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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
Review Of For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic By Georges E. Sioui, Lisa E. Emmerich
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
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.
Review Of Useful Pleasures: The Shaping Of Leisure In Alberta, 1896-1945 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, David Weaver
Review Of Useful Pleasures: The Shaping Of Leisure In Alberta, 1896-1945 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, David Weaver
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
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 …
Soil Moisture And Clay Measurement Of Volcaniclastic Soils Of Western Nebraska, N. B. Stolpe, D. T. Lewis, G. A. Uzochukwu, Stephanie L. Hartung
Soil Moisture And Clay Measurement Of Volcaniclastic Soils Of Western Nebraska, N. B. Stolpe, D. T. Lewis, G. A. Uzochukwu, Stephanie L. Hartung
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
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 …
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.3
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.3
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey
Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
For manY'African Americans, Malcolm is a shining black prince, a charismatic leader, and the ideological founder of the movement toward a black awakening. He is a cultural and political icon, and as such, belongs to all of us. For Bruce Perry, Malcolm is a chameleon and a man in conflict. His Malcolm is a political opportunist, who yearned for happiness and love but courted failure, longed for freedom but shunned it until it was too late, hungered for the approval of the very authority figures he defied. Rather than view Malcolm as an individual thinker who could publicly change his …
Review Of Groundwater Exploitation In The High Plains And Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On The Trail Of The Corn Belt Farmer, 1909, Sam Kepfield
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
David Kromm and Stephen White, both professors of geography at Kansas State University and experts on water use in the West, have gathered pieces by water experts. The result, Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains, is a first-rate exploration of the methods and problems of groundwater utilization in the Ogallala Aquifer and the states overlying it-Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.
Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy, Ernest Rouske
Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy, Ernest Rouske
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Millions of years ago earth crust movements caused a sixty-four-square mile area near what is now Great Bend in central Kansas to drop, creating a shallow, poorly drained basin. These wetlands, called Cheyenne Bottoms, draw hordes of waterfowl and shorebirds during spring and fall migrations. Its importance is such that it is considered one of the three major stop-over places for shorebirds east of the Rockies, "an oasis in a parched and wind seared landscape beckoning the greatest travelers on the globe."
Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr.
Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Albro Martin has authored a masterful account of the pivotal role of railroads in shaping American economic and social life. The foremost historian of American railroads, Martin examines the emergence of the railroad system in the antebellum era, the growth of the great transcontinental lines, and the numerous difficulties experienced by railroads in the twentieth century. He pictures the railroads as agents of change, noting that railroads were instrumental in opening the prairie states for settlement, facilitating industrialization, and forging a national market for goods. As America's first big business, the railroads also compelled the formulation of new legal rules …
New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains Of North America, John L. Allen
New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains Of North America, John L. Allen
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Arising partly from the debates, scholarly and otherwise, surrounding the commemoration of the Columbian Quincentennial, the claim has been made that the European discovery and exploration of the New World was a process that had "meaning only in terms of European ignorance, not in terms of any contribution to universal knowledge"1 and that the study of exploration and discovery is therefore ethnocentric or (worse) racist. Such a claim, which denies the mechanisms of exploration and discovery their important place in the broader epistemological process of how we know and understand the world, is contentious.
Review Of Nebraska Moments: Glimpses Of Nebraska's Past, Micheal W. Schuyler
Review Of Nebraska Moments: Glimpses Of Nebraska's Past, Micheal W. Schuyler
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Nebraska Moments, by Donald Hickey, professor of history at Wayne State College in Nebraska, is a collection of thirty-nine essays about the state's past. The essays, which range in length from six to twelve pages, discuss personalities, institutions, places, and events that have shaped the state's history. Biographical sketches of such political figures as David Butler (Nebraska's first Governor), J. Sterling Morton, William Jennings Bryan, and George W. Norris; western and military heroes such as Buffalo Bill Cody and John J. Pershing; Native Americans such as Red Cloud and Standing Bear; and intellectual figures such as Louise Pound, Willa …
The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean
The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A storm of controversy arose in April 1949 when Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan unveiled the Truman administration's postwar policy for agriculture. The most controversial aspect of the so-called Brannan plan was its production payments feature, a direct, undisguised farm subsidy designed to bring relief to producers and consumers alike. Other aspects of the complex plan also elicited both praise and blame, but disagreements during this fractious time were not limited to farm questions. In a year of apparent victories for the world's communist monolith, spy trials, and labor unrest, discussions of farm policy on the Great Plains and …
Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder
Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
World War II left thousands of lives over much of the world fundamentally changed. Thus, it is not too surprising to find that Native Americans were also profoundly touched by the war and its aftermath. Alison R. Bernstein develops and proves this theme in her well written book that fills the void between the several studies of the Indian New Deal and recent works considering the termination movement of the 1950s.
