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Review Of Grain Elevators By Lisa Mahar-Keplinger, Robert Duncan

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In his rhapsodic introduction to this volume, in which he speaks of the grain elevators of the Midwest as "timeless cathedrals," Aldo Rossi quite accurately describes the power of these familiar icons. To artists, as Mahar-Keplinger notes, the elevator as an essentially industrial object has been transformed because of its intimate connections "with the land and the cycles of nature." While Le Corbusier saw the elevator as a universal building form, American artists such as Demuth and Sheeler saw it as a uniquely American object.

Recent American photographers have been fascinated with the way of life represented by the elevator. …

Gubernatorial Electoral Coalitions In The Great Plains, Thomas M. Carsey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This paper examines the nature of the electoral coalitions that develop surrounding gubernatorial candidates in the states of the Great Plains. It focuses on the contribution various groups make toward the electoral success or failure of gubernatorial candidates, highlighting the underlying political divisions within a state's population. This paper marks a first step into the study of these coalitions by offering a basic description of them. Some discussion of how electoral coalitions respond to candidate and campaign- related factors is presented. The implications of these findings are discussed, along with several considerations for further research. The data used for this …

Review Of The Jumanos: Hunters And Traders Of The South Plains By Nancy Parrott Hickerson, Yasuhide Kawashima

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In the Atlantic region in the seventeenth century, there were several Indian groups, including the Massawomeck, that made a brief appearance in the contemporary documentary records but completely disappeared from the scene thereafter. The Jumanos were a Southwest tribe that faced the same fate. The mysteries surrounding the Jumanos have attracted the attention of such scholars as Adolph Bandelies, Frederick H. Hodge, Herbert Bolton, Carl Sauer, France V. Scholes, and J.Charles Kelley, but by the 1940s the consensus view was established that Jumanos, as used in the Spanish colonial documents, was a general term and did not refer to any …

Review Of Wyoming: A Source Book By Roy A. Jordan And S. Brett Deboer, Jerry L. Godbey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Wyoming's average year-round wind speed of 13 mph ranks first in the nation. The last stagecoach robbery in the U.S. occurred in Yellowstone National Park in 1915. The "equality state" boasts the highest population of elk, moose, mule deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse in the United States. The state of Wyoming is larger in surface area than 50% of the nations of the world. These are a few of the intriguing details offered in this useful volume.

Wyoming: A Source Book contains a wealth of information on the "cowboy state."A retired history professor from Northwest College in Powell, …

Review Of American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum By Teresa D. Lafromboise, Lee Little Soldier

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This resource provides excellent suggestions for teachers and counselors working with Native American youth at the upper elementary and secondary levels. Its recommended curriculum is divided into seven sections, each dealing with skills important for survival in today's world.

The book's first two sections furnish lesson plans for building self-esteem and exploring emotions and stress, issues essential to Native American youngsters' well-being that are often overlooked in school curricula. Problem solving skills are stressed in the third section. The fourth, fifth, and sixth sections deal with issues surrounding suicide. Given the disproportionately high suicide rate for Native American youth, these …

Review Of Saving The Best Of Texas: A Partnership Approach To Conservation By Richard C. Bartlett, Pete A. Y. Gunter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is a book of one basic idea: that conservation succeeds best on a "partnership" approach. The opposite of a partnership approach is confrontational environmental politics, which the author regards as on a par-both in its tenor and its results-with a dog fight. The author's central idea is developed with such detail, however, that the reader immediately becomes absorbed not in the unity of the message but in the sheer diversity of details. This diversity falls into three headings: the problems of the area's streams (a land of rivers, Texas has only one natural lake), the necessity of developing a …

Borderland Interaction In The International Region Of The Great Plains: An Historic-Geographical Perspective, Randy William Widdis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Canada as an historically contingent society, developing within the context of its own internal evolution, has always framed its becoming in its changing political, economic, and cultural relationships with the United States. The border takes on special significance for Canadians as it serves as the basic reference point for historical, literal, symbolic, and psychological interpretations of identity. Yet the meanings assigned to the border vary regionally because of different historic-geographical experiences.

This paper examines different types of population, economic, political, and cultural interactions taking place across the border within what can be called the international region of the Great Plains. …

Review Of Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, And Image Building In Small-Town America By Richard V. Francaviglia, Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In this excellent and unusual book, Richard Francaviglia traces the evolution of Main Street in America's small towns, examining patterns of growth, decay, and revitalization within the framework of Time, Space, and Image. No absolute "time frame" is offered, but an 1840s streetscape of London, Ohio, reproduced from Howe's History of Ohio, suggests a beginning date. Period illustrations and carefully chosen black and white photographs direct the reader on a 150 year journey to the present.

