as prone to deep divisions founded in prejudice and profound pettiness masquerading as high principle as any other congregation of humans. His experiences as an adolescent in "T-Town" (Tulsa) also argue powerfully against the notion that virulent …

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Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell Jan 2006

Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Photographs by Edward Curtis have been widely reproduced, and Christopher Cardozo's selection is distinctive only because all of the subjects are women. Cardozo's text gives a brief biography of Curtis and is highly laudatory of Curtis's ability to establish relationships with his subjects. The reproduction of the photos is disappointingly muddy, an effect that emphasizes the sense that the photos are of significant age. It does not capture the extraordinary qualities of clarity, depth, and luminosity that characterize Curtis's originals (although perhaps it would be impossible to reproduce those qualities except from Curtis's glass plate negatives).

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Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman Jan 2006

Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During World War I a crowd in Lewistown, Montana, removed all German language textbooks from the high school and burned them while forcing the principal to kiss the American flag. Elsewhere in Montana, residents were convicted of sedition for uttering casual remarks about the inefficiencies of wartime food rationing or refusing to buy Liberty Bonds. German-speaking residents of Montana were fined and imprisoned for voicing their pacifism, socialism, or even their skepticism, whether in a beer hall or from the pulpit. With newspapers declaring that there were "but two classes of citizens: patriots and traitors," the state and the nation …

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Black Goose's Map Of The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation In Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows Jan 2006

Black Goose's Map Of The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation In Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Plains Indian cultures have left numerous forms of Native drawings in the form of painted and drawn clothing, robes, tipis and tipi liners, shields and shield covers, calendars, ledger books, religious and historical drawings, and maps. Native drawings of geographic features are distinguished from other forms of drawings by their focus on the concept of territory rather than on occasional individual features such as a hill or river. Native maps predate European contact and are recorded for every major region of North America. Although most extant Native maps are from the Plains and Arctic regions and date to the nineteenth …

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Postcolonial Tragedy In The Crowsnest Past: Two Rearview Reflections By Sharon Pollock And John Murrell, Anne Nothof Jan 2006

Postcolonial Tragedy In The Crowsnest Past: Two Rearview Reflections By Sharon Pollock And John Murrell, Anne Nothof

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In two very different versions of a story of rum-running along the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Crowsnest Pass in the early 1920s, Sharon Pollock and John Murrell replay history as tragedy. Murrell's libretto for the opera Filumena captures the passion and pathos of the exceptional true-life story of Filumena, who at the age of twenty-two was the last woman to be hanged for murder in Canada. In the context of an Italian community compromised by bigotry and ambition, Filumena is rehabilitated and written back into history as a woman who resists a transplanted patriarchal authority. Pollock's play Whiskey Six …

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Book Review: The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans And Whites In The Progressive Era, Mark R. Scherer Jan 2006

Book Review: The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans And Whites In The Progressive Era, Mark R. Scherer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The notion that the federal government's relationship with Native American nations has been chronically "confused" is one of the most familiar truisms in American history. Countless commentators have chronicled the ebb and flow of federal Indian policy among the wildy disparate goals of extinguishment, displacement, assimilation, and self-determination. Given the widespread acceptance of that fundamental premise, Tom Holm's The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs may at first glance appear to offer only superfluous support for an already obvious point. Fortunately, however, Holm's work offers a good deal more than mere reiteration, providing subtly significant new insights into the nuances of …

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Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander Jan 2006

Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As a biologist, Theodore Sargent has taken a different approach to the life and work of Massachusetts writer Elaine Goodale Eastman. For instance, he admires her childhood poetry published when she was living at Sky Farm in the Berkshires. He likes her "eye for detail and skill with words," although many literary scholars have dismissed her verse as conventional in form and sentimental in content.