Review Of Land In Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders In North Dakota And Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940, Evelyn Funda
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Much of the work studying women's role in the American West has served to establish the significance and celebrate the contributions of women to Western American history. Lindgren's book is such a work. Strikingly handsome, it portrays the lives of homesteading women in North Dakota from 1870 to about 1915 by providing excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and from personal interviews with homesteading women and their families, as well as a wealth of photographs and comparative statistics from land records. Lindgren's goals are to dispute the stereotypes of women pioneers and to argue that "women must be recognized as main characters …
Review Of Roadside Geology Of Texas, David B. Loope
Review Of Roadside Geology Of Texas, David B. Loope
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The 74,000 miles of paved roads in Texas cross landscapes and geologic structure of tremendous variety. With its abundant photographs and interpretive sketches, this book gives the traveler an excellent opportunity to understand and appreciate both the grand and the more subtle features visible along the Texas highways. Texas is considerably more geologically diverse than the other plains states, and this is not just a simple function of its greater size. Many of North American's greatest geologic sites are there: Llano (granite), Terlingua (volcanics), Marathon (fold and thrust belt), Glass Mountains {invertebrate fossils}, and Paluxy River (dinosaur tracks). Why so …
Review Of Wyoming Biographies, Susan H. Swetnam
Review Of Wyoming Biographies, Susan H. Swetnam
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Wyoming Biographies is a biographical dictionary (with a chatty introduction chronicling the settlement of Wyoming) that compiles in alphabetical order life sketches of approximately 265 pioneer citizens. Lawrence M. Woods has collated information from a variety of sources, drawing on contemporary subscription biographies, on more recently written histories, on biographies and memoirs of individuals, on reference works, and on miscellaneous materials (personal conversations and letters, materials in the Wyoming Historical Society collection, etc.). The content of entries varies, but most list the subject's date and place of birth, date of migration to Wyoming, occupation, and government offices.
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Range, Don Gayton
Review Of The Range, Don Gayton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"Range" is one of those consciously undefined words in our language. Rather than generating a single image, it produces many, from cowboys to science to art. Rancher/writer Sherm Ewing has put together a book that reinforces the complexity of range as a concept, as a field for economic activity, and as a subject of scientific inquiry.
Review Of Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. 3 Vols, David J. Wishart
Review Of Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. 3 Vols, David J. Wishart
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
There are almost 4500 entries in this Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography. Candidates were chosen by the editor for the "significance of their deeds" and for the intrinsic "interest" of their role in the frontier process (vii). They are mostly men, mainly Euro-American but also Native American, though clearly some effort has been made to include frontier women. Among them are explorers, scientists, outlaws, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers. T wentiethcentury frontier historians like Athearn and Billington are also included, as long as they, like all the other featured people, are deceased. Strangely, prospectors are excluded on the implausible grounds that …
Review Of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900, Willliam M. King
Review Of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900, Willliam M. King
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
I began this book with the hope that I would learn more about the black military experience in New Mexico. Unfortunately, I did not. Perhaps had I read the bibliographic essay first, I would not have been as disappointed as I was upon concluding Mr. Billington's work. For in that essay he says: "Sources other than the official military records do not exist or are almost impossible to track down. The diaries, memoirs, and personal letters that help fill out the story of the white soldiers are essentially nonexistent for blacks. Few of the remaining entries in this bibliographical essay …
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.1
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield
The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Water is power. Water is strength. Water is health. In the Rocky Mountains, it is the most valuable of all assets. Nothing else compares with it, nothing else can compare with it. With it, we can produce trees and forests. With it we can make fertile fields on the desert plains, and make the unsightly and uninviting plateau attractive for agriculture and home-building.1
Susan Laflesche Picotte.Md.: Nineteenth-Century Physician And Reformer, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Susan Laflesche Picotte.Md.: Nineteenth-Century Physician And Reformer, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
