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Review Of Medicinal Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide By Kelly Kindscher, David J. Harter Feb 1993

Review Of Medicinal Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide By Kelly Kindscher, David J. Harter

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This is a book for the advanced amateur. It comes five years after Kindscher's Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie which was also an outgrowth of the author's master's thesis (University of Kansas).

Kindscher set two goals for his new book and I believe that he will achieve both. He hoped that it would foster more understanding of the prairie and the uses of its constituent plants, and he wanted to encourage protection, conservation, and reestablishment of the prairie grasslands wherever possible. These goals are shared by many today, but the prairie speaks softly while competing interests such as farming, …

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Review Of Homes In Alberta: Building, Trends, And Design 1870-1967 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, Peter Caron Feb 1993

Review Of Homes In Alberta: Building, Trends, And Design 1870-1967 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, Peter Caron

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I must admit right off that I was preparing for reviewing a dry piece of work. I believe that most readers including myself will be pleasantly surprised if not more accurately impressed with the obvious mountain of research and effort that was needed to compile this publication. The presentation of the information is very well done indeed. It is entertaining in the early chapters on Settlement and the Modern House, and continues to be so throughout. The consistent use of quotes from architects, newspapers, builders, and planners from the eras being discussed definitely give a great deal of insight into …

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Establishment And Survival Of The Endangered Blowout Penstemon, James L. Stubbendieck, Theresa R. Flessner, Charles H. Butterfield, Allen A. Steuter Feb 1993

Establishment And Survival Of The Endangered Blowout Penstemon, James L. Stubbendieck, Theresa R. Flessner, Charles H. Butterfield, Allen A. Steuter

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Blowout penstemon (Penstemon haydenii S. Wats.) is the rarest plant endemic to the Great Plains and is the only officially endangered plant species in Nebraska. The endangered species recovery plan calls for an increase in viable populations from five to ten and an increase in plant numbers from about 6,000 to 15,000. Research conducted on survival of greenhouse grown seedlings transplanted at three sites in the Nebraska Sandhills showed that transplanting seedlings was feasible. Greatest survival was obtained when blowout penstemon seedlings were transplanted into blowout grass [Redfieldia flexuosa (Thurb.) Vasey] communities in blowout depressions. Plants were not …

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The Iconography Of Plants Collected On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Linda Rossi, Alfred E. Schuyler Feb 1993

The Iconography Of Plants Collected On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Linda Rossi, Alfred E. Schuyler

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FrederickPursh 's Flora Americae Septentrionalis (1814) is considered to be the standard flora of the nineteenth century. Additional floras of this period were developed by Nuttall, Elliott, and Torrey and Gray. We know that Meriwether Lewis collected some herbarium specimens that contributed to Pursh's Flora during the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. Pursh's Flora was the first to include plants of the Pacific Northwest. A number of the specimens Lewis collected are in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Those who use the Herbarium know and appreciate the contribution of Lewis to botany. Twenty-four of the illustration …

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Economic Impact Of Leafy Spurge On Grazing Land And Wildland In North Dakota, F. Larry Leistritz, Dean A. Bangsund, Nancy M. Wallace, Jay A. Leitch Feb 1993

Economic Impact Of Leafy Spurge On Grazing Land And Wildland In North Dakota, F. Larry Leistritz, Dean A. Bangsund, Nancy M. Wallace, Jay A. Leitch

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A variety of undesirable plants pose problems for managers of grazing land and/or wildland because they reduce the land's usefulness for livestock grazing or are detrimental to its other functions, such as wildlife habitat or watershed protection. The purpose of this study was to assess the direct and secondary economic impacts of leafy spurge infestations in North Dakota. This involved estimating the extent of leafy spurge infestations on grazing land and wildland, estimating the effects of the infestation on the outputs of both types of land, estimating the direct economic effects of these changes in outputs, and using input-output analysis …

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The Oglala Sioux Tribal Court: From Termination To Self-Determination, George D. Watson Jr. Feb 1993

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Court: From Termination To Self-Determination, George D. Watson Jr.

