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Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider
Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider
Great Plains Quarterly
One aftermath of European colonization of the eastern United States was the westward migration of many eastern Indian tribes. Among the hundreds of tribes that uprooted themselves and sought new lands were the Mesquakie, more commonly referred to as the Fox or Sauk and Fox, who migrated from the area around Green Bay, Wisconsin, into eastern Iowa in the late 1700s and adapted so well to their new home that they took unique steps to become permanent residents. In 1846, under pressure of Iowa statehood, their tribe sold their land in Iowa and moved to Kansas, but in 1856 the …
Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart
Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart
Great Plains Quarterly
The objectives of this encyclopedia, as explained by the author in the introduction, are "to present the widest possible body of reference material on the Central West" and also "to offer a readable work, one to be dipped into for enjoyment as well as information" (5). There is no disputing the breadth of the coverage, which extends geographically from North Dakota to Texas and from Nebraska to western Colorado and topically from geology to tourism. Nor can it be denied that the entries are interesting. But conceptually the choice of area is open to dispute, and a close reading of …
Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson
Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson
Great Plains Quarterly
The woman is the foundation on which nations are built.
She is the heart of her nation.
If that heart is weak the people are weak.
If her heart is strong and her mind is clear
then the nation is strong and knows its purpose.
The woman is the centre of everything.
But equally, women must honour men;
If not, then everything is out of balance
and we can have nothing but chaos and pain.
These are the first elements that must be
put back together
or nothing, but nothing
can come right again. 1
Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten
Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten
Great Plains Quarterly
When Gladys Leffler Gist remarked in her reminiscences that she and her husband Ray had witnessed "considerable 'for better and for worse'" during their forty years together, she could just as well have been describing the "marriage" between farmers and the agricultural economy during the same period. Depression and drought, of course, challenged those people making their livings from the land and in many ways dominated their impressions of those years. Of more long-term importance, however, were the "vast and fundamental changes" that, according to Gilbert Fite, stemmed from the "application of new technology, chemistry, and plant and animal sciences" …
Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton
Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton
Great Plains Quarterly
The University of North Texas Press has launched a new series of criticaVbiographical studies of Texas writers and has started, appropriately, with one of the best novelists writing today-in Texas or elsewhere. Elmer Kelton has published twenty-seven novels interpreting the development of Texas from the beginning of settlement by Anglos to the present.
Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim
Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim
Great Plains Quarterly
The definition, surveying, and particularly the marking, with quartzite monuments, of the state boundary between North and South Dakota provide the major themes for this study. It is obvious that the author, who was born and raised in South Dakota and now teaches history in North Dakota, has a special fondness for these monuments. While the study will be of primary interest to North and South Dakota state and local history enthusiasts, the book will also interest political geographers and historians (as a case study in the establishment of two states and their boundary) and cartographic historians (as an example …
Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson
Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson
Great Plains Quarterly
Oklahoma Mammalogy is a very thorough annotated bibliography and checklist for the rich mammal life of that state. Oklahoma has eastern, western, southern, and northern species and a varied topography, emphasized by the Wichita Mountains. Many mammalogists have studied and collected there.
Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf
Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf
Great Plains Quarterly
Writing Saskatchewan is the gleanings of a symposium celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts held at Fort San in the Qu' Appelle Valley near Regina in June of 1987. Focusing on poetry (the long poem as well as the lyric), the novel, drama, and linked sequences of short stories, these essays collectively suggest the striking richness, range, and vitality of creative writing in the central prairie province-writing that is anything but provincial.
