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Review Of Betraying The Omaha Nation, 1790 - 1916, By Judith A. Boughter., Mark J. Awakuni-Swetland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The question of whose history is portrayed in any historical narrative remains open to debate. Judith Boughter notes in the preface to Betraying the Omaha Nation that "until now, no one has written a comprehensive history of the Omahas from their legendary origins to their near destitution by the early twentieth century." Her book is reportedly the first part of a trilogy, with subsequent volumes proposing to address Omaha history through World War II as well as contemporary legal battles to regain lost lands.

Review Of A Female Economy: Women’S Work In A Prairie Province, 1870 - 1970 , By Mary Kinnear., Nanci Langford

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A Female Economy analyses how women disposed of their labor during the century from 1870 to 1970 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. This ambitious project, the culmination of Mary Kinnear's interests and activities in the history of women's work, reflects the skills of a mature scholar who has lived with the material for decades.

Review Of Visions Of Freedom On The Great Plains: An Illustrated History Of African Americans In Nebraska, By Bertha W. Calloway And Alonzo M. Smith., Ernie Chambers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Historical or hysterical-that is the question. An 18 January 1999 Omaha World-Herald "Bookwords" column fingered Dr. Smith as "the principal writer" of Visions. In a 14 January 1999 review, The Reader of Omaha gushed: "an exciting new picture book ... filled with picture after crisp black-and-white picture ... a must for anyone even slightly interested in local history." Napoleon decried history as a fable agreed on. To deem this error-riddled book a "history" would be indeed a fable agreed on. This could have been a magnificent project-but what we have instead merits those saddest "words of tongue or pen …

Review Of Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900 – 1940, By Brenda J. Child, David W. Adams

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The appearance in recent years of several books on Indian boarding schools attests to historians' growing realization that the efforts of the federal government to solve the so-called Indian problem through education is one of the significant chapters in the history of Indian- white relations. Determined to strip Indian youth of all vestiges of Native outlook, while simultaneously inculcating the knowledge and attitudes of their white colonizers, policy-makers by the end of the nineteenth century had constructed a network of reservation and off-reservation boarding schools devoted to accomplishing the "civilization" process.

Review Of The Moccasin Speaks: Living As Captives Of The Dog Soldier Warriors, Red River War, 1874 - 1875, By Arlene Feldmann Jauken., Robert Carriker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It was family pride that initially caused Arlene Jauken of southeast Nebraska to begin to research the life of her great-grandmother Sophie, one of four daughters of John German, an unfortunate pioneer who was murdered, along with three others in his family, on 11 September 1874, only a day's travel from the safety of Fort Wallace, Kansas. Almost immediately Jauken found that Sophie's story was inseparable from that of the other German girls whose lives were spared: seventeen-year- old Catherine, ransomed with twelve-year- old Sophie in March of 1875, and Julia and Addie, aged seven and five respectively, who were …

Review Of Flight Dreams: A Life In The Midwestern Landscape, By Lisa Knopp., Linda M. Hasselstrom

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Lisa Knopp's story will be encouragingly familiar to those who struggle to find meaning in the muddle of family, education, mistakes, insights, and loves we encounter growing up. Flight Dreams is part of Singular Lives, the Iowa Series in North American Autobiography, whose editor asserts in a foreword that Knopp's Way parallels ancient Oriental definitions of the Tao and its three parallel paths. The book proceeds through the writer's childhood, through various work and religious experiences (including Transcendental Meditation and augury), and finally to her writing about nature and her interpretation of her past. Its three major sections show internal …

Review Of Fort Robinson And The American West, 1874 - 1899, By Thomas R. Buecker., Frank N. Schubert

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Army established Fort Robinson near the source of the White River on the Pine Ridge in northwestern Nebraska in 1874. The post saw active service in the best known war between the United States and Plains Natives, the Sioux War of 1876, and was the site of the death of Crazy Horse. It also witnessed the tragic Cheyenne outbreak of January 1878, the bloodiest episode in the post's history. This book, the first of a projected two-volume study, covers these events and the next two decades, during which the United States emerged as an imperial power.

