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Ethnic Women Homesteading On The Plains Of North Dakota, H. Elaine Lindgren Jan 1989

Ethnic Women Homesteading On The Plains Of North Dakota, H. Elaine Lindgren

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Women as well as men took advantage of government land policies that encouraged settlement on the Great Plains. Researchers have replaced earlier stereotypes that emphasized the reluctance of women to participate in the settlement process by more dynamic and realistic conceptualizations that portray women as courageous, enthusiastic, and adventuresome. 1

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The Daughters Of Shiphrah: Folk Healers And Midwives Of The Great Plains, Timothy J. Kloberdanz Jan 1989

The Daughters Of Shiphrah: Folk Healers And Midwives Of The Great Plains, Timothy J. Kloberdanz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Prairie folk healers and midwives seldom have been the focus of scholarly investigation, despite the crucial role they played in the settlement of countless Euro-American communities in the Great Plains. These individuals, a majority of whom were women, brought with them to the American and Canadian grasslands a wealth of folk medical knowledge and a variety of health-oriented, traditional skills.

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Review Of The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, C. Adrian Heidenreich Jan 1989

Review Of The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, C. Adrian Heidenreich

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this relatively short book, Frey seeks to describe the world view of the Crow (Apsaalooke) Indians of Montana. He places his description within the sociocultural context of the contemporary reservation and uses two key metaphors drawn from the Crow people, first, shifting bundles of driftwood that lodge and cling together in a turbulent river, and second a "medicine" or wagon wheel where the hub and the circumference are connected by distinct spokes. The Crow world is interpreted as one in which everything-human, animal, plant, land, and spirit-is interconnected, and the metaphors provide "symbolism of diversity and unity, receptivity and …

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Review Of Among The Sioux Of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience As An Indian Agent, 1869-70, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith Jan 1989

Review Of Among The Sioux Of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience As An Indian Agent, 1869-70, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This brief narrative was written by DeWitt Clinton Poole, Indian agent at the Whetstone Agency in Dakota Territory from 1869 to 1870. In a rather extensive introduction, Raymond DeMallie describes the establishment of the Agency and the difficulties Poole encountered there and admonishes the reader about Poole's paternalistic and racist view of Indian life. DeMallie reports: "Among the Sioux of Dakota is not a memorable book for its insight into American Indian culture . . . Poole failed to achieve any understanding of Sioux religion, admitting that he could see in it only 'selfishness and vindictiveness'" (lii). But DeMallie rightfully …

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Review Of The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study Of Canadian And U. S. Indian Policy, Calvin Luther Martin Jan 1989

Review Of The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study Of Canadian And U. S. Indian Policy, Calvin Luther Martin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"God"-read the brass buttons on the Indian police uniforms, "God helps those who help themselves" (p. 61). The picture stamped on the button showed what was intended to be an Indian farmer diligently turning the earth "wrong side up" (p. 57) behind a horse-drawn plow. Thrift, hard work, individualism, promise of a better life, the great American myth of the yeoman farmer-that little clasp packed a lot of message. Samek's book details how both Canadian and American bureaucrats, humanitarians philanthropists, and missionaries tried mightily to instill that very message in the hearts and minds of their Blackfoot Indian wards at …

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Arts Institutions On The Great Plains: An Inroduction, Norman A. Geske Jan 1989

Arts Institutions On The Great Plains: An Inroduction, Norman A. Geske

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T he papers in this issue of Great Plains Quarterly were presented at the symposium "The Arts on the Plains: The Role of Institutions," held 16-18 March 1988. The Nebraska Art Association, celebrating its one hundredth anniversary, collaborated in hosting the conference. The conference focused the Association's review of its own scope and impact by establishing a context of comparable efforts by other organizations, institutions, and individuals in the Great Plains and adjacent states. The six papers that follow illustrate the breadth of that comparison.

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Review Of Indian Education In Canada: Volume 2: The Challenge, Dana F. Lawrence Jan 1989

Review Of Indian Education In Canada: Volume 2: The Challenge, Dana F. Lawrence

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This twelve-essay volume follows Volume 1: The Legacy. Together they offer a comprehensive history of Indian education in Canada as well as a survey of current issues and future directions. Volume 2 has nine Indian/Metis authors, reflecting the move toward self-determination not only in Canada but in indigenous populations the world over. In Canada the movement has rallied around the phrase "Indian Control of Indian Education" and Volume 2: The Challenge addresses this topic.

