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Review Of Creative Crusader: Edmund G. Kaufman And Mennonite Community By James C. Juhnke, Nancy Bernhardt-Holland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Juhnke's candid biography of the SwissVolhynian educator, reformer, missionary, and Bethel College president (volume eight in the Cornelius H. Wedel series on Anabaptist and Mennonite history) is an appropriate companion to his earlier volume on Wedel himself. Juhnke follows up his study of one of the founding fathers of the German-American Mennonite community with this rich examination of a second generation leader caught between the idealism and isolationism of the founders and the newer attitude of practical accommodation to American ways.

Juhnke's well-integrated material on the origins, migrations, and doctrines of the various branches of the Mennonite movement serves as …

Conceptions Of The Nebraska Voter In 1882 Paradoxes And Complexities Among "Women", Carmen Heider

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Suffrage activism began in Nebraska in 1856 when Amelia Bloomer addressed the territorial house of representatives and argued that women should not be denied the right to vote.¹ The house passed the bill, but the forty-day session ended before the council could vote on it. As Ann Wilhite states, "Had [the bill] passed, Nebraskans would have been the first in America-in the world-to enfranchise women."² Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Fig. 1), Susan B. Anthony (Fig. 2), and George Francis Train toured Nebraska promoting suffrage in 1867, the year Nebraska became a state. In 1871, Nebraska voters defeated the suffrage …

Liberal Education On The Great Plains American Experiments, Canadian Flirtations, 1930-1950, Kevin Brooks

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1929 the University of Chicago plan for liberal or general education was first proposed by its young president, Robert Maynard Hutchins. Sociologist Daniel Bell, in his history of general education in America says, "The Chicago plan sought to draw together the disciplines in three fields-the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences-and Jo consider problems which, by their nature, could only be understood by applying concepts from different disciplines. "¹ Hutchins' proposal became the most discussed plan for balancing university curriculum's that had become specialized and disjointed in the first thirty years of the century, although it …

Review Of Nebraska History: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled By Michael L. Tate, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For many years to come, researchers in Nebraska history will depend on the industry and exactitude of Michael Tate, compiler of this excellent bibliography. The first such tool ever published for the state, it offers comprehensive coverage of books, articles, dissertations, and other materials dealing with aspects of Nebraska history up to October 1994. This is the sixth volume in the ongoing series of state bibliographies published by Greenwood.

Tate organizes more than five thousand entries under sixteen general topics, among them environment, Native Americans, the frontier period, agriculture, transportation, economic affairs, government, cultural life, and social issues. Entries concerning …

Review Of Elijah: No Ordinary Hero By Pauline Comeau, John Pederson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A quiet "No" from the only Native member of Manitoba's legislature brought a dramatic halt to Canada's Meech Lake Accord in 1990. Designed as another attempt to establish an acceptable, functional governing agreement among the nation's provinces, Meech Lake was derailed over its slighting of the First Peoples of Canada. Forcing the role of aboriginals into the constitutional debate, Elijah Harper assumed a position of national prominence. For a man from the remote northern Ojibwa-Cree reserve of Red Sucker Lake, and for all of Canada, this was a startling moment. Pauline Comeau, a legislative reporter in 1990, traces Harper's journey …

Treaty Seven And Guaranteed Representation How Treaty Rights Can Evolve Into Parliamentary Seats, Kiera L. Ladner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Most of the Canadian plains region is covered by the "Numbered Treaties" negotiated in the 1870s between the government of the Dominion of Canada, acting for the British Crown, and the nations whose territories encompassed the area. Even at the time that the treaties were negotiated, the various signatories had different assumptions about what they actually meant. During the ensuing century and more that the treaties have existed, their meanings have been reinterpreted. With the repatriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982, giving treaty rights constitutional status and protection from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the actual guarantees …

Notes And News- Spring 1997

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Review Of Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education, And The Constitution, 1917-1927 By William G. Ross, Clyde Ellis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a penetrating analysis of the "complicated melange of war hysteria, fear of anarchy and Bolshevism, postwar anomie, nativism, pietism, populism, and progressivism" that prompted serious assaults on parochial schools during the years following the first World War. Fired by zealots who feared an America awash in a sea of immigrants whose schools and churches (and especially those operated by Germans) were bulwarks of ethnic identity, the era produced concerted efforts in Nebraska, Oregon, Michigan, Hawaii, and Washington to shut parochial schools, create compulsory attendance statutes, and outlaw foreign language instruction and use. In the name of Americanism, cried …

