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Review Of Women Of Oklahoma, 1890-1920 By Linda Williams Reese, Patricia Loughlin

Great Plains Quarterly

In Women of Oklahoma, Linda Williams Reese traces the experiences of African American, Native American, and white women from the creation of Oklahoma Territory in 1890 to the decade following statehood. Using a wealth of source material including diaries, letters, newspaper articles, oral histories, and census materials, Reese reconstructs the lives of Oklahoma women-offering a record of the past often overlooked in Oklahoma history prior to this important work.

Review Of Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story Of Albert B. Fall By David H. Stratton, Roy Lujan

Great Plains Quarterly

David H. Stratton has written a brilliant, comprehensive biography of Albert B. Fall, Secretary of Interior during the Harding administration and the first cabinet member ever convicted and imprisoned for crimes committed while holding office. Fall had leased to Harry E. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny naval oil reserves in Wyoming's Teapot Dome and California's Elk Mountain and accepted $404,000 from these oil tycoons. The book proposes that out of his early career as a western speculator and corporation lawyer, Fall developed an anti-conservation philosophy and espoused unrestrained and immediate disposition of public lands to private enterprise. Thus, had he …

Review Of William Lindsay White, 1900-1973: In The Shadow Of His Father By E. Jay Jernigan, Joel Mathis

Great Plains Quarterly

E. Jay Jernigan's biography of Bill White results from deep research through personal family correspondence and unindexed Gazette files, as well as the libraries of several Kansas universities. Jernigan uses this research to paint a multifaceted portrait of Bill White, whose Eastern sensibilities made his fellow Emporians regard him as an elitist, yet whose capabilities, Jernigan says, often exceeded those of his more famous father. The end result is a fascinating biography of a man who never entirely escaped his father's shadow-but made every effort to cast one of his own.

Review Of Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation Of The Rural North, 1870-1930 By Hal S. Barron, Craig Miner

Great Plains Quarterly

Mixed Harvest is a good title for a book that documents the complexity of interests involved in twentieth-century farming. A broad swipe at characterization too often substitutes in histories for a more careful analysis in which surface affinities fall apart. Barron uses case studies from selected counties of the battles fought across the East and Midwest over roads, consolidated schools, farmers' grain elevators, and mail-order buying to probe a "second transformation" of American society following the initial spread of industrial capitalism early in the nineteenth century. This "transformation" was marked by centralization of the economy, expansion of state power and …

Review Of Mexican Americans In The 1990s: Politics, Policies, And Perceptions, Ed. Juan Garcia, Ed A. Muñoz

Great Plains Quarterly

In Mexican Americans in the 1990s, Juan Garda assembles a fine collection of essays addressing the tremendous diversity and fluidity of the Latino/Chicano/Mexican American political experience in contemporary US society. More importantly, the contributors' admirable analyses and interpretations of Latino/Chicano/Mexican American identity, culture, and politics in the thirty-year wake of the Chicano Movement provide a refreshing alternative to those who view the decline of strict cultural nationalism and oppositional politics as detrimental to Chicano self-determination and community empowerment.

Review Of A Thousand Honey Creeks Later: My Life In Music From Basie To Motown And Beyond By Preston Love, Annette L. Murrell

Great Plains Quarterly

That's why his book is an intriguing combination of autobiography, sermon, and manifesto. Love's mission is not only to recount his life's many memorable moments, but also to lament the present state of jazz in America (particularly the weak music scene in Omaha, a city that between the 1930s and 1960s boasted of world class musicians and a thriving club scene), and the "whitewashing" of jazz which he considers to be black music. "If my anger seems excessive," he writes, "consider that Elvis Presley became the biggest star in the history of show business and was referred to as the …

Review Of Oil, Wheat, And Wobblies: The Industrial Workers Of The World In Oklahoma, 1905-1930 By Nigel Anthony Sellars, Salvatore Salerno

Great Plains Quarterly

The strength of Sellars's work is that it draws attention to the activities of the IWW at a local level during the least understood period of its history. This is particularly true of the book's focus on the A WOo A pioneer in the development of some of the IWW's most important strategies during this period, the A WO has received little previous attention. While Sellars illuminates the local, his work runs into trouble in its treatment of larger struggles within the IWW, the relative importance of the IWW's industrial unions, and the movement's culture. For example, although the book …

Title And Contents- Winter 1999

Great Plains Quarterly

Great Plains Quarterly

Volume 19/ Number 1 / Winter 1999

Contents

The Death Of Edward Mcmurty

Litigation, Mitigation, And The American Indian Religious Freedom Act: The Bear Butte Example

Literacy Practices At The Genoa Industrial Indian School

Book Reviews

Notes And News

Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Exploring The Indian Country By Stan Hoig, Suzanne Jones-Crawford

Great Plains Quarterly

In Beyond the Frontier: Exploring the Indian Country, Stan Hoig has compiled a compendium of explorers who traversed present-day Oklahoma from 12 July 1541 to 15 June 1860. Intended for non-scholarly audiences, the book offers just the plain unvarnished facts-culled from a variety of primary and secondary sources-about these adventurers and their probes.

