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A Thematic Content Analysis Of National Anthems: Europe Vs. Members Of The Arab League, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The authors conduct a political psychological analysis of national anthems from European, African, and Middle Eastern nations. Their results focus on the difference between anthems of European nations and members of the Arab League, and potential reasons behind those differences.

Review Of Texas Natural History: A Century Of Change By David J. Schmidly, Brian Barnette

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

As the nineteenth century drew to a close, a team of naturalists ventured out across the state of Texas to capture, identify, and record as many species of wildlife as they could find. Under the direction of Vernon Bailey, they spent more than 2,100 days in Texas between 1889 and 1906 sampling each of the state's ten ecological regions. Their efforts were part of a nation-wide survey sponsored by the Department of Agriculture.

Bailey's 1905 summary of the team's findings, North American Fauna No. 25: Biological Survey of Texas, has served as a standard reference on Texas mammals for …

Mapping Changes In Denominational Membership In The Great Plains, 1952-2000, Holly Barcus, Stanley Brunn

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

The religious heritage of the Great Plains is illustrated in distinct denominational regions. Mapping county-level data on major denominations reveals that Catholics and Lutherans are strongest in the Northern Plain, Methodists in the Central Plains, and Baptists in the Southern Plains. Counties that are increasing in population and closest to metropolitan and interstate areas experience the most diversity. During the last fifty years, Lutherans and Methodists have lost members, while Catholics and Baptists gained. The Central Plains is experiencing the most dynamism.

Social Capital, Wealth, And Nebraska Towns, John Anderson

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

The relationship between political theory and economic development is often overlooked. In this research, political theorizing about what makes democracies work is linked to the production of wealth in rural Nebraska towns. Evidence shows that social capital in rural settings actually can help with economic development. The evidence also shows that suburban towns may actually inhibit the development of social capital.

Review Of Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, And Rent-Seeking Behavior By Andrew Schmitz, Hartley Furtan, And Katherine Baylis, Brian Oleson

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

This excellent text is suitable for senior undergraduate students and graduate students in agricultural economics and agribusiness. Its underlying premise is that the formation of agricultural policy is driven by rent-seeking behavior and that agribusiness is an important participant in the policy process. The book goes on to contrast agricultural policies in Canada and the United States through this rent-seeking lens.

Although its title's emphasis on rent-seeking and agribusiness is somewhat misleading, the volume offers an excellent economic analysis of agricultural policy. Rent-seeking is a dominant theme but certainly not the book's focus, unless policy and rent-seeking are simply seen …

Review Of Changing Precipitation Regimes And Terrestrial Ecosystems: A North American Perspective Edited By Jake F. Weltzin And Guy R. Mcpherson, Luke Marzen

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

This volume, the result of a 1998 symposium organized by the Ecological Society of America, bring together a number of leading experts to answer important questions about global change, precipitation regimes, and terrestrial ecosystems in several biomes of temperate North America. It is becoming increasingly apparent that anthropogenic activities combined with many other factors are substantially affecting terrestrial ecosystems and vegetation response patterns at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Concern over global changes is leading to an increasing number of investigations into the impacts human activity may be having on climate patterns and what the potential consequences may …

Review Of Trails And Trials: Markets And Land Use In The Alberta Beef Cattle Industry, 1881-1948 By Max Foran, Ian Maclachlan

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

Max Foran's Trails and Trials does a superb job of filling a conspicuous gap in Alberta's agricultural history. By covering the period 1881-1948, the book extends the standard accounts of Alberta's ranching history well into the twentieth century. And it expands on traditional ranch history themes with its clear and consistent focus on the importance of cattle exports in relation to Canada's small domestic market and on the importance of markets in understanding land use change. Foran periodizes and organizes his story clearly. Each chapter follows a similar structure with sections and subsections describing major market and policy developments and …

Title And Contents- Spring 2004

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 24/ Number 2 / Spring 2004

CONTENTS

RANGERS, MOUNTIES, AND THE SUBJUGATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, 1870-1885 Andrew R. Graybill

"THIS STRANGE WHITE WORLD": RACE AND PLACE IN ERA BELL THOMPSON'S AMERICAN DAUGHTER Michael K. Johnson

CANADA'S CAMPAIGN FOR IMMIGRANTS AND THE IMAGES IN CANADA WEST MAGAZINE Laura A. Detre

BOOK REVIEWS

Susan J. Rosowski, ed. Cather Studies 5: Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination By STEVEN TROUT

