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Review Of Indian Education In Canada: Volume 1: The Legacy, Dana Lawrence
Review Of Indian Education In Canada: Volume 1: The Legacy, Dana Lawrence
Great Plains Quarterly
This eight-essay volume offers a historical and regional overview of Indian education in Canada and deals largely with very specific examples of the types of education provided to Canada's Indian people up to the decade of the 1970s. Of note, the essays are mostly written by non-Indian authors, although all appear to be knowledgeable about their topics.
From Wasteland To Utopia: Changing Images Of The Canadian In The Nineteeth Century, R. Douglas Francis
From Wasteland To Utopia: Changing Images Of The Canadian In The Nineteeth Century, R. Douglas Francis
Great Plains Quarterly
It is common knowledge that what one perceives is greatly conditioned by what one wants or expects to see. Perception is not an objective act that occurs independently of the observer. One is an active agent in the process and brings to one's awareness certain preconceived values, or a priori assumptions, that enable one to organize the deluge of objects, experiences, and impressions into some meaningful and comprehensive world view. Perception changes as new information or altered perspectives are integrated and thus, one's view of the "objective" external world is affected.
Plains Indian Sculpture: A Traditional Art From America's Heartland., George P. Horse Capture
Plains Indian Sculpture: A Traditional Art From America's Heartland., George P. Horse Capture
Great Plains Quarterly
Many years ago as the beauty and importance of Plains Indian art and history became more essential to my life, I felt the impact of Dr. Ewers long before finally meeting him and his wonderful wife, Marge, in Cody at a Plains Indian seminar fish-fry. We soon made friends and this relationship endures to this day. Knowing of this upcoming work and the extensive research Dr. Ewers devoted to the relatively little-known topic of Plains Indian miniature sculpture, I am elated with this latest publication by a master of the field.
The Indians Of Texas: An Annotatcd Research Bibliography., Joseph B. Herring
The Indians Of Texas: An Annotatcd Research Bibliography., Joseph B. Herring
Great Plains Quarterly
Michael Tate has provided scholars and students alike with a valuable and comprehensive bibliography of the various Indian tribes that once lived within the boundaries of the present state of Texas. Included are 3,796 citations on the native Coahuiltecan, Karankawa, Tonkaw'a, Jumano, \X/ichita, Caddo, Atakapa, Comanche, and Kiowa peoples a:; well as the emigrant Cherokees, AlabamaCoushattas, Seminoles, and Kickapoos who moved to Texas during the first half of the nineteenth century. The work is divided into two books. The first is a tribal arrangement focusing on Indian cultures, and the second is a chronological arrangement of Indian-white rclations from the …
The Life And Times Of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni)., Starr Jenkins
The Life And Times Of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni)., Starr Jenkins
Great Plains Quarterly
Warren Hanna h ere gives us a splendid, complete biography of James Willard Schultz (1 859-1947), a not-so-well -known but excellent writer on the America n West. In 1877, at seventeen, Schultz arrived in Montana Territory and "began to live intimately the life of an Indian [among the Blackfeet] almost from the day he arrived in the West. He ate their food, slept in their lodges , and began to learn the difficult Blackfoot language; he eventually was able not only to speak it well but to think as the Indians did. He began to see the world through the …
Plains Indian Cultures: An Introduction, Frances W. Kaye
Plains Indian Cultures: An Introduction, Frances W. Kaye
Great Plains Quarterly
In March 1986 more than 200 scholars and other participants came to a symposium entitled "Plains Indian Cultures: Past and Present Meanings." The six articles that follow represent a cross section of the conference. Two separate volumes of conference papers, on international perspectives and on policy issues, are to be published later. We thank Vernon Snow and the Snow Foundation for supporting all of these publications.
The Plains Indians Of The Twentieth Century., Thomas F. Schilz
The Plains Indians Of The Twentieth Century., Thomas F. Schilz
Great Plains Quarterly
Peter Iverson's The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century is an attempt to document some of contemporary Plains Indian life. Iverson's collaborators include a number of well-known writers on Indian history and social issues, but their contributions are drawn from previously published works rather than being written for this anthology.
