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Review Of Like A Hurricane: The Indian Movement From Alcatraz To Wounded Knee By Paul Chaat Smith And Robert Allen Warrior, Akim D. Reinhardt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The intense pan-Indian activism of the 1960s- 70s, most notably the work of the American Indian Movement (AIM), represents a crucial stage in the political development of Native America in this century. Yet it has received only minimal investigation by scholars. One reason for this is the uncertainty of some historians over when material ceases to be "current events" and evolves into a specimen inhabiting their domain. Consequently, Paul Chaat Smith and Paul Allen Warrior have broken new ground with their book, perhaps in part because neither is a historian and neither obsesses over such artificial pigeonholing. Warrior teaches English …

Review Of A Force Upon The Plain: The American Militia Movement And The Politics Of Hate. By Kenneth S. Stern, Catherine Mcnicol-Stock

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nine days before the 19 April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Kenneth Stern, an expert on hate groups for the American Jewish Committee (AJC), warned of just such an attack. In a Washington, D.C., press conference, Stern and other AJC professionals presented a six hundred page report entitled Militias: A Growing Danger warning of the "cauldron of disaffection, hate, conspiracy and violence brewing" around the country. They documented murders of federal workers and "anyone perceived as opposing the militia and therefore seen as doing 'the work of the government.'" Moreover, they suggested that …

Review Of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives Edited By Oscar J. Martinez, Robert R. Alvarez

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

U.S.-Mexico Borderlands is an addition to the Jaguar Books on Latin America Series coedited by W.H Beezley and C.M Maclachlan. In this volume, Oscar J. Martinez pulls together important essays written by outstanding US-Mexico Border scholars and journalists. Official and personal documents enhance the scholarly renditions that span border history and sociology beginning with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and take the reader into current interpretations of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Significantly the book is written in a bilateral-border spirit, its contributors hailing from both Mexico and the United States.

Writing from a lifetime of work on the …

Review Of Now The Wolf Has Come: The Creek Nation In The Civil War By Christine Schultz White And Benton R. White, Rebecca Bales

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Opothleyahola, one of the most revered Muskogee leaders from the Upper Creek town of Tuckabatchee, led his people through many hardships during his lifetime. His people revered him for his wisdom, courage, and insight. Christine Schultz White and Benton R. White, authors of Now The Wolf Has Come: The Creek Nation in the Civil War, describe Opothleyahola as the Creeks' spokesman and their "shield against the outside world." Opothleyahola tried to maintain his people's traditional beliefs at a time when outside influence threatened the social structures and customs of all Native Americans. He led his people during the 1830s …

Review Of Town Life: Main Street And The Evolution Of Small Town Alberta, 1880-1947 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene R.A. Kmet, David Breen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Town Life is the first in a series of provincial centennial commemorative volumes intended to explore neglected aspects of Alberta history. It greatly expands the focus of Wetherell and Kmet's previous Alberta centered studies on the symbiotic relationship between leisure and provincial culture and on the evolution of domestic architecture. The authors justify their current study on the solid ground that town life is an important topic much neglected by historians and others hitherto preoccupied with urban and farm experiences. As they point out, the town, after all, has been "a meeting point for urban and farm lives," playing an …

Review Of A Hundred Years Of Heroes: A History Of The Southwestern Exposition And Livestock Show By Clay Reynolds With Marie-Madeleine Schein, Mark Busby

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book by noted Texas novelist Clay Reynolds (with assistance by researcher Marie-Madeleine Schein) fulfills its subtitle's function and provides much more. Reynolds traces the famous show in Fort Worth from its beginning in 1896 through a series of changes including the addition of meat packing giants Armour and Swift in 1903, the new Livestock Exchange Building in 1908, the first indoor rodeo in 1918, the responses to the vicissitudes of the Depression, the flood and gasoline rationing of the 1940s, the move from the north to the west side of Fort Worth, the change from corporate to city sponsorship, …

Review Of Settling The Canadian-American West, 1890- 1915: Pioneer Adaptation And Community Building By John W. Bennett And Seena B. Kohl, Catherine Cavanaugh

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Settling the Canadian-American West, anthropologists John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl focus on the common cultural legacy of what they describe as the "Canadian-American West Heartland"-an area roughly conforming to Paul Sharp's "Whoop-up Country" in southeastern Alberta, southwestern Saskatchewan, and the northern "Montana Hi-Line." The authors' question concerning the enduring influences of the frontier is an important one, and there are historiographical reasons for uniting the region. Unfortunately, this study ultimately disappoints.