She was laid to rest beside her husband on a fall Sunday in a small Nebraska town. Three clergymen performed the simple service, the pastor of the Walthill Presbyterian Church, the pastor of the Blackbird Hills Mission, and a member of the Presbyterian Home Missions Board. The closing prayer was given by an Omaha tribal elder. That afternoon a moving graveside service was performed by members of the Amethyst Chapter of the Eastern Star. This diverse assemblage, paying their last respects on 19 September 1915 at the family home and at the Bancroft Cemetery, represented only one facet of the …
Review Of A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company And Two Centuries Of Mapping, 1670- 1870., Paul Hackett
Review Of A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company And Two Centuries Of Mapping, 1670- 1870., Paul Hackett
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In recent years scholars have sought out the records of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as excellent primary sources for Canadian historical research. The vast majority of this attention has been focused on the company's immense body of written documents, the product of its fur trading activities. In addition to its role in the fur trade, however, the HBC also made a critical contribution to the exploration and mapping of much of Canada prior to 1870 and has left an impressive cartographic legacy. Until now the full value of this aspect of the HBC's activities has been largely overlooked. With …
Review Of The Dispossession Of The American Indian, 1887- 1934., Thomas E. Ross
Review Of The Dispossession Of The American Indian, 1887- 1934., Thomas E. Ross
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Understanding the significance of the General Allotment Act of 1887 (Dawes Act) is central to any rational analysis of the present condition of the American Indian population. McDonnell has, in The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934, given us an excellent primer on the reasoning for the establishment of the Dawes Act and how it has affected the lives of the peoples it was designed to help. Although more than 20 percent of this little book is devoted to notes and bibliography, it is a valuable contribution to American Indian literature and a timely addition to the quincentenary debate.
Review Of Prairyerth (A Deep Map)., Joseph J. Wydeven
Review Of Prairyerth (A Deep Map)., Joseph J. Wydeven
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is a splendid book, ambitiously and selfconsciously American, at once contemporary and a throwback to the American Renaissance, calling up Thoreau's travels in Concord and inquiries into nature, as well as hints of Melville's metaphysical grapplings. Whereas in his first book, Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon moved up across American landscapes, here in Prairy Erth he stays put: in Chase County, Kansas, close to the center of America, he sinks down his probes, immerses himself in reports and archives, and holds discourse with all manner of persons, animals, plants, and things.
Review Of Aboriginal Water Rights In Canada: A Study Of Aboriginal Title To Water And Indian Rights, Theron Josephson
Review Of Aboriginal Water Rights In Canada: A Study Of Aboriginal Title To Water And Indian Rights, Theron Josephson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This study is one of a series sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Natural Resource Law. Written by Richard Bartlett of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, it is first and foremost a discourse on the current legal status of water rights of Canada's aboriginal peoples.
An American Heart Of Darkness: The 1913 Expedition For American Indian Citizenship, Russel Lawrence Barsh
An American Heart Of Darkness: The 1913 Expedition For American Indian Citizenship, Russel Lawrence Barsh
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In his pungent essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Chinua Achebe explores Europeans' literary use of African stereotypes to work out their own psycho-social dilemmas.1 The journey into Africa was in reality a journey inside the confused souls of explorers and missionaries who sometimes found salvation there but never saw, heard, or found the Africans. The Africans they imagined were only a dark reflection of themselves.
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.4
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past., Marguerite Helmers
Review Of Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past., Marguerite Helmers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The influence of Frederick Jackson Turner's conception of the Western frontier can be measured by the efforts taken to refute him. The contributors to this volume have found him an imposing figure to contend with. As a result, Turner hovers behind almost every page and footnote. In their introduction, however, editors Cronon, Miles, and Gitlin argue that there is a need to set Turner aside in favor of a Western history that is based on a "community focus" rather than the achievements of individual men. Following this approach, essays by Gitlin, John Mack Faragher, Sarah Deutsch, Katherine Morrissey, and Cronon …
Review Of Wounded Knee Lest We Forget And Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account., John R. Wunder
Review Of Wounded Knee Lest We Forget And Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account., John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The meandering Wounded Knee Creek wanders timelessly through south central South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Yet time seemed to stop at least twice on its banks, once at the massacre of several hundred Sioux in Big Foot's band by the Seventh Cavalry in late December 1890 and nearly a century later during the forcible takeover of the settlement of Wounded Knee by the American Indian Movement in late February 1973. Today these events are known as Wounded Knee I and Wounded Knee II.