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Review Of Deer Women And Elk Men: The Lakota Narra... Tives Of Ella Deloria., Holly Rae Boomer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Julian Rice presents Ella Deloria's work as part of the landscape of American literature without presenting an argument as to why the question of its noticeable absence exists and has never been answered. Although Rice does compare the conflict in Shakespearean plays to conflict in Deloria's collected stories to emphasize Lakota values and help contextu- alize her work as wholly American, the ques- tion remains as to why Deloria has to be justified.

Review Of The Home Plot: Women, Writing And Domestic Ritual, Evelyn I. Funda

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In entitling her book The Home Plot, Ann Romines refers not to a literal territory or the locus of domesticity, nor even to the Aristotelian, linear movement toward a denouement. "Plot," in the sense in which Romines uses it, is rather an on-going process akin to the daily routine of domestic ritual. The "home plot" is the rhythmic movement of the fiction as it is inspired by the nonprogressive, static, repetitive, non...linear domestic rituals of women's traditional lives. The term "domestic ritual," then, is especially significant because "Ritual implies repetition because the repeated act has or creates meaning, which …

Review Of A Nebraska Portfolio, Howard Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During a year spent driving around Nebraska, Robert Hanna would pull up in front of a deserted barber shop or an old country schoolhouse or a round barn and take out his sketchbook and pen. A Nebraska Portfolio is a collection of the sketches he made.

Review Of From Cody To The World: The First Seventy~Five Years Of The Buffalo Bill Memorial Association, Lawrence Sommer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From Cody to the World ... is an interesting little volume about a remarkable place, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center at Cody, Wyoming. Produced in celebration of the seventy' fifth anniversary of the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association (the "parent" organization of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center), this commemorative traces the growth of the center from its log cabin origins in 191 7 to its present status as one of the finest and most important institutions in the United States devoted to the American West.

Review Of Under Western Skies: Nature And History In The American West, Donald J. Pisani

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No one is a more powerful spokesman for the New Western History than Donald Worster, and no western historian is a better storyteller. He writes with passion and eloquence, with deep concern for the future of the region as well as its past. Readers will find these essays thoughtful, stimulating, and contentious.

The Studhorse Man: Translating The Boundries Of Text, Carol L. Beran

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"The voice. The voice." Robert Kroetsch wrote the phrase over and over as he planned his novel The Studhorse Man (1969). "Try: limited third and interior first."¹

Review Of Catalog Of The Colorado Flora: A Biodiversity Baseline., Dieter Wilken

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The estimation and documentation of biological diversity has and should continue to be approached from different perspectives. Such include the empirical study of vegetation by ecologists, the study of genetic structure and life histories by population biologists, and the study of evolutionary relationships by systematists. The monograph by Weber and Wittmann represents a product of the latter perspective, a catalog of scientific names for plants (excepting algae) native to or naturalized in Colorado.

The Mediator Is The Message: Anna Dawe, Cana-Dawe, And Bad Lands As A State Of Mind, Bruce A. Butterfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Hodgins's novel [The Invention of the World] eventually tells us, when you begin to disbelieve in external authority "you can begin to believe in yourself."-Frank Davey

"Gone Back To Alberta": Robert Kroetsch Rewriting The Great Plains, Francis W. Kaye, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Maybe that did it, I thought-maybe that was one of the things that turned me into a writer-my playing [softball] far out in the field. The playing, and the watching that went with it. The listening, out there. The wanting to enter the game while fearing that someone might hit the ball in my direction. The being isolated, out there in the prairie wind and the summer light; my striking up a conversation with a nearby gopher as I watched the pitched ball. . . . The caring so much, so enduringly, for the movements of small creatures, for the …

Notes And News For Vol.14 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Regionalism, Postmodernism, And Robert Kroetsch: An Introduction, Robert Kroetsch

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

What is the discourse of region? How, in the complexity of our experience of the Great Plains, do we turn that experience, that place, that posture, into words?

The answers are many. And yet they cohere into something we call community. Discourse, in a way, is what enables us to tell each other that we recognize, that we care.

On the Great Plains, we garden. We garden against the odds. I recognized this one afternoon in Nebraska, standing in Frances W. Kaye's garden. We were watching a crow.

Review Of Metis Lands In Manitoba., John E. Foster

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Dominion of Canada allotted over 1,400,000 acres of crown land in Manitoba to the province's Metis inhabitants as "Half Breed Scrip." The "fairness" of the process of distributing this scrip is the subject of Flanagan's work. Of greater interest to many readers is Flanagan's criticism of advocacy scholarship as it has emerged on the subject of half breed scrip in Manitoba.