The introduction establishes the geographic limits of Indian Territory, delineates the period under consideration, and discusses the various jurisdictional disputes over this area. For the reader's convenience the author has provided a brief biographic sketch of each explorer.

According to Hoig, by focusing on the minute …

Review Of Proclaiming The Gospel To The Indians And The Metis: The Missionary Oblates Of Mary I Mmaculate In Western Canada, 1845-1945 By Raymond ]. A. Huel, Gerhard J. Ens

Great Plains Quarterly

The Oblates of Mary Immaculate were the dominant Catholic clergy in western Canada and as such played an important role in the colonization of the Great Plains. Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians and the Metis, the third volume in the Western Oblate History Project, has as its focus the Oblates' missionary work in Canada's prairie provinces from 1845 to 1945.

Raymond Huel begins his study by delineating the ideological values and goals that motivated the Oblate mission in Canada, and then provides a useful analysis of the order's various mission initiatives. During their early years in western Canada …

Review Of The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 Edited By R. Eli Paul, James O. Gump

Great Plains Quarterly

Between 1854 and 1890, the military frontier in western Nebraska witnessed major events, including Harney's victory over the Sioux at Ash Hollow in 1855, the Republican River Expedition of 1869, the Battle of Massacre Canyon in 1873, skirmishes in the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, and the killing of Crazy Horse in 1877. These years also featured the activities of such famous Lakota leaders as Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and Crazy Horse, the US Fifth Cavalry headquartered at Fort McPherson, as well as the "Dandy Fifth's" leading personalities, including General Eugene Carr, "Buffalo Bill" Cody (chief of scouts), and Major …

Review Of The Night Has A Naked Soul: Witchcraft And Sorcery Among The Western Cherokee. By Alan Kilpatrick, Pekka Hamalainen

Great Plains Quarterly

This fascinating, slim volume provides a rare glimpse of the supernatural world of the' Cherokee Indians, a topic shielded by linguis.-" tic, cultural, and mental barriers. The Chero~ kees possess an extraordinary corpus of magical texts, recorded over one hundred and fifty yearsby their folk healers in small ledger notebooks .. These texts, written in the Sequoyah syllabary and known as idi:gawe:sdi, contain a large body of knowledge of such occult subjects as love magic, rainmaking, and protective charms. In The Night Has a Naked Soul, Alan Kilpatrick, an associate professor of American Indian studies at San Diego State …

Review Of Seeing The White Buffalo By Robert B. Pickering, Lee Irwin

Great Plains Quarterly

For those unfamiliar with the White Buffalo and its relationship with Native American spirituality, this is the book to read. The author, curator of anthropology for the Denver Museum of Natural History, has written an accessible, informative guide that surveys the popular response to Miracle, the female white buffalo calf born in 1994. Pickering covers four areas: first, the personal perspectives of Dave and Val Heider, the Janesville, Minnesota, couple who run a small buffalo herd in which Miracle was born; then the "historical-cultural perspectives of American Indians"; the "spiritual perspectives" of Native and non-Native peoples toward Miracle; and the …

Review Of Readings In American Indian Law: Recalling The Rhythm Of Survival Edited By Jo Carrillo, Bruce E. Johansen

Great Plains Quarterly

In most law school curricula, the study of "American Indian law" concentrates on cases involving Native Americans in United States courts and usually has little to do with the systems Native Americans used to govern interpersonal relations before they began to interact with their conqueror's courts. This anthology of readings attempts, in the words of its jacket copy, to "expand doctrinal discussions into understandings of culture, strategy, history, identity, and hopes for the future ... [with] an array of alternative paradigms as strong antidotes to our usual conceptions of federal Indian law."