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Review Of Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture Of The Hidatsa Indians And Indian Agriculture In America, Paul A. Olson Jan 1989

Review Of Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture Of The Hidatsa Indians And Indian Agriculture In America, Paul A. Olson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The study of Native American agriculture has been revived recently by Gary Nabhan's Gathering the Desert, which concerns Southwestern Indian agriculture. The two books reviewed here deal more with plains agriculture. Wilson's book is an account of Hidatsa gardening practice in the nineteenth century as told to Wilson by Buffalo Bird Woman, a lady who continued to practice traditional ways long after most Hidatsa had adopted Western agriculture; the book gives a picture of traditional Hidatsa practices regarding com, sunflowers, squash, beans, tobacco, the tools used to grow them, their storage, their field culture, and the like. Hurt's book, …

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Review Of Puuing Leather: Being The Early Recollections Of A Cowboy On The Wyoming Range, 1884-1889, Lynn M. Cawthra Jan 1989

Review Of Puuing Leather: Being The Early Recollections Of A Cowboy On The Wyoming Range, 1884-1889, Lynn M. Cawthra

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the early 1930s, dentist-physician Reuben Mullins decided to chronicle his youthful experiences as a cowpuncher on the Wyoming range. He was unable to secure a publisher for this work, however, and after his death in 1935, the manuscript was filed away for more than fifty years. Scholars Jan Roush and Lawrence Clayton discovered Mullins's narrative in 1986 and recognized its importance as a historical document. Their editorial support and Mullins's own articulate and entertaining style have assured Pulling Leather a place alongside such standard accounts of cowboy life as Adams's Log of a Cowboy and Siringo's A Texas Cowboy …

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State Humanities Councils And Cultural Institutions On The Great Plains, Sarah Z. Rosenberg Jan 1989

State Humanities Councils And Cultural Institutions On The Great Plains, Sarah Z. Rosenberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T his study covers the state humanities councils in the Great Plains for the four year period 1983-86. Biennial reports to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), upon which the study is based, are staggered for the convenience of NEH reviewers. As a result my data are either for 1983-84 or for 1985-86. I chose this time frame because by 1983 most state councils had been in existence for at least ten years and were past the years of experimentation and because the data available in these reports are presented consistently. I have included the ten Great Plains states-North …

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Businessman, Bibliophile, And Patron: Edward E. Ayer And His Collection Of American Indian Art, Frederick E. Hoxie Jan 1989

Businessman, Bibliophile, And Patron: Edward E. Ayer And His Collection Of American Indian Art, Frederick E. Hoxie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Like communities of people, museums and libraries often carry a distinct set of values into the world. Through shared values, these cultural institutions maintain a special sense of their own identity and mission. This sense of common purpose, while valuable, is not always a good thing. A belief that "this is what we stand for" can carry an institution through adversity, but it can also blind it to new opportunities or foster a distorted sense of its own history.

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Review Of The Female Frontier: A Comparative View Of Women On The Prairie And The Plains., Alice Hall Petry Jan 1989

Review Of The Female Frontier: A Comparative View Of Women On The Prairie And The Plains., Alice Hall Petry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

You've seen her in a hundred books, movies, and television programs: the "madonna of the prairie." But how much of the image of the frontier woman is accurate, and how much is the product of a curious alliance between Victorian ideals of womanhood and the public relations rhetoric of booster-minded Midwestern hamlets? In The Female Frontier, Glenda Riley seeks to unveil the true frontier woman of the prairies and the Great Plains; and although her book is not consistently satisfying, it does much to correct the most persistent myths of the frontier woman while pointing to areas for further …

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Review Of The Road To Rebellion: Class Formation And Kansas Populism, 1865-1900, Robert W. Cherny Jan 1989

Review Of The Road To Rebellion: Class Formation And Kansas Populism, 1865-1900, Robert W. Cherny

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the six decades since publication of John Hicks's The Populist Revolt, scholars have produced highly diverse interpretations of the Populist movement of the 1890s. Scott G. McNall, professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, contributes to that dialogue by using Kansas Populism to explore concepts in political economy and especially in the nature of class identity.

