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Review Of War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, Mark Mattern Jan 1993

Review Of War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, Mark Mattern

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Powers' stated goal in this book is to "provide some background, including the history, the continuity, and the change" that he has witnessed in American Indian culture from the perspective of musical performance over the last thirty to forty years. He has easily succeeded in this task. As an observer and participant in Indian song and dance since 1947 as an eighth grader, Powers knows his material. He writes from the vantage point of a veteran surveying his field, offering description and analysis of it.

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Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Custer's Last: Campaign: Mitch Boyer And The Little Bighorn Reconstructed, And The Great Sioux War 1876-77: The Best From "Montana The Magazine Of Western History.", John D. Mcdermott Jan 1993

Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Custer's Last: Campaign: Mitch Boyer And The Little Bighorn Reconstructed, And The Great Sioux War 1876-77: The Best From "Montana The Magazine Of Western History.", John D. Mcdermott

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the past six years, scholars have produced a wealth of research and analysis concerning the Sioux Campaign of 1876 and its centerpiece, George Armstrong Custer. Among its flowerings are Cavalier in Buckskin, indisputably the best biography ever written on the junior commander of the Seventh Cavalry, and Custer's Last Campaign, probably the best synthesis of the voluminous testimony concerning what happened on the way to Last Stand. In addition, we now have available a selection of articles on the Sioux War of 1876-1877 published in Montana Magazine over the years, with an introductory essay by Paul Hedren that …

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Review Of Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions Of New Mexico, Ralph H. Vigil Jan 1993

Review Of Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions Of New Mexico, Ralph H. Vigil

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is volume 18 of the Spanish Borderlands Source books series. It forms part of a two-volume collection of writings about the missions of New Mexico before and after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The editors note that volumes 17 and 18 both contain "selected articles, excerpts from longer works, and printed mission documents" (p. xiii).

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Review Of Quivira: Europeans In The Region Of The Santa Fe Trail, 1540-1820, Jane Maclaren Walsh Jan 1993

Review Of Quivira: Europeans In The Region Of The Santa Fe Trail, 1540-1820, Jane Maclaren Walsh

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The subjects addressed in this book are familiar ones: Spanish exploration of the American Southwest and eastward through the Great Plains, and French exploration westward from Louisiana. According to the jacket blurb, William Brandon offers "a closely written synthesis" of these explorations, examining them through a lens provided by a region that he variously calls a frontier and an ancient trade route. Unfortunately, while much of Quivira is synthesis, written as a gossipy digest of historical events occurring in an ever-enlarging region during a three-hundred-year period; little of it is "closely written."

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Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, Cynthia E. Willis Jan 1993

Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, Cynthia E. Willis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Russell Thornton provides a scholarly and comprehensive review of the population variations of an American Indian tribe after contact first with European and then United States' cultural, institutional, and economic policies. He notes population fluctuations along with historical events that occurred after first contact. Governmental policies including accommodation, paternalism, assimilation, extermination, and relocation and isolation of the Cherokees clearly affected population totals. Thornton concludes by acknowledging the Cherokees' own never-ending search for self-determination and viability.

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The Conservation Reserve Program And Grassland Birds, Douglas H. Johnson, Michael D. Schwartz Jan 1993

The Conservation Reserve Program And Grassland Birds, Douglas H. Johnson, Michael D. Schwartz

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

Several bird species that breed in the temperate grasslands of North America, many of which winter in the Neotropics, declined in abundance during the past quarter century. The Lark Bunting and Grasshopper Sparrow, as examples, declined by about half during that period, as indexed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Breeding Bird Survey. Populations of other grassland species have also diminished steadily, if not as spectacularly.

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Review Of Field Guide To Wildflowers Of Nebraska And The Great Plains, Roadside Wildflowers Of The Southern Great Plains, Wildflowers Of The Northern Great Plains, And Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest., Kathleen H. Keeler Oct 1992

Review Of Field Guide To Wildflowers Of Nebraska And The Great Plains, Roadside Wildflowers Of The Southern Great Plains, Wildflowers Of The Northern Great Plains, And Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest., Kathleen H. Keeler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

These four flower books represent a blossoming of attractive popular books describing prairie plants. Each of these four books has a slightly different goal. In terms of area covered, Farrar focuses on Nebraska, Vance, Jowsey and Mclean consider plants of the northern Great Plains, Freeman and Schofield aim at roadside wildflowers of the southern Plains, and Runkel and Roosa on wildflowers of the northern tallgrass prairie. The types of plants included vary also. Farrar includes both common and rare Nebraska wildflowers but no shrubs or trees, Vance et al. include common native wildflowers, visible introduced species, and some woody plants. …

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Native Americans, The Courts And Water Policy: Is Nothing Sacred?, Peter J. Longo, Chrisitana E. Miewald Sep 1992