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In 1976, a study by the Judicial Services Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs concluded that insufficient information is available on Indian tribal courts, suggesting that they have been largely ignored by historians and political scientists alike. By examining a specific court the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court a fuller understanding of its vital role in the operation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation can be gained.

From 1870 to the present, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court has experienced a series of changes dictated by federal Indian policy including the replacement of tribal legal traditions with federal laws such as …

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Great Plains Research Contents - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993 Feb 1993

Great Plains Research Contents - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

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Table of Contents

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Soil Moisture And Clay Measurement Of Volcaniclastic Soils Of Western Nebraska, N. B. Stolpe, D. T. Lewis, G. A. Uzochukwu, Stephanie L. Hartung Feb 1993

Soil Moisture And Clay Measurement Of Volcaniclastic Soils Of Western Nebraska, N. B. Stolpe, D. T. Lewis, G. A. Uzochukwu, Stephanie L. Hartung

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Several soils of western Nebraska have exhibited unusually high water content at 15 bars tension (an estimate of the water content where plants begin to wilt) relative to the percent measured clay. These same soils are known to form in volcanically derived sediments. The objective of the study was to identify a mineralogical cause for the discrepancy. Representative samples from the Busher, Epping, Keith, Mitchell, Otero, and Tripp soils were collected and characterized to determine the relationship between soil moisture and measured clay contents. Calculated ratios of soil water content at 15 bars tension to the percent measured clay equaled …

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Great Plains Research Conferences - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993 Feb 1993

Great Plains Research Conferences - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

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Contents:

The Ecological Society of America

18th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium

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Great Plains Research News And Notes - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993 Feb 1993

Great Plains Research News And Notes - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

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The Nebraska Chapter of The Wildlife Society (NCTWS) held its 1992 Annual Meeting and Technical Sessions on September 30 - October 2, 1992 at the 4-H Camp near Halsey, Nebraska. The goal was to provide a forum for professionals involved with wildlife in Nebraska to discuss new advances and recent ideas in management programs, public education, research, and technology.

This year's introductory session focused on Conservation Biology. NCTWS President Jon D. Kauffeld introduced keynote speaker Richard L. Knight of Colorado State University, who delivered an address entitled "What's So New About Conservation Biology?" The threat of losing biological diversity …

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Review Of American Wildflower Florilegium By Jean Andrews, David M. Sutherland Feb 1993

Review Of American Wildflower Florilegium By Jean Andrews, David M. Sutherland

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This book is a collection of 50 watercolor paintings of American wildflowers ("florilegium" means, literally, "a gathering of flowers"). Accompanying each full-page painting is a summary of general information about the plant, including notes about its botanical classification, the etymology of its name, life history, distribution, description, flowering period, pollination, and propagation.

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Review Of Organizing The Lakota: The Political Economy Of The New Deal On The Pine Ridge And Rosebud Reservations By Thomas Biolsi, David E. Wilkins (Lumbee) Feb 1993

Review Of Organizing The Lakota: The Political Economy Of The New Deal On The Pine Ridge And Rosebud Reservations By Thomas Biolsi, David E. Wilkins (Lumbee)

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This book is an important contribution to the growing literature base which seeks to illuminate critical federal Indian laws and policies by incorporating the historical dimension, utilizing economic data, and analyzing political events. Biolsi strives to accomplish this by employing a political-economic paradigm: an historical approach which emphasizes the relationships between the society, polity, and the economy.