Review Of Aberhart: Outpourings And Replies, Robert Kroetsch

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From Louis Riel, leader of the Canadian prairie Metis, to Preston Manning, Alberta-based leader of the Reform Party in the Canadian Parliament, men who somehow mix politics and religion have given political expression to the Canadian West. In recent years William van der Zalm spoke from this base for British Columbia. But it was William Aber-hart who gave most radical voice to a complex of political anxieties and resistances that we might now call postcolonial. He enacted, vividly and sometimes confusedly, the resistance of the margin to the center.

Review Of Without Reserve: Stories From Urban Natives, Patricia A. Mccormack

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Without Reserve is a set of profiles of nine Native people living in Edmonton, Alberta. Each person's story is told in a separate chapter, with brief anecdotes compiled in two additional chapters. Author Lynda Shorten was formerly a reporter with the Edmonton Journal, where she co-authored a series about urban Natives, the genesis of this broader work. Without Reserve is not an academic book, falling, as it does, into a genre of journalistic narratives about Native peoples, for which a significant public market exists, yet it will also attract a social science audience and will probably be assigned to …

Review Of Surveying The Canadian Pacific: Memoir Of A Railroad Pioneer And The Railway King Of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849,1923, Alec Paul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Both these books deal with themes related to railways and with events significant to the early economic development of western Can, ada. But there the similarity ends. Rylatt's memoir is a highly personal account of a stint with a survey crew in the Canadian cordillera a decade before the laying of the rails. Flem, ing, on the other hand, gives us a life of William Mackenzie, a railway builder who kept no diary and left very few personal papers to guide the biographer. Thus it is easier to contrast than compare the two volumes.

Review Of Buffalo, Ken Zontek

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Buffalo consists of twelve articles written by Canadian authors of diverse backgrounds. Their efforts support the editors' assertion that the bison has ceased to be a mere "artifact," but has become an integral part of today's world and an animal whose "fate may mirror our own" (p. vii). The articles examine buffalo in three primary areas. First, archeological studies reveal bison natural history. Head-Smashed..In Buffalo Jump reigns as Alberta's premier site, a project where scientists, government officials, and Native leaders have succeeded in working together. Second, history articles analyze the tie between bison and society, linking the demise of the …

International Influences On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Frances W. Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Great Plains, the vast interior of the North American continent, is completely landlocked. Its rivers, deep or braided, drain into the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, or Hudson Bay; yet isolated as the land be, it has been globally connected at least since the first European contacts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The three papers in this issue of Great Plains Quarterly look at a few of the international connections of this region.

Review Of The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840, Brad A. Bays

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In her very readable and significant ethnohistorical work The Texas Cherokees, Dianna Everett resourcefully tells the story of this small and little-understood group during their twenty- year tenure in Texas. Everett argues that the Cherokees' migration to, problems in, and expulsion from Texas can best be understood via their traditional yet dichotomous political structure. That is, Cherokee ideals of group consensus and harmony among individuals conflicted with the realities of factionalism; and like most writers, Everett relates that this dichotomy became detrimental only after white contact.

Review Of Atlas Of American Indian Affairs, Larry Burt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is hard to imagine anyone better qualified to produce an Indian affairs atlas that Marquette University's Francis Paul Prucha, leading authority on federal Indian policy and author of many important works in Indian history. The project began after the Bureau of the Census neglected to draw up a series of maps showing Indian population by county in 1980 as it had in 1960 and 1970. Prucha filled the void by creating his own maps, and favorable reaction by scholars encouraged him to expand the project. The result is sure to become a standard reference tool.

Review Of Kiva, Cross, And Crown: The Pecos Indians And New Mexico 1540-1840, Charles R. Cutter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Poised at the gateway to the Great Plains, Pecos Pueblo-the people and the place-figured prominently throughout much of New Mexico's early history. It was once the mightiest of the eastern Pueblo city-states, but permanent Spanish settlement of New Mexico in 1598 signalled a protracted and unmistakable decline in fortunes that ultimately resulted in abandonment of Pecos by 1840. The story of conflict and cooperation between Pecos and its neighbors is fascinating, and John L. Kessell, a master of the narrative, weaves it skillfully into the rich warp of colonial New Mexico history.