Native Americans, The Courts And Water Policy: Is Nothing Sacred?, Peter J. Longo, Chrisitana E. Miewald

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

Public policy in such areas as the environment is increasingly being shaped by the courts as they resolve conflicts. There is some question whether the courts are able to include in policy decisions those values that are not derived from economic utility. In this article, the values represented by traditional Native American beliefs about nature and particularly water are examined. While Native Americans have won some court battles over water, the judges have usually decided on the basis of contractual and treaty agreements and not on the basis of the preservation of traditional values. Cases arising in the Great Plains …

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Landscape Ecology Of Hedgerows And Fencerows In Panama Township, Lancaster County, Nebraska, Richard K. Sutton Aug 1992

Landscape Ecology Of Hedgerows And Fencerows In Panama Township, Lancaster County, Nebraska, Richard K. Sutton

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

This study investigated woody plant composition, structure, and biomass of hedgerows and fencerows, and for effects between human attitudes and management practices; Fencerows arise as narrow strips of woody and herbaceous plants at field margins and property boundaries. Hedgerows grow from intentional linear plantings. Exotic species were more important in fencerow composition. Hackberry, Missouri gooseberry, American plum, and white mulberry readily inhabited both fencerows and hedgerows. Woody plants exhibited clumped distribution in both hedgerows and fencerows. A moisture gradient emerged as a factor in distribution of species. Management caused a significant difference in species richness and biomass in both hedgerows …

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Great Plains Research Annual Index - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992 Aug 1992

Great Plains Research Annual Index - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992

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

No abstract provided.

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Great Plains Research Contents - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992 Aug 1992

Great Plains Research Contents - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992

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

Table of Contents

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Great Plains Research Introduction - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, Paul A. Kay Aug 1992

Great Plains Research Introduction - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, Paul A. Kay

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

Most Americans possess an image of the Great Plains derived, I suspect, from a high-speed window. The interstate highways, those great passing through routes, provide constricted views; I-80, for example, trapped in the Platte River Valley across much of Nebraska, leads one to think of the Plains as flat. The image from 30,000-plus feet is no less informative, to the untrained observer, of the web of life below; even the giant circles of the center pivots bespeak large empty spaces. Neither viewing platform is sufficient to reveal the intricacies of the Plains, let alone the concerns of those who live …

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Great Plains Research News And Notes - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992 Aug 1992

Great Plains Research News And Notes - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992

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

Contents:

Conferences

Call for papers

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Review Of Eyewitness At Wounded Knee By Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, And John E. Carter, Michael L. Tate Aug 1992

Review Of Eyewitness At Wounded Knee By Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, And John E. Carter, Michael L. Tate

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

In Native American history, no event is more pregnant with symbolism than the confrontation which occurred four days after Christmas in a remote part ofwestern South Dakota. American Indians have since referred to it as the Massacre at Wounded Knee where more than 250 men, women and children were wantonly killed by vengeance-seeking troops of the 7th Cavalry. Other commentators, especially white observers of 1890, called it the Last Battle of the Indian Wars, implying that two armies met in one final conflict to decide the fate ofthe Northern Plains. Today, most scholars follow the interpretations of Robert Utley's masterful …

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Review Of Canadian Agricultural Trade-Disputes, Actions And Prospects By G. Lermer And K. K. Klein, Michael Troughton Aug 1992

Review Of Canadian Agricultural Trade-Disputes, Actions And Prospects By G. Lermer And K. K. Klein, Michael Troughton

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

This book of edited conference papers addresses Canadian agricultural trade in the context of "an era of trade liberalization" which includes the signing of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the anticipated conclusion of the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations, both of which receive considerable attention. The book's 13 chapters are divided into three sections; the first describes the context of agricultural trade dispute, with emphasis on the mechanics of resolution in the FTA and GATT; the second examines some specific trade actions, with the emphasis on disputes over dumping and which resulted in applications of countervailing duties; …

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Review Of Drought And Natural Resources Management In The United States: Impacts And Implications Of The 1987-89 Drought By William E. Riebsame, Stanley A Changnon, Jr., And Thomas R. Karl, Steven J. Meyer Aug 1992

Review Of Drought And Natural Resources Management In The United States: Impacts And Implications Of The 1987-89 Drought By William E. Riebsame, Stanley A Changnon, Jr., And Thomas R. Karl, Steven J. Meyer

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

This effort by Riebsame, Changnon, and Karl is a well-written, well organized examination of the 1987-89 drought from both a scientific and sociological perspective. Through their investigation of society's and government's handling of this drought event, the authors make a strong case that "despite a decade of growing interest in the social and economic impacts of climate fluctuations ... the nation remains ill-prepared to cope with unusual climate conditions."