The book's title is misleading since the study itself is less a binational approach to settlement than an exploration of the shared heritage of a …

Review Of Hired Hands: Labour And The Development Of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930 By Cecilia Danysk, Joe Cherwinski

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The argument is a tidy one indeed. By concentrating on the reactions of farm workers to changing labor-capital relations Danysk contends that the tens of thousands of people who came to toil in the farm fields of prairie Canada over half a century can be conveniently divided into two groups. The first, those who worked in agriculture during the homestead stage before World War I, worked primarily to learn agricultural practices and to acquire sufficient capital to apply to their own quarter section once they acquired it. With labor in short supply they were able to control their relationship with …

Review Of A Guide To Kansas Architecture By David H. Sachs And George Ehrlich, Robert I. Duncan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A Guide to Kansas Architecture by David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich selects representative examples of the built environment and landscape forms in each of Kansas's one hundred and five counties. This first-ever comprehensive guide book offers architectural examples in both the urban and rural areas of the state. Using a broad-based definition of architecture, the authors have included not only well-known buildings, but also vernacular elements such as bridges, dams, power stations, cemeteries, and fence posts. Such a selection provides a reasonable overview of what one might expect to see while traveling in Kansas. Both historical and architectural significance …

Review Of Living Landscapes Of Kansas Text By O.J. Reichman, Robert Duncan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Co-authors O.J. Reichman (text) and Steve Mulligan (photography) have produced a book illustrating the natural beauty of Kansas. This prairie state known to many through its rich history of outlaws and cattle towns has an equally rich but sometimes overlooked natural landscape. To the casual observer the landscape may appear "relatively flat and uniform," but Reichman has an appreciation for this "midrange" scale, more accessible perhaps than the monumentality of mountains or coasts. Reichman and Mulligan have surveyed the state selecting natural sights formed through a combination of earth, fire, wind, and water. Through Reichman's visual perception and impressive linguistic …

Review Of Native Americans In The News: Images Of Indians In The Twentieth Century Press By Mary Ann Weston, Gary Garrison

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As a lay historian of the American Indian and a television producer specializing in programs dealing with Native American subject matter, I've lectured frequently at high schools and colleges on stereotypical images of Native Americans in film, television, and popular literature and on how these media have shaped and reinforced such images throughout our turbulent history of contact. Focusing only on entertainment in the past, I found Native Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press singularly informative in how the news media have also molded and solidified the general public's perceptions of Native Americans.

Mary …

Review Of Native American Perspectives On Literature And History Edited By Alan R. Velie, P. Jane Hafen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the introduction to this volume, Alan Velie and Gerald Vizenor claim that these essays, by both native and non-native authors, represent "American Indian perspectives." By making this claim they indicate that particular American Indian perspectives exist while acknowledging that they are not limited to tribal members. The volume brings together articles previously published in the journal Genre and Volume 19 of the University of Oklahoma's American Indian Literature and Critical Studies. This fine collection of essays presents scholarship that is sympathetic to Native experiences and foregrounds problems of American identity.

The essays cover a range of contemporary Native …

Review Of The Ranch: A Modern History Of The North American Cattle Industry By Sherm Ewing, James Hoy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although the title of this book might be somewhat misleading-it has little to do with daily ranch life and is certainly not a systematic historical study-nevertheless its idiosyncrasies convey a wealth of fascinating information in an extremely readable format. The author, a former Canadian rancher who has since retired to the sunny south of Montana, spent three years traveling, discussing ranching with old friends and new acquaintances, taping interviews, and collecting his research into two thousand pages of single spaced typing.

From this mass of information he has crafted an overview of twentieth-century ranching, most of it in the words …

Review Of Prayer To The Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings And Photography Of Edward S. Curtis Text Edited By Gerald Hausman, Margaret A. Mackichan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Most Americans today are familiar with at least a few of the bold yet intimate portraits of Native Americans made by Edward S. Curtis near the turn of the century. Aside from the many publications that have gleaned images from his massive twenty-volume The North American Indian, his work has been reproduced as posters, used in documentaries, and copied by amateur artists into every medium. The authors of Prayer to the Great Mystery have set out to bring photographs other than those they deem his "hit parade" to light. What is unusual about this collection is that ninety-three of …

Review Of The Frederic Remington Studio By Peter H. Hassrick, Alexander Nemerov

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This short book concerns the Remington Studio Collection-a permanent installation at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, featuring the artifacts Remington displayed in his New Rochelle studio, as well as some of the paintings he made late in his career. The author noted Remington scholar Peter Hassrick, discusses the studio and argues that the Studio Collection paintings, many of them small landscapes, transcend Remington's time and place to achieve a universal significance. In making this argument, however, Hassrick neglects to consider how the very category of the universal, insofar as it refers to American art, is itself a …