Review Of Letters Of Mari Sandoz, Betsy Downey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this splendidly edited collection, Helen Winter Stauffer presents more than four hundred of the nearly thirty thousand letters that Mari Sandoz wrote between 1926 and 1966, focusing on Sandoz' "writing, researching, and publishing" (p. xv). Sandoz' sense of herself as a western historian dominates the Letters. Her western view embodied a traditional emphasis on the importance of the West, on the masculine and, often, on the heroic; it was overlaid with a Populist's undying distrust of eastern oppression. But Sandoz also foreshadowed the "new" western history, emphasizing the land itself, its original inhabitants, the influence of the newcomers, …

Review Of Gardening In The Heartland., Amy Greving

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Midwest gardeners have a reputation for being a hardy bunch. Faced with extremes in all types of weather, they've learned how to cope in the face of adversity. In her book Gardening in the Heartland Rachel Snyder offers solutions to gardening problems unique to the Midwest.

Review Of The Adventures Of The Woman Homesteader: The Life And Letters Of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Sue Hart

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"My dear, My dear," Elinore Stewart wrote to longtime correspondent Maria Wood on 27 April 1925, "the longer I live the greedier I am for life. I dread inactivity." How fortunate for readers who enjoyed the recounting of her varied activities in the collections of letters describing her life on a Wyoming homestead, Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt, and for those who will come to know her-or know her better-through George's absorbing book!

Review Of The Ghost-Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890, Benjamin R. Kracht

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

At last an affordable version of Mooney's classic monograph is available that maintains the integrity of the 1896 Bureau of American Ethnology publication to the last detail, including the information-laden appendixes, illustrations, and the original pagination (pp. 653-1136). Additional features include an updated map depicting the sphere of Ghost Dance influence, five colorized plates, and an introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie delineating Mooney's contributions to ethnographic research in North America.

Review Of Tejano Origins In Eighteenth-Century San Antonio, Paul D. Lack

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The decade of the 1990s has already produced pivotal new studies on the northern frontier of New Spain by David Weber and on Spanish Texas by Donald Chipman. Though more narrowly focused in scope, this volume likewise makes a significant contribution in terms of new knowledge and re-assessment.

Review Of The Anglican Church And The World Of Western Canada, 1820-1970, John C. Scott

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Decrying "the mutual insularity of religious and secular historical work" in Canada and elsewhere editor Barry Ferguson describes the essays in this volume as attempts at building a "bridge" between the two. Seventeen short, single- author chapters attempt to assess "some of the actual roles and designs" of the Anglican Church and its diverse institutions and personnel in the Canadian prairie and northern West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ferguson's introductory essay demonstrates why "church history has hardly been absorbed into the mainstream of Canadian historiography" and also provides an overview of the other essays. L. G. Thomas describes …

Review Of Myles Keogh: The Life And Legend Of An "Irish Dragoon" In The Seventh Cavalry, Michael L. Tate

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the summer of 1990, the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum hosted a symposium of Custer scholars and buffs. Rather than devoting their exclusive attention to the subtleties of the legendary 1876 "Last Stand," these researchers examined the life of the second most recognized soldier to emerge from the fight at Little Big Horn-Captain Myles Keogh. The product of their labors has now been published as eighteen loosely integrated essays in this oversized and expensive book that comprises volume 9 in Upton's "Montana and the West Series." Because of its dimensions, its inclusion of more than sixty photographs, and its …

Review Of The Vanishing American: White Attitudes And U.S. Indian Policy, Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Last spring, as we cleared several generations worth of household goods and memorabilia from the Ridington family home in Westminster, Maryland, we came upon a framed print of "Appeal to the Great Spirit." In it, an Indian "brave" sits astride his horse, his head flung back, his arms beseechingly out at his sides, his palms up. The body language tells of grief and supplication, and of one last desperate hope. The colors are brown, yellow, and orange, the tones of sunset. When we read Brian Dippie's The Vanishing American, we realized that "Appeal to the Great Spirit," or works …

Review Of The Ghost In The Little House: A Life Of Rose Wilder Lane, Alan Wilkinson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is only in the past twenty years or so that scholars have begun to investigate what ought to have been apparent all along-that Rose Wilder Lane, already a moderately successful journalist, biographer, and novelist, played a major role in producing the nine Little House books credited to her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Early History Of The North Dakota Natural Science Society, John T. Lokemoen

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

A year ago, Paul Kannowski, editor of The Prairie Naturalist, asked me to write a short history of the formative period of the North Dakota Natural Science Society (Society). Finally, a year later, I accomplished the task. It seems that the history of the Society might be a little tedious to current readers of The Prairie Naturalist. However, the history of an organization that has succeeded for 25 years is worthy of documentation. Also, I take some comfort from the thought that many "old-timers" and prior North Dakota residents still belong to the Society and presumably take an …