In the first chapter, Riebsame et al. briefly present how past droughts have impacted the U.S. and how society/government has typically managed (or mismanaged) those past drought events. They also present …

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Review Of An Ecological History Of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.- A.D. 10,000 By Daniel E. Vasey, Donald M. Edwards Aug 1992

Review Of An Ecological History Of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.- A.D. 10,000 By Daniel E. Vasey, Donald M. Edwards

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

Population, environment, and energy are used as three significant determinants of agricultural systems. An Ecological History of Agriculture covers the span of time from the first known managed agriculture to an uncertain future. In a systematic manner, the author moves through chapters from the origins of agriculture to the future, covering topics along the span of time of the origins of agriculture, preindustrial agriculture, pastoralism, industrial agriculture, the present state of agriculture, and the future for agriculture. Interwoven is a global coverage of the influence of population, environment, and energy on agricultural systems as impacting ecosystems of the tropics, dry …

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Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy By John L. Zimmerman, John Janovy Aug 1992

Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy By John L. Zimmerman, John Janovy

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

The Cheyenne Bottoms, Barton County, Kansas, has long been hallowed ground for birders and scientists as well as hunters. The dikes let one drive slowly through the marshes, scanning the flats for favorite sandpiper species and experiencing first hand the isolation of the central Kansas prairies. John Zimmerman, professor of biology at Kansas State University, had captured the Cheyenne Bottoms aura in eloquent prose, giving us a taste of wetlands natural history, while bringing to life the political and economic conflicts surrounding Arkansas River, and Walnut Creek, water. In many ways, the Cheyenne Bottoms case is a modern archetypical prairie …

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Career Differentiation: The Legal Community In Lincoln, Nebraska 1880-1891, Andrew Koszewski Aug 1992

Career Differentiation: The Legal Community In Lincoln, Nebraska 1880-1891, Andrew Koszewski

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

The development of a legal community in late nineteenth-century Lincoln, Nebraska, offers an opportunity to examine career differentiation. Relying upon census and Lincoln city directories, the data analysis reveals similar patterns to previous research on the legal profession and some significant differences. Lincoln attorneys usually came from middle or lower classes backgrounds, seldom graduated from college, relocated to Nebraska from midwestern states, practiced alone, joined numerous fraternal organizations, became involved in politics, and were overwhelmingly Republicans.

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Review Of Sociobiology And The Social Sciences By Robert W. Bell And Nancy J. Bell, David R. Johnson Aug 1992

Review Of Sociobiology And The Social Sciences By Robert W. Bell And Nancy J. Bell, David R. Johnson

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

The application of evolutionary theory of inclusive fitness to understanding human social behavior has seen a recent resurgence in anthropology, psychology, and sociology. While sociobiological theory and research are still incipient In these disciplines, the perspective has received enough attention to warrant all social scientists becoming more acquainted with the theory and methods of the practicing sociobiologist. The title and modest size of this book (only 130 pages) suggest that it might serve well for this purpose. It contains seven original papers by practicing sociobiologists written for an audience not well versed in the evolutionary model. While terms are carefully …

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A Chromosome Study Of Blue Grama (Bouteloua Gracilis) In Northern Colorado, T. Tsuchiya, W. Mcginnies, A. Shahla Aug 1992

A Chromosome Study Of Blue Grama (Bouteloua Gracilis) In Northern Colorado, T. Tsuchiya, W. Mcginnies, A. Shahla

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

Chromosomes were studied in somatic cells of 60 plants of blue grama, Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag ex Griffiths, collected from a 7-hectare field of native range at the Central Plains Experiment Range (CPER), Nunn, Colorado, to determine chromosome constitution in relation to the plant characteristics. Somatic chromosomes were studied in root tips collected from vigorously growing plants in the greenhouse. Acetocarmine squash method was used to make slide preparation. The majority of the plants were 2n =40. However, three plants were 2n=50 and two were 2n=60. The pentaploid plants (2n =50) were recorded for the first time in …

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Review Of Contemporary Federal Policy Toward American Indians By Emma R. Gross, Beth R. Ritter Aug 1992

Review Of Contemporary Federal Policy Toward American Indians By Emma R. Gross, Beth R. Ritter

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

This book is a public policy study detailing the various factors which culminated in pro-Indian federal policy and legislation during the 1970s. The author's primary thesis is to suggest the 1970s represented a marked departure from previous federal Indian policy and legislation in that Native Americans themselves were well-represented in the democratic process impacting favorable federal decision-making.

