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Review Of "The Government And Politics Of The Alberta Metis Settlements” By T. C. Pocklington, K. P. Binda
Review Of "The Government And Politics Of The Alberta Metis Settlements” By T. C. Pocklington, K. P. Binda
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
With the emergence of native issues such as land claims and self-government in the Canadian constitutional debate, Pocklington's non-technical, informative, and exploratory book as emerged at a timely moment.
A void of scholarship about the Metis has been observed by historians such as Frideres and Friesen. Pocklington has attempted to fill that void, but acknowledges the complexity of his study since the "government and politics ... as they function in small communities like the settlements is intimidating [as] it is difficult to identify the various players, much less to discover how they interact" (p. xiii).
Review Of "The Scarab Beetles Of Nebraska" By Brett C. Ratcliffe, William B. Warner
Review Of "The Scarab Beetles Of Nebraska" By Brett C. Ratcliffe, William B. Warner
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Of the few regional faunal surveys of Scarabaeidae available, The Scarab Beetles of Nebraska provides by far the most comprehensive treatise to date of any area in the Western Hemisphere. It not only serves as a manual for identification of all adult Nebraskan Scarabaeidae, but also includes available information on larvae and natural history for each species as well. The book is lavishly illustrated with adult habitus drawings of most species, supplemented by line drawings of larval and adult key characters. Illustrator Mark Marcuson's color plates are worthy of framing, and congratulations go to the printers for their reproduction of …
Review Of "The American West: A Narrative Bibliography And A Study In Regionalism” By Charles Wilkinson, Kenneth A. Erickson
Review Of "The American West: A Narrative Bibliography And A Study In Regionalism” By Charles Wilkinson, Kenneth A. Erickson
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
For the younger scholar interested in the West, Professor Wilkinson's book offers a bibliographic shortcut with a carefully selected and balanced listing of nearly 500 essential entries. The author skillfully weaves annotation of some works into a smoothly flowing text; other items are simply listed in concluding paragraphs.
The book's distinctive organization selectively highlights certain characteristics of the West. The initial chapter reviews the attempts to define the West geographically. The next chapter, "Events," discusses works dealing with Western history, but focuses on key or illustrative conflicts and turning points. Chapter 3 addresses "Peoples," which may be influential individuals, subcultures, …
Law And Science: An Introduction, John R. Wunder
Law And Science: An Introduction, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Law and science have been nervous partners for decades. Legal scholarship based upon scientific method, controversial at first, is now an established genre of the literature. It is particularly prominent in criminal justice studies, but it can be found in almost any aspect of legal research.
Social scientists in criminology, political science, and economics have addressed legal issues, but they are less apt to restrict their conclusions to locality or region or subject matter. For the study of regions, historians have the edge, and some historians have adopted scientific methodologies to investigate the history of law. One of the most …
Public Policy In Such Areas As The Environment Is Increasingly
Public Policy In Such Areas As The Environment Is Increasingly
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Contents:
International Geographical Congress, Commission on Changing Rural Systems
Thirteenth North America Prairie Conference
Twelfth Annual National Rural Families Conference
50th Plains Conference
17th Annual Symposium, Center for Great Plains Studies
New Journal
Review Of "Strength In Adversity: A Study Of The Alberta Economy” By Robert L. Mansell And Michael B. Percy, William Watson
Review Of "Strength In Adversity: A Study Of The Alberta Economy” By Robert L. Mansell And Michael B. Percy, William Watson
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This review of Alberta's economic fortunes in the early and mid-1980s by two of Alberta's best academic economists will interest economists concerned either with western Canada in particular or with the problems of non-very- diversified regional economies in general.
The book's first two substantive chapters consist of a data-laden review of Alberta's protracted economic downturn in the early 1980s and its recovery following 1985. Using simulations with a computer model of the Alberta economy, the authors find that the provincial economy's performance was worse in the early 19808 and better in the middle 1980s than it would have been had …
Law Careers And Community Context: A Comparison Of Rural And Urban Experience, Donald D. Landon
Law Careers And Community Context: A Comparison Of Rural And Urban Experience, Donald D. Landon
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The legal profession is highly differentiated by practice situation, clientele, and community setting, producing multiple professions within the practice of law. Using community size as the independent variable, this paper argues that the structuring of a legal career has less to do with the commonalities of legal training or the presumed solidarity of a learned profession and more to do with the characteristics of the community in which professional practice takes root. With a comparative approach, using data selected from a sample of rural lawyers in communities of 20,000 or less in Missouri, a midsize (150,000) Missouri city, and a …
Great Plains Reseach Vol. 2 No.1, 1992 - Editor's Note
Great Plains Reseach Vol. 2 No.1, 1992 - Editor's Note
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
When manuscripts are evaluated for possible publication in Great Plains Research, the editorial panel has the question of “place” firmly in mind. The distinction is of a place rather than in a place. Residence of the author is certainly not a prerequisite. While it might seem that the best regional scholarship comes from the region, the cosmopolitan character of the academy belies that generalization. Nor is a study done in a region necessarily of the region. A fine paper may result from a survey of residents of Kansas, for example, without any insight into whether the location makes any …
Review Of "Nebraska Residents' Perceptions Of The State's Water Quality” By S. Kay Rockwell, Ann Ziebarth, Delynn R. Hay, And Shirley M. Niemeyer, J. Allen Williams Jr.
