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Review Of Brandon: Geographical Perspectives On The Wheat City, Brenton M. Barr Jan 1989

Review Of Brandon: Geographical Perspectives On The Wheat City, Brenton M. Barr

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This valuable contribution to the regional literature on Canadian urban places was produced to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Brandon University's Department of Geography. The book demonstrates the depth, range, and degree of integration that a team of geographers can achieve. Brandon comprises eleven chapters, a preface by the three editors, and a foreword by one of Canada's most distinguished historical geographers, John Warkentin, who reminds us that in regional studies "it is absolutely vital to understand the experiences of the people who live there, and who have lived there in the past."

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Review Of Sacred Language: The Nature Of Supernatural Discourse In Lakota, Douglas R. Parks Jan 1989

Review Of Sacred Language: The Nature Of Supernatural Discourse In Lakota, Douglas R. Parks

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As early as 1851 the missionary Stephen Return Riggs remarked in the introduction to his grammar and dictionary of Dakota (eastern Sioux) that the shamans used a sacred language unknown to the common people. At the tum of the century the Pine Ridge Reservation physician James R. Walker, a dedicated student of Oglala Sioux ethnography, also referred to a ceremonial language known only to shamans. He, like Riggs and others who have mentioned it, gave only a small number of examples, all common words in the language that had been given different, or occult, meanings in order to obfuscate the …

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Notes And News For Vol.9 No.2 Jan 1989

Notes And News For Vol.9 No.2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Controlled Pasture Burning In The Folklife Of The Kansas Flint Hills, James Hoy Jan 1989

Controlled Pasture Burning In The Folklife Of The Kansas Flint Hills, James Hoy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Flint Hills of Kansas, forming a band approximately fifty miles wide, start north of Manhattan near the Nebraska border and run south nearly two hundred miles, at which point they merge into the Osage Hills of Oklahoma. This area, together with the row of counties bordering the Flint Hills to the east, is sometimes labeled the Bluestem Grazing Region; its four million acres of native grass represent the remaining one percent of a tallgrass prairie that once stretched north to Canada and east to Indiana and Ohio. 1 Cattle raising in the Flint Hills portion of this region differs …

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Index To Vol.9 No.4 Jan 1989

Index To Vol.9 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Notes And News For Vol.9 No.4 Jan 1989

Notes And News For Vol.9 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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The Role Of State Arts Agencies In The Promotion And Development Og The Arts On The Plains, Robin S. Tryloff Jan 1989

The Role Of State Arts Agencies In The Promotion And Development Og The Arts On The Plains, Robin S. Tryloff

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A healthy artistic climate does not depend solely on the work of a handful of supremely gifted individuals. It demands the cultivation of talent and ability at all levels. It demands that everyday work, run-of-the-mill work, esoteric and unpopular work should be given a chance; not so much in the hope that genius may one day spring from it, but because, for those who make the arts their life and work, even modest accomplishment is an end in itself and a value worth encouraging. The pursuit of exceUence is a proper goal, but it is not the race itself. 1 …

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Rural German-Speaking Women In Early Nebraksa And Kansas: Ethnicity As A Factor In Frontier Adptation, Linda Schelbitzki Pickle Jan 1989

Rural German-Speaking Women In Early Nebraksa And Kansas: Ethnicity As A Factor In Frontier Adptation, Linda Schelbitzki Pickle

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Germans were the largest foreign-born ethnic group in nineteenth-century Kansas and Nebraska. Whether one includes all of the German speakers or only those who came from one of the many states eventually united into one German nation, these immigrants made up a sizeable proportion of the frontier population. Counting only the latter group, by 1900 eighteen percent of the residents of Nebraska and almost nine percent of the residents of Kansas were either first- or second-generation Germans. 1 Because of the size of the German population, their various times of emigration, and the diversity of their European origins and cultural …

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Introduction To Federal And State Arts And Humanities Agencies, Robin S. Tryloff, Sarah Z. Rosenberg Jan 1989

Introduction To Federal And State Arts And Humanities Agencies, Robin S. Tryloff, Sarah Z. Rosenberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Since 1965 the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), along with the state arts agencies (SAAs) and state humanities councils, as those were established, have been arguably the most influential of all institutions affecting the arts in the United States. As executive directors of, respectively, the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities we daily witnessed the impact of our institutions on the arts of the Great Plains. The following brief introduction to NEA and NEH provides the background for our individual articles about the types of agencies we …