A discussion of the development of commercial establishments along the main thoroughfare begins with residential architecture. Ground floors were occupied by shops and …

Review Of The Minds Of The West: Ethnocultural Evolution In The Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 By Jon Gjerde, John D. Buenker

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In his paradigm-shifting essay, Frederick Jackson Turner conceptualized a frontier West in which freedom and opportunity inexorably invested millions of European immigrants with a universal American identity. Revisiting the same phenomenon a century later, Jon Gjerde demonstrates convincingly that "the juxtaposition of cultural patterns-the minds-and environmental possibilities in a region diverse in cultural traditions and rich in resources-the West-... was replete with tension, conflict, even paradox." Moreover, he challenges the simplistic notion of undifferentiated "Americanization" with the brilliantly nuanced concepts of "ethnicization," "complementary identity," and "layered allegiances." Although briefly acknowledging that these complex interactions between cultural patterns and economic opportunities …

Contents - Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1997

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Content:

Articles
Book Reviews
News and Notes
Leslie Hewes Award

Review Of Economic Thresholds For Integrated Pest Management Edited By Leon G. Higley And Larry P. Pedigo, Richard Plant

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

If one were asked to pick the one scientific paper having the most influence on pest management, it would be hard to argue with the choice of "The Integrated Control Concept" by Stern, Smith, van den Bosch, and Hagen, published in 1959. This paper is generally regarded as having introduced the idea of economic threshold. The term "Integrated Control" soon gave way to "Integrated Management," emphasizing the notion that pest populations need to be managed in order to avoid unnecessary economic loss. Thus was born Integrated Pest Management (lPM). In the intervening four decades there have been some well-known books …

Review Of Amphibians And Reptiles Of New Mexico By William G. Degenhardt, Charles W. Painter, And Andrew H. Price, Jeffrey R. Parmalee

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Each year field guides and regional books with varying degrees of usefulness and new information are published. Such books can be ranked on a continuum between made-for-the-public identification guides to true scientific contributions. This massive work on the reptiles and amphibians of New Mexico certainly fits into the latter category. It is a summation of a tremendous amount of the authors' research, which will be useful for biologists looking for complete information concerning the 123 species of reptiles and amphibians from this state and throughout the Southwest. It follows in the tradition of data-rich guides such as The Salamanders of …

Review Of Aboriginal Law: Cases, Materials And Commentary By Thomas Isaac, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Aboriginal law is one of the most dynamic fields of law in modern Canada. This book helps to clarify and identify a number of legal nuances that are currently being debated by providing selected passages from legislation, treaties, court cases and claims agreements along with author commentary and introductions.

Thomas Isaac defines Aboriginal law under the 1982 Constitution Act to include law as it relates to Indians, Inuit, and Metis in Canada. He adds that materials referring to Indians only mean Indians as defined under Canadian federal law, specifically the Indian Act. Isaac, who has taught Aboriginal law and …

Review Of State Trust Lands: History, Management And Sustainable Use By John A. Souder And Sally K. Fairfax, Clive S. Thomas

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

According to its authors, the dual purpose of this book is to raise its readers' consciousness about state trust lands and to diversify our thinking about the hows and whys of all public resources. They have succeeded admirably on both counts. Everyone interested in the history, politics, economics, and management of western lands and natural resources has much to learn from this study. Souder and Fairfax have produced the benchmark work on the subject.

When most people, including those who consider ourselves "experts" on public affairs in the West, think of public lands we usually think of federal lands with …

Review Of Sovereign Nations Or Reservations? An Economic History Of American Indians By Terry L. Anderson, Nicholas J. Aieta

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

As editor of the 1992 Property Rights and Indian Economics, Terry L. Anderson wrote that Native Americans need to be in control of their own lives to experience success. Tribal sovereignty, he argued, is the key to leaving poverty behind. Anderson, an economics professor at Montana State University, addresses this issue more directly in Sovereign Nations or Reservations? In each chapter he examines age-old questions about Native American concepts of property rights, law, economics, and the ever changing relationships between Native Americans and Anglo-Europeans.