Review Of "Nebraska Residents' Perceptions Of The State's Water Quality” By S. Kay Rockwell, Ann Ziebarth, Delynn R. Hay, And Shirley M. Niemeyer, J. Allen Williams Jr.
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
On the basis of national program initiatives, the Nebraska Cooperative Extension staff identified three high priority needs for the 19905 related to agriculture. These needs are to increase agricultural profitability, conserve and manage natural resources, and enhance water quality. This book focuses on water quality, especially with respect to domestic drinking water.
The investigators obtained 877 completed mailed questionnaires from an original sampling frame of 2,000 households stratified by city size. Forty of the questionnaires were returned as nondeliverable or as "addressee deceased." Thus, from the remaining 1,960 potential households, the response rate was 44.7%. This response rate is adequate, …
Review Of "At Odds With Progress" By Bret Wallach, William E. Riebsame
Review Of "At Odds With Progress" By Bret Wallach, William E. Riebsame
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Geographer Bret Wallach's stated goal in this book is to show that environmentalism is rooted in a fundamental human love for the land. He argues that we are "at odds with progress" and that this aversion is illustrated through efforts to protect the land from exploitation. But, .Wallach argues, our loyalty to the land is cloaked in "disguises" of efficiency, social welfare, and scientific ecology.
This argument is pursued through a series of personal reflections on places: northern Maine, southern Appalachia, Wyoming desert, San Joaquin oil fields, the national grasslands, and Texas High Plains. Wallach obviously loves these lands, and …
Review Of "Politics And Public Policy In The Contemporary American West” By Clive S. Thomas, Peter Longo
Review Of "Politics And Public Policy In The Contemporary American West” By Clive S. Thomas, Peter Longo
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Clive S. Thomas has edited a fascinating collection of works in Politics and Public Policy in the Contemporary American West. Scholars of public policy, especially those in the 13 states west of the l00th meridian, now have an excellent resource in Thomas' edited work.
Thomas sets the stage of the book by identifying ten enduring characteristics of western politics (p. 8). Those characteristics include political pragmatism, political individualism, direct democracy, regionalism and sectionalism, candidate-oriented elections, weak political parties and strong interest groups, weak political institutions, the dominance of economic development, dependence on government, and the paradox between myth and …
Review Of "Free Trade On The Prairies: The Implications Of Canada-U.S. Trade Pact For The Three Prairie Provinces" By Steve Dorey, Bashir Qasmi
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This book is based on a study funded, in part, by the Canadian Department of Regional Industrial Expansion. The book provides a good insight into the Canadian positions during the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, the concerns and expectations of key industry groups in the Prairies, and a good review of several quantitative studies that 74 estimated the impacts of bilateral trade liberalization in Canada. However, the conclusions of the book are not based on anyone particular quantitative study.
The author's basic thrust is that in recent decades, the Prairie economies have become diversified and much less dependent on eastern …
Review Of "Agricultural Policy Reform: Politics And Process In The Ec And Usa” By H. Wayne Moyer And Timothy E. Josling, James G. Kendrik
Review Of "Agricultural Policy Reform: Politics And Process In The Ec And Usa” By H. Wayne Moyer And Timothy E. Josling, James G. Kendrik
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
In days gone by, Economics and Political Science were one. and the discipline was termed Political Economics. Here, it was recognized that acceptable economic theory was tempered by the political system in which the economy existed. The Mercantilism of England and the Netherlands was in direct conflict with the Physiocratic doctrines of France, yet each prospered in their own political environment-and could be studied separately as an integrated unit. Today, the separation of Economics and Political science can lead to frustration when an economic solution for the problems of one society is not perceived by another political system as appropriate. …
Review Of "Co-Operatives And Community Development: Economics In Social Perspective” By Brett Fairbairn, June Bold, Murray Fulton, Lou Hammond Ketilson, And Daniel Ish, Sharon Lord Gaber
Review Of "Co-Operatives And Community Development: Economics In Social Perspective” By Brett Fairbairn, June Bold, Murray Fulton, Lou Hammond Ketilson, And Daniel Ish, Sharon Lord Gaber
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
For residents of rural towns throughout the United States and Canada, particularly in the Great Plains region, the issues of economic survival and community sustainability are paramount. Brett Fairbairn and colleagues book about cooperatives reintroduces an old strategy for community development. Their concept is that cooperatives are an "alternative kind of development"-well-suited to the needs of rural communities. The book is derived from the authors' concern for community development in Saskatchewan.