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Review Of The Constitutional Future Of The Prairie And Atlantic Regions Of Canada By James N. Mccrorie And Martha L. Macdonald, Howard Cody Feb 1993

Review Of The Constitutional Future Of The Prairie And Atlantic Regions Of Canada By James N. Mccrorie And Martha L. Macdonald, Howard Cody

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The Canadian Plains Research Center has published eighteen papers which were presented at the November 1991 conference. The conference sought to identify common interests and strategies for two of Canada's peripheral regions and their seven provinces in the country's ongoing constitutional reform process. These provinces, the Atlantic region of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, and the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, share a long history of grievances over perceived domination of national policymaking by the populous central provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

Most of the book's essays are supplied by academics who write about …

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Review Of Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 By Deborah Fink, Betsy Downey Feb 1993

Review Of Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 By Deborah Fink, Betsy Downey

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Agrarian Women begins with a paradox. "Agrarian ideology-the celebration of farming and farmers as the heart of American society"-pervaded the rural households where the author grew up. "Yet it meshed poorly with the lives of many rural women we knew" (p. xv). Using published and unpublished letters, diaries, fiction, public records, historical studies, and interviews, anthropologist Deborah Fink explores the ways in which the agrarian ideal failed the women of Boone County, Nebraska.

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Review Of Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States, 1775 To The Present By Edward Lazarus, Philip Deloria Feb 1993

Review Of Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States, 1775 To The Present By Edward Lazarus, Philip Deloria

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For observers following the Sioux Nation's legal and legislative struggles over Black Hills land claims, historical contextualization has been stunningly incomplete. The reader can find numerous detailed accounts of nineteenth century military conflict, the Treaties of 1851 and 1868, and the Agreement of 1877. The political rhetoric that followed the 1980 Supreme Court decision ending America's longest running legal battle makes up an equally voluminous body of material. Between the two points lies a poorly illuminated century of legal maneuvering and Sioux activism and cultural change.

Informed by a legal education and the insights of social history, Edward Lazarus has …

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Review Of Thomas Moran And The Surveying Of The American West By Joni Louise Kinsey, Martha Kennedy Feb 1993

Review Of Thomas Moran And The Surveying Of The American West By Joni Louise Kinsey, Martha Kennedy

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Along with Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) and a few others, Thomas Moran (1837-1926) created some of the most memorable and influential paintings of the American West in the late nineteenth century. Joni Louise Kinsey presents the first thorough study of Moran's early pivotal paintings, the products of his experiences with the great survey expeditions of the 1870s into the west.

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Review Of Distributional Archaeology By James I. Ebert, Lawrence C. Todd Feb 1993

Review Of Distributional Archaeology By James I. Ebert, Lawrence C. Todd

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This volume is both fascinating and frustrating. The work challenges one of the fundamental assumptions of most archaeological research-the existence of archaeological sites. In the preface, Ebert states that his goal is to bring a number of lines of evidence to bear on what I believe is the most critical question in archaeology today: whether we can continue to think in terms of sites, or whether this most basic unit of archaeological discussion rests upon so many untenable, unarticulated, in fact unarticulatable assumptions as to be a liability to the advancement and credibility of our field (p. xiii).

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Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925 By D. Aidan Mcquillan, David Peterson Feb 1993

Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925 By D. Aidan Mcquillan, David Peterson

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This monograph thoroughly addresses a topic more narrow than its title implies. Its core is an agricultural history of Swedes, Russian-Mennonites, and French-Canadians in central Kansas from 1875 to 1925.

McQuillan reasons that ethnic groups' value systems can be discerned by studying the outcomes of their everyday decisions. Hence he focuses on the rich Kansas agricultural manuscript census schedules to discern how the three groups of immigrants adapted to the arid, often mercurial physical environment in which they found themselves and to the host culture which threatened to swallow up their ethnic distinctiveness. This, then, is a history of ethnic …

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Review Of For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic By Georges E. Sioui, Lisa E. Emmerich Feb 1993

Review Of For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic By Georges E. Sioui, Lisa E. Emmerich

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For an Amerindian Autohistory is a provocative, intensely personal appeal for the development of a "new" history grounded in Amerindian cultures and intellectual traditions. Georges Sioui argues that the only way to net North American Indian history is to the people themselves. He challenges those working in the field to develop intellectual and professional partnerships with native peoples, to engage in "autohistory." Intercultural collaboration via this paradigm can, he believes, help map a new, good, and decidedly "red" road into historical territory long considered off-limits to its very own residents.