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Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker Jan 2006

Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the culture of the American West, the term "authenticity" comes close to "frontier" in its ubiquity, resonance, and elusiveness. The fifteen essays in this outstanding collection clarify how authenticity has functioned in cultural and literary settings. Instead of simply distinguishing the "fake" from the "authentic," they explore the nature and consequences of quests for and claims to authenticity. Readers interested in the Great Plains will find rewarding essays on literature, environment, and the uses of American Indian history.

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Book Review: The Children's Blizzard, Gwen K. Bedient Jan 2006

Book Review: The Children's Blizzard, Gwen K. Bedient

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1888 a blizzard of epic proportions hit a broad swath of the Dakota Territory, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. In many areas a mild winter day changed to a total whiteout in a matter of minutes just as schools were dismissing for the day, resulting in a disproportionate number of children dying. The blizzard came to be known as the schoolchildren's blizzard and is still talked about today. My own grandfather as a nine-year-old schoolboy was caught in the storm near Columbus, Nebraska, and saved by an older brother who led his siblings along a creek to their farmstead. David …

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Book Review: Westerns In A Changing America, 1955-2000, Edward Buscombe Jan 2006

Book Review: Westerns In A Changing America, 1955-2000, Edward Buscombe

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a survey of Western movies made over the past half century which attempts to plot their meanings against the social and political history of America during that time. Using his own personal observations and the ideas of a small number of historians, the author finds that the films closely reflect changes in American society during this period.

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Book Review: Dugout, Frances Colpitt Jan 2006

Book Review: Dugout, Frances Colpitt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Like the work of art it documents, Terry Allen's book is a multifaceted, multimedia chronicle of growing up in postwar west Texas. Allen, a visual artist and musician from Lubbock, is known for sprawling narrative epics conveyed through drawings, sculptures, assemblages, tableaux, written texts, music, and performances. Leaping back and forth across the decades, Dugout is loosely based on his parents' stories of their hardscrabble lives in the early twentieth century and the widespread fear of Martians, Communists, polio, Thalidomide, and The Bomb during Allen's own adolescence. "The language of the 1950's West Texas living room," he writes, "is nerve …

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Book Review: In-Between Places, Brewster E. Fitz Jan 2006

Book Review: In-Between Places, Brewster E. Fitz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The title of this collection of eleven essays comes from Glancy's paraphrase of William Heyen's definition of poetry as "language of things that can't be gotten to. It lives in the in-between places." The title also refers to Glancy's moving in between places on the Great Plains and to her writing as a mixed-blood. Glancy's style is personal, elusive, allusive, parodying, and fragmentary. It's a style that requires patience and an open mind, a style she attributes to "patterns" of the structure of the Cherokee language that remain in her.

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"Just Following The Buffalo": Origins Of A Montana Métis Community, Martha Harroun Foster Jan 2006

"Just Following The Buffalo": Origins Of A Montana Métis Community, Martha Harroun Foster

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

By 1879 the vast buffalo herds were all but gone from the Great Plains. Many of the remaining animals had moved south from the Milk River of northern Montana and Alberta into the Judith Basin of central Montana. In these rich grasslands, for a few more years, life went on as it had for centuries. Following the buffalo came many Indian bands, as well as Métis who had been hunting on the Milk River for decades. A buffalo~based economy had brought prosperity to the Native people of the Plains. The animals provided essential food and materials in addition to products …

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Book Review: Barbed Wire: An Ecology Of Modernity, Alan Krell Jan 2006

Book Review: Barbed Wire: An Ecology Of Modernity, Alan Krell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The first years of this century were "barbed" in more ways than one. Three books were published in quick succession on barbed wire: the first by Olivier Razac, then by me, and, most recently, by Reviel Netz. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity builds on Netz's sagacious essay written for the London Review of Books (July 20, 2000).