The book is divided into six chapters. Although not identified as such, the first three chapters serve to convince the reader that cooperatives are a good and viable mechanism …
Tenth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop
Tenth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The Tenth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop (GPWDCW) was held 15-18 April 1991 in Lincoln, Nebraska. The goal was to provide a forum for individuals involved in wildlife damage management to discuss new ideas and recent advances in ecology, technology, public education, and policy. The format allowed for interaction and exchange on current issues, damage control techniques, priority areas for research, public education, and extension activities. The GPWDCW is one of three national conferences (including the Vertebrate Pest Conference and the Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference) that deal specifically with wildlife damage management.
More than 250 people from 22 …
Review Of "Colorado's Government: Structure, Politics, Administration And Policy” By Robert Stuart Lorch, Robert Sittig
Review Of "Colorado's Government: Structure, Politics, Administration And Policy” By Robert Stuart Lorch, Robert Sittig
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
For some decades a number of sponsoring agencies have sought to provide a standardized work on each state's government and politics; thus far this goal has proven to be unattainable. In the meantime, studies such as this one have appeared in nearly all the states; this serves to inform interested readers about a particular state's politics, and Lorch's contribution has been a handsome one over these past years.
Lorch recounts the quite old-how Colorado was settled, got its name, and achieved statehood-and the very new-adoption of the state's first presidential preference primary for the 1992 election cycle, and the approval …
Review Of "The Wright Space: Patterns And Meaning In Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses” By Grant Hildebrand, David Seamon
Review Of "The Wright Space: Patterns And Meaning In Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses” By Grant Hildebrand, David Seamon
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This book by architectural historian Grant Hildebrand is a search for the special quality that makes Frank Lloyd Wright's houses so well liked, both by their owners and general public. Hildebrand calls this special quality a "pattern"-that is, a repetitive configuration of architectural elements that, although uniquely expressed in each house, is an underlying motif in all of them. Hildebrand believes that this pattern involves the spatial dialectic of inside and outside as expressed through repeated architectural parts-the entry, the fireplace, ceilings, solid and windowed walls, terraces, and openings from the house to the outside, especially immediate spaces. Hildebrand's aim …
Review Of "American Indianwaterrights And The Limits Oflaw" By Lloyd Burton, Richard B. Collins
Review Of "American Indianwaterrights And The Limits Oflaw" By Lloyd Burton, Richard B. Collins
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Professor Burton's work focuses on legal recognition and enforcement of Indian tribal water rights. He explains the uncertainty of tribal rights and the difficulties of perfecting rights in court. Lawsuits encounter jurisdictional disputes between state and federal courts, huge litigation costs, technical problems with engineering and hydrologic data, years of delay, and, in his view, hostile Republican judges on the federal bench. Given the difficulties with lawsuits, he examines in some detail tribes' efforts to pursue negotiations and legislation as alternatives to litigation. He is quite critical of the alternatives and concludes that litigation is still the best choice for …
Review Of "Crane Music: A Natural History Of American Cranes" By Paul A Johnsgard, Amy Richert
Review Of "Crane Music: A Natural History Of American Cranes" By Paul A Johnsgard, Amy Richert
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
A well-known author among wildlife enthusiasts, Paul Johnsgard has dedicated much of his life to the study of birds. In his lyrically written Crane Music, Johnsgard thoroughly compares and contrasts the natural history of the world's cranes with special emphasis on the two North American species, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) and the whooping crane (Grus americana).
This book begins with an interesting historical overview of the importance of cranes to human cultures around the world. Through the years, these exquisite long-legged birds have influenced religion, mythology, derivation of words, and important conservation efforts. Johnsgard …
Review Of "Twenty-Eighth Annual Alberta Soil Science Workshop Proceedings" By David T. Lewis, David T. Lewis
Review Of "Twenty-Eighth Annual Alberta Soil Science Workshop Proceedings" By David T. Lewis, David T. Lewis
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This volume compiles the papers of a workshop that had several foci: the philosophies of soil conservation, the sweeping generalizations from LANDSAT data and their use in GIS, and the infinite detail of classification and genesis of soils, quantification of soil productivity, and techniques for the injection of nitrogen into the soil. The theme of this particular workshop was "Sustainable Agriculture-A Soil Science Perspective." Canadian agricultural scientists, as their U.S. counterparts, appear to have latched onto the buzz word "sustainable." Neither group seems to be able to define clearly what the phrase means. Fortunately for the reader, there is no …
Great Plains Research Introductory Note - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Research Introductory Note - Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This issue of Great Plains Research is co-edited by Paul A. Kay and Clare V. (Bud) McKanna, Jr. Professor Kay resigned as editor to accept an academic position with the Environmental and Resource Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Bud McKanna, former editorial assistant, will be editor of Great Plains Research beginning with Volume 3, Issue 1 (February, 1993).
