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Walking The Sky: Visionary Traditions Of The Great Plains, Lee Irwin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The shared worldviews of the indigenous peoples of North America are rooted and linked in a rich pre-Columbian artifactual and oral past that is still highly active today. One perspective into these worlds is obtained by understanding the nature of dreams and visions. In traditional Native American cultures, such a perspective is an essential part of the search for spiritual knowledge where dreams and visions represent contacts with primordial sources of empowerment. To perceive this search for empowerment requires an appreciation of the visionary experience, an experience which has often been denied or marginalized in the dominant cultures.¹

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1994 Vol. 14 No. 4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

"A Gof-Forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology And The Dust Bowl, Brad Lookingbill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On an idyllic Sunday in April 1935, people from Lubbock, Texas, to Topeka, Kansas, went on picnics, planted gardens, visited neighbors, and attended church. Communities had been punished with depression and drought, yet on that spring day Plains men and women felt assured that peace and safety had returned. Suddenly in midafternoon the air turned cold, and people noticed then that the sky had become filled with birds, fleeing from some unseen force. Fifteen-year-old Ida Mae Norman, driving home from a Palm Sunday church service with her family, saw a thin strip of black on the horizon north of Guymon, …

Living In The Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station On The Northern Plains, H.Roger Grant

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The environment of the northern Plains caused settlers to make special adaptations to meet their need for shelter. Buildings were practical and often temporary. Dugouts and sod houses proliferated during the frontier period, then gave way to more permanent structures as settlement matured. By the late nineteenth century the balloon-frame building had become ubiquitous. Instead of requiring experienced carpenters fashioning large timbers with mortise-and-tenon joints as they had often done in the East, balloon framing utilized two-by-fours or similar pieces of lumber that amateur woodworkers could nail together without difficulty. Fabricating a balloon-frame structure became even easier with the accessibility …

Architecture And The Great Plains: An Introduction, H.Keith Sawyers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The four essays in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly were originally presented at the seventeenth annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies held in April of 1993 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under the title, "Architecture and the Great Plains: The Built Environment, Past and Present." They provide a sampling of the conference's broad range of inquiry into the character of architecture within the Great Plains region.

Writing The Little House: The Architecture Of A Series, Ann Romines

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Laura Ingalls Wilder's perennially popular Little House series takes as its central motif the invention, abandonment, and perpetuation of a series of Great Plains houses. In large part Wilder tells the autobiographical story of her childhood and adolescence through a plot of housing, a risky competition and collaboration of male traditions of buying and building and female traditions of furnishing, arrangement, preservation, and housekeeping. With her series, Wilder made Great Plains houses a central metaphor of U. S. culture, one that we continue to rethink and retell, as the Little House books proliferate, spawning everything from television reruns to porcelain …

Notes And News For Vol.14 No.2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of Freedom On The Border: The Seminole Maroons In Florida, The Indian Territory, Coahuila, And Texas, Rebecca B. Bateman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The 1992 Festival of American Folklife, held in Washington, D.C., featured an exhibit entitled "Maroon Culture in the Americas," in which members of maroon communities from the Caribbean, Mexico, and South Amer.. ica exhibited their crafts, foodways, and music and dance. Included among these representa.. tives was a contingent from the United States -the Texas Seminole Maroons-whose dis .. play proudly emphasized their historical rela.. tionship with the Seminole Indians and the crucial role played by their forebears in the opening of the southwest to white settlement.

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)

No abstract provided.

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.