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Review Of Religion In Modern New Mexico, Ferenc M. Szasz And Richard W. Etulain, Eds., Rev. Christine Robinson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Ferenc Szasz and Richard Etulain begin their book by remarking that the history of the American West has mostly been studied and told without reference to the religious lives of the people who lived and settled there, and that this omission necessarily reduces our understanding of the region. To remedy the omission, the editors have gathered a group of fellow professors and graduate students to contribute essays on the especially rich variety of religious faiths and institutions of the people of New Mexico over 450 years. Various authors write of the several strains of Catholicism found here (Northern European, Hispanic, …

Title And Contents- Winter 1999

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Great Plains Quarterly

Volume 19/ Number 1 / Winter 1999

Contents

The Death Of Edward Mcmurty

Litigation, Mitigation, And The American Indian Religious Freedom Act: The Bear Butte Example

Literacy Practices At The Genoa Industrial Indian School

Book Reviews

Notes And News

Review Of Mexican Americans In The 1990s: Politics, Policies, And Perceptions, Ed. Juan Garcia, Ed A. Muñoz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Mexican Americans in the 1990s, Juan Garda assembles a fine collection of essays addressing the tremendous diversity and fluidity of the Latino/Chicano/Mexican American political experience in contemporary US society. More importantly, the contributors' admirable analyses and interpretations of Latino/Chicano/Mexican American identity, culture, and politics in the thirty-year wake of the Chicano Movement provide a refreshing alternative to those who view the decline of strict cultural nationalism and oppositional politics as detrimental to Chicano self-determination and community empowerment.

Review Of Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation Of The Rural North, 1870-1930 By Hal S. Barron, Craig Miner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Mixed Harvest is a good title for a book that documents the complexity of interests involved in twentieth-century farming. A broad swipe at characterization too often substitutes in histories for a more careful analysis in which surface affinities fall apart. Barron uses case studies from selected counties of the battles fought across the East and Midwest over roads, consolidated schools, farmers' grain elevators, and mail-order buying to probe a "second transformation" of American society following the initial spread of industrial capitalism early in the nineteenth century. This "transformation" was marked by centralization of the economy, expansion of state power and …

Review Of Oil, Wheat, And Wobblies: The Industrial Workers Of The World In Oklahoma, 1905-1930 By Nigel Anthony Sellars, Salvatore Salerno

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The strength of Sellars's work is that it draws attention to the activities of the IWW at a local level during the least understood period of its history. This is particularly true of the book's focus on the A WOo A pioneer in the development of some of the IWW's most important strategies during this period, the A WO has received little previous attention. While Sellars illuminates the local, his work runs into trouble in its treatment of larger struggles within the IWW, the relative importance of the IWW's industrial unions, and the movement's culture. For example, although the book …

Review Of Proclaiming The Gospel To The Indians And The Metis: The Missionary Oblates Of Mary I Mmaculate In Western Canada, 1845-1945 By Raymond ]. A. Huel, Gerhard J. Ens

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Oblates of Mary Immaculate were the dominant Catholic clergy in western Canada and as such played an important role in the colonization of the Great Plains. Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians and the Metis, the third volume in the Western Oblate History Project, has as its focus the Oblates' missionary work in Canada's prairie provinces from 1845 to 1945.

Raymond Huel begins his study by delineating the ideological values and goals that motivated the Oblate mission in Canada, and then provides a useful analysis of the order's various mission initiatives. During their early years in western Canada …

Review Of Autobiography Of Red Cloud: War Leader Of The Oglalas Edited By R. Eli Paul, H. David Brumble

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is wonderful that as-told-to autobiographical narratives by pre-literate American Indians continue to appear. At one end of the editorial scale is Janet Wall Hendricks' edition of To Drink of Death: The Narrative of a Shuar Warrior (1993), where the editor/amanuensis has taken great care to present this warrior's life stories in something very like the way he told them. Autobiography of Red Cloud is close to the scale's other end. In the 1890s Red Cloud told his stories to an old friend named Sam Deon; unbeknownst to Red Cloud, Deon retailed these stories daily to the Pine Ridge postmaster …

Review Of Loyal Till Death: Indians And The North-West Rebellion By Blair Stonechild And Bill Waiser, Christopher Hannibal-Paci

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Loyal till Death, Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser retell the North-West Rebellion from the Indian perspective, an ambitious task not without precedent. Earlier revisions of the events of 1885, such as Rudy Weibe's novel The Temptations of Big Bear (1976) and Walter Hildebrandt's book of poetry Sightings (1991), deconstruct the historical narrative, so that "from the unitary, closed, evolutionary narratives of historiography as we have traditionally known it," as Linda Hutcheon notes in The Politics of Postmodernism (1989), "we now get the histories (in the plural) of the losers as well as the winners, of the regional (and …