Review Of Ghost Towns Of The Montana Prairie, By Don Baker., James R. Shortridge

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unfulfilled aspirations, a condition common to all human beings, are nowhere more tangible than in an abandoned town. They are the siren call of such places and why guides to ghost towns have become popular items on bookstore shelves, forming a highly varied genre both in quality and intended audience. Don Baker positions his entry on the far side of informality, which is fine, and of carelessness, which is not. The author, a Billings resident bringing enthusiasm to his subject, has produced a visually pleasing, large-format book contammg over eighty photographs. After short sketches of early railroads, the homesteading process, …

Review Of Dispersed City Of The Plains, By Harris Stone, With Joan Stone And J. William Carswell., W. Cecil Steward

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The book succeeds on several intellectual levels: it presents valuable historical references for the development of towns and cities on the Great Plains; it exposes the materiality and construction, and painful choices, in the restoration and rehabilitation of historic structures; and it lends a frame of values and iconographic references to the overlooked and little appreciated dispersed places and architecture of the middle territory of the United States.

Review Of Forging The Prairie West, By John Herd Thompson., Adele Perry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Herd Thompson's Forging the Prairie West is a wise, clever, and decisive book, though not an especially consistent one. But that hardly matters: Thompson's lively prose, trenchant observations, and firm portrayal of the Prairie West's history make for an analysis both accessible and engaging.

Review Of Artistry In Native American Myths, By Karl Kroeber., Kathleen Danker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this volume, Karl Kroeber, Mellon Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, makes an important contribution to the understanding of the oral mythology of Native North America by using thirty-six stories to illustrate and explore the form, function, and artistic achievement of such narratives.

Review Of The Sacred Pipe: An Archetypal Theology, By Paul B. Steinmetz., Jordan Paper

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Father Steinmetz spent twenty years as a priest among the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota collaborating with major Lakota Traditionalist-Catholic elders. Among the first to integrate indigenous rituals into Catholic practices following Vatican II, Steinmetz undertook a vision fast, through which he received an understanding that Christ was present in both the consecrated host and the Sacred Pipe. This volume follows several decades of reflection on this experience.

Review Of The Mounted Police And Prairie Society, 1873 - 1919, Edited By William M. Baker., Morris Mott

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From its creation in 1873 until the end of the First World War, when it was given Dominion- wide responsibilities, the North West Mounted Police primarily enforced the law on the Canadian Prairies and in the Canadian North. By 1904, its reputation as an effective frontier Force was so positive it was designated the Royal North West Mounted Police. Until the 1970s, historical writing on the Force tended toward the antiquarian and overly reverential; since then it has become more searching. In this volume William M. Baker draws attention to some of the best work on the Force from the …

Review Of From Mountain Man To Millionaire: The “Bold And Dashing Life” Of Robert Campbell, By William R. Nester., Jay H. Buckley

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert Campbell's story has finally been told. Although at least three theses and one dissertation covering some aspect or period of his life (1804-1879) do exist, William Nester has now rendered an excellent full-dress biography of this Rocky Mountain entrepreneur, St. Louis businessman, and Indian commissioner.

Ibpp Feature Analysis: Political Sea Change Or Mass-Mediated Political Spectacle? The 1999 Election Campaign In New Zealand, Laurence Alfred Powell

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article examines the impact of mass media on elections during the 1999 election campaign in New Zealand.

Spring-Staging Ecology Of Waterfowl In Nebraska — Then Versus Now, Robert R. Cox Jr.

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

Spring snow storms can influence migration chronology and nutrient-reserve dynamics of waterfowl in Nebraska.
For centuries, the Rainwater Basin and Platte River Valley of central Nebraska have attracted millions of migrating waterfowl during spring. While in this region, females begin to accumulate fat and protein reserves needed for egg-laying and for recruitment of young.

