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Review Of Indians And Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. And The Critique Of Anthropology Edited By Thomas Biolsi And Larry J. Zimmerman, Donald D. Stull

Great Plains Quarterly

North American anthropology can be divided into two ages: BD and AD-Before and After Deloria. In 1969 cultural anthropology in the United States was shaken by Vine Deloria's witty diatribe, Custer Died for Your Sins. Twenty years later, cultural anthropologist Tom Biolsi and archaeologist Larry Zimmerman organized a symposium on the subsequent relationship between anthropologists and American Indians. Indians and Anthropologists assembles several of these papers and some new ones in what will certainly be an often-cited collection.

The book's introduction reviews "What's Changed, What Hasn't" since Deloria fired his shot across anthropology's bow in Custer's chapter on "Anthropologists …

Notes And News- Winter 1999

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Review Of Powerful Images: Portrayals Of Native America By Sarah E. Boehme Et Al. Foreword By Peter Hassrick, Lydia L. Wyckoff

Great Plains Quarterly

This thought-provoking book is designed to accompany an exhibition which, unfortunately, I have not seen. The focus of both the exhibition and the catalogue is the relationship between Native American art and culture and that of dominant European Americans.

Five essays attempt to present the complexities of two diverse contemporary views with distinct historical perspectives. The first pair juxtapose indigenous and European American points of view in a focused and mutually intelligible manner. Emma Hanson examines the art of the Plains and the Southwest. Although her primary concern is the Plains, I believe her generalizations would be acceptable to most …

Review Of Autobiography Of Red Cloud: War Leader Of The Oglalas Edited By R. Eli Paul, H. David Brumble

Great Plains Quarterly

It is wonderful that as-told-to autobiographical narratives by pre-literate American Indians continue to appear. At one end of the editorial scale is Janet Wall Hendricks' edition of To Drink of Death: The Narrative of a Shuar Warrior (1993), where the editor/amanuensis has taken great care to present this warrior's life stories in something very like the way he told them. Autobiography of Red Cloud is close to the scale's other end. In the 1890s Red Cloud told his stories to an old friend named Sam Deon; unbeknownst to Red Cloud, Deon retailed these stories daily to the Pine Ridge postmaster …

Review Of Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes Of Absence And Presence By Gerald Vizenor, Diane Glancy

Great Plains Quarterly

It is hard to review Gerald Vizenor, especially when writing something of your own, because he zooms into the creative imagination and his words transpot whatever it is you're writing.

In other words, his words have a fracturing factor which makes a magic of language. Vizenor is generative. He forms and splices, even in the critical essays of Fugitive Poses.

Vizenor's writing releases words. Those usually kept in their places in the dictionary and the dominant way of thought, but which are alive, words still on the building-meaning block and wished to be loosed to roam again. This is …

Review Of The Chiricahua Apache Prisoners Of War: Fort Sill 1894-1914 By John Anthony T Urcheneske Jr., William T. Hagan

Great Plains Quarterly

This is the first full-length treatment of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war, whose experience is unparalleled in Native American history. Many Indians underwent imprisonment, but no group for anything like the Chiricahuas' twenty-seven years as official prisoners of war. It took them from a reservation in Arizona to Fort Marion in Florida, from there to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama, then on to Fort Sill in Oklahoma; finally most were relocated to the Mescalero reservation in New Mexico while others remained in Oklahoma.

Each of these removals is discussed in detail and, since choices had to be made, there …

Review Of Changing Ones: Third And Fourth Genders In Native North America By Will Roscoe, Sue-Ellen Jacobs

Great Plains Quarterly

In the 212 text pages of Changing Ones, Roscoe demonstrates his storytelling abilities as he reweaves previously published papers with a canonical polemic that deeply engages his own and others' writings about purported Native American sexuality, sex, and gender definitions and practices. In presenting his analysis of select writings on "berdache," he generously acknowledges those who have become his adversaries by painstakingly replaying those authors' points of view against his own interpretations. For example, in the field of sexuality studies, Roscoe's disagreement with Ram6n Gutierrez ("Must We Deracinate Indians to Find Gay Roots?" Out/Look [Winter 1989] ) and Richard Trexler …

Review Of Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative Of Custer's Defeat By Gregory F. Michno, Robert Larson