Review Of The Chiricahua Apache Prisoners Of War: Fort Sill 1894-1914 By John Anthony T Urcheneske Jr., William T. Hagan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is the first full-length treatment of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war, whose experience is unparalleled in Native American history. Many Indians underwent imprisonment, but no group for anything like the Chiricahuas' twenty-seven years as official prisoners of war. It took them from a reservation in Arizona to Fort Marion in Florida, from there to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama, then on to Fort Sill in Oklahoma; finally most were relocated to the Mescalero reservation in New Mexico while others remained in Oklahoma.

Each of these removals is discussed in detail and, since choices had to be made, there …

Review Of The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 Edited By R. Eli Paul, James O. Gump

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Between 1854 and 1890, the military frontier in western Nebraska witnessed major events, including Harney's victory over the Sioux at Ash Hollow in 1855, the Republican River Expedition of 1869, the Battle of Massacre Canyon in 1873, skirmishes in the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, and the killing of Crazy Horse in 1877. These years also featured the activities of such famous Lakota leaders as Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and Crazy Horse, the US Fifth Cavalry headquartered at Fort McPherson, as well as the "Dandy Fifth's" leading personalities, including General Eugene Carr, "Buffalo Bill" Cody (chief of scouts), and Major …

Review Of Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes Of Absence And Presence By Gerald Vizenor, Diane Glancy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is hard to review Gerald Vizenor, especially when writing something of your own, because he zooms into the creative imagination and his words transpot whatever it is you're writing.

In other words, his words have a fracturing factor which makes a magic of language. Vizenor is generative. He forms and splices, even in the critical essays of Fugitive Poses.

Vizenor's writing releases words. Those usually kept in their places in the dictionary and the dominant way of thought, but which are alive, words still on the building-meaning block and wished to be loosed to roam again. This is …

Review Of The Night Has A Naked Soul: Witchcraft And Sorcery Among The Western Cherokee. By Alan Kilpatrick, Pekka Hamalainen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This fascinating, slim volume provides a rare glimpse of the supernatural world of the' Cherokee Indians, a topic shielded by linguis.-" tic, cultural, and mental barriers. The Chero~ kees possess an extraordinary corpus of magical texts, recorded over one hundred and fifty yearsby their folk healers in small ledger notebooks .. These texts, written in the Sequoyah syllabary and known as idi:gawe:sdi, contain a large body of knowledge of such occult subjects as love magic, rainmaking, and protective charms. In The Night Has a Naked Soul, Alan Kilpatrick, an associate professor of American Indian studies at San Diego State …

Review Of Readings In American Indian Law: Recalling The Rhythm Of Survival Edited By Jo Carrillo, Bruce E. Johansen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In most law school curricula, the study of "American Indian law" concentrates on cases involving Native Americans in United States courts and usually has little to do with the systems Native Americans used to govern interpersonal relations before they began to interact with their conqueror's courts. This anthology of readings attempts, in the words of its jacket copy, to "expand doctrinal discussions into understandings of culture, strategy, history, identity, and hopes for the future ... [with] an array of alternative paradigms as strong antidotes to our usual conceptions of federal Indian law."

The book fulfills part of that bold promise. …

Review Of First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories Edited By Andrew Garrod And Colleen Larimore, Kimberli M. Stafford

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When Dartmouth College recommitted itself to recruiting and enrolling Native American students in 1970, it had graduated only nineteen Native Americans in its two hundred year history, though it was founded in 1769 with the explicit mission of educating Indian youth, as stated in its British charter. All of the essays collected here are by Native American students or graduates of Dartmouth College from 1970 to the present. The book translates the grim statistics of Native American representation and involvement in post-secondary education into potent personal stories that delineate the obstacles to institutional success for Native Americans within the academy …

Review Of Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman Of The Lakota Sioux By Robert W. Larson, R. Eli Paul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

I first met Robert Larson at the 1993 conference of the Western History Association at Tulsa, Oklahoma. As I write this review en route to the 1998 WHA meeting in Sacramento, I can reflect on the passage of time and feel satisfied that these five years have not been wasted ones. At that first encounter Bob and I began our friendship, one initially based on a growing respect and admiration for a remarkable nineteenth-century man. We concluded that this Oglala leader had been underappreciated by too many Western historians. Bob's goal was the writing of a new biography of Red …

Review Of Contemporary Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration And Creativity By Carol Herselle Krinsky, Amos Rapoport

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

American architectural writing has generally slighted non-western cultures, though this is changing. When Native Americanbuilt environments have been considered, as in Nabokov and Easton's Native American Architecture (1989), the emphasis has been on "traditional" forms, usually at the expense of contemporary work and culture;specific design. Yet this neglect begs important questions about the possible role of built environments in expressing cultural identity. Thus the subject Carol Herselle Krinsky addresses is .timely, important, and relevant to broader conceptual and theoretical issues. Unfortunately, a number of flaws make her book less useful and convincing than her subject merits.