Review Of A New Life: Danish Emigration To North America As Described By The Emigrants Themselves In Letters, 1842-1946 By Niels Peter Stilling And Anne Lisbeth Olsen, David Iversen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

According to Henning Bender of the Danes Worldwide Archives, writing in the preface, "This book is a gift from the Archives in Denmark to the [Danish Immigrant M]useum in the United States in commemoration of the official opening [in Elk Horn, Iowa in 1994]." A New Life is also a gift to laypeople and scholars interested in the study and preservation of primary source material regarding the history of Danish emigration.

Since the 1970s the authors have studied more than 4000 letters written by Danish emigrants and preserved by their families or friends, analyzing 1000 of these written by fifty …

Review Of Edmonton: The Life Of A City Edited By Bob Hesketh And Frances Swyripa, L. D. Mccann

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The essays in Edmonton: The Life of a City were first presented at a conference at the University of Alberta in May of 1995. They have been brought together here to celebrate the past in the bicentennial life of what the editors call (but do not fully investigate) a "great northern city." Offered up by both professional and amateur scholars alike, including -among others-historians and geographers, architects and archivists, literature specialists and political scientists, this diversified collection comprises over thirty well-written chapters. Taken as a whole, they offer a multidisciplinary interpretation of the evolving history of Alberta's largest populated city, …

Review Of Rudder, Stick, And Throttle: Research And Reminiscences Of Flying In Nebraska By Robert E. Adwers, Wallace C. Peterson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a must read for every pilot in Nebraska. Even readers with only a mild interest in fliers and flying will find Robert Adwers's low-key history and reminiscences about flying in Nebraska rewarding.

From his childhood and teenage years in the 1920s until now, Adwers has both keenly observed and actively participated in Nebraska flying, especially in the formative decades of the '20s and '30s. He had his first flight in the spring of 1929 at Steele Field, a cow pasture airport in northeast Omaha on land where a huge power plant now stands. From that time on …

Review Of The Ojibwa Of Western Canada, 1780-1870 By Laura Peers, Edward J. Hedican

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This innovative work is an ethno-historical study of the Ojibwa migration from the Great Lakes region to the Plains. Building on earlier studies by Harold Hickerson (The Chippewa and Their Neighbors) and Charles Bishop (The Northern Ojibwa and the Fur Trade), particularly in the use of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Peers reconstructs processes of historical change over a ninety year period. She is not content, however, simply to document the historical record, but instead takes on a much broader challenge, and herein lies the major value of her study.

The Ojibwa of western Canada are …

Political Psychology And Political Policy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the basic components of political policy which can be influenced through political psychology. It also suggests some political limitations of this influence.

Water, Sugar, And Power: Irrigation In Southern Puerto Rico During The Late Nineteenth Century, Marisol Ramos

Published Works

The purpose of this thesis was to address an important element in the study of the sugar cane industry in Puerto Rico that has been neglected in its literature: water. By analyzing the failure of the Guayama Irrigation Project of 1864-1866, the thesis showcased the importance of water and the establishment of irrigation projects to local hacendados as an strategy to address the vulnerability that the sugar cane industry at the time was facing: falling prices, low capacity, and the ever present danger of droughts, which the colonial government was unable to solve for lack of liquid capital.

Review Of Age Of The Gunfighter: Men And Weapons On The Frontier 1840-1900 By Joseph G. Rosa, Robert K. Dearment

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

At first glance and a quick thumb-through, this large 10"x13" edition with its striking full color cover featuring W. C. Wyeth's dramatic painting of Wild Bill Hickok throwing down on a cheat at a gambling table might be considered just another slick picture book on the order of The Gunfighters, one of Time-life's Old West series of a few years back. But knowledgeable readers of factual gunfighter history, recognizing the author's name, would look further. Joseph G. Rosa has written a number of books dealing with Old West gunmen and their weaponry and is the uncontested authority on the …