Great Plains Quarterly

Among the attempts to give the Indian version of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Gregory F. Michno's Lakota Noon may be one of the most systematic and creative. The study uses the eyewitness accounts of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho participants, as contradictory and confusing as some of them are, and arranges them chronologically in ten-minute intervals, beginning at three in the afternoon and ending at six. Although the testimony is taken primarily from warriors, the observations of women, older people, and even youngsters like the now-famous Black Elk are not overlooked. Michno also adds a spatial dimension …

Review Of With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History By Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun And Josephine Waggoner, Bea Medicine

Great Plains Quarterly

With My Own Eyes represents an historic event for this reviewer, who grew up on Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota where the name Josephine Waggoner was known and remembered. In my view, she represented a local Native intellectual who had a great interest in the history of the reservation. It was known by my father's generation that she had interviewed local headmen (itancan or "chiefs"). She also represents the companionship of Lakota women as they aged. Her literary partnership with Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun was a fortuitous and productive bonding.

It is amazing that this history is finally published. …

Review Of Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman Of The Lakota Sioux By Robert W. Larson, R. Eli Paul

Great Plains Quarterly

I first met Robert Larson at the 1993 conference of the Western History Association at Tulsa, Oklahoma. As I write this review en route to the 1998 WHA meeting in Sacramento, I can reflect on the passage of time and feel satisfied that these five years have not been wasted ones. At that first encounter Bob and I began our friendship, one initially based on a growing respect and admiration for a remarkable nineteenth-century man. We concluded that this Oglala leader had been underappreciated by too many Western historians. Bob's goal was the writing of a new biography of Red …

Review Of Contemporary Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration And Creativity By Carol Herselle Krinsky, Amos Rapoport

Great Plains Quarterly

American architectural writing has generally slighted non-western cultures, though this is changing. When Native Americanbuilt environments have been considered, as in Nabokov and Easton's Native American Architecture (1989), the emphasis has been on "traditional" forms, usually at the expense of contemporary work and culture;specific design. Yet this neglect begs important questions about the possible role of built environments in expressing cultural identity. Thus the subject Carol Herselle Krinsky addresses is .timely, important, and relevant to broader conceptual and theoretical issues. Unfortunately, a number of flaws make her book less useful and convincing than her subject merits.

Lacking a conceptual or …

Review Of First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories Edited By Andrew Garrod And Colleen Larimore, Kimberli M. Stafford

Great Plains Quarterly

When Dartmouth College recommitted itself to recruiting and enrolling Native American students in 1970, it had graduated only nineteen Native Americans in its two hundred year history, though it was founded in 1769 with the explicit mission of educating Indian youth, as stated in its British charter. All of the essays collected here are by Native American students or graduates of Dartmouth College from 1970 to the present. The book translates the grim statistics of Native American representation and involvement in post-secondary education into potent personal stories that delineate the obstacles to institutional success for Native Americans within the academy …

Review Of Blessing For A Long Time: The Sacred Pole Of The Omaha Tribe By Robin Ridington And Dennis Hastings, Michael L. Tate

Great Plains Quarterly

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Omahas occupied a strategic position on the Missouri River and served as important middle men in the rapidly expanding fur trade. By mid-century, however, epidemics and white incursions having devastated their way of life, they were confined to a small reservation in northeastern Nebraska. As with other tribes, their culture came under continuous assault by missionaries, agents, and reformers who wished to accelerate their assimilation into mainstream American society.

In the face of these unwelcome changes, tribal elder Yellow Smoke worried that he would not be able to maintain his role as Keeper …

Litigation, Mitigation, And The American Indian Religious Freedom Act The Bear Butte Example, Kari Forbes-Boyte

Great Plains Quarterly

"S acred mountains, of whatever culture, become merchandise in the dark age that is enveloping the planet. The voices of the spirits are falling silent beneath the roar of the machines that bleed the land and poison the waters and the air. A country, however powerful at the moment, that does not honor and preserve its sacred places is not fit for survival." So states a Lakota man when asked to describe the importance of sacred places to his culture. Sacred places, recognized by indigenous peoples worldwide, are highly esteemed by particular individuals or groups and are perceived to be …

Literacy Practices At The Genoa Industrial Indian School, Amy M. Goodburn

Great Plains Quarterly

In the past twenty-five years, historical studies on Indian boarding schools have proliferated, ranging from analyses of federal policies regarding Indian education (Adams, Coleman, Prucha) to particular institutional histories such as They Called It Prairie Light, The Phoenix Indian School, Cultivating the Rosebuds, To Change Them Forever, and Out of the Depths. While the specifics of instititional practices may differ, for the most part scholars of American Indian education agree that the boarding school experience was and continues to be a seminal moment for generations of Indian families. Although initial histories of federal Indian boarding schools mainly relied upon …

