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Review Of Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography By Emory Lindquist, Ann Davis Jan 1995

Review Of Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography By Emory Lindquist, Ann Davis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Birger Sandzén Lindquist combines biography and art analysis. The first half of the book looks at Sandzen's early years and his decades at Bethany College. After a rich section of forty-nine color plates, the author turns to an examination of the influences on his painting, his methods, the response of art critics, the graphic work, and Sandzen's association with two friends as documented in correspondence. The overall result is a wellrounded picture of a positive adventurer, a regional painter whose work well deserves the recognition afforded it here.

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"Who's Going To Dance With Somebody Who Calls You A Main Streeter" Communism, Culture, And Community In Sheridan County, Montana, 1918,1934, Gerald Zahavi Jan 1995

"Who's Going To Dance With Somebody Who Calls You A Main Streeter" Communism, Culture, And Community In Sheridan County, Montana, 1918,1934, Gerald Zahavi

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

So began Logan's long career in Sheridan County. The year was 1930, and she had just arrived from North Dakota, a fresh Cum Laude graduate of Jamestown College. The social and cultural walls that divided the community were at once unambiguously defined for her-with a simple list. The good Catholics and Lutherans of Plentywood made sure that the custodians of their children's minds would be well insulated from the riffraff of the town-the liquor distillers, the bootleggers, and, of course, the reds. The social center of the community, the Farmer-Labor Templethe "Red Temple" to local conservatives-was generally off limits …

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Contributions Of The Conservation Reserve Program To Populations Of Breeding Birds In North Dakota, Douglas H. Johnson, Lawrence Igl Jan 1995

Contributions Of The Conservation Reserve Program To Populations Of Breeding Birds In North Dakota, Douglas H. Johnson, Lawrence Igl

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Previous studies have shown that habitat provided by the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a feature of the 1985 farm bill, is used by many birds. The present study quantitatively assesses the importance of the CRP by estimating changes in breeding bird populations of North Dakota projected if CRP land would revert to cultivation. Of 18 species that were common in CRP or crop fields or both, 12 were more abundant in CRP habitats. Six of these species had suffered significant population declines during 1967-1990, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. In contrast, none of the six species that …

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Ecological Genetics For The 21st Century, Bonnie S. Bowen Jan 1995

Ecological Genetics For The 21st Century, Bonnie S. Bowen

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

In the spring of 1991, the University of North Carolina hosted a series of seminars on the topic of ecological genetics. Five distinguished researchers, Montgomery Slatkin, Sara Via, Michael Lynch, Janis Antonovics, and Joseph Travis, were each invited to present two talks: one a general overview of a research area in contemporary ecological genetics, and a second on a specific research topic. The ten chapters of Ecological Genetics are based on those presentations.

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A Noteworthy Record And The Breeding Distribution Of The Blue Grosbeak In North Dakota, Lawrence D. Igl Jan 1995

A Noteworthy Record And The Breeding Distribution Of The Blue Grosbeak In North Dakota, Lawrence D. Igl

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The northern limit of the blue grosbeak's (Guiraca caerulea) breeding distribution occurs in southern North Dakota. Records of the blue grosbeak in North Dakota are uncommon. Here, I report my observation of a blue grosbeak at a site where the species was recorded 25 years earlier. A summary of the species' distribution and records in North Dakota are provided.

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Dramatic Increase Of Le Conte's Sparrow In Conservation Reserve Program Fields In The Northern Great Plains, Lawrence D. Igl, Douglas H. Johnson Jan 1995

Dramatic Increase Of Le Conte's Sparrow In Conservation Reserve Program Fields In The Northern Great Plains, Lawrence D. Igl, Douglas H. Johnson

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

During a continuing investigation in the northern Great Plains, we documented substantial increases of the Le Conte's Sparrow (Ammodramus Leconteii) in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) fields in 1994 compared with 1990-93. The most dramatic increases occurred in Eddy County, North Dakota, and Sheridan County, Montana. The changes in habitat associated with the drought from 1989 to early 1993 and above-normal precipitation from mid-1993 through mid-1994 likely produced favorable breeding conditions for this species in CRP fields in 1994.