Review Of The Myth Of The West: America As The Last Empire By Jan Willem Schulte Nordholdt And Herbert H. Rowen, Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As an Americanist, I needed to adjust my perspective as I was reading Nordholdt's The Myth of the West. Much of this book by a Dutch scholar is about European views of Empire, particularly about the various permutations of the heliotropic view of empire-the belief that empires progress from east to west. The subtitle America as the Last Empire is somewhat misleading, since much of the book presents how the European literati throughout the centuries viewed various empires within and near their own continent, though naturally the heliotropic view does lead west over the Atlantic. (It also leads west over …

Review Of Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent: Indian Visionary And Activist By Jay Fikes, As Told To By Reuben Snake, Paul A. Olson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Great Plains region has given us minority civil and cultural rights leaders out of all proportion to the minority population of the region: Crazy Horse, Quanah Parker, Gordon Parks, Dull Knife, Rudolpho Gonzales, Zitkala Sa, Suzette La Flesche, Earl Little (Malcolm X's father), Tomas Rivera, Ernie Chambers, and on and on. Biographical scholarship unfortunately has not given us many good accounts of these leaders. The gap is dramatized and at least partially filled by Fikes' book. Jay Fikes, working with Reuben Snake just before his death, has written a work that ultimately celebrates both the latter's humility and his …

Review Of New Westers: The West In Contemporary American Culture By Michael L. Johnson, Charles E. Rankin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

You will either love this book or, well, dislike it. As one of the jacket blurbs puts it, it's all here-"movies and fashion, historians and architects, chili eating and two-stepping." The blurbist might have added: "and kitsch, travelogue, literature, poetry, cartoons, and a lot of unbridled gee whiz." Broad in scope, New Westers won't be remembered for analytical depth (though it may itself become an artifact of its time). What is not here, and what this reviewer sorely missed, is more of the author. In just over four hundred pages, Michael Johnson reveals precious little about what he thinks is …

Review Of Home On The Range: A Century On The High Plains By James R. Dickenson, Dennis C. Williams

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

After reading the introduction to this book, I expected a quaint family history joined with some attempt at relating the specifics of the author's family and personal experience to the larger context of Kansas and US history. I found that and much more. The first chapters set up a good model for family history-much better than most local histories or genealogies prepared by enthusiastic amateurs. But then James Dickenson is an accomplished journalist with over thirty years of journalistic experience including staffing the Washington Post; what should I have expected? By the half-way point, I realized that this is …

Review Of Indian Territory And The United States, 1866- 1906: Courts, Government, And The Movement For Oklahoma Statehood By Jeffrey Burton, Raymond Wilson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Attempts by state governments and the federal government to undermine Indian tribal sovereignty remain one of the major challenges Indian tribes face today. One of the best known attacks against Indian political and economic authority was the abolition of the tribal institutions of the Five Tribes in Indian Territory, which resulted in Oklahoma statehood.

Indian Territory and the United States, 1866- 1906, the first volume in the University of Oklahoma Press's Legal History of North America Series, is a detailed and fresh examination of the destruction of the Five Tribes' governments in Indian Territory resulting from federal judicial reforms …

The Lubbock Chamber Of Commerce, The New Deal, And The Ropesville Resettlement Project, William Clayson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

US Highway 62 crosses the town of Ropesville, population 480, between Lubbock and Brownfield on the South Plains of Texas. To the north and west of town, scattered among the suburban-style homes of contemporary farmers, stand several dozen small cottages of identical design. Some are still occupied, many nothing more than ruins, and a few have been added on to, stuccoed, or provided a screened porch. All are surrounded by cotton fields and most are accompanied by ramshackle outbuildings, rusted tractors, dormant windmills, and sealed irrigation wells. These farmsteads are the remains of a rural community project constructed by the …

Humanitarians On The Frontier Examples From Northeastern Logan County, Oklahoma Territory, Leslie Hewes

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Scholars have studied the frontier of Euro-North American settlement from a number of perspectives. James C. Malin and Allen G. Bogue, for example, have examined the turnover of population in the newer parts of the United States. Walter Prescott Webb considered the Great Plains a strange kind of country for most of its pioneers, branding them as woodsmen out of place in the western part of the great interior grassland. Paul W. Gates has emphasized speculation and an incongruous land system as marking the American new lands, while James K. Hastings has recognized cooperative endeavor, a kind of sharing, as …

Uncovering The Chinese Web : The Four 'S' Dynamics Of Chinese Networking, Y H Wong

IIMB Management Review

China's transformation into a significant economy has been largely achieved by a "bamboo network". The importance of relationship networks is rooted in Chinese history, characterised by apparent strong government control based on Confucian codes of ethics. Wong takes a close look at the dynamics of networking and building guanxi. He begins with an exploration of the key socio-cultural concepts : friendship, trust, defensive mechanism and post-Confucian dynamics, before moving on to an analysis and explanation of the dynamics of guanxi network. He concludes by explaining how networks are built by providing an integrative four 'S' framework.