Anderson considers the general relationship among property rights, culture, and economic activity. Discussing Native American …

Review Of Retracing Major Stephen H. Long's Expedition: The Itinerary And Botany By George J. Goodman And Cheryl A. Lawson, Robert B. Kaul

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Earlier expeditions made incidental collections of plants and animals in Louisiana Territory, but the Long Expedition of 1820 was the first deliberately staffed with scientists assigned to that task. Authorized by President Monroe and Secretary of War Calhoun, the Expedition was directed to document plant and animal life and geology in the intimidating country between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains and to find the source of the Platte and Red Rivers in the mountains. All this was to be done quickly and, in fact, took only 100 days, June 6-September 13, 1820. Starting near present-day Omaha, the Expedition …

The Prairie Indian Vote In Canadian Politics 1965-1993: A Critical Case Study From Alberta, Russel Lawrence Barsh, Michelle Fraser, Faye Morning Bull, Toby Provost, Kirby Smith

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Voting behavior in the three largest Aboriginal communities of Alberta-Blood Tribe, Peigan Nation, and Four Nations-is contrasted with non-Aboriginal voting behavior using polling-station counts from 16 general elections and the 1992 constitutional referendum. Lower voter turnout and distinctive patterns of party preferences among Aboriginal voters are examined more closely using data collected through standardized, open-ended interviews conducted in conjunction with a voter mobilization effort on the Peigan Reserve in 1996. Although respondents did not report refraining from participation in Federal or Provincial elections to avoid compromising their sovereignty-an argument sometimes made by national Aboriginal organizations-the responses often exhibited pessimism or …

Review Of Reinventing Nature? Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction Edited By Michael E. Soule And Gary Lease, Thomas J. Lyon

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The essays gathered here respond to a series of conferences collectively titled "Reinventing Nature," planned by the University of California at Irvine and held at various UC campuses in 1992 and 1993. More generally (and more importantly), they respond to a watershed in contemporary thinking vis-a-vis "the environment," "nature," and "wilderness." On one side of the divide stand traditionalists who believe in the substantial reality of nature, and on the other postmodernists who are greatly impressed with the degree to which nature is a cultural construction. The authors of Reinventing Nature? are spiritedly critical of the postmodern, deconstructionist view. The …

Review Of Comanche Political History: An Ethnohistorical Perspective 1706-1875 By Thomas W. Kavanagh, Daniel J. Gelo

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The precise nature of pre-reservation Comanche political organization has long been a vexing question. Key issues include the meaning of numerous reported names for Comanche-speaking subgroups and the construction of power and authority within and across these units. The present work is the most successful attempt to clarify ethnonyms and describe Comanche organizational principles.

Comanche Political History offers a valuable synthesis and interpretation and will be useful to a variety of scholars.

Review Of Pioneer Children On Thejourney West By Emmy E. Werner, Hannele Paananen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Emmy E. Werner, a developmental psychologist specializing in high-risk children, traces stories of pioneer children on the long, arduous overland journey from the banks of the Mississippi to the Pacific shore. She quotes diaries, letters, and memoirs of children and adults who crossed grasslands, mountains, and deserts on the various trails to the American West from 1841 to 1865. Through these eyewitness accounts she gives voice to the children's experiences and their active roles on the westbound wagon trains.

Werner stresses the resilience of these children and young adults who had to overcome great hardship even on an ordinary overland …

Review Of Women And Texas History: Selected Essays Edited By Fane Downs And Nancy Baker Jones, Lucy Eldersveld-Murphy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This collection of essays, based on papers prepared for a 1990 conference sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association, provides both an interesting sample of the last decade's scholarship on Texas women and a discussion of areas needing further study. The thirteen articles cover a variety of topics; three additional pieces consider the progress and challenges of scholarship in Texas women's history.

A particularly strong focus on the Progressive era discloses both individual and group efforts at reform. Studies by Judith N. McArthur and Paul M. Lucko describe campaigns to regulate child labor and modernize the state's prisons. Jacquelyn McElhaney …

Review Of The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger Edited By Thomas R. Buecker And R. Eli Paul, Mark R. Ellis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, a reproduction- photographed in its original formof the 1876-77 administrative ledger book of the Red Cloud Indian Agency, is an invaluable research tool for historians and Native American genealogists. Included in the ledger book are several censuses, information about agency rations, and documentation on agency passes and transfers.

The greater part of the ledger is devoted to the censuses, which enumerate the Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho who resided or surrendered at Red Cloud Agency during the Sioux War of 1876-77. Army officers conducted censuses in November 1876 and February 1877. Bands surrendering …

Review Of The Frontier In American Culture: An Exhibition At The Newberry Library, August 26,1994- January 7,1995 Essays By Richard White And Patricia Nelson Limerick, Katherine A. Sulentic

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The term "frontier" elicits many different meanings and interpretations among scholars and the American public, as do Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show and Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis. Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White address these topics and try to appreciate their influence in American history and culture. With the help of artifacts from the Newberry Library, Limerick and White reveal how attitudes toward the old American West developed and how we understand that time and place today.

