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Review Of Atlas Of American Indian Affairs, Larry Burt
Review Of Atlas Of American Indian Affairs, Larry Burt
Great Plains Quarterly
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
Review Of Kiva, Cross, And Crown: The Pecos Indians And New Mexico 1540-1840, Charles R. Cutter
Great Plains Quarterly
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
Review Of Letters Of Mari Sandoz, Betsy Downey
Great Plains Quarterly
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 Sending My Heart Back Across The Years: Tradition And Innovation In Native American Autobiography, Kari Forbes-Boyte
Review Of Sending My Heart Back Across The Years: Tradition And Innovation In Native American Autobiography, Kari Forbes-Boyte
Great Plains Quarterly
In Sending My Heart Back Across the Years, Hertha Wong, an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, expands the definition of autobiography to include non-Western self-expressions. The author lays to rest the assumption that autobiography is Western by relating how Native Americans have traditionally told their personal narratives through "stories, pictographs, and performances." The purpose of the book is to utilize contemporary autobiographical theory to trace the changes in Native American autobiography from pre-contact forms to contemporary styles. Wong is interested in enlarging the field of autobiographical studies to include non-written forms of narrative as …
Review Of Gardening In The Heartland., Amy Greving
Review Of Gardening In The Heartland., Amy Greving
Great Plains Quarterly
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.
Review Of Without Quarter: The Wichita Expedition And The Fight On Crooked Creek, Fort Meade And The Black Hills, And Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles And The Great Sioux War 1876-1877., Charles Kenner
Great Plains Quarterly
All of these books share the fact that not only do they deal with the Plains Indian military frontier but also that their subjects have had relatively little written about them. They differ widely, however, in scope and depth of research.
Review Of Tejano Origins In Eighteenth-Century San Antonio, Paul D. Lack
Review Of Tejano Origins In Eighteenth-Century San Antonio, Paul D. Lack
Great Plains Quarterly
The decade of the 1990s has already produced pivotal new studies on the northern frontier of New Spain by David Weber and on Spanish Texas by Donald Chipman. Though more narrowly focused in scope, this volume likewise makes a significant contribution in terms of new knowledge and re-assessment.
Review Of Mills & Mine: The Cf&I In The Twentiethcentury., Clare V. Mckanna Jr.
Review Of Mills & Mine: The Cf&I In The Twentiethcentury., Clare V. Mckanna Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
Following in the tradition of his earlier work, Pioneer Steelmaker in the West (1976), H. Lee Scamehorn concludes his history ofCF&I. There is no need to guess here-this is a history of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company from the company's perspective. Scamehorn criticizes earlier historians for emphasizing "labor policies, particularly the coal miners' strike of 1913-14," that tended to ignore the "firm's important role in the evolution of Colorado and the American West." Then the author sets out to chronicle the growth and eventual decline of the steel works at Pueblo, Colorado, and the various coal mining operations located …
Review Of Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer In Psychology, Kevin B. Miller
Review Of Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer In Psychology, Kevin B. Miller
Great Plains Quarterly
Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer in Psychology, by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., presents a cogent portrait of an individual whose work and personality helped shape his community. As such, this biography resurrects Wolfe's life and contributions from their obscure condition, brief footnotes in a few psychology texts. Benjamin's work is a vital biography which will appeal to a diverse audience far beyond the scope its title suggests.
Review Of Larger Than Life: The American T All-Tale Postcard, 1905-1915., Lana Miller
Review Of Larger Than Life: The American T All-Tale Postcard, 1905-1915., Lana Miller
Great Plains Quarterly
If the trials and tribulations of everyday living have you down you should pick up this wonderfully amusing book. Inside is revealed a fascinating and funny slice of the early 1900s Americana known as the tall-tale postcard.