Review Of Caddo Indians: Where We Come From By Cecile Elkins Carter, F. Todd Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unlike the Native American tribes of the northern Plains-especially the Teton Sioux-the Indians of the southern Plains have been relatively neglected by historians. This is partially the result of these tribes' long, extensive dealings with the Spanish and French before interacting with representatives of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. The nomadic buffalo hunting Comanches and Kiowas have had their share of chroniclers, due in part to the dramatic wars they fought in response to their being forced onto reservations following the Civil War. Only recently, however, has a historian, Stanley Noyes, written exclusively about the Comanches before 1845. …

Review Of The Drifting CowboyBy Will James I See By Your Outfit: Historic Cowboy Gear Of The Northern Plains By Tom Lindmier And Steve Mount, Richard W. Slatta

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Will James (1892-1942) served as living proof that prison can reform a man. Convicted of rustling in 1915, he used his writing and drawing ability in prison to prove his social worth and rehabilitation. By the time alcohol abuse ended his life, he had illustrated and written twenty-four entertaining volumes.

Most of James's books have been long out of print. Thanks to joint efforts by the Will James Society (PO Box 8207, Roswell, MN 88202) and Mountain Press Publishing, all of his works will be reprinted. The Drifting Cowboy, first published in 1925, joins his first book, Cowboys North …

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, Susan A. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

THE EMPEROR ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER

Richard White, the creator of the touring panel exhibition "The Frontier in American Culture," made his reputation promoting a product labeled "New Western History." He wrote a textbook on the topic, and one passage in that book reveals the conception that frames this exhibition: "People simply murdered Indians," he writes (It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own [University of Oklahoma Press, 1991], p. 338). If you are one of the people, perhaps that kind of statement seems acceptable, but from the point of view of one of the Indians it looks like …

Title And Contents- Winter 1997

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

WINTER 1997 VOL. 17 NO. 1

CONTENTS

BLACK SOLDIERS AT FORT HAYS, KANSAS, 1867 -1869: A STUDY IN CIVILIAN AND MILITARY VIOLENCE James N. Leiker

ALLOTMENT, ALCOHOL, AND THE OMAHAS Benson Tong

A SOCIOECONOMIC PORTRAIT OF PRINCE HALL MASONRY IN NEBRASKA, 1900-1920 Dennis N. Mihelich

THE EARLY GROWTH OF THE CONRAD BANKING ENTERPRISE IN MONTANA, 1880-1914 Henry C. Klassen

REVIEW ESSAY: THE EMPEROR ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER Susan A. Miller

A review of a traveling exhibition from the Newberry Library,

"The Frontier in American CuI ture," curated by Richard White.

BOOK REVIEWS

Becoming and Remaining a People: …

Review Of Mediation In Contemporary Native American Fiction By James Ruppert, Catherine Rainwater

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

James Ruppert discusses works by six Native American writers whom he believes "mediate" Indian and non-Indian world views. He argues convincingly that narratives by N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle, and Louise Erdrich are delivered from "an artistic and conceptual standpoint, constantly flexible, which uses the epistemological frameworks of Native American and Western cultural traditions to illuminate and enrich each other." These texts "create a dynamic that brings differing cultural codes into confluence to reinforce and recreate the structures of human life: the self, community, spirit, and the world we perceive." Often citing reader-response …

The Early Growth Of The Conrad Banking Enterprise In Montana, 1880-1914, Henry C. Klassen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the year 1880 two brothers, William G. and Charles E. Conrad, organized the First National Bank at Fort Benton in north central Montana, capitalized at $50,000. They supplied at least $10,500 of this capital and gradually came to own a majority of the stock. From this modest start, the Conrad partnership expanded through involvement not only in the First National but also in other Montana banks until its emergence as a banking empire thirty-four years later with a paid-up capital of more than half a million dollars. The partnership grew by entering several geographical markets, becoming a regional partnership. …

Review Of The Biographical Directory Of Native American Painters Edited By Patrick D. Lester, Richard Conn

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Here is a long-needed and critically important reference work sure to be welcomed by the many scholars, collectors, artists, and others who will consult it frequently. The last work of this nature, Jeanne Snodgrass's American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory, was published in 1968, hence the importance and timeliness of Lester's Biographical Directory.

