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Index- Summer/Fall 1997

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Summer/Fall 1997

Flooding The Missouri Valley The Politics Of Dam Site Selection And Design, Robert Kelley Schneiders

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In December 1944 the United States Congress passed a Rivers and Harbors Bill that authorized the construction of the Pick-Sloan plan for Missouri River development. From 1946 to 1966, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with the assistance of private contractors, implemented much of that plan in the Missouri River Valley. In that twenty-year period, five of the world's largest earthen dams were built across the main-stem of the Missouri River in North and South Dakota. The size of these structures defies the imagination. Fort Randall Dam in southeast South Dakota is 160 feet high and 10,700 feet long. …

The Thatcher Government In Saskatchewan And The Revival Of Metis Nationalism, 1964-71, James M. Pitsula

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The 1960s was a significant decade in the history of the relationship between the government of Saskatchewan and Aboriginal peoples. Premier Ross Thatcher, who led the Liberal party to victory in the April 1964 provincial election, had a strong personal interest in the plight of Indians and Metis, and his government undertook a number of initiatives intended to improve their living conditions. At the same time, Indians and Metis themselves experienced a political awakening and became more assertive. One might have expected many positive achievements flowing from this combination of a well-intentioned government and an energized Aboriginal community. In fact, …

Mapping The Marias The Interface Of Native And Scientific Cartographies, Barbara Belyea

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In early June 1805, as they traveled up the Missouri toward the continental divide, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark came to a fork where two rivers of apparently comparable width and force flowed together. The captains paused at this junction, unable to decide which river was the "main stream" of the Missouri and which was the tributary. They were determined to fulfill Thomas Jefferson's instructions as exactly as possible: "to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by it's course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean ... may offer the most direct & …

Review Of Black Elk And Flaming Rainbow; Personal Memories Of The Lakota Holy Man And John Neihardt, Julian Rice

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1931 fourteen year-old Hilda Neihardt accompanied her father and her sister Enid to the Pine Ridge Reservation for the interviews that became Black Elk Speaks. Now, sixty-four years later, she provides a "human-interest narrative" of previously unpublished anecdotes from that historically significant visit, as well as pointed revelations intended to correct "serious misunderstandings" of several unnamed but identifiable interpreters.

Some of the descriptions accurately reflect racial attitudes and stereotypes of 1931. One of the elderly witnesses to Black Elk's narrative, Chase-in-the-Morning, "was slim, hardened, and strongly built .... His aquiline face, twinkling eyes, and long hair completed for …

Review Of Voices Of The Plains Cree By Edward Ahenakew, Ann Leger-Anderson, Brian Mlazgar

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

RESPONSE TO REVIEW

Jennifer S. H. Brown reviewed Edward Ahenakew's Voices of the Plains Cree (reprinted Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center) in the Winter 1997 issue of Great Plains Quarterly (volume 17, number 1). Because we believe her review misrepresents the book, however, we would like to explain why the Canadian Plains Research Center Publication Board made the choices that it did regarding its decision to reprint this volume.

The board considered the sorts of issues raised by Brown. Extensive discussion occurred, and the board concurred that a reissue of the original Voices of the Plains Cree was preferable to …

Review Of On Behalf Of The Wolf And The First Peoples By Joseph Marshall Iii, Ellen Dubas

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Much of what has been written about Native Americans has been written by Euro-Americans. It is very important that the peoples write about aspects of their culture that they consider to be most important about themselves. On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples by Joseph Marshall III is, I hope, the first of many such works.

In his book Marshall demonstrates a relationship between Native Americans and the wolf. That humans are a part of nature and not in control of nature is an idea that has begun to resonate throughout Anglo culture in the form of the …

Title And Contents- Summer/Fall 1997

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS Quarterly

Summer/Fall 1997 Volume 17 Number 3/4

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Frances W. Kaye

MAPPING THE MARIAS: THE INTERFACE OF NATIVE AND SCIENTIFIC CARTOGRAPHIES Barbara Belyea

THE SACRED BLACK HILLS: AN ETHNOHISTORICAL REVIEW Linea Sundstrom

THE THATCHER GOVERNMENT IN SASKATCHEWAN AND THE REVIVAL OF METIS NATIONALISM, 1964-71 James M. Pitsula

FLOODING THE MISSOURI VALLEY: THE POLITICS OF DAM SITE SELECTION AND DESIGN Robert Kelley Schneiders