In "Frederick] ackson Turner and Buffalo Bill," White argues that both men's visions of the American West are equally important to …

Cross-Border Ties Among Protest Movements The Great Plains Connection, Mildred A. Schwartz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This paper examines the connections among political protest movements in twentieth century western Canada and the United States. Protest movements are social movements and related organizations, including political protest parties, with the objective of deliberately changing government programs and policies. Those changes may also entail altering the composition of the government or even its form. Social movements involve collective efforts to bring about change in ways that avoid or reject established belief systems or organizations. They begin with assessments of what is wrong and propose a blueprint for action to achieve new goals by drawing on committed supporters willing to …

Politics And Culture Of The Great Plains: An Introduction, John C. Comer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In April 1996 the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored its twentieth interdisciplinary symposium, "Politics and Culture of the Great Plains." From papers and presentations by scholars from the United States and Canada, dealing with Indian rights, women's suffrage, education, the economy, elections, social movements, and historical and contemporary personalities, four are presented in this issue of Great Plains Quarterly.

"Treaty Seven and Guaranteed Representation: How Treaty Rights Can Evolve into Parliamentary Seats" deals with relations between sovereign nations-the Blackfoot Confederacy of southern Alberta and the national government of Canada. Kiera Ladner argues that …

Review Of Killing Custer: The Battle Of The Little Big Horn And The Fate Of The Plains Indians By James Welch With Paul Stekler., Kathryn E. Shanley

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Killing Custer began in 1990 as a film project, a collaboration between Paul Stekler (producer and director) and James Welch (noted Blackfeet/Gros Ventre author). Once the film was completed (it aired November of 1992), Welch embarked on his own historical and "impressionistic" reading of those events in Plains Indian history, armed with Paul Stekler's "research, maps, photographs, reading skill, and moral support." Being a collaborative text straddling history, fiction, political essay, and memoir, the book eludes easy categorization; nevertheless, it is engaging in multidimensional ways and from a myriad of perspectives.

Why Killing Custer? "Custer's Last Stand," as the …

Review Of Wanted Dead Or Alive: The American West In Popular Culture Edited By Richard Aquila, Gerald D. Nash

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In most people's perceptions there have always been many Wests. One is geographical, a land encompassing the Great Plains, the Rockies, the Southwest, and perhaps the Pacific coast. But the West has also resided in the imaginations of Americans and people around the world as a mythic place where dreams and aspirations could be realized. The two Wests did not always coincide, but popular culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries actively promoted written or visual representations of the imagined West. Whether the Western frontier closed in 1890 is problematical. But we can be certain that the purveyors of popular …

Review Of March Of The Columns: A Chronicle Of The 1876 Indian War, June 27-September 16, 1876 By James Willert, Gary A. Trogdon

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unbearable heat, driving thunderstorms, endless marching, and poor rations were daily fare for the soldier on the Plains. Weeks of tedious riding culminated in brief moments of sheer terror when the adversary was finally confronted. March of the Columns provides the day by day exploits, movements, and disappointments of US soldiers in pursuit of Cheyenne and Sioux warriors along the Yellowstone, Tongue, and Powder Rivers. The tale begins two days after the defeat of Custer's Seventh Cavalry and culminates with the end of the summer campaign. Sandwiched between are the numerous anecdotes, tragedies, and travels of Generals George Crook and …

Table And Contents- Spring 1997

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

SPRING 1997 VOL. 17 NO.2

CONTENTS

POLITICS AND CULTURE OF THE GREAT PLAINS: AN INTRODUCTION John Comer

TREATY SEVEN AND GUARANTEED REPRESENTATION: HOW TREATY RIGHTS CAN EVOLVE INTO PARLIAMENTARY SEATS Kiera Ladner

LIBERAL EDUCATION ON THE GREAT PLAINS: AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS, CANADIAN FLIRTATIONS, 1930-1950 Kevin Brooks

CROSS-BORDER TIES AMONG PROTEST MOVEMENTS: THE GREAT PLAINS CONNECTION Mildred A. Schwartz

CONCEPTIONS OF THE NEBRASKA VOTER IN 1882: PARADOXES AND COMPLEXITIES AMONG "WOMEN" Carmen Heider

BOOK REVIEWS

The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature

Women and Texas History: Selected Essays

A New Life: Danish Emigration to North America as …

Review Of The Perfection Of The Morning: An Apprenticeship In Nature By Sharon Butala, Lisa Knopp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"One would hardly have sufficient motive to write an autobiography had not some radical change occurred in his life-conversion, entry into a new life, the operation of Grace," writes theorist Jean Starobinski in his 1980 essay, "Style of Autobiography." The radical change that led to Sharon Butala's transformation occurred in 1976 when, at the age of thirty six, she left the "urban, academic, feminist world" she had known in Saskatoon to marry Peter Butala, a forty-one-year-old bachelor who lived and worked on his family's ranch in extreme southwestern Saskatchewan. Employing the language of conversion, Butala says that her "fateful decision …