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Statistical Sirens: The Allure Of Nonparametrics, Douglas H. Johnson Jan 1995

Statistical Sirens: The Allure Of Nonparametrics, Douglas H. Johnson

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Although nonparametric statistical methods have a role to play in the analysis of data, often their virtues are overstated and their deficiencies overlooked. A recent Special Feature in Ecology advocated nonparametric methods because of an erroneously stated advantage that they require no assumptions regarding the distribution underlying the observations. The present paper points out some often-ignored features of nonparametric tests comparing two means, and advocates parameter estimation as a preferred alternative to hypothesis testing in many situations.

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Using Known Populations Of Pronghorn To Evaluate Sampling Plans And Estimators, Kathy M. Kraft, Douglas H. Johnson, Jack M. Samuelson, Stephen H. Allen Jan 1995

Using Known Populations Of Pronghorn To Evaluate Sampling Plans And Estimators, Kathy M. Kraft, Douglas H. Johnson, Jack M. Samuelson, Stephen H. Allen

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Although sampling plans and estimators of abundance have good theoretical properties, their performance in real situations is rarely assessed because true population sizes are unknown. We evaluated widely used sampling plans and estimators of population size on 3 known clustered distributions of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Our criteria were accuracy of the estimate, coverage of 95% confidence intervals, and cost. Sampling plans were combinations of sampling intensities (16, 33, and 50%), sample selection (simple random sampling without replacement, systematic sampling, and probability proportional to size sampling with replacement), and stratification. We paired sampling plans with suitable estimators (simple, ratio, …

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Modified Transmitter Attachment Method For Adult Ducks, Pamela J. Pietz, David A. Brandt, Gary L. Krapu, Deborah A. Buhl Jan 1995

Modified Transmitter Attachment Method For Adult Ducks, Pamela J. Pietz, David A. Brandt, Gary L. Krapu, Deborah A. Buhl

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The value of radio telemetry for waterfowl research depends on the availability of suitable methods of attaching transmitters. In previous studies, external transmitters attached to adult Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) with sutures and glue did not stay on birds reliably. In an attempt to improve transmitter retention, a method of attachment was tested in which 4-g transmitters were attached mid-dorsally with sutures and with a stainless steel anchor-shaped wire inserted subcutaneously (anchor transmitters). Field tests indicated that all of 26 female Mallards and 63 of 65 female Gadwalls (Anas strepera) retained their anchor transmitters during 4369 bird-days …

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Effects Of Climate On Numbers Of Northern Prairie Wetlands, Diane Larson Jan 1995

Effects Of Climate On Numbers Of Northern Prairie Wetlands, Diane Larson

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The amount of water held in individual wetland basins depends not only on local climate patterns but also on groundwater flow regime, soil permeability, and basin size. Most wetland basins in the northern prairies hold water in some years and are dry in others. To assess the potential effect of climate change on the number of wetland basins holding water in a given year, one must first determine how much of the variability in number of wet basins is accounted for by climatic variables. I used multiple linear regression to examine the relationship between climate variables and percentage of wet …

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“Make-Believe White-Men” And The Omaha Land Allotments Of 1871-1900, Mark J. Awakuni-Swetland Aug 1994

“Make-Believe White-Men” And The Omaha Land Allotments Of 1871-1900, Mark J. Awakuni-Swetland

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

The (Dawes) General Allotment Act of 1887 was meant to fulfill the United States Government policy of allotting individual parcels of Indian reservation lands in an effort to break up communal societies, forcing tribes to move towards the white man's ideal of civilized culture. Three decades earlier, Article 6 of the Treaty of 1854 allowed for the survey and allotting of the Omaha's northeastern Nebraska reservation, placing the Omaha Nation at the leading edge of federal policy a generation before the Dawes Act. Two interrelated groups of tribal members identified as "Make-Believe White-Men" and the "Progressives" who signed an 1882 …

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Kiowa Powwows: Tribal Identity Through The Continuity Of The Gourd Dance, Benjamin R. Kracht Aug 1994