Simona Bertacco Out of Place: The Writings of Robert Kroetsch By CAROL L. BERAN

William Kloefkorn Restoring the Burnt Child: A Primer By DAVID PICHASKE

Richard A. Grounds, George E. Tinker, …

Review Of Restoring The Burnt Child: A Primer By William Kloefkom, David Pichaske

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

William Kloefkom's second book of memoirs is a blueprint for restoring lives scorched by the fires of fundamentalist Christianity, WCTU crusaders, cigarettes and whiskey, kitchen matches, sore throats, and thermonuclear explosions. The twelve chapters cover Kloefkom's life from age nine, when he torched the family kitchen, to age thirteen, when he delivered news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to subscribers of the Wichita Beacon. The book fleshes out stories and personalities already familiar to readers of his poetry: parents and grandparents; life in Attica, Kansas; the slaughter of swallows and rabbits on grandfather's farm; landmarks like Turtle Rock and town marks …

Review Of Children Of The Western Plains: The Nineteenth Century Experience By Marilyn Irvin Holt, Rosemary G. Palmer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The small but growing collection of literature on children in the nineteenth-century American West has been expanded with Marilyn Holt's book about youngsters who migrated to the Great Plains during the 1800s. Children of the Western Plains examines the attention adults paid to young settlers as well as these youngsters' own sense of involvement in the Plains experience. Recognizing the diversity of residents, Holt considers the lives of native-born white, European immigrant, and African American children who contributed to the settlement process. Included in these numbers are military, missionary, and government employee dependents. The author examines young settlers' experiences within …

Review Of Out Of Place: The Writings Of Robert Kroetsch By Simona Bertacco, Carol L. Beran

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The 1965 Johnny Cash rendition of E.T. Rouse's "Orange Blossom Special" includes the line, "I don't care if I do die do die do die do die do die." Robert Kroetsch's Seed Catalogue (1986) echoes the line. In Out of Place: The Writings of Robert Kroetsch, Simona Bertacco says the passage shows how Kroetsch pushes "'words out of meaning'" and "makes language abandon ... its conventional function to become intransitive and intensive." Kroetsch, however, increases the number of repetitions and ends on the wrong word in the sequence, throwing the allusion into doubly new territory as it moves from …

Review Of The Native Americans Of The Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582-1799 By Maria F. Wade, F. Todd Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although this book promises to examine the Indians who lived in West Texas between the late sixteenth century to the end of the 1700s, most of the work-and the main original contribution the author makes-deals with two Spanish expeditions of exploration that occurred in the late seventeenth century. The author, an ethnohistorian, has provided a new translation of the 1675 expedition of Fernando del Bosque and Fr. Juan Larios, which left the northern Mexican town of Monclova in April, crossed the Rio Grande, and entered the Edwards Plateau before returning to its point of origin in June. In addition to …

Review Of Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont And The Course Of American Empire By Tom Chaffin, Robert J. Chandler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Who was John Charles Fremont (1813-1890)? Tom Chaffin attempts to map his mind's terrain, but Fremont reveals little. More crucial than lack of personal papers is Fremont's character: Chaffin declares his writings to be "duplicitous apologia."

Chaffin, therefore, travels well-worn paths. Ferol Egan's Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation (1977,1985) comes to mind. While lacking Egan's richness of detail, Chaffin presents a fuller life. Where Egan dotes on "the great love affair" between Fremont and wife Jessie, Chaffin details Fremont's self-destructive womanizing. By 1856, he reports, a "growing distance" between the couple quickly became "a chill."

