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Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, By Paul A. Olson, Adolph M. Greenberg
Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, By Paul A. Olson, Adolph M. Greenberg
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This book is based on the premise that solutions to the problems experienced by many resource management programs currently underway in the semiarid regions of the world can be found in indigenous systems of resource use. Developing out of a 1986 interdisciplinary symposium sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, the book has contributors from agricultural development, anthropology, economics, English, environmental studies, history, law, native studies, and philosophy. Given the magnitude of the human and environmental problems in semiarid lands, a book intended to provide an indigenous counterpoint, as it were, to present use of those areas would not …
Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, By Russell Thornton, Henry F. Dobyns
Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, By Russell Thornton, Henry F. Dobyns
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This volume discusses major dynamics of Cherokee population trends during historic times. That is, it describes the formation and fortunes of one ethnic minority in the United States. Such historic demography is necessarily limited by available information. Consequently, this discussion presents more (and more reliable) details about recent demographic trends than about earlier ones.
Drought Experience And Perception Of Climatic Change Among Great Plains Farmers, David M. Diggs
Drought Experience And Perception Of Climatic Change Among Great Plains Farmers, David M. Diggs
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
How humans perceive, respond, and adapt to long-term climatic change are questions of fundamental interest to nature and society researchers. This paper analyzes the effect of drought experience on Great Plains farmers' perceptions of long-term climate change. Approximately three-quarters of all farmers surveyed believed that the climate is, or is possibiy, changing. Drought experience, while perhaps not initiating concern for climate change, can solidify peoples' perceptions of the certainty and nature of the change. The potential cognitive heuristics used in the formation of climate change perceptions are discussed.
Introduction: Climate Change On The Great Plains, Paul A. Kay
Introduction: Climate Change On The Great Plains, Paul A. Kay
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The Center for Great Plains Studies has, for the past decade and a half, hosted annual symposia that draw scholars to address topics of regional interest. The symposium topic for 1990, "Climate Change on the Great Plains," was most timely, given the growing concern with global warming heightened by several years of drought stress in the late 1980s. Interest in this topic has a long lineage in the Center: the ninth symposium, in 1985, addressed "Social Adaptation to Semiarid Environments," and issues of drought and environment have appeared often in the pages of Great Plains Quarterly. The 1990 symposium …
Relationships Between 700 Mb Circulation Variations And Great Plains Climate, Daniel J. Leathers
Relationships Between 700 Mb Circulation Variations And Great Plains Climate, Daniel J. Leathers
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The relationship between monthly midtropospheric circulation variations, occurring in the North American sector, and surface temperature and precipitation across the Great Plains is evaluated for the middle month of each season (January, April, July, and October). The results demonstrate that monthly Great Plains temperature variability is strongly associated with the major pattems of midtropospheric circulation variation during all months considered. Temporally, the strongest associations are observed during October. However, January, July, and April also exhibit spatially coherent regions of strong association. Spatially, the relationship tends to be strongest in the northern Plains, with decreasing association to the south. Precipitation-midtroposphere relationships …
Lowering Real Interest Rates Could Slow Global Warming, Craig S. Marxsen
Lowering Real Interest Rates Could Slow Global Warming, Craig S. Marxsen
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion have increased markedly in this century. Increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are thought likely to help produce a warming of global climate. Many strategies to reduce or reverse the anticipated global warming point to reductions of fossil fuel combustion as a primary ingredient. This paper examines the possibility of obtaining a decrease in world petroleum supply as a result of reducing interest rates relative to the rate of inflation.
Drought And Precipitation Fluctuations In The Great Plains During The Late Nineteenth Century, Cary J. Mock
Drought And Precipitation Fluctuations In The Great Plains During The Late Nineteenth Century, Cary J. Mock
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Monthly precipitation data in the Great Plains from the late nineteenth century (1851–1890) were compared with modem analogs. Seasonal precipitation changes were identified since 1858–1877, depending on the amount of data available, and additional droughts were inferred back to 1851. Regional droughts did not clearly fit any cycle. Precipitation during fall and winter was less than 1951–1980 averages during most of the late nineteenth century. Wetter than modern average springs and summers occurred in the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s. Relationships of these conditions to changes in mid-tropospheric circulation are suggested. Results from this study can be used for verification of …
Hydroclimatic Variability On The Great Plains, Michael J. Keables
Hydroclimatic Variability On The Great Plains, Michael J. Keables
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This study identifies the spatial variability of the hydroclimatology of the Great Plains. Spatial associations of monthly midtropospheric circulation anomalies, total precipitation, and mean stream discharge are identified using an unrotated principal component analysis. Three hydroclimatic associations, representing synoptic circulation features and associated precipitation and stream discharge patterns, identify specific circulation anomalies and corresponding spatial pattems of surface hydrology in the northern, central, and southern Great Plains. Results indicate that nearly 47% of the hydrologic (precipitation and stream discharge) variability during summer is attributed to synoptic-scale midtropospheric circulation anomalies, with sub-synoptic convectional processes accounting for approximately 42% of the hydrologic …
The Geologic Record Of Wind Erosion, Eolian Deposition, And Aridity On The Southern High Plains, Vance T. Holliday
The Geologic Record Of Wind Erosion, Eolian Deposition, And Aridity On The Southern High Plains, Vance T. Holliday
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Evidence of wind erosion, accumulation of airborne sediments, and drought is preserved on the Southern High Plains. Eolian deposition in the Holocene concentrated between 6000 and 4500 years ago. The Blackwater Draw Formation indicates episodic wind erosion and deposition in the past 1.6 million years. The Ogallala Formation suggests a vast, sandy eolian plain accumulated episodically between 4 and 11 million years. Warmer and drier conditions predicted for the region in a globally-warmer climate will thus be superimposed upon prevailing characteristics of wind and relative aridity that have dominated recent geologic time.