Kiowa Powwows: Tribal Identity Through The Continuity Of The Gourd Dance, Benjamin R. Kracht

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

Today, intertribal participants at Southern Plains powwows (Oklahoma and Texas) celebrate common history and culture-their sense of "Indianness"-through the enactment of ceremonial song and dance. The Kiowa playa central and assertive role in the Southern Plains powwow network. and they use the Gourd Dance as the vehicle to identify their "Kiowaness." The thesis of this paper is that the Kiowa continue to maintain their tribal identity through performances of the Gourd Dance. which they claim as their own. The maintenance of identity is traced from the late nineteenth century through the evolution of Kiowa dances leading up to the Gourd …

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Diet And Disease On The Plain: Diabetes Among The Omaha, Lisa Hug Aug 1994

Diet And Disease On The Plain: Diabetes Among The Omaha, Lisa Hug

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

Non-insulin dependent diabetes is a rising health concern among the Omaha Tribe. The problem has developed from negligible levels in the 1960s to a significant health threat today. As of 1992, 35% of the Omaha Tribe adult population residing on the reservation had been diagnosed with the condition. and the actual proportion of people with the condition is probably much higher. The age of onset of the disease is decreasing so that people as young as 10 years of age are diabetics. The increase in diabetes is at least partly due to changes in diet practices that include the emergence …

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The Evolution Of Bilingual Education In An American Indian Community : A Decade Of Evaluation As Applied Anthropology, Janet Goldenstein Ahler Aug 1994

The Evolution Of Bilingual Education In An American Indian Community : A Decade Of Evaluation As Applied Anthropology, Janet Goldenstein Ahler

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

Applied anthropology has much to offer the educational evaluator role. especially in cross-cultural settings concerning language and bilingual education programs. This study examines the evolution of an elementary school Indian language and bilingual education program in a small. northern plains American Indian reservation community, the use of anthropological research methods. and the role of the external evaluator. Findings suggest that evaluation and change recommendations are more likely to be accepted when they are derived from the participants in the program rather than from an external evaluator.

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Table Of Contents - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994 Aug 1994

Table Of Contents - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994

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

Contents:

Articles
Book Reviews
News and Notes
Annual Index

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News And Notes - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994 Aug 1994

News And Notes - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994

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

Contents:

Call for papers

Conferences

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Review Of The Hunt For Willie Boy: Indian Hating And Popular Culture By James A. Sandos And Larry E. Burgess, Linda S. Parker Aug 1994

Review Of The Hunt For Willie Boy: Indian Hating And Popular Culture By James A. Sandos And Larry E. Burgess, Linda S. Parker

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

The authors have written an enlightening historical ethnography of the Willie Boy episode. By illuminating the frontier myth and Indian-hating inherent in the dominant story of Willie Boy, and using Chemehuevi ethnographic literature and oral traditions, Sandos and Burgess have separated myth from fact. This permitted them to develop a new white version based on historical documents. Importantly, they also present a Chemehuevi version of Willie Boy's tale. Additionally they present Willie Boy's own story relating to the episode.

In examining the development of the Willie Boy tale, including the stories told in Harry Lawton's book Willie Boy: A Desert …

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Review Of Indians In Prison: Incarcerated Native Americans In Nebraska By Elizabeth S. Grobsmith, Ronet Bachman Aug 1994

Review Of Indians In Prison: Incarcerated Native Americans In Nebraska By Elizabeth S. Grobsmith, Ronet Bachman

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

Elizabeth S. Grobsmith provides an intimate glance into the relationship between the bureaucracy of the Nebraska correctional system and American Indian prisoners within the system. Prefaced by an important historical context, the insightful narratives which comprise the bulk of this work offer a detailed examination of the day-to-day struggles encountered by Indian inmates trying to survive in an environment which is, all too often, not cognizant of their needs. In general, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature investigating the relationship between contemporary American Indians and the criminal justice system.