REVIEW ESSAY: IN THE SERVICE OF EMPIRE Ward Churchill

A review of The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture by Arnold Krupat

BOOK REVIEWS

On Behalf of the Wolf and the First …

Review Of The Turn To The Native: Studies In Criticism And Culture By Arnold Krupat, Ward Churchill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the final essay of his most recent book, The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture, self-styled "ethnocritic" Arnold Krupat wonders aloud whether, through his interpretive activities, he hasn't become a "leftist colonizer" of the very sort critiqued so scathingly by Tunisian revolutionary theorist Albert Memmi more than three decades ago (p. 126). This worthy query, seemingly posed mainly as a rhetorical device allowing its author to absolve himself of the charge-he shortly concludes that simply by being "someone who reads and writes about Native American literature" he has made himself "useful without vanity" and is …

Introduction- Summer/Fall 1997, Frances W. Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This special double issue of Great Plains Quarterly has been a long time in the making. Unlike the yearly special issues that showcase papers from our annual symposia, this number of the Quarterly contains four articles submitted at various times, revised and expanded, and collected together. All deal with EuroNorth Americans' misperceptions of indigenous peoples and the consequences of those misperceptions for all peoples of the Great Plains.

In "The Sacred Black Hills," Linea Sundstrom painstakingly contradicts the view many researchers have proposed that Cheyenne and Lakota beliefs and oral traditions about the sacredness of the Black Hills had been …

The Sacred Black Hills An Ethnohistorical Review, Linea Sundstrom

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Black Hills area is widely recognized as sacred in the context of traditional Lakota and Cheyenne belief systems. Questions arise, however, regarding the authenticity and historical depth of these beliefs.¹ Some researchers assert that the concept of the sacred Black Hills is little more than a twentieth century scheme to promote tourism or part of a legal strategy to gain the return of Black Hills lands to Lakota and Cheyenne tribal governments.² While many Lakotas and Cheyennes today express a strong spiritual link to the Black Hills,³ some historians have questioned whether today's beliefs about the …

Restoring The Pre-Settlement Landscape In Stanley County, South Dakota, Susan E. Boettcher, W. Carter Johnson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Settlement of the western United States resulted in clearing and degradation of many wooded areas. The loss of biodiversity and erosion of soil which followed produced a landscape which is still being restored. The first section of the paper reviews the settlement history of western South Dakota, describing the ecological effects of rapid population growth upon the landscape. The second part focuses on a smaller area, that of a family's ranch, which has undergone land management changes and woodland restoration since 1950. Studies which document an increase in woody species diversity and abundance, the population structure of trees, and the …

Farmsteads As Mirrors Of Cultural Adjustments And Change: The Ukrainian Canadian Experience, James W. Darlington

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Farmsteads reflect more than the nature and health of agricultural activity on individual farms and across geographic regions; they provide a reliable record of other aspects of cultural and economic adjustment and change. This paper considers the farmsteads constructed by the Ukrainian immigrants and their descendants who settled in one district of the Canadian prairies beginning in 1896. A field survey of four townships reveals that between the time of initial settlement and the present four distinct generations of farm structures were erected. These generations of buildings-labeled here pioneer, traditional, transitional, and modern provide clear evidence of the economic progress …

News And Notes

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents:

Call for papers
Conferences

Review Of The Sjovold Site: A River Crossing Campsite In The Northern Plains Ian Dyck And Richard E. Morlan, Henry T. Epp

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

While reading this book, I found myself visited repeatedly by a phrase encapsulating its essence: archaeological science. Regardless of whether the site function hypothesis presented in the conclusion is ultimately confirmed or falsified through further testing, the book will remain a model of the application of science to archaeology. How is this so? Reduction, synthesis, hypothesis formulation, falsification of alternative hypotheses, explanation- all of these methods and goals are there, although not always defined or in sequence.