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
For most Americans, "The Great Plains" evokes images of grasslands, dust storms, prairie fires, Indians on horseback, cowboys and wheat lands, and perhaps flat valleys crossed by braided rivers carrying a heavy load of sand and gravel, extremes of weather, and a climate typified by an alternation of droughts and wetter periods. Geologists picture such general images, too, but they also see radical changes in the landscape over periods expressed in millions rather than hundreds of years. Geologically speaking, human activities on the Great Plains are too recent to have much of a place in the broad geologic history of …
Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern
Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern
Great Plains Quarterly
Although I am now sixty-eight years old, I have thought of myself during the past half century since my eighteenth birthday as a young man. Perhaps that is partly because I have been blessed with good health and personal vigor, but it may also be because I was born and reared in a young State. South Dakota was only thirtytwo years old when I first came on the scene at Avon in 1922. My father, a pioneer Dakota clergyman, whom I always thought of as an old man, was born in 1868--twenty-one years before South Dakota achieved statehood. He knew …
Review Of Women With Vision: The Presentation Sisters Of South Dakota, 1880-1985, Sandra Schackel
Review Of Women With Vision: The Presentation Sisters Of South Dakota, 1880-1985, Sandra Schackel
Great Plains Quarterly
In the mid-eighteenth century, a young Irish woman, Nano Nagle, renounced her wealthy upper-class background and dedicated herself to ministering to the poor. Her belief in "women's potential as nurturers and ethical models for children" prompted her to establish several schools for needy boys and girls as well as to minister to the sick. After Nagle's death, the order she founded in 1776 became known as the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and as part of a growing movement among Catholics in America in the ineteenth century, the Presentation sisters expanded their outreach to the American …
"Proving Up And Moving Up": Jewish Homesteading Activity In North Dakota, 1900-1920, Janet E. Schulte
"Proving Up And Moving Up": Jewish Homesteading Activity In North Dakota, 1900-1920, Janet E. Schulte
Great Plains Quarterly
In the spring of 1908, Morris Zemsky, a Russian- Jewish immigrant homesteading in Ashley, North Dakota, sent a letter to the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) of the Baron de Hirsch Fund in New York. Joseph Kaminer, Secretary of the Ashley Farmer's Bureau, wrote the note for Zemsky, who spoke only Yiddish. The letter requested advice on the condition of Zemsky's parents "who are now in New York and are actually starving to death. As they are several in the family and no one of them can find work."1 Zemsky requested the IRO to send his parents to his North …
The Segesser Hide Paintings: History, Discovery, Art, Thomas E. Chávez
The Segesser Hide Paintings: History, Discovery, Art, Thomas E. Chávez
Great Plains Quarterly
T here is no doubt that the Segesser hide paintings are among the most novel and important artifacts of the Spanish Colonial history of New Mexico. As aesthetic works they are striking and as hide paintings they are unique. As historical documents they have already sparked revisions in historical interpretation of the period, providing valuable information on significant factors such as modes of warfare, uniforms and clothing, and the war panoply of the Plains Indians. As artifacts, they are among the most valuable acquisitions made by the Museum of New Mexico. Most important, their presence in the Palace of the …
The Hispanic Presence On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Miguel A. Carranza
The Hispanic Presence On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Miguel A. Carranza
Great Plains Quarterly
In April 1989, the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored its thirteenth annual symposium on the topic "The Hispanic Presence on the Great Plains." Scholars from across the United States and Mexico presented papers on a wide variety of topics covering the history, culture, politics, and images of people of Spanish origin on the Great Plains. These presentations focused on the Hispanic presence from the early Spanish explorers who entered the southern fringes of the Great Plains, to the vast migrations of Mexicans coming to "EI Norte" beginning in the early 1900s, to the creation …
Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez
Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez
Great Plains Quarterly
Prior to this work did we have a well-balanced portrayal of the Tejano (Mexican American) who resided in the South, Central, and West Texas counties during the last half of the nineteenth century? Evidently not.
Review Of The Good Red Road: Passages Into Native America., Raymond J. Demallie
Review Of The Good Red Road: Passages Into Native America., Raymond J. Demallie
Great Plains Quarterly
In John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, the red road represents the path of life, of peace, and of the continuity of the generations. To many American Indians today it stands for the old, traditional ways, a state of being in harmony with the universe. In this book, the symbol of the red road has been generalized to embrace all humanity, a deeply-felt psychological sense of oneness and balance that serves as counterpoint to the frenetic lifestyle of modem America.
Review Of Historical Atlas Of Texas., Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Historical Atlas Of Texas., Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
This volume, the latest in a well-known series published by the University of Oklahoma Press, offers sixty-four topics relating to the history and geography of Texas with accompanying maps. The first six topics outline basic geographic characteristics-location, topography, physio-graphical regions, rainfall, and native plant life. Then follow two dozen maps that treat topics antedating the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845. They include the route followed by various explorers from Cabeza de Vaca in the sixteenth century to the James Long expeditions of 1819-22, as well as several topics relating to the Republic of Texas, 1836. The …
Review Of The Shortgrass Prairie, James H. Locklear
Review Of The Shortgrass Prairie, James H. Locklear
Great Plains Quarterly
Perhaps the most poorly known and least appreciated ecosystem in all of the U.S. is the shortgrass prairie. It is not as though this vegetation type only occurs in a limited area of the country. Shortgrass prairie dominates the landscape of an enormous region stretching from Canada to New Mexico. Why is there so little understanding of this expansive grassland? Perhaps it is because few people have bothered to write about it. Ruth Cushman and Stephen Jones took on this task and we may be thankful to have their book, The Shortgrass Prairie.
Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
This multidisciplinary bibliography with annotations offers a judicious sampling of the best published work on American regions and regionalism. It is so useful that most scholars seriously working in regionalism will want to benefit from the authors' wide-ranging yet measured assessments.