Review Of Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience Edited By John R. Wunder, Frances W. Kaye, And Vernon Carstensen, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience is a substantial compilation of primary and secondary materials related to the agricultural crisis of the 1930s. Begun in the 1960s by the late Vernon Carstensen, it has only recently been completed by his co-editors. The book contains a number of articles from the New York Times and other national publications related to various aspects of the farmers' plight during the Great Depression, as well as secondary articles reprinted from Great Plains Quarterly, North Dakota History, Annals of Iowa, Nebraska History, Agricultural History, South Dakota History, and Montana: The Magazine of Western History. …

Review Of The New Encyclopedia Of The American West Edited By Howard R. Lamar, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, edited by Yale historian Howard Lamar and published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in 1977, was a pretty good book, bringing to the American public the first comprehensive single-volume treatment of the history of the West. But that reference work has now been superseded-and dwarfed-by this new rendition, also edited by Lamar. More than 1250 pages of three-column text, 1.5 million words in all, are given over to 2400 alphabetically ordered entries written by more than three hundred scholars. Long thematic entries, on the fur trade or railroads, for example, are interspersed …

States Of Being In The Dark Removal And Survival In Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit, Eric Gary Anderson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1990, Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan published her first novel, Mean Spirit, a well-received and yet controversial account of the Osage oil boom of the 1920s and the subsequent rash of criminal conspiracies and murders that has come to be known as the "Osage Reign of Terror."² The story she tells is often grim and violent; it returns again and again to "states of being in the dark" (44), which Hogan depicts as a wide-ranging confusion and uncertainty that afflicts many of her characters and demonstrates the period's turbulence to her readers. But the story is also resolutely …

Changing The Pitch Americanism, Athleticism, And The Development Of Legion Baseball In Nebraska, Kent M. Krause

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Since its inception in 1928, American Legion Junior Baseball has been popular in Nebraska. Although originally started to advance the Legion's ideological agenda of Americanism, the primary factor in the success of Junior Baseball has been an active level of support from the citizens and businesses in the state's communities. The Legion's program acquired and maintained such support because of the variety of functions it served in towns and cities across the state. First and foremost, Junior Baseball teams were important sources of civic pride to Nebraskans who enthusiastically backed their local boys. The program also provided local businesses with …

Review Of The New Western History: The Territory Ahead Edited By Forrest O. Robinson, Cheryll Glotfelty

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"The New Western History is now old enough to have a history," observes Jerome Frisk, lead essayist of The New Western History: The Territory Ahead. Apparently it is also influential enough to interest scholars outside the discipline of history. The seven contributors to this volume, representing literary studies, American studies, and natural resource management, evaluate the core texts of the New Western History's "Gang of Four"; William Cronon, Patricia Limerick, Richard White, and Donald Worster. These historians are known for their objections to the work of Frederick Jackson Turner, whose "frontier thesis," they argue, told a one-sided story of …

Review Of The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics And Politics, 700-1835 By David La Vere, Helen Hornbeck-Tanner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Caddos, to use their American-devised collective name, actually lived "from time immemorial" on the southeastern margin of the Great Plains. In the sixteenth century, their aboriginal territory of fifteen or twenty communities, with dispersed settlements, encompassed a vast area surrounding the middle course of the Red River in the present states of Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. As the most western and longest-surviving of the great Mississippian states, Caddos provide a vantage point for viewing Great Plains history over many centuries. La Vere's interpretation of this lengthy saga appears to emphasize the long-lasting chiefdoms whose end he correlates with …

Review Of Mangas Coloradas: Chief Of The Chiricahua Apaches By Edwin R. Sweeney, H. Henrietta Stockel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Inch by inch Sweeney drags readers through the military life and times of one of the Chiricahua Apaches' most noted leaders Mangas Coloradas. With certain exceptions noted below, the author describes what quite possibly was every major event in this famous chief's life from cradle to grave. Here briefly are stories of his youth, the Native customs applied to children, the activities and the lessons all Chiricahua children learn in growing up. Here too are descriptions of later battles led by Mangas Coloradas and fought in two countries, the attempts to make peace, the successes and failures of those arrangements, …

Review Of To Show Heart: Native American Self-Determination And Federal Indian Policy, 1960-1975 By George Pierre Castile, Larry Burt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Since the 1970s self-determination has been the dominant theme of federal Indian policy. The general concept goes back to President Woodrow Wilson's proposed principles to govern the post-World War I world. In Indian affairs it has come to mean a government-to government relationship managed largely by the federal government's contracting with tribal governments to carry out many administrative functions.