One aspect that I found troubling, however, was …

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Review Of What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village By Janet D. Spector, Jennifer S. H. Brown Aug 1994

Review Of What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village By Janet D. Spector, Jennifer S. H. Brown

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

In the summer of 1980, Janet Spector began to conduct a University of Minnesota archaeological field school at Lillie Rapids on the Minnesota River, forty-five miles southwest of Minneapolis. The site was occupied in the early to mid-1800s by a Wahpeton Dakota summer village. Her challenge was not only to teach archaeology but constructively to combine evidence from the ground with documentary data from missionaries and others who had written about Native people and communities in the area.

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Review Of Disease And Demography In The Americas By John W. Verano And Douglas H. Ubelaker, Karl J. Reinhard Aug 1994

Review Of Disease And Demography In The Americas By John W. Verano And Douglas H. Ubelaker, Karl J. Reinhard

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

Disease and Demography in the Americas addresses an important issue in history of European-Native American interaction: what was the disease impact of European contact? A collection of papers came from a 1989 Smithsonian sponsored conference "Disease and Demography in the Americas, Changing Patterns Before and After 1492," this edited volume addresses disease and demography on a regional basis. The first section, "Disease before and after contact" confronts the evidence of prehistoric and historic disease in North America, while the second section, "Population size before and after contact" deals with Native American population reduction at the time of contact and a …

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Review Of The Changing Social Geography Of Canadian Cities By Larry S. Bourne And David F. Ley, Abraham Akkerman Aug 1994

Review Of The Changing Social Geography Of Canadian Cities By Larry S. Bourne And David F. Ley, Abraham Akkerman

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

Over the years reviewers have grown weary of edited volumes. Some recent compendia of geographic research on social change seem to have only confirmed this skeptical altitude. The present book, however, is an exception. The articles were specifically commissioned by the editors according to a well-structured division into nineteen chapters within four major parts. The editors have been careful to focus on clearly defined issues, thus avoiding the trap of misdirection into which some other edited material on this subject has fallen recently. As a result, the book succeeds, overall, in a comprehensive identification of factors and effects relating to …

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Review Of Kansas Quilts And Quilters By B. Brackman, J. A. Chinn, G. R. Davis, T. Thompson, S. R. Farley, N. Hornback, Laurel Horton Aug 1994

Review Of Kansas Quilts And Quilters By B. Brackman, J. A. Chinn, G. R. Davis, T. Thompson, S. R. Farley, N. Hornback, Laurel Horton

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

Kansas Quilts and Quilters represents one state's contribution to one of the most remarkable grassroots movements in the late twentieth century-the formation of groups to photograph and document quilts made or found within a particular geographic area. Quilt projects in all fifty states, as well as in Canada and the British Isles, have since 1980, recorded tens of thousands of quilts. The purpose of these projects is not merely to chalk up numbers but to provide data for a better understanding of quiltmaking as an important expression of identity and accomplishments of women.

To those accustomed to think of quilts …

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Review Of Native American Dance: Ceremonies And Social Traditions By Charlotte Heth, Eric J. Jolly Aug 1994

Review Of Native American Dance: Ceremonies And Social Traditions By Charlotte Heth, Eric J. Jolly

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

Native American Dance attempts to capture in picture and words life itself across the span of time and the people of the Americas. This is an ambitious project that seeks to identify many of the worlds and peoples of the Americas through their dance and its drama.

The photographs and plates of this books are rich, striking, and full of detail. So much so that one could be lulled into expecting that the oversize volume would serve best as a browsing volume that creates coffee table impressions. Indeed, the scope of this work precludes a detailed text from being developed …

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Review Of Swords And Ploughshares: War And Agriculture In Western Canada By R. C. Macleod, Ken Leyton-Brown Aug 1994

Review Of Swords And Ploughshares: War And Agriculture In Western Canada By R. C. Macleod, Ken Leyton-Brown

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

The title of this collection of articles may suggest to some readers that its subject, in the tradition of John Thompson's Harvests of War, is the impact of war on prairie agriculture. This is not the case, though, since the articles are not confined to prairie subjects and since most of them are not directly related to both "war" and "agriculture"-indeed, some have only a tenuous connection with either. However, what this rather oddly matched collection lacks in focus it makes up in other ways, presenting a number of pieces which address important issues and which deserve a wide …