Identity, Authenticity And Reputation In The Postcolonial History Of Mainland Southeast Asia, Craig J. Reynolds

Asian Review

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Mexico: The Case For Creation Of A National Court Of Human Rights, Nauhcatzin T. Bravo-Aguilar

LLM Theses and Essays

The continuing oppression and violation of human rights in Mexico is predicated on the abuse of executive power, suppression of the powers of the Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos (the National Commission for the Protection of Human Rights), and the usurpation of the authority of the judiciary. This thesis conducts a comparative analysis of the protection of human rights under the Constitution of the United States, the German Basic Law, and the Constitution of Mexico. It analyses the concept of the judicial review of executive and legislative powers and advocates for the establishment of a National Court of Human Rights …

Legalism And Realism In The Gulf, Sheila Carapico

Political Science Faculty Publications

In his State of the Union address in January, 1998, President Clinton won thunderous applause for threatening to force Iraq "to comply with the UNSCOM regime and the will of the United Nations." Stopping UN chemical and biological weapons inspectors from "completing their mission," declared the President, defies "the will of the world." In the next three weeks, the White House ordered a massive show of force in the Gulf. Even traditional hawks, however, realized that a bombing mission could undermine American hegemonic interests in the Gulf that are served by a continuation of the sanctions regime.

Pluralism, Polarization, And Popular Politics In Yemen, Sheila Carapico

Political Science Faculty Publications

Among the nations of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen is the most populous, the poorest, and the most politically liberal. It is the only republic where sovereignty theoretically rests with its 16 million inhabitants, not with a monarch. The constitution promulgated in 1991 and amended in 1994 guarantees many basic rights and liberties to all adult citizens, including rights to vote, run for office, and join political parties. Since Yemeni unification in 1990, two rounds of contested, multiparty parliamentary elections in 1993 and 1997 involved women as well as men in the political process as voters, candidates, volunteers, and reporters. Yemenis …

Missing From The Miracle: Microcredit And Urban Market Women In Bolivia, Stephanie L. Small

Honors Theses

On an organizational level supporting the success story of microcredit allows banks to profit, as seen with BancoSol. It allows organizations to continue to receive funding, as seen with FIE. It allows NGOs to simplify the problem of poverty to one of lack of credit and personal ignorance. By doing so, NGOs can maintain training programs which place the client at fault for her poverty, as seen in ProMujer. They appeal to a common sense understanding of poverty and its causes and as a result, continue to receive the necessary funding. The Journal of Commerce is a 170 year old …

"Entre La Espada Y La Pared" : "Up Against The Wall": Bolivian Coca Farmers And Alternative Development Under The Estrategia Boliviana De La Lucha Contra El Narcotráfico 1998-2002, Heather Anne Golding

Honors Theses

Bolivia's reputation as a "dangerous" nation stems from its connection with the illegal drug trade. Bolivia is currently the world's third largest cultivator of coca, the raw material used to make cocaine. The US State Department warns US citizens not to visit the Chapare because it is "politically unstable." However, the region is not unstable because its inhabitants are savage people, nor is it dangerous because drug cartel members roam the streets. Rather, it is dangerous, because of the social unrest that plagues the region because the poor coca farmers are continuously being hounded to destroy their coca crops, in …

Mallard Duckling Growth And Survival In Relation To Aquatic Invertebrates, Robert R. Cox, Mark A. Hanson, Christianne C. Roy, Ned H. Euliss Jr., Douglas H. Johnson, Malcolm G. Butler

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

Identification and assessment of the relative importance of factors affecting duckling growth and survival are essential for effective management of mallards on breeding areas. For each of 3 years (1993-95), we placed Fl-generation wild mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) females on experimental wetlands and allowed them to mate, nest, and rear broods for 17 days. We manipulated invertebrate densities by introducing fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) at high densities in half of the wetlands on which broods were confined. Day- 17 body mass of surviving ducklings (n = 183) was greater for ducklings that were heavier at hatch; the …