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Review Of The Birds Of Canada, Revised Edition By W. Earl Godfrey, Paul A. Kay Feb 1993

Review Of The Birds Of Canada, Revised Edition By W. Earl Godfrey, Paul A. Kay

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Freezing temperature under a leaden sky, the season's first snow flurry, and lots of activity at my bird feeders-an opportune time to test the coffee-table volume The Birds of Canada. The portraits, painted by John A. Crosby, are as good as those in many of my multitude of field guides, although they are collected into sections between signatures rather than being juxtaposed to the species narratives. The birds are organized according to the American Ornithological Union's sixth check-list, and the usual information-description, field marks, habitat, nesting, range-is here. But Godfrey provides so much more: French names; detailed breeding and …

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Review Of Integrated Characterization Of Permian Basin Reservoirs, University Lands, West Texas: Targeting The Remaining Resource For Advanced Oil Recovery By Noel Tyler, Jack A. Babcock Feb 1993

Review Of Integrated Characterization Of Permian Basin Reservoirs, University Lands, West Texas: Targeting The Remaining Resource For Advanced Oil Recovery By Noel Tyler, Jack A. Babcock

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The authors of Permian Basin Reservoirs have discovered two billion barrels of recoverable oil! Even better, they found this oil in existing fields, on lands owned by their employer, the University of Texas. They also assert that the oil can be recovered at low cost.

Three ideas summarize the findings of the 5-year study that forms the basis of this book: 1. Significant quantities of unexpected oil can be recovered, using low-cost, low-risk techniques, from existing fields. 2. The resources are concentrated in a few geologic plays, or reservoir types, so that most of the oil can be recovered from …

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Review Of Rural Information Systems: New Directions In Data Collection And Retrieval By Rueben C. Buse And James L. Driscoll, Paul H. Gessaman Feb 1993

Review Of Rural Information Systems: New Directions In Data Collection And Retrieval By Rueben C. Buse And James L. Driscoll, Paul H. Gessaman

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For most of us collecting, compiling, and drawing inferences from data are never-ending activities. Some data-based decisions, such as decisions of a driver who observes and responds to a traffic control device, can be readily completed. Others, e.g., decisions that adjudicate stream flow among competing users, can require complex and protracted decision processes. The capability of a society to make sound data-based decisions is founded on accurate and timely data that are readily available without undue cost. The presumption that such data are not presently available to persons working with rural problems, issues, and policies provides the guiding thesis of …

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Review Of A Social Geography Of Canada: Essays In Honour Of J. Wreford Watson By Guy M. Robinson, Randy Widdis Feb 1993

Review Of A Social Geography Of Canada: Essays In Honour Of J. Wreford Watson By Guy M. Robinson, Randy Widdis

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As a graduate student at McMaster and Queen's, I was made very aware of the contribution of J. Wreford Watson to Canadian geography. This is understandable since he was largely responsible for the establishment of geography departments at both these institutions as well as at Carleton. This collection of essays by former graduate students, friends, and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic cover many of the themes of inquiry that interested Watson. The contents focus upon the changing character of Canadian landscapes and society, including dimensions of its historical development, its present spatial forms and current social issues. The …

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Review Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, Revised Ed. By Robert W. Richmond, James W. Hewitt Feb 1993

Review Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, Revised Ed. By Robert W. Richmond, James W. Hewitt

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Robert W. Richmond has orchestrated a filiopietistic paean to the citizens of Kansas the hardy souls who carried their "Beecher's Bibles," fought of fthe border ruffians, broke the sod, welcomed the Texas trail drivers, healed the mind and produced oil, wheat, and airplanes in staggering quantities. But the author's obvious love for Kansas and its people does not detract from the beauty or utility of this work.