Lacking a conceptual or …

Review Of Indians And Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. And The Critique Of Anthropology Edited By Thomas Biolsi And Larry J. Zimmerman, Donald D. Stull

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

North American anthropology can be divided into two ages: BD and AD-Before and After Deloria. In 1969 cultural anthropology in the United States was shaken by Vine Deloria's witty diatribe, Custer Died for Your Sins. Twenty years later, cultural anthropologist Tom Biolsi and archaeologist Larry Zimmerman organized a symposium on the subsequent relationship between anthropologists and American Indians. Indians and Anthropologists assembles several of these papers and some new ones in what will certainly be an often-cited collection.

The book's introduction reviews "What's Changed, What Hasn't" since Deloria fired his shot across anthropology's bow in Custer's chapter on "Anthropologists …

Review Of Powerful Images: Portrayals Of Native America By Sarah E. Boehme Et Al. Foreword By Peter Hassrick, Lydia L. Wyckoff

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This thought-provoking book is designed to accompany an exhibition which, unfortunately, I have not seen. The focus of both the exhibition and the catalogue is the relationship between Native American art and culture and that of dominant European Americans.

Five essays attempt to present the complexities of two diverse contemporary views with distinct historical perspectives. The first pair juxtapose indigenous and European American points of view in a focused and mutually intelligible manner. Emma Hanson examines the art of the Plains and the Southwest. Although her primary concern is the Plains, I believe her generalizations would be acceptable to most …

Literacy Practices At The Genoa Industrial Indian School, Amy M. Goodburn

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the past twenty-five years, historical studies on Indian boarding schools have proliferated, ranging from analyses of federal policies regarding Indian education (Adams, Coleman, Prucha) to particular institutional histories such as They Called It Prairie Light, The Phoenix Indian School, Cultivating the Rosebuds, To Change Them Forever, and Out of the Depths. While the specifics of instititional practices may differ, for the most part scholars of American Indian education agree that the boarding school experience was and continues to be a seminal moment for generations of Indian families. Although initial histories of federal Indian boarding schools mainly relied upon …

Notes & News

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

MARGARET LAURENCE MUSIC

GPQ EDITOR WINS BOOK PRIZE

CLEMENTS BOOK PRIZE

SCARECROW PRESS SEEKS AUTHOR(S)

ROBERT S. WEDDLE AWARDS NOMINATIONS

NEW JOURNAL ON ABORIGINAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

CALL FOR PAPERS: MISSOURI VALLEY HISTORY CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS: SOUTHWESTER POPULAR CULTURE

Romantic Women And La Lucha Denise Chavez's Face Of An Angel, Francine K. Ramsey Richter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Denise Chavez's skillful and evocative Face of an Angel (1994) examines the inequitable and discomfiting, yet somehow powerful, place of women in New Mexico border culture.! Their lives are mainly devoted to the hard work of serving others, and Chavez connects the past and present of the women of the area through the life story of the main character Soveida Dosamantes (born in 1948). Much of what makes up Soveida's present, everyday existence has its origins over the border in Old Mexico, and the established customs and traditions have a great deal of impact upon Soveida and her family in …

Review Of Thomas Jefferson And The Changing West: From Conquest To Conservation, James P. Ronda, Ed., John Lauritz Larson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Thomas Jefferson would have liked the idea of this book (if not all the essays themselves) since the American West was a canvas on which he loved to paint. Obvious links to western history can be found in Jefferson's 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory and his central role in launching the subsequent expedition of Lewis and Clark. Of more subtle relevance was Jefferson's propensity to construct worlds in his imagination, usually filled with sturdy yeomen laboring virtuously on freehold farms carved out of a continental wilderness that he preferred to think of as empty and inviting. Hence the monument …

Review Of William Lindsay White, 1900-1973: In The Shadow Of His Father By E. Jay Jernigan, Joel Mathis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

E. Jay Jernigan's biography of Bill White results from deep research through personal family correspondence and unindexed Gazette files, as well as the libraries of several Kansas universities. Jernigan uses this research to paint a multifaceted portrait of Bill White, whose Eastern sensibilities made his fellow Emporians regard him as an elitist, yet whose capabilities, Jernigan says, often exceeded those of his more famous father. The end result is a fascinating biography of a man who never entirely escaped his father's shadow-but made every effort to cast one of his own.