As site reports go, this is one of the most thoroughly researched to appear anywhere in Canada. The detail presented is almost …

Review Of The Institutionalized Cabinet: Governing The Western Provinces By Christopher Dunn, Paul Barker

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Institutionalized Cabinet seeks to discover the forces behind the emergence and persistence of the major change in government cabinets in three of Canada's four western provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia (Alberta declined to participate). For Christopher Dunn, the change itself is quite clear: the traditional or unaided cabinet of the past has been transformed into the more complex institutionalized cabinet. Less evident, though, are the causes of this development. Attempts have been made to explain the appearance of the institutionalized cabinet in both Western Canada and elsewhere in the nation, but they have yielded few insights. There are …

Review Of The Nebraska Sand Hills: The Human Landscape By Charles Barron Mcintosh, Philip J. Gersmehl

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is a remarkable volume. The ninety-first of 107 figures is a good example of what makes this book so remarkable. Figure 91 has a baker's dozen (13) small hand-drawn sketches that show how different landowners went back to the land office and claimed an additional 480 acres (Kincaid additions) to expand their 160-acre homesteads into units that might be more viable in the semi-arid climate of central Nebraska. These 13 examples come from ten different counties, which sprawl over an area larger than three of the original 13 colonies (as illustrated in Figure 1, which goes the extra step …

Review Of The Community In Canada: Rural And Urban Edited By Satadal Dasgupta, Paul Gingrich

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book surveys studies of rural, small town, and urban community in Canada. The first third of the book, written by Dasgupta, provides definitions and perspectives of community. The remainder of the book contains a selection of studies of communities in Canada, mostly sociological and mostly from the 1960s and 1970s.

Dasgupta begins with Hillery's 1955 classification of ninety-four definitions of community, noting that all but three of these definitions involve "a group of people in 'social interaction.’” Theories and perspectives on community are organized into five categories: ecological, ethnographic, social system, social or interactional, and conflict approaches. The author …

Review Of Grain Elevators By Lisa Mahar-Keplinger, Robert Duncan

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In his rhapsodic introduction to this volume, in which he speaks of the grain elevators of the Midwest as "timeless cathedrals," Aldo Rossi quite accurately describes the power of these familiar icons. To artists, as Mahar-Keplinger notes, the elevator as an essentially industrial object has been transformed because of its intimate connections "with the land and the cycles of nature." While Le Corbusier saw the elevator as a universal building form, American artists such as Demuth and Sheeler saw it as a uniquely American object.

Recent American photographers have been fascinated with the way of life represented by the elevator. …

Gubernatorial Electoral Coalitions In The Great Plains, Thomas M. Carsey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This paper examines the nature of the electoral coalitions that develop surrounding gubernatorial candidates in the states of the Great Plains. It focuses on the contribution various groups make toward the electoral success or failure of gubernatorial candidates, highlighting the underlying political divisions within a state's population. This paper marks a first step into the study of these coalitions by offering a basic description of them. Some discussion of how electoral coalitions respond to candidate and campaign- related factors is presented. The implications of these findings are discussed, along with several considerations for further research. The data used for this …

Review Of The Jumanos: Hunters And Traders Of The South Plains By Nancy Parrott Hickerson, Yasuhide Kawashima

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In the Atlantic region in the seventeenth century, there were several Indian groups, including the Massawomeck, that made a brief appearance in the contemporary documentary records but completely disappeared from the scene thereafter. The Jumanos were a Southwest tribe that faced the same fate. The mysteries surrounding the Jumanos have attracted the attention of such scholars as Adolph Bandelies, Frederick H. Hodge, Herbert Bolton, Carl Sauer, France V. Scholes, and J.Charles Kelley, but by the 1940s the consensus view was established that Jumanos, as used in the Spanish colonial documents, was a general term and did not refer to any …

Review Of Wyoming: A Source Book By Roy A. Jordan And S. Brett Deboer, Jerry L. Godbey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Wyoming's average year-round wind speed of 13 mph ranks first in the nation. The last stagecoach robbery in the U.S. occurred in Yellowstone National Park in 1915. The "equality state" boasts the highest population of elk, moose, mule deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse in the United States. The state of Wyoming is larger in surface area than 50% of the nations of the world. These are a few of the intriguing details offered in this useful volume.

Wyoming: A Source Book contains a wealth of information on the "cowboy state."A retired history professor from Northwest College in Powell, …

Review Of American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum By Teresa D. Lafromboise, Lee Little Soldier

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This resource provides excellent suggestions for teachers and counselors working with Native American youth at the upper elementary and secondary levels. Its recommended curriculum is divided into seven sections, each dealing with skills important for survival in today's world.