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Review Of From Pittsburgh To The Rocky Mountains; Major Stephen Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, John L. Allen Jan 1989

Review Of From Pittsburgh To The Rocky Mountains; Major Stephen Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, John L. Allen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The task of editing historical documents is a difficult one; the editor must tread a fine line between preserving the historical integrity of the original text while offering the fresh and insightful information on that text that makes the new edition valuable. The responsibility of the historical editor becomes even more challenging when much of the editorial work involves the condensation of a lengthy original into a shorter new edition. In this new edition of the chronicles of Stephen Long's expedition across the Central Plains to the Rockies, the editor has successfully negotiated the shoals and reefs of condensation, abridging …

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Review Of Native American Architecture., Carroll Van West Jan 1989

Review Of Native American Architecture., Carroll Van West

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Over the past generation, studies of American vernacular architecture have transformed the way we look at the landscape. But not until the publication of Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton's Native American Architecture did we have a recent comprehensive exploration of the real roots of American architecture, the buildings, structures, and landscapes of Native Americans. Nabokov and Easton fill this massive gap in scholarship splendidly and their book will be a basic reference in American vernacular architecture for years to come.

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Review Of Renewing The World: Plains Indian Religion And Morality., J. Baird Callicott Jan 1989

Review Of Renewing The World: Plains Indian Religion And Morality., J. Baird Callicott

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although at midcentury the distinguished anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell suggested a new field, "ethnometaphysics, " at the interface of philosophy and anthropology, there was no stampede to explore it. Philosophers for the most part remain Western cultural narcissists and chauvinists, while anthropologists labor to become scientifically "respectable."

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Review Of Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography Of Selected Works For A Research Library, Glen E. Lich Jan 1989

Review Of Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography Of Selected Works For A Research Library, Glen E. Lich

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Two things always surprise one anew upon turning to John H. Jenkins's Basic Texas Books: its breadth of overview and the depth of its entries. Much has happened in Texas studies in the years since 1970 when Jenkins started to prepare the first edition of this volume; much more has transpired since 1983 when that edition was published. Yet Jenkins's selections and what he says about them hold up as well now as they did then, perhaps better.

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Review Of Heartland: Comparative Histories Of The Midwestern States, John C. Hudson Jan 1989

Review Of Heartland: Comparative Histories Of The Midwestern States, John C. Hudson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Twelve authors, one per state, working independently of one another, assigned the common task of compressing their state's history, culture, politics, and geography into a single, brief essay-it could be a formula for disaster, but under the able, guiding hand of historian James H. Madison it turns out to be a successful achievement. Heartland is an enjoyable book, informative without making claims of authority, less comparative than its subtitle promises, but relentlessly sincere in presenting the diversity of pasts that collectively form a regional history of the Middle West.

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Women's Responses To The Challenges Of Plains Living, Glenda Riley Jan 1989

Women's Responses To The Challenges Of Plains Living, Glenda Riley

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Women settlers on the Great Plains frontier, as on other frontiers, carried the primary responsibility for home and family. Not only wives and mothers, but all plainswomen, young or old, single or married, white or black, employed outside the home or not, were expected to attend to, or help with, domestic duties. Thus, women living on their own, with storekeeper fathers, with farmer husbands, or in any other circumstances devoted a large part of their time and energy to providing their households with food, clothing, and other goods or services, to maintaining houses both as family homes and as women's …

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Seeing More Than Earth And Sky: The Rise Of A Great Aesthetic, Howard Roberts Lamar Jan 1989

Seeing More Than Earth And Sky: The Rise Of A Great Aesthetic, Howard Roberts Lamar

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Sometime in the 1880s, Sallie Cover, a Nebraska settler in Garfield County, painted a picture of the homestead of her neighbor, Ellsworth L. Ball. This attractive primitive painting can be seen in the Nebraska State Historical Society in Lincoln. Various authorities have asserted that it is the first known painting by a local Nebraska artist. 1 Although we know very little about Mrs. Cover, the painting suggests that she liked her neighbor's rational and neat homestead. She painted the earth rich and black, the grass healthy green, and flowers along the front path. New trees have been planted, but some …

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Review Of Among The Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces On Lewis And Clark, Gary E. Moulton Jan 1989

Review Of Among The Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces On Lewis And Clark, Gary E. Moulton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The preeminent Lewis and Clark scholars of the latest generation are gone. Thus ends the era that spanned from the 1950s to the present and produced outstanding students of the expedition like Bernard DeVoto, Paul Russell Cutright, and Donald Jackson. Cutright, Lewis and Clark's naturalist-historian, died in March 1988, and Jackson, the expedition's most recent editor, passed away in December 1987. The work reviewed here is vintage Jackson, a mixture of lightness and substance, with an eye for the previously unnoticed and a flair for the appropriate word and arresting phrase.

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Review Of Texas Country: The Changing Rural Scene, Lawrence Clayton Jan 1989

Review Of Texas Country: The Changing Rural Scene, Lawrence Clayton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although the United States boasts many large, progressive cities, many areas are still in reluctant transition from rural to urban. This transition has been rapid and exciting in some areas and mostly for younger people, but too rapid and painful for others whose orientation is toward a supportive past.