Hydrology And Texas Water Law: ...A Logician’S Nightmare, Otis W. Templer
Hydrology And Texas Water Law: ...A Logician’S Nightmare, Otis W. Templer
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Scientists generally consider all water as merely passing through, but in different phases of, the endless hydrologic cycle. In contrast, the law divides water in the hydrologic cycle into several different classes based on real or supposed physical differences between classes. Legal classes of water are treated separately, usually without consideration of the many interconnections existing between phases of the cycle, and different rules of law have developed concerning the ownership and use of each legal class. Texas courts, like those of other Great Plains jurisdictions, have applied this fragmented classification system, recognizing diverse public and private rights to each …
Review Of Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths To Healing Ourselves And Our World, Ward Churchill
Review Of Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths To Healing Ourselves And Our World, Ward Churchill
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
When I was a little boy, my mother, bless her heart, used to buy me books like Ben Hunt's Indian Crafts and Lore in a forlorn effort to keep me somewhat "in touch" with the indigenous aspect of my heritage. Hence, early on, I was exposed to such boy scoutish "homages" to things Indian as using uncooked macaroni to simulate the bone employed in making chokers and breastplates, making "peace pipes" out of wooden dowels, and pasting carefully colored bits of graph paper to tee-shirts in an effort to create the appearance of a beaded "Indian costume." It was, mom's …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1992 Vol. 12 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1992 Vol. 12 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
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Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt
Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Nancy Rash's superb study exemplifies the sort of reevaluation that results from tearing down the artificial walls of the gallery and the salon and relocating an artist within an accurate historical and cultural context. Rash introduces Bingham the total person: artist, certainly, but also writer, politician, legislator, polemicist, and social activist. Indeed, Bingham considered himself a public servant who just happened to be also a painter. This important distinction has been blurred by generations of critics who refused to see the "whole" Bingham and who consequently constructed an image of an artist depicting-in the scenes of Missouri life that form …
Review Of The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions & Government Policies And Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Paul A. Olson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Both of these books concern the force of myth. James Clifton's The Invented Indian, a book put together by Clifton with sixteen other authors, represents an account of the collaboration between Native Americans and whitesanthropologists, poets, do-gooders, and government policymakers-to create a stereotypical "Indian" and an equally stereotypical history of Indians. The stereotypes are conveyed as "facts" in school texts, the media, and "scholarship," i.e., that perhaps hundreds of millions of Indians lived in America when Columbus came, that Pocahontas saved the Virginians and Squanto the Pilgrims, that the United States Constitution derives from the Iroquois, that Indians worshipped Mother …
Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This book is another in the well-known series of historical atlases published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Most are defined by states; this one attempts the huge task of treating the entire western half of the United States, including the Great Plains.
Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird
Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In a dissertation submitted to the Department of Rhetoric and Oratory at the University of Wisconsin in 1895, Zona Gale argued that American writers were a timid lot, lacking originality and unwilling or unable to see what was happening around them, the harsher truths of a social reality. They drew their material from art rather than from nature, books rather than life. "They had," she said, "all drawn from the same sources, imitated the same models and had not won their material so much from men as from books. "1 Like Zona Gale, Willa Cather was critical of writers …
Law On The Great Plains: An Introduction, John R. Wunder
Law On The Great Plains: An Introduction, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka is one of the most important cases in American jurisprudence. Almost everyone recognizes the name of the case and its importance for ending legal segregation in the United States, but almost no one pays any attention to its setting, Kansas and the Great Plains. Does this case represent part of a distinctive legal culture of the Great Plains? Until recently, we have had no way to answer this question because no one has ever attempted a systematic study of law on the Great Plains. This issue of the Great Plains Quarterly is the …
Review Of Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856~57., Michael A. Amundson
Review Of Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856~57., Michael A. Amundson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the fall of 1856, wealthy James Ross Larkin of St. Louis joined a wagon train headed by William Bent, bound for the trader's post on the Santa Fe Trail. Seeking relief from chronic health problems, Larkin instead found adventure. His heretofore unpublished journal of his trip and subsequent travels in New Mexico provides a rare glimpse into antebellum southwestern life. Besides the extensively annotated diary, Barbour also includes background introductions to Larkin, the Santa Fe Trail, the frontier of health seekers, and an 1856 comparison between the trail's endpoints of St. Louis and Santa Fe.