Acculturation By Design: Architectural Determinism And The Montana Indian Reservations, 1870-1930, Carroll Van West
Acculturation By Design: Architectural Determinism And The Montana Indian Reservations, 1870-1930, Carroll Van West
Great Plains Quarterly
Everything the Power of the World docs is done in a circle. The sky is round like a hall, and [ have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs i, the same religion ;1S ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon docs the same, and both arc round. Even the seasons form a great ,circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our teepees …
State And Local Regulations For Reducing Agricultural Erosion And Ecological Planning For Farmland Preservation, Charles Deknatel
State And Local Regulations For Reducing Agricultural Erosion And Ecological Planning For Farmland Preservation, Charles Deknatel
Great Plains Quarterly
The authority to plan and regulate land use in the U.S. belongs to the states and is largely delegated to local governments. Agricultural policy is defined at the national level. These reports introduce planners to two major conservation problems in agriculture-soil erosion and conversion of farmland to other uses. Both documents offer guidance, methods and strategies aimed primarily at local and state action. Neither report offers conclusive analysis nor addresses the national and international market influences on agriculture policy.
West Of Wichita: Settling The High Plains Of Kansas, 1865-1890., David M. Emmons
West Of Wichita: Settling The High Plains Of Kansas, 1865-1890., David M. Emmons
Great Plains Quarterly
Craig Miner's new book is a social history of the settlement of a specific Western region. In methodology and manner of presentation it resembles other "new" social histories. It is interdisciplinary and based on the social scientists' modeling techniques. Miner cites European historians and, what is more remarkable, one can imagine them citing him. He uses unconventional primary materialsmanuscript censuses, tax records, and the reminiscences of the "ordinary" people whose story he tells; he concentrates on the material lives of those people, "the fellows at the bottom," Bertolt Brecht called them, the ones, according to T. E. Lawrence who "did …
Tom Benton And His Drawings: A Biographical Essa)' And A Collection Of His Sketches, Studies, And Mural Cartoons, Richard W. Etulain
Tom Benton And His Drawings: A Biographical Essa)' And A Collection Of His Sketches, Studies, And Mural Cartoons, Richard W. Etulain
Great Plains Quarterly
This volume, which reproduces about two hundred of Thomas Hart Benton's more than two thousand works, is a valuable scholarly study as well as a handsomely produced book about one of the modern West's most significant artists. As such, it avoids the major limitation of many recent works on western art in which academic excellence is sacrificed to the larger-and less notable-aim of producing a visually appealing book with sales potential.
The Assault On Assimilation: John Collier And The Origins Of Indian Policy Reform, Henry E. Fritz
The Assault On Assimilation: John Collier And The Origins Of Indian Policy Reform, Henry E. Fritz
Great Plains Quarterly
About one quarter of this book is devoted to John Collier's interest in various kinds of social experiments before he discovered the American Indian. One learns a great deal about Collier's family background and his association with Mabel Dodge, Stella Atwood, Tony Luhan, Dr. John R. Haynes, and D. H. Lawrence. No additional research will be needed in reference to these aspects of Collier's reform impulse and orientation.
Review Of N. Scott Momaday: The Cultural And Literary Background By Matthias Schubnell, Kenneth C. Mason
Review Of N. Scott Momaday: The Cultural And Literary Background By Matthias Schubnell, Kenneth C. Mason
Great Plains Quarterly
Despite the fact that Momaday's individual books have received a good deal of attention in the form of critical essays, this is the first book-length treatment of his work. It is a happy circumstance, then, for Momaday and for scholars of Native American literature, that Schubnell has written such a broad, penetrating, and extensively researched study. This book will doubtless be the standard Momaday critical text for some time to come.