Index

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Review Of Gendered Justice In The American West: Women Prisoners In Men's Penitentiaries By Anne M. Butler, Sharon E. Wood

Great Plains Quarterly

Butler writes with conviction, her passion for her subject occasionally leading her to press her point further than the evidence will go. Several times she seems to claim that women prisoners were representative of all women confronting the criminal justice system, writing, for example, "when a child died from a mother's assault, conviction was a certainty." But this claim can only be tested by examining local police and court records to see if all women accused were convicted (they weren't). Women in penitentiaries were not representative; they were the absolute losers in a system that was, admittedly, stacked against them. …

Book Notes

Great Plains Quarterly

The Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990. By Gail K. Sheffield. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. viii + 223 pp. $27.50.

Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. By Karen Holliday Tanner. Foreward by Robert K. DeArment. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Illustrations, maps, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. xxx + 338 pp. $28.95.

McKinney Falls: The Ranch Home of Thomas F. McKinney, Pioneer Texas Entrepreneur. By Margaret Swett Henson. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1999. Illustrations, notes. 48 pp. $7.95 paper.

Guide to Nebraska Authors. By Gerry Cox and Carol MacDaniels. …

From The Editor

Great Plains Quarterly

This issue marks my last as editor of the Great Plains Quarterly. As I take up my new duties as Assistant Director of Humanities at the University of Nebraska, I leave the GPQ in the able hands of Chuck Braithwaite. Chuck comes to us from the University of Montana and I hope you'll support him as wholeheartedly as you did me. I want to thank my staff: Lona Dearmont, Daniel Justice, Andrea Radke, Linda Ratcliffe, Gretchen Walker, and George Wolf for their unfailing assistance, patience, and good humor. Thanks also to all of our anonymous peer reviewers who took …

Whither Cowboy Poetry?, Jim Hoy

Great Plains Quarterly

As a cultural phenomenon the explosion in popularity of cowboy poetry in the past dozen years has been nothing short of spectacular. Until the first full-scale cowboy poetry gathering at Elko, Nevada, in late January 1985, poetry was arguably the one aspect of cowboy culture that had not been expropriated into American popular culture. Certainly the mental picture of the cowboy himself-big hat, high-heeled boots, silk neckerchief, leather chaps-has long since become an icon that represents the very nation: wear a cowboy hat and you will be taken for an American anywhere in the world. The two essential working skills …

"The Silent Artillery Of Time" Understanding Social Change In The Rural Midwest, Jon Lauck

Great Plains Quarterly

The great historian of republicanism, J. G. A. Pocock, noted that "[f]rom Jefferson to Frederick Jackson Turner and beyond, it was commonplace that sooner or later the frontier would be closed, the land filled, and the corruptions of history-urbanization, finance capital, 'the cross of gold,' 'the military-industrial complex' -would overtake America. Here are the origins of American historical pessimism." The American frontier has long since closed, the agrarian order has long-since passed away, and the pessimism has mushroomed into a "palpable despair and cynicism and violence," "dark signs of the times," according to the philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain. The disappearance …

Community Dreaming In The Rural Northwest The Montana Study, 1944-47, Philip J. Nelson

Great Plains Quarterly

On 28 April 1944, three intellectuals, each representing the views of different regions of the country, met in Chicago and laid the basis for an experimental program in adult education and community outreach. Ernest Melby, the newly appointed chancellor of the University of Montana system of higher education, Baker Brownell, a respected Northwestern University philosophy professor and leading advocate of the small community, and David Stevens, head of the Humanities Division of the Rockefeller Foundation agreed on the shape of a community action project that would later be called the Montana Study. They brought together the concerns and needs of …

Notes & News

Great Plains Quarterly

MARGARET LAURENCE MUSIC

GPQ EDITOR WINS BOOK PRIZE

CLEMENTS BOOK PRIZE

SCARECROW PRESS SEEKS AUTHOR(S)

ROBERT S. WEDDLE AWARDS NOMINATIONS

NEW JOURNAL ON ABORIGINAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

CALL FOR PAPERS: MISSOURI VALLEY HISTORY CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS: SOUTHWESTER POPULAR CULTURE

Great Plains Quarterly, Volume [19], No. [4], Fall 1999

Great Plains Quarterly

"THE SILENT ARTILLERY OF TIME": UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE RURAL MIDWEST -Jon Lauck