Great Plains Research: Editorial Matter, Volume 1, Number 1
Great Plains Research: Editorial Matter, Volume 1, Number 1
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Includes:
Cover
Publisher Information (The Center for Great Plains Studies)
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
News and Notes
Calls for Papers (2)
Advertisements (2)
Instructions to Authors
Book Review: Modern Elementary Probability And Statistics, Douglas H. Johnson
Book Review: Modern Elementary Probability And Statistics, Douglas H. Johnson
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
This is an introductory textbook, "developed for, and class- tested in," first courses in elementary probability and/or statistics. The only prerequisite is high-school algebra. It has some nice features, but shortcomings in both substance and style detract from its value.
Review Of Shaping Educational Change: The First Century Of The University Of Northern Colorado At Greeley, Maxine Benson
Review Of Shaping Educational Change: The First Century Of The University Of Northern Colorado At Greeley, Maxine Benson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1936, when a young instructor named James Michener was offered a position at the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, his faculty mentors at the Ohio State University summer school warned him not to accept the job: "The sands of the desert are white with the bones of promising young men who went West and perished trying to get back East" (ix). Undeterred, Michener did go to Greeley, where he taught at the school's College High until 1941. He also acquired a master's degree as well as the historical background that he incorporated into his 1974 novel, Centennial …
Education On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Erwin H. Goldenstein
Education On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Erwin H. Goldenstein
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Few people asked to identify outstanding exemplars of education in the United States would immediately think of the Great Plains or its people. And it may well be that the authors of the Land Ordinance of 1785 were more interested in enticing settlers to the old Northwest Territory than in providing financial support for education when they set aside one section of public land in every thirty-six sections for the support of education. Yet education has become very important to the immigrant peoples who have occupied the Great Plains over the past two centuries, and there can be little doubt …
Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf
Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Writing Saskatchewan is the gleanings of a symposium celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts held at Fort San in the Qu' Appelle Valley near Regina in June of 1987. Focusing on poetry (the long poem as well as the lyric), the novel, drama, and linked sequences of short stories, these essays collectively suggest the striking richness, range, and vitality of creative writing in the central prairie province-writing that is anything but provincial.
Review Of Five For The Land And Its People, Howard W. Ottoson
Review Of Five For The Land And Its People, Howard W. Ottoson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Every institution has its pioneers, its founding fathers, whose personal natures and work were instrumental in shaping the course of its development. This book is an account of five such men whose lives are reflected in what is today North Dakota State University.
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.3
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.3
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
"Pap" Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies And The Failure Of A Black Settlement In Easter Kansas, Joseph V. Hickey
"Pap" Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies And The Failure Of A Black Settlement In Easter Kansas, Joseph V. Hickey
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"T here are gathered at Dunlap and vicinity at the present time between 275 and 300 families of colored people, all of whom are succeeding quite well and many of whom are on the road to prosperity. The plan of Dunlap Colony is very simple, the chief reason, probably, of the success met with, being the fact that every settler is compelled to own his property, no renting being permitted ... as Mr. Atchison expressed it, "everyone is fat and happy . . ."
Review Of Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse Of Native American Indian Literatures, Kathryn Shanley
Review Of Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse Of Native American Indian Literatures, Kathryn Shanley
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Back about eight or ten years ago, when Punk hit the American youth scene, there was a joke floating around. It went something like this: How did the dead baby get across the road? [Answer: Safety-pinned to the chicken.] Of course, in order to "get" the joke, you have to understand the Punk mentality and be able to recall instantly the joke that (as far as I can tell) has floated around children's playgrounds for the past several decades: Why did the chicken cross the road? [Answer: To get to the other side.] For Punks, the philosophically probing "why" is …
Index To Fall 1991 Vol.11 No.4
Index To Fall 1991 Vol.11 No.4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity And Change., Kenton Bales
Review Of Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity And Change., Kenton Bales
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
According to an old Native American axiom cited by Jamake Highwater, "An ear of corn is a very complicated organism. But for the corn plant, it is simple." Likewise, much Native American music seems mysterious and exotic, since it comes from a culture vastly dissimilar to that of Anglo- and Afro-Americans. This book and the accompanying tape do a great deal to clarify the role of music among the organism we call the Ojibways.
Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era And Education In Oklahoma, Courtney Ann Farr, Jeffrey A. Liles
Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era And Education In Oklahoma, Courtney Ann Farr, Jeffrey A. Liles
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1975 a total of sixty-seven Anglo men responded to a letter sent to all its members by the Oklahoma Retired Teachers Association (ORTA), asking them to record in autobiographical sketches their reasons for becoming teachers and the benefits that they had derived from that choice. l A collective portrait of these transitional professional men spans the Progressive Era, the 1920s, and the Great Depression and, in so doing, describes two sets of phenomena: first, the social context within which the men became teachers and administrators-- communities' willingness to pay men more and to exclude women from so-called "male" positions-and …
Review Of Billy The Kid: A Short And Violent Life, Bill Christophersen
Review Of Billy The Kid: A Short And Violent Life, Bill Christophersen
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Billy the Kid's last trick was his best. Handcuffed, shackled, and condemned to hang, he overwhelmed and killed two deputies and rode, unharmed, out of Lincoln, New Mexico. Months later, in July 1881, the twenty-one-year-old fugitive would stumble into Sheriff Pat Garrett's waiting firearms. But by then the surface had already been primed for the legend that has since been embellished in dime novels and movies- a legend whose veneers award-winning historian Robert M. Utley (Frontier Regulars, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation) strips away. His Billy the Kid is a scrupulously researched, well-paced-but slightly diffuse-biography of …
Review Of Mixed-Bloods Arul Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis Arul The Quest For Lrulian Identity., Larry Burt
Review Of Mixed-Bloods Arul Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis Arul The Quest For Lrulian Identity., Larry Burt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Charles Curtis, a one-eighth Kansa mixedblood, was elected vice president of the United States in 1928, the highest station attained by a person of Indian ancestry. Earlier, while serving as a Kansas congressman at the tum of the century, Curtis was instrumental in many government actions that are now generally considered to be some of the worst abuses of Indians and their homelands under a forced assimilation policy. William Unrau demonstrates in this important work that it was no coincidence that a mixed-blood played such a pivotal role in the destruction of tribes. The government had a long-standing record of …
Review Of The Potawatomi, Nancy Shoemaker
Review Of The Potawatomi, Nancy Shoemaker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Clifton's The Potawatomi is one of a series of books in American Indian history designed for "young adults." Not-so-young adults will find the book of little use and would be better served by referring to Clifton's article on the Potawatomi in the Handbook of North American Indians.
Review Of Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View Of The Sioux War Of 1876., Thomas W. Dunlay
Review Of Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View Of The Sioux War Of 1876., Thomas W. Dunlay
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
It is only in recent decades that the Trans-Mississippi Indian wars have become the subject of considerable scholarly as well as popular investigation and writing. It is even more recently that such study has gone beyond indignation at the fate of the Indians themselves. Sherry L. Smith's book is an attempt to understand both sides, and in particular those generally unheard participants, the enlisted men of the regular army. William Earl Smith was the author's great-grandfather, and a major part of the book is his journal of the campaign of General George Crook against the Sioux and Northern Cheyennes in …
Review Of An Illustrated History Of The Arts In South Dakota, Norman A. Geske
Review Of An Illustrated History Of The Arts In South Dakota, Norman A. Geske
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the concluding pages of this nearly fourhundred- page volume the author acknowledges previous attempts to write the history of the arts in South Dakota and concludes, quite properly, that "the large task lies ahead." One wonders how much larger the task might be in the light of the present work, which covers the performing arts, the visual arts, and the literary arts, with a special section devoted to the arts of the Sioux. It appears in a review of the 132 chapters, many of them dealing with single individuals and organizations, that a conscious effort was made to leave …
Review Of Ancestral Voice: Conversations With N. Scott Momaday, Kenneth M. Romemer
Review Of Ancestral Voice: Conversations With N. Scott Momaday, Kenneth M. Romemer
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
We expect a collection of interviews with an author to provide the types of anecdotes, information, and opinions that often don't get into scholarly articles but do illuminate the author and his or her work. Charles Woodard's Ancestral Voice fulfills those expectations and goes beyond them.
Review Of The Voice In The Margin: Native American Literature And The Canon, Charles G. Ballard
Review Of The Voice In The Margin: Native American Literature And The Canon, Charles G. Ballard
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Readers will find this heady mixture of postmodernist ideas and qualifications, Indianist viewpoints, and generous helpings of Native American material quite enjoyable and informative. Perhaps in this scholarly book the hors d'oeuvres, or the first several chapters, are formidable enough to drop the reader to his or her knees, but the effort required is indeed worthwhile.
Review Of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88., H. Elaine Lindgren
Review Of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88., H. Elaine Lindgren
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Mary Dodge Woodward's keen observations, written in her diaries, serve to recreate days of bonanza farming in the Red River Valley of the North in the 1880s. Mary Dodge Woodward came to the Fargo area to live on a bonanza farm managed by her son Walter. A telescope extended Mary Dodge Woodward's view of the land stretching beyond the farmyard. "I stand at the east chamber-which is my observatory- with the spy glass everyday" (82).
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.4
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.