The book fulfills part of that bold promise. …

Review Of Satanta: The Life And Death Of A War Chief. By Charles M. Robinson Iii, Benjamin R. Kracht

Great Plains Quarterly

Set-t' ainte, or "White Bear," whose name was Anglicized into Satanta, was one of the most feared Southern Plains warriors and raiders in the mid-nineteenth century. Robinson's biography of Satanta also remembered as the "Orator of the Plains"-grew out of the author's research into the history of Fort Richardson and the May 1871 killing of seven teamsters outside the nearby town of Jacksboro, Texas. White Bear and Big Tree, the two Kiowa warriors held responsible for the teamsters' deaths, were the first American Indian leaders to be tried in a civil court (State of Texas v. Satanta and Big …

The Death Of Edward Mcmurty, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Quarterly

Edward McMurty would have been lost to history if it hadn't been for the way he died and for what it meant in frontier Nebraska. McMurty's bloated body was found on 20 June 1869 in a pond on an island in the Platte River, about five miles from the town of Columbus (Fig. 1). He had been missing for six weeks. His body had been tethered to a large log and weighted down in the water. But distant snowmelts in the Rocky Mountains and a torrential Nebraska downpour on June 19th swelled the Platte, which flowed onto the island, flooding …

Review Of Plains Indian History And Culture: Essays On Continuity And Change By John C. Ewers, Herbert T. Hoover

Great Plains Quarterly

Twelve chapters form a collection of essays mainly about northern Great Plains tribal cultures and experiences with non-Indians in the past. The omission of a summary essay at the end indicates an absence of unifying themes. Topics related to tribal relations include the clothing of women, women's roles in intertribal wars, the creation of maps by tribal soldiers, and the goals of inter-tribal warfare. Subjects pertaining to Indian-white relations include reciprocal ethnic images, symbols of chief-making by outsiders, reasons for tribal participation in the fur trade, and consequences of disease epidemics.

All chapters originally appeared elsewhere, but their publication under …

Review Of A New Significance: Re-Envisioning The History Of The American West Edited By Clyde A. Milner Ii, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly

Playing off the title of the famous essay by Frederick Jackson Turner, this volume of essays and commentaries is, for the most part, the outgrowth of a 1992 Utah State University conference planned as an opportunity for young scholars, as well as a few older ones, to offer new perspectives on the future directions of Western history a century after Turner delivered his influential words. For this collection of essays, several of them previously published in the Western Historical Quarterly, Clyde Milner provides the usual cogent introductory remarks and excellent editing skills we have come to expect of him. …

Financing The Palliser Triangle, 1908-1913, Warren M. Elofson, John Feldberg

Great Plains Quarterly

A decade ago, David C. Jones compellingly described the immense ecological and human tragedy that occurred in the southern, semiarid districts of Alberta and Saskatchewan in the late 1910s and early 1920s.¹ Prior to World War I settlers poured into these provinces buoyed by dreams of a better life, but in the decade or so following 1915 many who had taken homesteads in the so-called Palliser Triangle saw their hopes shattered by successive years of drought and crop failure. One of the crucial vehicles in this tragedy was the financial institution. Between 1908 and 1913 investment firms made available …

Feature Folio Images Of Great Plains Train Travel

Great Plains Quarterly

Images of Great Plains Train Travel (8 pages)

Review Of The Indian Bill Of Rights, 1968. Volume 3 Of Native Americans And The Law: Contemporary And Historical Perspectives On American Indian Rights, Freedoms, And Sovereignty Edited With Introductions By John R. Wunder, David E. Wilkins

Great Plains Quarterly

The extra-constitutional status of indigenous nations and their distinct political relationship with the United States government, no less than the equally distinctive nature of the relationship of individual Indians to their tribal governments and other sovereignties they are more problematically related to, the state and federal governments, is a most complicated subject. Individuals venturing into this intellectual and substantive thicket should be applauded for their academic bravery. The third of the six volume series edited by John R. Wunder sets out to explore that thicket.

Wunder claims the volume is "of particular significance," not only because of its subject matter, …

Review Of Legacy: New Perspectives On The Battle Of The Little Bighorn Edited By Charles E. Rankin, Gregory J. Urwin

Great Plains Quarterly

For more than twenty years, the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument has generated more controversy than any other unit administered by the National Park Service. Amateur historians belonging to the Little Big Horn Associates-angry because their overpriced, vanity press books were not sold in the park bookstore-had the staff investigated for alleged anti-Custer bias. At the same time, increasingly belligerent Native American activists protested that the site of their ancestors' greatest victory was being run as a shrine to the frontier military.