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Book Review: Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, And Reform, David Rich Lewis Jan 2006

Book Review: Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, And Reform, David Rich Lewis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Lucy Maddox explores issues of race and progressive reform in the early twentieth century by examining how American Indians positioned themselves to claim a place and a voice in American public life. Maddox focuses on "Indian intellectuals," individuals who wrote and spoke publicly about pan-Indian issues arising from federal wardship, and who organized the Society of American Indians (SAl) as a space for disseminating that Indian voice. Responding to an American public that could not comprehend Indian culture and history outside their own mythic and racialized images (often expressed in pageants depicting a savage or vanishing race), this generation of …

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Book Review: History's Shadow: Native Americans And Historical Consciousness In The Nineteenth Century, Jeffrey Ostler Jan 2006

Book Review: History's Shadow: Native Americans And Historical Consciousness In The Nineteenth Century, Jeffrey Ostler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this polished work of intellectual history, Steven Conn charts a series of trajectories in European American approaches to conceiving of Native Americans during the nineteenth century. He does this through four interior chapters on images of Indians in American art, the study of Indian languages, archaeology, and the emergence of anthropology. These are framed by two chapters that introduce and amplify the book's general theme of "Native Americans and the problem of history."

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Book Review: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis In A Canadian Family, 1660 -1900, Frits Pannekoek Jan 2006

Book Review: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis In A Canadian Family, 1660 -1900, Frits Pannekoek

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The current historiography of the Great Plains Metis finds its roots in the work of Sylvia Van Kirk, Jennifer Brown, Jacqueline Petersen, and to a lesser degree John Foster. These and other contributions have been outlined in my "Metis Studies: The Development of a Field and New Directions" in From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honor of John E Foster (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001).

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Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins Jan 2006

Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is an important book if only for the reason that it will make many reconsider what they think they know about the Cherokees. Their early history, like that of any people, is obscured in the dimness of the past. While some of the early story may be reconstructed through surviving myth and modern theory, much uncertainty clouds origins and early migration patterns. After white contact and the chronicles and accounts of traders, missionaries, and adventurers are written, the veil isn't entirely lifted. Many written records pose more questions than they answer. For example, when the British first came upon …

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Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert Jan 2006

Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Judging from the title, one might expect this book to offer some resolution to America's ongoing debate regarding the teaching of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. It is, instead, Janovy's attempt to shake higher education by the shoulders and bring it to its senses, asking that university instruction shift its focus from content to larger questions of process and values (for want of a better term: liberal arts and sciences). As Janovy states, "I contend that the arts and sciences ideals - breadth of understanding, courage to explore anywhere, patience with disagreement - are the best antidotes to our current …

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Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, William Ferris Jan 2006

Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, William Ferris

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

How proud Ellison would be to see his work and that of so many other distinguished artists, writers, and musicians recognized in the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. The Great Plains roots of Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Cornel West, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, and Jay McShann make emphatic the region's importance in African American history and culture. Like their counterparts in the American South, these artists migrated to Chicago and New York where they became leaders in the nation's cultural life.

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Book Review: The Red Man's On The Warpath: The Image Of The "Indian" And The Second World War, Robert Alexander Innes Jan 2006

Book Review: The Red Man's On The Warpath: The Image Of The "Indian" And The Second World War, Robert Alexander Innes

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

R. Scott Sheffield's study of the images used by bureaucrats and journalists provides an in-depth examination of Anglo-Canadians' perceptions of First Nations people and how these perceptions affected Indian policies.

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Book Review: Women Of The Northern Plains: Gender And Settlement On The Homestead Frontier, 1870- 1930, Angel Kwolek-Folland Jan 2006

Book Review: Women Of The Northern Plains: Gender And Settlement On The Homestead Frontier, 1870- 1930, Angel Kwolek-Folland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Focusing on the history of North Dakota farm women from the years of settlement and community-building to the transition to an industrial, consumer economy, Handy-Marchello argues that North Dakota farm marriages of necessity were economic partnerships throughout this period.

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"These Is My Words" . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Women's Lives In Two Contemporary Novels, Jenneifer Dawes Adkison Jan 2006

"These Is My Words" . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Women's Lives In Two Contemporary Novels, Jenneifer Dawes Adkison

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In analyzing Gloss's The Jump-Off Creek, and Turner's These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories, I explore how questions of authenticity can help us to understand and situate these novels as well as how these texts playfully reinvent the "authentic" western.