This important new work traces the development of self-determination. It has something of an "insider" perspective because George Pierre Castile, an anthropologist, served in the Indian division of President Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). Castile finds the first stirrings …

The Influence Of Willa Cather's French-Canadian Neighbors In Nebraska In Death Comes For The Archbishop And Shadows On The Rock, Kathleen Danker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Willa Cather's high regard for French traditions and culture is reflected in many of her writings, including the novels O Pioneers! (1913), One of Ours (1922), The Professor's House (1925), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on the Rock (1931), and her last, unfinished narrative set in Avignon. Of these works, readers sometimes think of Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock as her French Catholic novels because of the heritage and faith of their main characters. Edith Lewis, Cather's long-time companion, recorded that, for Cather herself, writing the second of these two books served as …

Review Of Montana Ghost Dance: Essays On Land And Life By John B. Wright, Larry Watson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Late in the nineteenth century, Native Americans of the Plains attempted, through a sacred dance, to bring back a time before the bison all but vanished, before whites came with diseases, greed, and guns, before treaties evicted Indians from ancestral lands. When John B. Wright alludes to the Ghost Dance in his collection of essays, he knows his readers will make connections with that earlier, desperate attempt to restore the past. In Wright's version, however, that past would be before mining companies stripped mountains and polluted rivers and streams, before loggers denuded forests, and before developers converted wilderness to condominium …

Review Of The Plains Indians By Paul H. Carlson, Colin G. Calloway

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The enormous increase in ethnohistorical studies over the past generation or two has made room for a new overview of Plains Indian history. Paul Carlson's The Plains Indians provides an overview but falls short of filling the niche.

The book is dated in some of its approaches, stereotypical in some of its descriptions, and uneven in its incorporation of recent literature. Its title should include dates since the book concentrates on the period 1750-1890. Chapter one, "The People and the Plains," locates the various tribes in their nineteenthcentury positions, and chapter two, "First Arrivals," surveys ancient America via the standard …

Title And Contents- Winter 2000

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 20/ Number 1/ Winter 2000

CONTENTS

"THE BOY'S MOTHER": NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRUG DEPENDENCE IN THE LIFE OF KATE M. CLEARY Susanne George Bloomfield

CHANGING THE PITCH: AMERICANISM, ATHLETICISM, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGION BASEBALL IN NEBRASKA Kent M. Krause

THE INFLUENCE OF WILLA CATHER'S FRENCH-CANADIAN NEIGHBORS IN NEBRASKA IN DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP AND SHADOWS ON THE ROCK Kathleen Danker

STATES OF BEING IN THE DARK: REMOVAL AND SURVIVAL IN LINDA HOGAN'S MEAN SPIRIT Eric Gary Anderson

BOOK REVIEWS

Ward Churchill A Little Matter of Gerwcide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present …

Notes And News- Winter 2000

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Notes And News

New Editor Of Great Plains Quarterly

Bison: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Great Plains

Plains Symposium

International Cather Seminar 2000

Summer Seminar For Teachers

"The Boy's Mother" Nineteenth-Century Drug Dependence In The Life Of Kate M. Cleary, Susanne George Bloomfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Beginning at age fourteen, Kate McPhelim Cleary published voluminously in turn-of-the century American periodicals and newspapers. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she was born in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1863. Her father died when she was young, and her mother moved the family back to Ireland for a short time before immigrating to Philadelphia. In 1880 the McPhelim family-Kate, her mother Margaret, and her two brothers-relocated to Chicago where they supported themselves by writing. There, Kate McPhelim met and married Michael Cleary. In 1884 the newlyweds, along with Kate's mother, moved to recently established Hubbell, Nebraska, where they lived for …