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Review Of ''The Orders Of The Dreamed": George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Olive Patricia Dickson Jan 1989

Review Of ''The Orders Of The Dreamed": George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Olive Patricia Dickson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Amerindian traditional religions gain legitimacy in the eyes of a world dominated by the "big five" (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism), they are coming in for more and more study. Unfortunately, New World belief systems as they existed at the time of first contact have on the whole been very poorly documented, a consequence of the Christian conviction that if they could be called religions at all, they were inspired by the devil. The best records that have come down to us were compiled by the Spaniards, who, in order to destroy the civilizations of Mexico and Central and …

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Review Of A Generation Of Boomers: The Pattern Of Railroad Labor Conflict In Nineteenth-Century America., Russell S. Kirby Jan 1989

Review Of A Generation Of Boomers: The Pattern Of Railroad Labor Conflict In Nineteenth-Century America., Russell S. Kirby

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this ambitious volume the author interprets the nascent railroad labor movement of the late nineteenth century within a broad socio- economic framework. "Boomers," the subject of this book, built and maintained the railroad lines, serviced the locomotives and running stock, manned the freight yards, ran and conducted the trains. Although many of these men had transitory employment histories, others demonstrated both geographical persistence and upward occupational mobility within the railroad industry. As Shelton Stromquist demonstrates, strike behavior on the railroads of the late nineteenth century was related to railroad management strategies, the locations of railroad towns or railroad lines …

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The Judicial Fortunes Of French On The Canadian Prairies, Donald A. Bailey Jan 1989

The Judicial Fortunes Of French On The Canadian Prairies, Donald A. Bailey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Early European settlement patterns on the Canadian and U.S. prairies had many common features. Diverse peoples settled side-by-side, though often in distinct ethnic concentrations, and heritage cultures and languages persisted for several generations, even as significant assimilation to the dominant culture simultaneously occurred. Interaction and assimilation were not always harmonious, however, for intra-ethnic disagreements about heritage loyalty versus assimilation and friction with the dominant or another culture consumed many energies. Periods of war or economic crisis brought out xenophobic suspicions among the dominant and fully assimilated groups, suspicions that sometimes led to attempts at oppressive legislative measures that were later …

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Review Of The Way To Independence: Memories Of A Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920 And A Coloring Book Of Hidatsa Indian Stories: Based On The Life And Drawings Of Edward Goodbird, Joseph C. Porter Jan 1989

Review Of The Way To Independence: Memories Of A Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920 And A Coloring Book Of Hidatsa Indian Stories: Based On The Life And Drawings Of Edward Goodbird, Joseph C. Porter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Way to Independence exhibition and catalog appeared in 1987 to mark the centennial of the passage of the Dawes Indian Severalty Act of 1887, legislation intended to "civilize" American Indians by abolishing tribes as legal entities and allotting reservation lands to individuals. With the disappearance of the tribal land base, proponents of the Dawes Act assumed that Indians would be compelled to "assimilate" into the mainstream of American life.

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Review Of An Atlas Of The Sand Hills, Bradley H. Baltensperger Jan 1989

Review Of An Atlas Of The Sand Hills, Bradley H. Baltensperger

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although the goal of this "Resource Atlas" is to describe the largest region of sand dunes in the western hemisphere in a single, easily accessible volume, this well-illustrated narrative would more appropriately be labeled a natural history of the Sandhills. Half the book describes the region's physical environment, including climate, geology, and water supply, and another quarter treats flora and fauna.