Some events defy explanation. …

Review Of Archbishop A.-A. Tache Of St. Boniface: The "Good Fight" And The Illusive Vision By Raymond J. A. Hue!, Robert Choquette

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Alexandre Tache, one of the very first Canadians to join the French Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who arrived in Canada in 1841, was sent to work in Canada's Northwest in 1845 where he became second bishop of St. Boniface in 1853, and later archbishop. He remained there until his death in 1894, a half-century during which the region was transformed from a vast hunting emporium for furs to a refuge for tens of thousands of Canadian, American, and European settlers brought into the area after 1860 on the rapidly expanding tracks of American and then Canadian railways. Tache built …

Review Of Cather Studies 5: Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination Edited By Susan J. Rosowski, Steven Trout

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In "A Guided Tour of Ecocriticism with Excursions to Catherland," one of the many fine essays contained in this new volume of Cather Studies, Cheryl Glotfelty remarks, "If the last decade of Cather [scholarship] has been the 'gender and sexuality' period, the new millennium may well begin with a fruitful ecocritical decade." It is ironic, given this prediction, that not all of the sixteen essays presented in Cather Studies 5 fall within the emerging field of ecocriticism. Indeed, the most impressive piece in the collection, Charles Johanningsmeier's "Unmasking Willa Cather's 'Mortal Enemy,'" is a tour de force of old-fashioned …

Rangers, Mounties, And The Subjugation Of Indigenous Peoples, 1870 .. 1885, Andrew R. Graybill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and Arkansas rivers westward across the Central Plains, the winter habitat of the bison. The rapid environmental degradation of this area had the ·effect of driving the bison to the extreme Northern and Southern Plains, where white hide-hunters slaughtered the animals.¹ By the mid-1870s indigenous peoples at both ends of the grasslands, in places such as the Texas Panhandle and the upper Missouri River valley, fiercely defended the dwindling herds in an attempt to avoid starvation.²

The Indians' predicament was not theirs alone, …

Review Of Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga By Susan A. Miller, Alcione M. Amos

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Coacoochee' s Bones Susan Miller tells the outstanding story of an outstanding leader in an outstanding manner. The repeated use of "outstanding" is necessary because Miller has produced a unique work on the history of the Seminole people, not just Coacoochee. The narrative is written from the point of view of a Seminole, with insights an outsider wouldn't have. Furthermore, she makes judicious use of primary historical Seminole, Mexican, and US sources and of published material, enhanced with knowledge garnered from anthropological studies. The result is a highly informative and readable book.

Miller does not shrink from taking stands …

Review Of Real Indians: Identity And The Survival Of Native America By Eva Marie Garroutte, Terry P. Wilson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Cherokee sociologist Eva Garroutte has fashioned a genuine contribution to the study of the American Indian in the United States. Herself a mixed-race person of Caucasian and Indian heritage, she focuses on the always troublesome and often controversial issue of Indian identity, one that pervades the consciousness of all Native Americans, and not a few non-Native folks. Her straightforward narrative is informed by published and unpublished sources in law, history, social science, and literature and enhanced by numerous in-depth interviews with Indian and non-Indian people. What results constitutes the single comprehensive book-length examination of "Indian-ness" in print.

Great Plains tribal …

Review Of Invisible Natives: Myth And Identity In The American Western By Armando Jose Prats, Peter N. Peregrine

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The relationship between the Great Plains and the Hollywood Western has always been a strange one. The "classic" era of the Hollywood Western, the period between roughly 1864 and 1887, is also the "classic" era of the Great Plains-the era of the pioneer, the gunslinger, the cattleman, and, of course, the Indian fighter. Oddly, the Great Plains are rarely featured prominently in Hollywood Westerns; rather, it is the desert Southwest that is most often depicted. The flowing grasslands and wooded river valleys upon which the events of the "classic" era of the Western unfolded are often shown as rocky wastelands. …

Notes And News- Spring 2004

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Notes And News

Frederick C. Luebke Award

Call For Papers: "Education On The Great Plains"

Homestead Heritage Center

The Prairies: Lost And Found

Review Of The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude To Indian Reform By Valerie Sherer Mathes And Richard Lowitt, Sidney L. Harring

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Standing Bear v. George Crook, an 1879 case brought in the Federal District Court in Omaha, is today little more than a footnote in United States Indian law. Yet this case, like thousands of other cases that American Indians brought to US courts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was an important effort by one group of Indians to define their relationship with the United States through law. The Ponca story is among the best known, but certainly no more tragic than many of the other Indian cases.