COMMUNITY DREAMING IN THE RURAL NORTHWEST: THE MONTANA STUDY, 1944-47 -Philip J. Nelson

ROMANTIC WOMEN AND LA LUCHA: DENISE CHAVEZ'S FACE OF AN ANGEL -Francine K. Ramsey Richter

WHITHER COWBOY POETRY? -Jim Hoy

BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK NOTES

FROM THE EDITOR

NOTES AND NEWS

INDEX

Review Of Confessions Of A Maddog: A Romp Through The High-Flying Texas Music And Literary Era Of The Fifties To The Seventies By Jay Dunston Milner, Kent Blaser

Great Plains Quarterly

The title Confessions of a Maddog carries a reference that most readers will not recognize: the "Maddogs" were an assortment of Texas writers and musicians, rowdy "good-old-boys" (and a few girls), who in the 1960s created a social circle-Maddogs, Inc.-complete with official membership cards and a slogan. Milner's book is part autobiography, but mostly a memoir/reminiscence of a particular time and group of people. Billie Lee Brammer, Larry L. King, Bud Shrake, Dan Jenkins, Peter Gent, Gary Cartwright, and Milner himself led the somewhat motley crew. Musician Jerry Jeff Walker was a regular participant. More famous individuals, including Willie Nelson, …

Review Of Texas And Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690 By Juan Bautista Chapa, Kimberly Henke Breuer

Great Plains Quarterly

This English translation of two seventeenth- century manuscripts concerning the exploration and settlement of northeastern Mexico and Texas is long overdue. The majority of the book is dedicated to Juan Bautista Chapa's Historia del nuevo reino de León de 1650 a 1690; the other translated manuscript is the revised 1690 expedition diary of Governor Alonso de León (the younger). This is the first widely published translation of Chapa's Historia into English. De León's revised diary is published here for the first time in either Spanish or English. Ned Brierley's translations, from the original manuscripts, are eminently readable and accessible.

Review Of The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity In The Hollywood Western By Michael Coyne, John G. Cawelti

Great Plains Quarterly

English and French scholars began to write serious critical commentaries on the American Western almost before Americans did. Beginning with Andre Bazin's important essays of the 1950s, the analyses of Jean Mitry and Jean-Louis Rieupeyrout, and coming down to Paul Bleton's 1997 collection Les hauts et les bas de l'imaginaire western, the French have helped us realize the artistic importance of the generic Western just as they showed Americans how to appreciate Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and many other major figures. The English critical tradition on the Western has been equally rich but different in its orientation. Beginning …

Review Of Cowboy Justice: Tale Of A Texas Lawman By Jim Gober, Mark R. Ellis

Great Plains Quarterly

In 1980, James Gober inherited a discolored and aged bundle of papers that had once belonged to his grandfather, Jim RansIer Gober. To his surprise, he found they contained a rough, unedited autobiographical account of his grandfather's life as a Great Plains cowboy, lawman, detective, gambler, and saloon- keeper. Although Jim Gober was a relatively unknown Great Plains figure, his grandson believed his life story contributed significantly to the history of this region; with the assistance of B. Byron Price, a historian and executive director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, he edited and organized the narrative for publication.

Review Of Constructing The Little House: Gender, Culture, And Laura Ingalls Wilder By Ann Romines, Fred Erisman

Great Plains Quarterly

Linking her own experiences with those of the fictional and historical Laura Ingalls Wilders, Ann Romines advances several issues she considers central to a fuller understanding of Wilder's well-known "Little House" books. Her five chapters (plus a conclusion) take up the books in chronological order, from Little House in the Big Woods (1932) to the posthumously published The First Four Years (1971), exploring the personal, cultural, and literary processes at work in each.

Review Of Creating The New Woman: The Rise Of Southern Women's Progressive Culture In Texas By Judith N. Mcarthur, Nancy Baker Jones

Great Plains Quarterly

This book is another significant contribution to the growing list of scholarly studies of the history of Texas women. Within the larger contexts of southern culture, the Progressive Movement, and the history of feminism, McArthur has produced a convincing chronology of the transformation of middle-class, white Texas women from members of a "patriarchal, evangelical culture that discouraged the formation of independent women's networks" to "volunteerists" who worked openly for social and political reform through their own clubs and associations. Between the 1890s and World War I, women's increasing use of "maternalist politics" challenged male dominance of the public sphere, thereby …