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Review Of Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth- And Twentieth- Century Native American Leaders And North American Indian Lives, Charles G. Ballard Jan 1989

Review Of Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth- And Twentieth- Century Native American Leaders And North American Indian Lives, Charles G. Ballard

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Readers will no doubt react favorably to the descriptions of eight unusual people, classified generally as American Indians, that the editors of Indian Lives have assembled. They range from Maris Bryant Pierce of the Seneca (1811-1874) to Peterson Zah (born 1937), the former tribal chairman of the Navajo. Three women are included, the Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo (1860- 1942), Dr. Susan LaFleshe Picotte (1865-1915) from the Omaha tribe, and Minnie Kellogg (1880-1949) from the Oneidas of Wisconsin. The three remaining men are Henry Chee Dodge (1857-1947), the crusty first chairman of the Navajo tribal council in 1923, Charles Curtis (1860-1936), who …

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Review Of Oklahoma Botanical Literature, M. R. Bolick Jan 1989

Review Of Oklahoma Botanical Literature, M. R. Bolick

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Johnson and Milby have produced a valuable bibliographic aid for the serious student of the flora of the southern Great Plains. The listing, in one place, of 862 references from such diverse sources is a major contribution by itself. The addition of indexes for authors and subject-incontext greatly increases the utility of this reference book, making it easy to search among all 800-plus citations for ones of particular interest. This book should find a home in biology libraries across the region.

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Notes And News For Vol.3 No.9 Jan 1989

Notes And News For Vol.3 No.9

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of A Creek Warrior For The Confederacy: The Autobiography Of Chief G. W Grayson, William E. Unrau Jan 1989

Review Of A Creek Warrior For The Confederacy: The Autobiography Of Chief G. W Grayson, William E. Unrau

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Without question this memoir by a mixedblood Creek dignitary who fought with Indian units attached to the armies of the Confederacy is the most informative and carefully edited account of the Civil War in Indian Territory after 1862. But it is more than that, for it provides a lucid and candid commentary on important aspects of Creek history from forced removal in the early national period to formal tribal dissolution in 1906.

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Review Of Northern Prairie Wetlands, Jack Deforest Jan 1989

Review Of Northern Prairie Wetlands, Jack Deforest

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Evidence of human disruption of ecosystems often generates a "crisis response," but fortunately we are finally learning that a base of solid scientific information is crucial for effective policymaking. This useful book provides such information for a type of wetland that is little known and poorly understood, the prairie pothole region. It developed out of a 1985 symposium in North Dakota that aimed to review the "state of knowledge" concerning various elements of the region's wetland ecology. Because of the subject's complexity, the book's content is limited to select areas: geology and hydrology, water chemistry, fauna and flora, food chains, …

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Opera Houses In Kansas, Nebraska, And The Dakotas: 1870-1920, Ronald L. Davis Jan 1989

Opera Houses In Kansas, Nebraska, And The Dakotas: 1870-1920, Ronald L. Davis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As the last frontier approached an end, nearly every town of any distinction on the Plains boasted an opera house. The term "opera house" was preferred over "theater" since opera was considered a highly respected art form rather than mere popular amusement, even though grand opera itself was seldom actually performed in the Great Plains. What the management offered on its stage depended primarily on the town's proximity to a railroad, which in the late nineteenth century served as the major link to the outside world. Whether or not opera troupes ever sang for local audiences, a town's opera house----on …

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Freedon And Control In Laura Ingalls Wilder's De Smet, John E. Miller Jan 1989

Freedon And Control In Laura Ingalls Wilder's De Smet, John E. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Faith in the future, the virtues of persistence and hard work, the beneficence and occasional destructiveness of nature, the centrality of family, and the search for community are dominant themes of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books for children; one more theme is freedom. 1 But this freedom is never conceived of as absolute; rather, it is subject to a variety of constraints-external and internal-that interact with it in uneasy tension. The Ingalls family moved west to Dakota Territory in 1879 because of Pa's quest for freedom from the constrictions hemming him in on the more settled frontier. Farther west, he believed, …

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Notes And News For Vol.9 No.1 Jan 1989

Notes And News For Vol.9 No.1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Women's Contribution To The Family Farm, Richard W. Rathge Jan 1989

Women's Contribution To The Family Farm, Richard W. Rathge

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Our recognition of women's involvement in Great Plains agriculture is frequently linked to stereotyped images and a romanticized perspective on farmers. These notions have been cultivated over time in the absence of careful research or historical documents that realistically detail women's work on the family farm. Except for collections of oral histories, letters, and diaries, we have relatively few written records of rural women's agricultural heritage in the Great Plains. Traditional images of women and girls on farms show them as helpmates whose labor is only indirectly related to agriculture. 1 Their activities center predominantly on family and domestic chores. …

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Review Of Stories Of The House People, Ahab Spence Jan 1989

Review Of Stories Of The House People, Ahab Spence

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

These stories are told from the heart. Both elders have much historic background-as a matter of fact both are direct descendants of the House People.