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German Heritage And Culture In Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, Thomas Austenfeld Jan 2006

German Heritage And Culture In Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, Thomas Austenfeld

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Reid's discussion of the formal properties of Erdrich's work helps explain the author's popular appeal. Mewing easily between urban and rural settings, between reservation culture and mainstream culture, Erdrich has been evoking the various sets of social and historical circumstances that define the lives of contemporary Native Americans in the Great Plains. In The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003), Erdrich turns her attention explicitly to her own part-German ancestry and fictionalizes it, thereby bringing a n element of both thematic and autobiographical relevance into prominence.

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Book Review: Indians In Unexpected Places, William Bauer Jan 2006

Book Review: Indians In Unexpected Places, William Bauer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In his first book, Playing Indian (1998), Philip Deloria examined the ways that non-Indians used American Indian images to create their own identity. In his latest book, Deloria looks at the American Indians who challenged the assumptions that often informed those representations. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, American Indians appeared in places where non-Indians did not expect to find them-on football fields, in beauty parlors, in Cadillacs. As Indians entered these unexpected places, they challenged notions of modernity, tradition, and the conventional role many people had created for them. Ultimately, though, they failed to change America's …

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Book Review: Writing Out Of Place: Regionalism, Women, And American Literary Culture, Kathleen Boardman Jan 2006

Book Review: Writing Out Of Place: Regionalism, Women, And American Literary Culture, Kathleen Boardman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although it has everything to do with location, nineteenth-century American literary regionalism is nor "about" natural geographic boundaries, according to Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. That is, issues of vantage point, marginalization, and gender and racial positioning are crucial to this literature, and the lens of feminist standpoint theory brings it sharply into focus. In contrast, the habit of categorizing by setting - Sarah Orne Jewett and the Maine coast or Mary Austin in the California desert - suggests geographic determinism and distracts us from what these writers might have in common: regionalism as "a discourse or a mode elf …

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Book Review; The Garden Of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor, Ruth Chambers Jan 2006

Book Review; The Garden Of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor, Ruth Chambers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Don Kerr's The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor reviews the career and practice of one of Saskatchewan's must important visual artists. Although paperback and inexpensive, the book includes an illustrated text followed by sixty-four pages of full-color photographs that provide a retrospective of Cicansky's work. The author describes Cicansky's sculptures and his working process and records relevant details of his life.

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Book Review: Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story Of George Bent - Caught Between The Worlds Of The Indian And The White Man, Lincoln Faller Jan 2006

Book Review: Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story Of George Bent - Caught Between The Worlds Of The Indian And The White Man, Lincoln Faller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the last two decades of his life Bent became a prolific letter-writer as well; more than five hundred of his letters survive in various archives. His chief correspondents were Grinnell, with whom he collaborated in shaping the foundational texts of Cheyenne history and ethnography, and George Hyde, who also worked with Grinnell and supplied him with a great deal of information gleaned from his own far more extensive correspondence with Brent. Bent's letters to Hyde became the basis for Hyde's Life of George Bent: Written from His Letters (essentially completed by 1916, hut not published until 1968), which Halfbreed …

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Book Review: Conversations With Texas Writers, Don B. Graham Jan 2006

Book Review: Conversations With Texas Writers, Don B. Graham

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book contains fifty interviews with "Texas" writers, including one "interview" with a dead writer, the pulp hero Robert E. Howard (author of the Conan books, etc.). It's actually Howard's biographer who's interviewed, which is odd and conveys a significance that's unwarranted. The book is also a bit Austin-centric, as twenty of the authors live in the capital city.

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Book Review: Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art, Jim Hoy Jan 2006

Book Review: Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art, Jim Hoy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art, by shedding light on Russell's ability to create narrative in writing, has the added advantage of contributing critical insight into his painting as well.

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