Richmond, former state archivist and former assistant director of Kansas' splendid historical society, has produced a revised edition of a work which he, Nyle Miller, and Edgar Langsdorf authored in 1961 to celebrate …

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Review Of Rivers Of Change: Essays On Early Agriculture In Eastern North America By Bruce D. Smith, Karl J. Reinhard Feb 1993

Review Of Rivers Of Change: Essays On Early Agriculture In Eastern North America By Bruce D. Smith, Karl J. Reinhard

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Between 1970 and 1990 there was a burst of paleoethnobotanical research into prehistoric Native American subsistence practices across North America which has resulted recently in numerous regional syntheses. No synthesis is more salient or cogent than that presented for eastern North America by Bruce D. Smith who has been a key researcher in the area of prehistoric subsistence.

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Review Of Useful Pleasures: The Shaping Of Leisure In Alberta, 1896-1945 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, David Weaver Feb 1993

Review Of Useful Pleasures: The Shaping Of Leisure In Alberta, 1896-1945 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, David Weaver

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Modestly touted as a preliminary exploration of leisure themes and topics in Alberta during the first half of the twentieth century, this book at first glance might be rejected as too esoteric by potential readers who are neither leisure specialists nor Albertans. This would be unfortunate, since the authors have produced a most informative and relevant work with implications reaching far beyond its intended geographical and topical scope. The first three chapters constituting Part One examine the institutional, social, and technological context within which leisure in early Alberta developed, while the last eight chapters (Part Two) focus upon a comprehensive …

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Review Of The End Of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety From The Old West To The New Deal By David M. Wrobel, Frederick Luebke Feb 1993

Review Of The End Of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety From The Old West To The New Deal By David M. Wrobel, Frederick Luebke

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This slender volume, a revision of a recent doctoral dissertation, is an exercise in intellectual history that examines attitudes, concerns, and beliefs about the passing of the frontier and its consequences for American civilization. It is a study of elite opinion; common folk and their ideas are not treated here. Of the many intellectuals discussed writers, journalists, academicians, prominent politicians none receives more attention than Frederick Jackson Turner, the eminent historian who synthesized his famous frontier thesis exactly a century ago.

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Review Of Western Canada In The International Economy By Edward Chambers And Michael B. Percy, M. L. Lerohl Feb 1993

Review Of Western Canada In The International Economy By Edward Chambers And Michael B. Percy, M. L. Lerohl

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This book takes on several tasks. These include assessing Western Canada's competitive strengths in international export markets, judging whether the region is able to take advantage of shifts occurring in these trading patterns, as well as viewing effects of the Canadian economic union on Western Canada. The authors begin their discussion by pointing out how well the economy of the Canadian West is integrated with adjacent regions. The region ships about 54 percent of total exports to the U.S., a number which seems high, but is in fact lower than the Canadian average of 75 percent. The reason appears to …

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Review Of Aboriginal Resource Use In Canada: Historical And Legal Aspects By Kerry Abel And Jean Friesen, Ken Leyton-Brown Feb 1993

Review Of Aboriginal Resource Use In Canada: Historical And Legal Aspects By Kerry Abel And Jean Friesen, Ken Leyton-Brown

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This book, the sixth volume in the series Manitoba Studies in Native History, is a collection of eighteen papers presented at a conference held in 1988 at St. John's College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. That conference grew out of a recognition of the importance of historical work in some aspects of the broader question of Aboriginal rights, especially as Aboriginals and others have increasingly attempted, in recent years, to settle disputes through recourse to Canadian courts-concerns reflected in the book's structure and contents.

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Review Of Aboriginal Land Claims In Canada: A Regional Perspective By Ken Coates, Oiive Patricia Dickason Feb 1993

Review Of Aboriginal Land Claims In Canada: A Regional Perspective By Ken Coates, Oiive Patricia Dickason

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This informative collection of eight essays by different authors plus an introduction by the editor surveys the present state of aboriginal land claims across Canada. Each essay deals with a separate province or region, providing regional detail that fleshes out the overview. A selection of excerpts from pertinent documents at the end of each essay adds substantially to the usefulness of the work.

As David R. McNab, formerly of the Native Affairs Secretariat of the Province of Ontario, points out in his article, the aboriginal peoples have never been conquered, so that Canada's acquisition of their lands has been by …

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