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A Daring Proposal For Dealing With An Inevitable Disaster? A Review Of The Buffalo Commons Proposal, Karen De Bres, Mark Guizlo Aug 1992

A Daring Proposal For Dealing With An Inevitable Disaster? A Review Of The Buffalo Commons Proposal, Karen De Bres, Mark Guizlo

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

In December 1987, "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust, a Daring Proposal for Dealing With an Inevitable Disaster," by Frank and Deborah Popper appeared in Planning, a journal of the American Planning Association. While many alternatives have been suggested to solve the environmental, social, and economic problems of the region, the Poppers' Buffalo Commons thesis quickly made regional and national headlines. Since 1987, the Poppers, while writing and speaking on this topic at length, have failed to substantiate many of their arguments. Meanwhile, their somewhat facile assumptions have attracted a wide and sometimes favorable audience. This paper contains three …

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The Popper Proposals For The Great Plains: A View From The Canadian Prairies, Alec H. Paul Aug 1992

The Popper Proposals For The Great Plains: A View From The Canadian Prairies, Alec H. Paul

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

The Popper thesis, that large parts of the U.S. Great Plains are best suited to their pre-settlement role of "buffalo commons" and should be returned to that state, might also be applied to portions of the Canadian prairies north of the 49th parallel. The Canadian Dry Belt, often referred to as the Palliser Triangle, has suffered drought and environmental degradation similar to the U. S. Great Plains. Rural depopulation began in the 1920s, and in the 1930s the region became known as the Canadian Dustbowl. As early as the 1920s, some farmers had begun to work together to develop land-use …

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Review Of Gaining Access: Congress And The Farm Lobby, 1919-1981 By John Mark Hansen, Jim Kendrick Aug 1992

Review Of Gaining Access: Congress And The Farm Lobby, 1919-1981 By John Mark Hansen, Jim Kendrick

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

This work explores the impact that interest groups have on influencing national agricultural legislation, and thus, U.S. agricultural policy. The term "interest groups" implies the entire gambit ofthose who desire to, or actually do, have notable impact on the formulation of U.S. agricultural policy. Actually, Hansen confines his analysis (except for the National Milk Producers Federation) to those general farm organizations that were active during the period 1919-1981.

By confining his main analysis to general farm organizations (American Farm Bureau Federation, National Farmers Union, National Farmers Organization, etc.), Hansen misses other major players who also have access to Congress. In …

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Review Of Aquatic Invertebrates Of Alberta By Hugh F. Clifford, Paul B. Kannowski Aug 1992

Review Of Aquatic Invertebrates Of Alberta By Hugh F. Clifford, Paul B. Kannowski

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

Alberta is a province with diverse geography, climate, and ecology. Encompassing level prairies, gently sloping hills, and the high mountains of the eastern slope of the Rockies, it provides outstanding scenery as well as productive farming and extensive mineral production. Its variable climate provides short, hot summers and long, cold winters. A relatively high level of rainfall (and snowfall) provides an abundance of running and standing water habitats, including four major rivers (Milk, Saskatchewan, Athabasca, and Peace), two large lakes (Athabasca and Lesser Slave), and many smaller lakes and prairie potholes. This physical diversity has provided environmental features that enable …

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Withholding Payment On Otoe-Missouria Reservation Lands, Daniel W. Overton Aug 1992

Withholding Payment On Otoe-Missouria Reservation Lands, Daniel W. Overton

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

In 1883 the U.S. General Land Office conducted the sale of the eastern remnant of the Big Blue reservation in Nebraska and Kansas for the benefit of its owners, the Otoe-Missouria Indians. The property sold for an average of $12.22 an acre. It was the highest per-acre price ever offered for Indian lands on the Central and Northern Great Plains. Before the first year of white settlement had come to an end, however, many landholders began to petition federal authorities for payment-time extensions and, eventually, debt reductions. They argued that they had been "forced" to pay more for their lands …

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Population Change In The High Plains Ogallala Region: 1980-1990, Stephen E. White Aug 1992

Population Change In The High Plains Ogallala Region: 1980-1990, Stephen E. White

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

This study explores the role of groundwater exploitation on population change in the High Plains Ogallala region. Results from several multiple regression analyses are examined to assess the relationship between 1980-1990 population changes in 184 counties with the dominance of irrigated agriculture, change in irrigated acreage, historical population change, farm size change, population density, urbanization, and the level of agricultural employment.

Change in irrigated acreage is significantly associated with population change for Nebraska and for the 90 counties that have an urban place. However, the more important factors are the degree of urbanization among the urban counties and long term …

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Review Of The Bats Of Texas By David J. Schmidley, Patricia W. Freeman Aug 1992

Review Of The Bats Of Texas By David J. Schmidley, Patricia W. Freeman

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

There are few "Bats of” books for states because usually there are not that many species located in a particular state and second, we often do not have much information about the bats in a particular place or state. But there has been increasing interest in bats in the last few years stimulated by organizations like Bat Conservation International and publications like Bats of Carlsbad Caverns, both of which have high quality photographs of bats. The Carlsbad publication has particularly spectacular pictures of bats in flight.

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Great Plains Reseach Contents Vol. 2, No.1, 1992 Feb 1992

Great Plains Reseach Contents Vol. 2, No.1, 1992

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

Contents

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