The body of the work (the actual Directory) is organized alphabetically by artists' names, each entry including biographical data, tribal affiliation, name in tribal language, and lists of awards, commissions, and works in public collections. If an artist works in more than one medium, the …

Review Of Indian School Days By Basil H. Johnston, Susan Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1939 Basil H. Johnston's mother told him he would soon be going on a short trip. The reasons for her seeming upset during preparations for his departure became clear to the ten-year-old Ojibway only when the agent came to collect him. Basil realized he was being taken to Spanish, a small village in northern Ontario and the site of the St. Peter Claver's Indian Residential School. Indian School Days renders the autobiographical remembrances of the author's years at the Jesuit boarding school.

Residential schools for Native American children were spread throughout Canada and the United States through the 1950s. …

Black Soldiers At Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867-1869 A Study In Civilian And Military Violence, James N. Leiker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Historians of the western army contend with many romanticized myths. Few of those myths, in recent years, have held the popular consciousness as has that of the army's first black regulars, known as "buffalo soldiers." By now, the origins of the segregated regiments are quite familiar. In 1866, with the nation's acting military force having dwindled to a fraction of its Civil War size, the Republican Congress encouraged the enlistment of newly freed slaves and northern free blacks. Assigned to remote western areas, black units played an instrumental role over the next few decades in opening the West for white …

Review Of They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based On The Life Of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose By Fred W. Yoget, Assisted By Mary K. Mee, Marika Sandell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

They Call Me Agnes tells the life story of Agnes Yellowtail as narrated to anthropologist Fred Yoget and assisted in his work by Mary K. Mee. Yoget also includes information from other Crow informants and presents a chapter on Crow reservation culture based on Robert Lowie's classical ethnographical data. The last chapter discusses Crow traditional ceremonies and how they have changed during Agnes's life. In his introduction, Yoget gives details about where he has added material to each chapter and where it is Agnes's voice we are hearing.

Agnes Yellowtail was born in a tent during the Crow Indian Fair …

Review Of The Nature Of The Place: A Study Of Great Plains Fiction By Diane Dufva Quantic, Melody Graulich

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Diane Quantic takes her title from Wright Morris: "Many things would come to pass, but the nature of the place would remain a matter of opinion." Quantic's "opinion" is perhaps best conveyed on a t-shirt I once saw her wearing at a conference: "Kansas is the best kept secret in the United States."

I begin with this anecdote because Quantic has earned her authority by living her whole life in Kansas; I admire the way she establishes her relation to "place" in the book's first line: "My mother grew up in Lebanon, Kansas, the geographic center of the contiguous forty-eight …

Review Of The Dull Knifes Of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey By Joe Starita, Donald L. Parman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Joe Starita's book centers on five generations of the Dull Knife family from the 1870s until the present. The original Dull Knife was a Northern Cheyenne who, with Little Wolf, led his people north from Indian Territory in 1878. The flight became one of the more famous episodes of the Indian wars. His son, George Dull Knife, born in 1875, probably came north to the Pine Ridge reservation several years later and identified with the Lakota rather than the Northern Cheyenne. George worked in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and later served as a tribal policeman. His son, Guy, Sr., …

Review Of Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real By Carol Miles Petersen, Barbara W. Rippey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Bess Streeter Aldrich, Nebraska author (1881-1954), believed that if people want to do something badly enough, they will find the time to do it. Carol Miles Petersen, her biographer, tells us that Aldrich wanted so much to write that care of a husband, four children, and a home failed to deter her. The early death of Aldrich's husband added an economic impetus to her initial drive. She published a dozen books and numerous short stories and articles in meeting her artistic and family responsibilities. Moreover, during depression years, she aided her community substantially by offering quiet financial help to the …

Notes And News- Winter 1997

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Review Of Voices Of The Plains Cree By Edward Ahenakew, Jennifer S. Brown

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Voices of the Plains Cree was first published in 1973 by McClelland & Stewart. As it has been out of print for some time, the Canadian Plains Research Center has rendered useful service in once again making this important book available in a new edition with striking and attractive cover artwork by Allen Sapp.

In the 1920s, Edward Ahenakew, a Saskatchewan Cree ordained into the Anglican priesthood in 1912, quietly began to write down the memories and legends told to him by Chief Thunderchild (Peyasiw-awasis, also known as Kapitikow), then living on Onion Lake Reserve (Saskatchewan). Thunderchild, a follower of …