The Ponca's lands were given to the Lakota, without their …

Review Of Telling Stories The Kiowa Way By Gus Palmer, Jr., Benjamin Kracht

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

Telling Stories the Kiowa Way is an enlightening and enjoyable book composed in the easygoing, down-to-earth "voice" of Gus Palmer Jr., an enrolled member of the Kiowa tribe. Written from an insider's perspective, Telling Stories relates how oral traditions are maintained in daily conversations throughout the Kiowa community in southwestern Oklahoma. In the opening pages, readers are immediately immersed in Kiowa culture as Palmer visits with his mother in her kitchen while she stirs a pot of boiling meat. Then he delineates the Kiowa storytelling environment among Kiowas who are related to one another "in one way or another." Since …

Review Of Aboriginal People And Other Canadians Shaping New Relationships Edited By Martin Thornton, Roy Todd, And David N. Collins, J. R. Miller

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

This collection of essays on the state of Aboriginal peoples in Canada is a reflection of the work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) which reported in November 1996. The authors, all affiliated with Britain's University of Leeds, pay close attention to the opinions the RCAP report expressed, and some are markedly influenced by the Commission. Unfortunately, few of the contributors recognize the RCAP's limitations, much less the fact that the Commission's report has mostly been ignored by the government of Canada.

Review Of Grassland Grouse And Their Conservation By Paul Johnsgard, John Connelly

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

The first two chapters of Grassland Grouse deal with the extinction of the heath hen and the almost certain disappearance of the Attwater's prairie chicken. They paint an accurate but thoroughly depressing picture of these losses. Paul Johnsgard clearly points out how, despite our "best" efforts, populations can slip into extinction. In these initial chapters, he sounds an alarm over the plight of a unique group of North American birds and their rapidly disappearing habitats.

The three middle chapters, which describe the status and population trends of lesser prairie chickens, greater prairie chickens, and sharp-tailed grouse, all species indigenous to …

Great Plains Research, Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2004

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

Editorial Matter

New Perspectives On The Changing Religious Diversity In The Great Plains, Stanley Brunn, Holly Barcus

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

The religious landscape of the Plains is dominated by four major denominations: Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists, and Baptists. But beneath these prevailing majorities are others that are declining (Presbyterians) and increasing (Pentecostals and Mormons) in membership and places of worship. Jews, Muslims, Charismatics, and Baha'i are also increasing in metropolitan areas, where the greatest diversity exists. "Religious geology," a concept that depicts religious diversity, exhibits sharp regional variations.

Review Of North American Box Turtles: A Natural History By C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr., Lynette Sievert

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

Box turtles, genus Terrapene, inhabit much of the eastern US and some of Mexico. Many herpetologists and naturalists can recount pleasant childhood memories of encounters with these docile reptiles. Offering a wealth of scientific information to satisfy the highly trained herpetologist, Ken Dodd has written a book about a turtle familiar to most of us sure to appeal to the beginner as well.

Review Of The Indian Reorganization Act: Congresses And Bills Edited By Vine Deloria Jr., Douglas Nash

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

Federal Indian policy has always been cyclical and often at opposite ends of a spectrum defined by tribal values. The treaty era, when tribal land holdings were reduced and tribes confined to reservations, and the General Allotment Act of 1887, designed to break up and further reduce tribal land holdings, and the termination era, when some tribes and their reservations were legislated out of existence, occupy the lower level of those cycles. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act, has always been seen as containing some of the most enlightened and positive policies.

The Indian …

Review Of The Columbia Guide To American Indians Of The Great Plains By Loretta Fowler, F. Todd Smith

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

Loretta Fowler, professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma and author of several books on Great Plains tribes such as the Arapahos and the Gros Ventres, has now produced this excellent guide to all of the Indian tribes of the area. Dividing the Great Plains into five different regions-Southern, Central, Northwestern, Middle Missouri, and Northeastern Periphery-Fowler provides a concise and straightforward Indian history from prehistoric times to the present in four short chapters. Important terms-people, places, and events-used in each chapter are placed in boldface type and then defined in an appendix that stretches alphabetically from "age-graded societies" to …

Review Of Floods, Droughts, And Climate Change By Michael Collier And Robert H. Webb, Merlin P. Lawson

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

For any of us over the age of fifty, the weather has noticeably changed in our lifetime. Meteorologists, hydrologists, and climatologists have concentrated their efforts on assessing climate variations to a much greater degree than during the first half of the twentieth century. Thus the weather we perceive as changing apparently is changing, or at least we are becoming more aware of the forcing mechanisms associated with change. This book introduces the layperson to the basic fundamentals associated with the occurrence of two forms of natural disasters, floods and droughts, and to the potential influence of a changing climate on …