Review Of Relations Of Rescue: The Search For Female Moral Authority In The American West, 1874-1939, Karen Morin
Review Of Relations Of Rescue: The Search For Female Moral Authority In The American West, 1874-1939, Karen Morin
Great Plains Quarterly
If plenary speeches at the Coalition for Western Women's History conference in the summer of 1992 in Lincoln, Nebraska, are any indication, the 1990s have begun with an apparent methodological consensus by women's historians: that race and class conflict and cooperation, as well as gender differences, must serve as organizing themes for a genuine history of western women. In Relations of Rescue, Peggy Pascoe, professor of history at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, delivers an excellent model for framing such multicultural research. Her starting point for the history of Protestant missionary women in the late nineteenth …
Review Of Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Lisa Knopp-Ramsay
Review Of Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Lisa Knopp-Ramsay
Great Plains Quarterly
If we are to make valid critical interpretations of Native American literature, we must "discover, or rediscover, cultural values other than those rooted in Western aesthetic or individual aesthetic sensibilities," Laura ColtelIi recommends. She provides this perspective through a series of ten "oral autobiographies" (interviews) with contemporary American Indian authors. This format provides a particularly poignant form of self-revelation given the rich oral tradition of First Americans.
Review Of The Vanishing American: White Attitudes And U.S. Indian Policy, Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington
Review Of The Vanishing American: White Attitudes And U.S. Indian Policy, Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington
Great Plains Quarterly
Last spring, as we cleared several generations worth of household goods and memorabilia from the Ridington family home in Westminster, Maryland, we came upon a framed print of "Appeal to the Great Spirit." In it, an Indian "brave" sits astride his horse, his head flung back, his arms beseechingly out at his sides, his palms up. The body language tells of grief and supplication, and of one last desperate hope. The colors are brown, yellow, and orange, the tones of sunset. When we read Brian Dippie's The Vanishing American, we realized that "Appeal to the Great Spirit," or works …
Review Of Wyoming Time And Again: Rephotographing The Scenes Of J. E. Stimson, Phil Roberts
Review Of Wyoming Time And Again: Rephotographing The Scenes Of J. E. Stimson, Phil Roberts
Great Plains Quarterly
From 1889 until his death in 1952, ]. E. Stimson photographed Wyoming scenes. A year after he died, the state of Wyoming purchased the 7526 photographs, many of which were 8" x 10" glassplate negatives. Although he seems less well known, Stimson was to Wyoming photography what Solomon Butcher was in Nebraska or L. A. Huffman was in eastern Montana.
Review Of The Anglican Church And The World Of Western Canada, 1820-1970, John C. Scott
Review Of The Anglican Church And The World Of Western Canada, 1820-1970, John C. Scott
Great Plains Quarterly
Decrying "the mutual insularity of religious and secular historical work" in Canada and elsewhere editor Barry Ferguson describes the essays in this volume as attempts at building a "bridge" between the two. Seventeen short, single- author chapters attempt to assess "some of the actual roles and designs" of the Anglican Church and its diverse institutions and personnel in the Canadian prairie and northern West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ferguson's introductory essay demonstrates why "church history has hardly been absorbed into the mainstream of Canadian historiography" and also provides an overview of the other essays. L. G. Thomas describes …
Review Of The Osage Ceremonial Dance I'N-Lon-Schka, Mark J. Swetland
Review Of The Osage Ceremonial Dance I'N-Lon-Schka, Mark J. Swetland
Great Plains Quarterly
The Osage Ceremonial Dance l' n-Lon-Schka, by Alice Anne Callahan, is a fascinating look at contemporary (1970s) Osage ceremonialism. Acquired from the neighboring Kaws and Poncas in the 1880s, the I'n-Lon-Schka is reportedly the only surviving Osage ceremony that contains both song and dance. Drawing heavily from oral interviews, the author presents a composite picture of the dance that honors the eldest son.