Review Of Cow Town Lawyers: Dodge City And Its Attorneys, 1878-1886, Craig Miner
Review Of Cow Town Lawyers: Dodge City And Its Attorneys, 1878-1886, Craig Miner
Great Plains Quarterly
Ironically the feature to which this book serves as a corrective is doubtless a major reason for its publication-the notoriety of the name Dodge City in the popular consciousness. Haywood points out in his last chapter, and adequately demonstrates in his text, that the Front Street reconstruction and the wild and wooly stories of the "Beautiful, Bibulous Babylon of the Frontier" that Easterners hear are not an adequate representation of the town even in its boisterous salad days. He also points out that Dodge was consciously cultivating its wild image as a means of economic development during its cattle town …
Review Of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, And Other Expressions Of Western Canadian Mennonites, Victor Peters
Review Of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, And Other Expressions Of Western Canadian Mennonites, Victor Peters
Great Plains Quarterly
Canada and the United States provide the home for two basic types of Mennonites who have little more than their beliefs in common. The older group settled mainly in the east and came to America directly from various German states. Their immigration began in 1683 and initiated the broader stream of German immigration. The other group were the West Prussian Mennonites who left their homes in Russia and came to Canada and the United States in the 1870s.
Review Of Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Richard K. Sutton
Review Of Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Richard K. Sutton
Great Plains Quarterly
Popularized books on wildflowers are not hard to find, though it seems the prairie has been nearly ignored. This is perhaps because there is less of that original biome left than any other and the particular comeliness of the individual wildflower is diluted by a matrix of grass. Runkel and Roosa have produced an excellent picture book, with readable text, in which they cover derivation of Latin names, ecological and botanical descriptions, and anecdotal information on plant use by Native Americans. Its interesting organization follows the bloom sequence of more than 130 dicots and monocots throughout the year, though the …
Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough
Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough
Great Plains Quarterly
Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian West is a fine example of a department's contribution to regional studies. The eight essays from six contributors in an attractive, readable, and well-bound monograph are a useful addition to western Canadian studies. The essays (Darby, "From River Boat to Raillines: Circulation Patterns in the Canadian West during the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century"; Holmes, "The Canmore Corridor, 1880-1914: A Case Study of the Selection and Development of a Pass Site"; Hadley, "Photography, Tourism and the CPR: Western Canada, 1884- 1914"; Evans, "The Origin of Ranching in Western Canada: American Diffusion …
Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon
Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon
Great Plains Quarterly
Despite the turmoil of Sioux cultural losses since contact with Anglo-European culture, the Oglala Sioux have maintained an interest in herbal medicines, although with each passing generation the number of plants actively used for curing has diminished. Fewer people have been learning the identification of plant medicines and their uses, the procedures for preparing plants, and the techniques of herbal cures. Many of the older Sioux blame reservation boarding schools for the disruption of cultural transmission, but other factors have been at work as well.
More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller
More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller
Great Plains Quarterly
"IT'S A GO," read the jubilant headline in the Huron Daily Huronite on 21 February 1889, one day after Congress passed the Omnibus Bill admitting four new states into the Union South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington.1 The following day, despite speculation that he might veto the legislation, President Grover Cleveland signed the bill into law, setting into motion a process that formally conferred statehood on South Dakota on 2 November 1889. For almost a decade momentum had been building in southern Dakota for this day, and people's frustrations with Congressional inaction had grown apace.2
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Plains Indians In New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance, Russell M. Magnaghi
Plains Indians In New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance, Russell M. Magnaghi
Great Plains Quarterly
T he colonial period in American history must, include not only the English experience on the Atlantic shore but the Spanish story in the Southwest and the approaches to the Great Plains. l Part of the New Mexican story is the emergence of a new people who become part of our multicultural experience, the detribalized Indians of the Plains and Mountains who were given the name genfzaros and were eventually absorbed into Pueblo-Spanish society. 2 The Spanish had tried to implement their Indian policy on the Great Plains, but frustrated by the environment and the native people, they remained in …
Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés
Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés
Great Plains Quarterly
The sugar beet industry was in the forefront of the opening of the northern Great Plains to commercial agriculture. At the end of the nineteenth century, massive expanses of cheap land with ideal climatic and soil conditions were available on the Plains, but the sparse population afforded few farmers or field workers to block, thin, hoe, and top the sugar beets. Between 1890 and World War II, the sugar corporations devised three labor recruitment strategies that created classes of settlers, sojourners, and proletarians on the Great Plains. This essay examines the interaction between the sugar beet industry and its field …
Review Of Home Town News: William Allen White & The Emporia Gazette, William R. Elkins
Review Of Home Town News: William Allen White & The Emporia Gazette, William R. Elkins
Great Plains Quarterly
Sally Foreman Griffith uses the life of William Allen White, noted editor of The Emporia Gazette, as the vehicle for an insightful examination into the "role of journalism in American culture." Acknowledging that her book is a biography, Griffith nevertheless makes clear that she uses White's career "as a window, or perhaps . . . a prism to observe the communication process as a complex interaction among communicator, audience, and medium, involving many different facets, including the psychological, social, cultural, economic, technological, and political." Put more simply, Griffith gives us a fascinating look into small-town (Emporia, Kansas) America and …