In 1988, Russell Means and other militants from the American Indian Movement stormed onto the battlefield and desecrated …

Trains Through The Plains The Great Plains Landscape Of Victorian Women Travelers, Karen M. Morin

Great Plains Quarterly

The young British novelist Iza Hardy, during her travels to America in 1881-83, anticipated the American West as terra incagnitae, a place completely beyond civilization. Like many other British tourists to America in the late nineteenth century, Hardy traveled extensively throughout the East Coast and South, and took a transcontinental journey to the Pacific Coast by train (Fig. O. Out of her American travels Hardy produced Between Two Oceans: Or, Sketches of American Travel (1884) and a book about Florida. Hardy's coverage of the western portion of her American journey followed the transect the railroad did, with chapters of …

Review Of Constitutionalism And Native Americans, 1903 - 1968. Volume 2 Of Native Americans And The Law: Contemporary And Historical Perspectives On American Indian Rights, Freedoms, And SovereigntyEdited With Introductions By John R. Wunder, Jill Norgren

Great Plains Quarterly

The previously published essays selected by editor John R. Wunder for volume two of this six book series take up the legal, political, and economic issues of Native American sovereignty at the critical moment of the 1903 Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock United States Supreme Court decision (treated in volume one). In his brief introduction to volume two, Wunder describes the period from 1903 to 1968 as one in which the tension between federally enforced tribal constitutionalism and "residual sovereign rights" was played out. Excerpts from Charles Wilkinson's American Indians, Time, and the Law (1987) provide an opening framework to explain …

Title And Contents- Summer 1998

Great Plains Quarterly

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

SUMMER 1998 VOL. 18 NO.3

CONTENTS

FRAMING THE TOURIST GAZE: RAILWAY JOURNEYS ACROSS NEBRASKA, 1866-1906 Jean P. Retzinger

FEATURE FOLIO: IMAGES OF GREAT PLAINS TRAIN TRAVEL TRAINS THROUGH THE PLAINS: THE GREAT PLAINS LANDSCAPE OF VICTORIAN WOMEN TRAVELERS Karen Morin

FINANCING THE PALLISER TRIANGLE, 1908-1913 John Feldberg and Warren M. Elofson

BOOK REVIEWS

NEWS AND NOTES

Notes And News- Summer 1998

Great Plains Quarterly

Notes and News

Big Bend Studies Conference

Research Fellowship In Southwest Studies

Half A Century Of Saskatchewan History

Rural Studies Meeting In Texas

Framing The Tourist Gaze Railway Journeys Across Nebraska, 1866-1906, Jean P. Retzinger

Great Plains Quarterly

As the last of the Conestoga wagons crossed the Nebraska plains along the worn and rutted Oregon Trail, the tracks of the Union Pacific were already being laid. Telegraph wires had crossed the continent by 1861; the railroad would follow within the decade. Touted as the latest technology to transform space and time, the railroad was to "bind all portions of our country in one homogeneous organism of political, military, social, commercial and Christian nationality and power."² Trains from the East transported consumer goods and consumers alike to the western territories, traversing in a single hour what once had …

Review Of Native American Law And Colonialism, Before 1776 To 1903. Volume 1 Of Native Americans And The Law: Contemporary And Historical Perspectives On American Indian Rights, Freedoms, And Sovereignty Edited With Introductions By John R. Wunder, William T. Hagan

Great Plains Quarterly

This is a worthy project given the growth of activity in Indian law, most of it due to conflicts between states and tribes over gaming and treaty rights, issues proving to be a bonanza for the legal profession and likely to be with us for a long time.

The editor of this new series, John R. Wunder, is well fitted for the task, given his record of research and publication. Volume one's dozen essays, all previously in print, offer something for every reader. Particularly impressive are Joseph C. Burke's "the Cherokee Cases," Wunder's own "No More Treaties," and Sidney L. …

Review Of The Caddos, The Wichitas, And The United States, 1846-1901 By F. Todd Smith, Elizabeth A.H. John

Great Plains Quarterly

An introductory assertion that neither the Caddo nor the Wichita had to endure a particularly traumatic relocation experience will startle any reader who has an inkling of the history of those tribes. Ultimately, it must perplex anyone who perseveres through the ensuing chronicle of repeated dispossession and decimation under the aegis of the governments of Texas and the United States. The first chapter presents further dubious analysis, sometimes irrelevant to the sources cited, in a quixotic attempt to trace both tribes from the '1540s to 1846 in sixteen pages.

Happily, the author hits his stride in chapter two, thenceforth relying …

Review Of "And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women In The Upper Midwest Since 1855 By Linda Mack Schloff, H. Elaine Lindgren

Great Plains Quarterly

Spanning the experiences of early immigrants to those of contemporary women, Linda Mack Schloff's concise yet comprehensive history of the contributions of Jewish women in the upper Midwest is an important addition to the region's ethnic literature. The author successfully integrates disparate information from several time periods, enabling the reader to follow a progression of adaptations and social changes. The resulting mosaic displays general trends but also depicts the ways in which individual women worked out distinct solutions to their circumstances. The study relies heavily on first-person accounts or "voices" of both women and men. Excellent photographs enhance and reinforce …