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Review Of Willa Cather: A Literary Life, Karen Vierneisel Jan 1989

Review Of Willa Cather: A Literary Life, Karen Vierneisel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

James Woodress wanted to create a life-size portrait of Willa Cather. But his own assessment of the work sums up its limitation. "[His] present view of Cather does not change in any basic way the image of her contained in [his] earlier book." Since then, he may have read Cather's letters to Louise Pound, the new interpretations of Sharon O'Brien, Doris Grumbach, and Susan Rosowski, and Bernice Slote's copious materials to which he had access. But none of this new information teased his imagination

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Least Squares Estimation Of Avian Molt Rates, Douglas H. Johnson Jan 1989

Least Squares Estimation Of Avian Molt Rates, Douglas H. Johnson

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

A straightforward least squares method of estimating the rate at which birds molt feathers is presented, suitable for birds captured more than once during the period of molt. The date of molt onset can also be estimated. The method is applied to male and female mourning doves.

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An Empirical Bayes Approach To Analyzing Recurring Animal Surveys, Douglas H. Johnson Jan 1989

An Empirical Bayes Approach To Analyzing Recurring Animal Surveys, Douglas H. Johnson

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

Recurring estimates of the size of animal populations are often required by biologists or wildlife managers. Because of cost or other constraints, estimates frequently lack the accuracy desired but cannot readily be improved by additional sampling. This report proposes a statistical method employing empirical Bayes (EB) estimators as alternatives to those customarily used to estimate population size, and evaluates them by a subsampling experiment on waterfowl surveys. EB estimates, especially a simple limited-translation version, were more accurate and provided shorter confidence intervals with greater coverage probabilities than customary estimates.

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Ingestion Of Lead Shot And Aluminum Bands By Bald Eagles During Winter In Nebraska, Gary Lingle, Gary Krapu Jun 1988

Ingestion Of Lead Shot And Aluminum Bands By Bald Eagles During Winter In Nebraska, Gary Lingle, Gary Krapu

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

The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalusis) a common winter resident along the Platte and North Platte rivers in southcentral Nebraska. Waterfowl are a major food of eagles during periods when fish are not readily available (Lingle and Krapu 1986). Eating ducks and geese can make eagles susceptible to lead poisoning, a significant cause of mortality of Bald Eagles in North America (Kaiser et al. 1980). Eagles ingest lead shot from waterfowl by eating shot imbedded in tissues or as part of the contents of digestive tracts. In this paper we describe the incidence of lead shot and Fish and …

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Duck Nest Success In The Prairie Pothole Region, Albert T. Klett, Terry L. Shaffer, Douglas H. Johnson Jan 1988

Duck Nest Success In The Prairie Pothole Region, Albert T. Klett, Terry L. Shaffer, Douglas H. Johnson

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

We estimated nest success of mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), gadwall (A. strepera), blue-winged teal (A. discors), northern shoveler (A. clypeata), and northern pintail (A. acuta) for 5 regions in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota, for 1-3 periods between 1966 and 1984, and for 8 habitat classes. We obtained composite estimates of nest success for regions and periods by weighting each habitat proportional to the number of nest initiations. The distribution of nest initiations was derived from estimates of breeding populations, preferences of species for nesting habitats, and availability of habitats. …

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The Influence Of Diet Quality On Clutch Size And Laying Pattern In Mallards, Jan Eldridge, Gary Krapu Jan 1988

The Influence Of Diet Quality On Clutch Size And Laying Pattern In Mallards, Jan Eldridge, Gary Krapu

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

We measured the effect of diet quality on variation in the seasonal pattern of Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) reproduction. Twenty wild-strain hens, consisting of 10 sibling pairs, were maintained in captivity. One sib of each pair was fed an enriched diet, and the other was fed wheat. The wheat diet resulted in reduced clutch size, egg size, laying rate, number of nesting attempts, and total eggs laid. Diet did not affect laying initiation, duration, or the seasonal pattern of change in clutch and egg size with each renest. We believe the variation and pattern observed are adaptations to a …

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