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The Art Museum As Personal Statement: The Southwest Experience, Keith L. Bryant Jr Jan 1989

The Art Museum As Personal Statement: The Southwest Experience, Keith L. Bryant Jr

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The museum boom in this country since World War II has been easy to observe and document. Almost as many museums were constructed in the 1960s as in the previous two decades, and the erection or expansion of cultural palaces has continued into the 1980s. The rising importance of museums has been signaled not only by new buildings and massive additions but also by attendance figures. The leading public attraction in the United States is neither professional football nor baseball; it is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This overwhelming public response is not limited to the …

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Review Of We're Czechs, Joseph G. Svoboda Jan 1989

Review Of We're Czechs, Joseph G. Svoboda

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert L. Skrabanek, a professor emeritus from Texas A & M University, reminisces about growing up in a small, rural, almost exclusively Czech Protestant community in central Texas during the 1920s and 1930s. The community of Snook (originally Šebesta) in Burleson County is located between Austin and Houston. Physically isolated, the town continued to experience during these decades what occurred in pioneering times: close-knit families, community spirit, and personal honesty.

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Review Of Documenting America, 1935-1943, John E. Carter Jan 1989

Review Of Documenting America, 1935-1943, John E. Carter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The work of the photographic section of the Farm Security Administration has not suffered for want of attention. Countless books and articles have proliferated in both the popular and scholarly press. Documenting America, 1935-1943 is an important contribution to that body of work. Where other efforts have focused on the powerful content of the pictures, this book deals with the context of their creation as well.

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Review Of Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies On The Southern High Plains, Warren W. Caldwell Jan 1989

Review Of Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies On The Southern High Plains, Warren W. Caldwell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the decade following the first verification of humankind in the New World, Early Man, or Paleo-Indian remains, as they were variously called, were eagerly sought. Such archeological sites, in Late Quaternary deposits, were by no means numerous. Yet persistent search revealed them, and in some numbers, particularly in the fringes of the westernmost Plains. Nowhere were they more abundant than in the southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and adjacent New Mexico. Among them is the Yellowhouse Draw site, perhaps best known as the Lubbock Lake site, at Lubbock, Texas. The occupation area, extensive by American standards (ca. …

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Review Of Sentinel Of The Southern Plains: Fort Richardson And The Northwest Texas Frontier, 1866-1878, Michael L. Tate Jan 1989

Review Of Sentinel Of The Southern Plains: Fort Richardson And The Northwest Texas Frontier, 1866-1878, Michael L. Tate

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Slightly more than a century ag9 the dreaded "Comanche Moon" of each month virtually assured devastating Indian raids upon the isolated ranches of Texas' northwestern frontier. No issue raised more ire in the state legislature or produced more animosity between state and federal officials than did this. To protect these exposed settlements, the War Department established a thin line of military posts from the Red River to the Rio Grande. Anchoring the northern zone was Fort Richardson, established in 1866 with a garrison to patrol the upper Brazos River country and to tum back raiding parties of Comanches and Kiowas …

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Review Of Garden City: Dreams In A Kansas Town, Michael Broadway Jan 1989

Review Of Garden City: Dreams In A Kansas Town, Michael Broadway

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unlike many other small towns in the Great Plains, Garden City, located in southwest Kansas, has experienced a rapid increase in population over the past ten years. Iowa Beef Packers opened the world's largest beef packing plant in Holcomb, seven miles west of Garden City, resulting in an influx of newcomers to the town, most notably more than two thousand Southeast Asian refugees.

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Review Of Prime Fathers, Les Whipp Jan 1989

Review Of Prime Fathers, Les Whipp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Frederick Manfred's Prime Fathers is a great convenience for readers, critics, and scholars of his fiction. It gathers together miscellaneous pieces of his non-fiction that have previously been scattered over the last thirty-seven years in places as diverse as the Chicago Tribune and the American Scholar.

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Review Of Opera Houses Of The Midwest, Ronald L. Davis Jan 1989

Review Of Opera Houses Of The Midwest, Ronald L. Davis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the last third of the nineteenth century opera houses sprang up across the midwestern frontier in every town and village that had any pretense of becoming a city. Some were elegant structures of three to five stories, constructed with the hope of actually staging grand opera there; others were small theaters, often located on the second floor of a business establishment, with little chance of presenting anything grander than an occasional play; still others were simply community halls that from time to time served the function of a playhouse. All were multi-purposed facilities that became viewed as the social …

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