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Review Of Nebraskaland Magazine's The Cellars Of Time: Paleontology And Archaeology In Nebraska Vol 72, No. I. Lincoln: Nebraska Game And Parks Commission, 1994, Karl J. Reinhard Aug 1994

Review Of Nebraskaland Magazine's The Cellars Of Time: Paleontology And Archaeology In Nebraska Vol 72, No. I. Lincoln: Nebraska Game And Parks Commission, 1994, Karl J. Reinhard

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

This is a popular-oriented work designed to acquaint Nebraskans with the paleontology and archaeology of their state. The work is divided in halves. The first half summarizes the paleontological work in Nebraska. The second half summarizes the archaeological culture history of the state.

The paleontology portion is a "must read," holistic work. It is written almost entirely by Michael R. Voorhies with one insert by Margaret R. Bolick. Voorhies has a wonderful writing style that enables him to translate complicated, technical subjects into plain English. Thus, the paleontology is summarized in wonderful prose that is a delight to read. The …

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Annual Index – Volume 5, Number 2, August 1994 Aug 1994

Annual Index – Volume 5, Number 2, August 1994

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

Index

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Review Of The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation Of The Zulu And The Sioux By James O. Gump, Lynn Williams Aug 1994

Review Of The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation Of The Zulu And The Sioux By James O. Gump, Lynn Williams

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

Comparisons have often been made between the 1876 Sioux victory at the Little Big Horn and the 1879 Zulu victory at Isandhlwana, but James O. Gump's The Dust Rose Like Smoke goes beyond examination of these two battles. In fact, the discussion of the battles takes up only one chapter while the main body of the book examines events prior to and subsequent to these famous battles. This is a thorough survey that traces the Sioux and Zulu histories from the time before contact with the conquering powers and continues through the aftermath of the battles into the twentieth century. …

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Review Of Black Elk: Holy Man Of The Oglala By Michael F. Steltenkamp, Lee Irwin Aug 1994

Review Of Black Elk: Holy Man Of The Oglala By Michael F. Steltenkamp, Lee Irwin

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

The classic accounts of the Oglala holy man, Nicholas Black Elk, are three: Black Elk Speaks (1932) by John Neihardt, The Sacred Pipe (1953) by Joseph Epps Brown, and the later re-edited and annotated notes of the original Neihardt and Black Elk interviews published as The Sixth Grandfather (1986) by Raymond DeMallie. Michael Steltenkamp's (1993) account of Black Elk's years on the reservation after his conversion to Catholic Christianity is an essential fourth work that completes the circle of Black Elk's remarkable spiritual life. Working with a variety of sources, but primarily his notes and interviews of Lucy Black Elk, …

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Review Of Visions Of The People: A Pictorial History Of Plains Indian Life By Evan M. Maurer, Richmond L. Clow Aug 1994

Review Of Visions Of The People: A Pictorial History Of Plains Indian Life By Evan M. Maurer, Richmond L. Clow

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

The Minneapolis Institute of Art opened an exhibit in the fall of 1992 titled Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life "to honor the evolving Plains tradition by constructing a general overview of their representational arts in all media and time periods" (pp. 6-7). To achieve that goal, the curators assembled works produced by as many "known artists" as possible to end both the namelessness and facelessness which frequently accompanies older pieces of tribal art. An exhibit catalogue, which included five essays, was published to accompany the exhibit.

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The Politics Of Retribalization: The Northern Ponca Case, Beth Ritter Aug 1994

The Politics Of Retribalization: The Northern Ponca Case, Beth Ritter

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

The recently restored Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has faced considerable challenges to the expression of their tribalism throughout the contact period. As a small. prairie-plains tribe the Ponca have endured the ravages of epidemic disease. land cessions. dispossession and removal. assimilation and finally in 1962. the outright termination of their status as a federally recognized tribe. The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has been granted the opportunity to attempt retribalization with the 1990 Congressional restoration of their recognized status. The historical circumstances which have contributed to the assaults on their political and cultural identity will be explored within the larger framework …

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