The book's first two sections furnish lesson plans for building self-esteem and exploring emotions and stress, issues essential to Native American youngsters' well-being that are often overlooked in school curricula. Problem solving skills are stressed in the third section. The fourth, fifth, and sixth sections deal with issues surrounding suicide. Given the disproportionately high suicide rate for Native American youth, these …

Review Of Saving The Best Of Texas: A Partnership Approach To Conservation By Richard C. Bartlett, Pete A. Y. Gunter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is a book of one basic idea: that conservation succeeds best on a "partnership" approach. The opposite of a partnership approach is confrontational environmental politics, which the author regards as on a par-both in its tenor and its results-with a dog fight. The author's central idea is developed with such detail, however, that the reader immediately becomes absorbed not in the unity of the message but in the sheer diversity of details. This diversity falls into three headings: the problems of the area's streams (a land of rivers, Texas has only one natural lake), the necessity of developing a …

Borderland Interaction In The International Region Of The Great Plains: An Historic-Geographical Perspective, Randy William Widdis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Canada as an historically contingent society, developing within the context of its own internal evolution, has always framed its becoming in its changing political, economic, and cultural relationships with the United States. The border takes on special significance for Canadians as it serves as the basic reference point for historical, literal, symbolic, and psychological interpretations of identity. Yet the meanings assigned to the border vary regionally because of different historic-geographical experiences.

This paper examines different types of population, economic, political, and cultural interactions taking place across the border within what can be called the international region of the Great Plains. …

Review Of Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, And Image Building In Small-Town America By Richard V. Francaviglia, Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In this excellent and unusual book, Richard Francaviglia traces the evolution of Main Street in America's small towns, examining patterns of growth, decay, and revitalization within the framework of Time, Space, and Image. No absolute "time frame" is offered, but an 1840s streetscape of London, Ohio, reproduced from Howe's History of Ohio, suggests a beginning date. Period illustrations and carefully chosen black and white photographs direct the reader on a 150 year journey to the present.

A discussion of the development of commercial establishments along the main thoroughfare begins with residential architecture. Ground floors were occupied by shops and …

Review Of The Minds Of The West: Ethnocultural Evolution In The Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 By Jon Gjerde, John D. Buenker

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In his paradigm-shifting essay, Frederick Jackson Turner conceptualized a frontier West in which freedom and opportunity inexorably invested millions of European immigrants with a universal American identity. Revisiting the same phenomenon a century later, Jon Gjerde demonstrates convincingly that "the juxtaposition of cultural patterns-the minds-and environmental possibilities in a region diverse in cultural traditions and rich in resources-the West-... was replete with tension, conflict, even paradox." Moreover, he challenges the simplistic notion of undifferentiated "Americanization" with the brilliantly nuanced concepts of "ethnicization," "complementary identity," and "layered allegiances." Although briefly acknowledging that these complex interactions between cultural patterns and economic opportunities …

Contents - Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1997

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Content:

Articles
Book Reviews
News and Notes
Leslie Hewes Award

Review Of Economic Thresholds For Integrated Pest Management Edited By Leon G. Higley And Larry P. Pedigo, Richard Plant

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

If one were asked to pick the one scientific paper having the most influence on pest management, it would be hard to argue with the choice of "The Integrated Control Concept" by Stern, Smith, van den Bosch, and Hagen, published in 1959. This paper is generally regarded as having introduced the idea of economic threshold. The term "Integrated Control" soon gave way to "Integrated Management," emphasizing the notion that pest populations need to be managed in order to avoid unnecessary economic loss. Thus was born Integrated Pest Management (lPM). In the intervening four decades there have been some well-known books …

Review Of Amphibians And Reptiles Of New Mexico By William G. Degenhardt, Charles W. Painter, And Andrew H. Price, Jeffrey R. Parmalee

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Each year field guides and regional books with varying degrees of usefulness and new information are published. Such books can be ranked on a continuum between made-for-the-public identification guides to true scientific contributions. This massive work on the reptiles and amphibians of New Mexico certainly fits into the latter category. It is a summation of a tremendous amount of the authors' research, which will be useful for biologists looking for complete information concerning the 123 species of reptiles and amphibians from this state and throughout the Southwest. It follows in the tradition of data-rich guides such as The Salamanders of …