Review Of Myles Keogh: The Life And Legend Of An "Irish Dragoon" In The Seventh Cavalry, Michael L. Tate
Review Of Myles Keogh: The Life And Legend Of An "Irish Dragoon" In The Seventh Cavalry, Michael L. Tate
Great Plains Quarterly
During the summer of 1990, the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum hosted a symposium of Custer scholars and buffs. Rather than devoting their exclusive attention to the subtleties of the legendary 1876 "Last Stand," these researchers examined the life of the second most recognized soldier to emerge from the fight at Little Big Horn-Captain Myles Keogh. The product of their labors has now been published as eighteen loosely integrated essays in this oversized and expensive book that comprises volume 9 in Upton's "Montana and the West Series." Because of its dimensions, its inclusion of more than sixty photographs, and its …
Review Of The Ghost In The Little House: A Life Of Rose Wilder Lane, Alan Wilkinson
Review Of The Ghost In The Little House: A Life Of Rose Wilder Lane, Alan Wilkinson
Great Plains Quarterly
It is only in the past twenty years or so that scholars have begun to investigate what ought to have been apparent all along-that Rose Wilder Lane, already a moderately successful journalist, biographer, and novelist, played a major role in producing the nine Little House books credited to her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Necessity Of Narrative In William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways And Prairyerth, Pamela Walker
The Necessity Of Narrative In William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways And Prairyerth, Pamela Walker
Great Plains Quarterly
In the essay "Journeys into Kansas," William Least Heat-Moon articulates his theory of travel writing, indicating his understanding of the purposes of travel writing in general and of his two books in particular, along with the problems inherent in achieving those purposes. A reading of Blue Highways and PrairyErth in light of "Journeys into Kansas" reveals how HeatMoon realizes his goals more fully in Blue Highways, which entails a personal narrative, than in PrairyErth, which, unlike Blue Highways, lacks a personal narrative and is as much a meditation on its own writing and HeatMoon's theory of its …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1994 Vol. 14 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1994 Vol. 14 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents And The Sioux Indian Disturbances Of 1890-1891, Todd Kerstetter
Review Of A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents And The Sioux Indian Disturbances Of 1890-1891, Todd Kerstetter
Great Plains Quarterly
Newspapers played a key role in disseminating information and, unfortunately, misinformation about the Ghost Dance among the Lakotas. They also contributed to tension between the United States and the Lakotas that resulted in the grisly massacre at Wounded Knee. George R. Kolbenschlag's A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents and the Sioux Indian Disturbances of 1890-1891 sheds light on the men and women responsible for reporting on the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre and lends understanding to the nature of the reporters' activities.
Review Of Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography And Historical Atlas Of Kansas., Patrick G. O'Brien
Review Of Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography And Historical Atlas Of Kansas., Patrick G. O'Brien
Great Plains Quarterly
These two highly disparate reference works will amply serve any inquisitor into Kansas history.
Review Of The Upstream People: An Annotated Research Bibliography Of The Omaha Tribe, Mark J. Swetland
Review Of The Upstream People: An Annotated Research Bibliography Of The Omaha Tribe, Mark J. Swetland
Great Plains Quarterly
Michael Tate has gathered nearly 1900 documents related to the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and Iowa, providing the reader of The Upstream People with a valuable research tool. Divided into 32 sections with cultural or historical subject headings, each entry is accompanied by a summary and/or critique. Since each item is provided with only a single index entry, browsing the book does require a bit of creativity. Nonetheless, it is a handy device for anyone interested in Omaha research materials.
Living In The Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station On The Northern Plains, H.Roger Grant
Living In The Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station On The Northern Plains, H.Roger Grant
Great Plains Quarterly
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
Architecture And The Great Plains: An Introduction, H.Keith Sawyers
Great Plains Quarterly
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.
"The Best Kind Of Building" The New Deal Landscape Of The Northern Plains, 1993-42, Carroll Van West
"The Best Kind Of Building" The New Deal Landscape Of The Northern Plains, 1993-42, Carroll Van West
Great Plains Quarterly
"'VWel are definitely in an era of building; the best kind of building-the building of great public projects for the benefit of the public and with the definite objective of building human happiness," proclaimed President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he introduced his New Deal programs of recovery and reform.1 From 1933 to 1942 such federal agencies as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Public Works Administration (PW A), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration (WPA) gave a new look to the northern plains landscape by placing a federal facade on the public …
Notes And News For Vol.14 No.2
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1994 Vol. 14 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1994 Vol. 14 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of Freedom On The Border: The Seminole Maroons In Florida, The Indian Territory, Coahuila, And Texas, Rebecca B. Bateman
Review Of Freedom On The Border: The Seminole Maroons In Florida, The Indian Territory, Coahuila, And Texas, Rebecca B. Bateman
Great Plains Quarterly
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 Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925., Susan E. Gray
Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925., Susan E. Gray
Great Plains Quarterly
Prevailing Over Time is an exploration of the development of Swedish, Russian Mennonite, and French Canadian farming communities in central Kansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. McQuillan examines the immigrants' adoption of American social practices and the adjustment of ethnic and nativeborn settlers to farming in an area of unpredictable rainfall.