Review Of Creating The New Woman: The Rise Of Southern Women's Progressive Culture In Texas By Judith N. Mcarthur, Nancy Baker Jones

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is another significant contribution to the growing list of scholarly studies of the history of Texas women. Within the larger contexts of southern culture, the Progressive Movement, and the history of feminism, McArthur has produced a convincing chronology of the transformation of middle-class, white Texas women from members of a "patriarchal, evangelical culture that discouraged the formation of independent women's networks" to "volunteerists" who worked openly for social and political reform through their own clubs and associations. Between the 1890s and World War I, women's increasing use of "maternalist politics" challenged male dominance of the public sphere, thereby …

Review Of Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story Of Albert B. Fall By David H. Stratton, Roy Lujan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

David H. Stratton has written a brilliant, comprehensive biography of Albert B. Fall, Secretary of Interior during the Harding administration and the first cabinet member ever convicted and imprisoned for crimes committed while holding office. Fall had leased to Harry E. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny naval oil reserves in Wyoming's Teapot Dome and California's Elk Mountain and accepted $404,000 from these oil tycoons. The book proposes that out of his early career as a western speculator and corporation lawyer, Fall developed an anti-conservation philosophy and espoused unrestrained and immediate disposition of public lands to private enterprise. Thus, had he …

Review Of Gendered Justice In The American West: Women Prisoners In Men's Penitentiaries By Anne M. Butler, Sharon E. Wood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Butler writes with conviction, her passion for her subject occasionally leading her to press her point further than the evidence will go. Several times she seems to claim that women prisoners were representative of all women confronting the criminal justice system, writing, for example, "when a child died from a mother's assault, conviction was a certainty." But this claim can only be tested by examining local police and court records to see if all women accused were convicted (they weren't). Women in penitentiaries were not representative; they were the absolute losers in a system that was, admittedly, stacked against them. …

Review Of Texas Women: Frontier To Future By Ann Fears Crawford And Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Rebecca Sharpless

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Texas Women might serve as a suitable introduction to elite white women in Texas, but will not serve a deeper purpose because of its lack of original research. (A number of the subjects, such as Ames, Porter, and Martin, have already been subjects of monographs, and others would make interesting full-length studies.) It is not suitable for classroom use because of its lack of multicultural inclusiveness, which could have been easily overcome. Perhdps heavily documented, deeply researched scholarly monographs are not for a popular audience. But popular writing can still reflect the richness of women's experience in Texas. Crawford and …

From Chiefly Provisioning To Commercial Fishery: Long-Term Economic Change In Arctic Norway, Sophia Perdikaris

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

Stratified farm mounds with excellent organic preservation in the Lofoten and Vesterålen islands in Arctic Norway provide a long-term record of changing human use of fish. In Arctic Norway, zooarchaeological signatures of intensive dried fish production extend back into the Iron Age, indicating a substantial role for cured cod prior to the beginning of the historical stockfish trade in c. AD 1200. North Norwegian chieftains of the late Iron Age and Viking periods clearly disposed of substantial staple surpluses of stockfish as well as the better documented prestige goods (furs and ivory). A comparative study of substantial collections spanning the …

The Insignificance Of Statistical Significance Testing, Douglas H. Johnson

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

Despite their wide use in scientific journals such as The Journal of Wildlife Management, statistical hypothesis tests add very little value to the products of research. Indeed, they frequently confuse the interpretation of data. This paper describes how statistical hypothesis tests are often viewed, and then contrasts that interpretation with the correct one. I discuss the arbitrariness of P-values, conclusions that the null hypothesis is true, power analysis, and distinctions between statistical and biological significance. Statistical hypothesis testing, in which the null hypothesis about the properties of a population is almost always known a priori to be false, is …

Habitat Associations Of Migrating And Overwintering Grassland Birds In Southern Texas, Lawrence Igl, Bart Ballard

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

We report on the habitat associations of 21 species of grassland birds overwintering in or migrating through southern Texas, during 1991-1992 and 1992-1993. Ninety percent of our grassland bird observations were made during winter and spring, and only 10% occurred during fall. Grassland species made up a high proportion of the total bird densities in grassland and shrub-grassland habitats, but much lower proportions in the habitats with more woody vegetation. Fewer grassland species were observed in grassland and woodland than in brushland, parkland, and shrub-grassland habitats. Grassland birds generally were found in higher densities in habitats that had woody canopy …