Foreign Investment In The American And Canadian West, 1870-1914: An Annotated Bibliography, Larry A. Mcfarlane
Foreign Investment In The American And Canadian West, 1870-1914: An Annotated Bibliography, Larry A. Mcfarlane
Great Plains Quarterly
Anne Ostrye, head of reference in the William Coe Library at the University of Wyoming, has compiled a useful annotated bibliography of foreign investment in the North American West. This region includes the tier of states from Texas through the Dakotas and westward to the Pacific (with some information from farther east) and those provinces from Manitoba through British Columbia, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. The foreign investments identified are primarily British, although some Dutch, French, and German ventures are also noted (and after 1900 American investments in Canada).
Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922 And The Nonpartisan League, 1915-22: An Annotated Bibliography, Kathleen Moum
Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922 And The Nonpartisan League, 1915-22: An Annotated Bibliography, Kathleen Moum
Great Plains Quarterly
The Nonpartisan League was a post-Populist movement of farmers that arose in North Dakota in 1915 and rapidly spread throughout the Upper Midwest. Within a few years the League won primary elections against candidates of the established parties and gained control of the North Dakota government. Massive numbers of North Dakota farmers voted to bring in the League and its radical platform. The goal of the League was to alleviate the economic suffering of North Dakota farmers caused by outside forces over which they had no control, and to that end it sponsored a program of progressive legislation that included …
Harvest Of Grief: The Grasshopper Plagues And Public Assistance In Minnesota, 1873-78, Gary D. Olson
Harvest Of Grief: The Grasshopper Plagues And Public Assistance In Minnesota, 1873-78, Gary D. Olson
Great Plains Quarterly
From 1873 to 1878 there occurred one of the worst economic depressions in this country. The western frontier also experienced a second calamity that, with cruel irony, recurred each year for the duration of the depression. This calamity, the grasshopper infestation, is the subject of this book. The author has focused her attention upon the "grasshopper plagues and public assistance in Minnesota" from 1873-1878. It is her purpose to study "the response to the plagues personally, locally, and at the state and national levels" in order to understand attitudes, and to examine the relationship between farm people and their government. …
Thunderstorm Morphology And Dynamics, Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged., Alec H. Paul
Thunderstorm Morphology And Dynamics, Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged., Alec H. Paul
Great Plains Quarterly
This is Volume 2 in the three-volume series Thunderstorms: A Social, Scientific, and Technological Documentary. The first, The Thunderstorm in Human Affairs, was reviewed in Great Plains Quarterly, Summer 1984. This second offering is also a fine product but is highly technical in places, much larger, more detailed, and considerably more expensive. It is a book for the thunderstorm specialist rather than for the general reader.
Climate Of The Great Plains Region Of The United States, Norman J. Rosenberg
Climate Of The Great Plains Region Of The United States, Norman J. Rosenberg
Great Plains Quarterly
The climate of the Great Plains is extreme and variable. A wide range of weather conditions can occur within the period of a day, from one day to the next, from season to season, and from year to year. There are two key reasons for this situation: (1) the greatest portion of the Plains is remote from any major body of water and (2) air masses of differing characteristics alternate frequently in their dominance of the region.
Review Of Union Busting In The Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas, And Missouri Metal Workers' Strike Of 1935., Arrell Morgan Gibson
Review Of Union Busting In The Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas, And Missouri Metal Workers' Strike Of 1935., Arrell Morgan Gibson
Great Plains Quarterly
The National Industry Recovery Act (1933) and National Labor Relations Act (1935) substantially improved the lot of most American workers by assuring their federally-mandated right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. Union Busting reveals a worker community-the Tri-State District (Southwest Missouri centering on Joplin, Southeast Kansas centering on Galena/Baxter Springs, and Northeast Oklahoma centering on Picher/ Commerce/Miami)-that was denied the benefits of that reform legislation. Opened in the 1840s, by 1900 this bonanza was rated the richest lead and zinc mining region in the world, and the industry it sustained was valued at one billion dollars.
Farm Consolidation In The Northern And Central States Of The Great Plains, Bradley H. Baltensperger
Farm Consolidation In The Northern And Central States Of The Great Plains, Bradley H. Baltensperger
Great Plains Quarterly
During the past half century, American agriculture has been revolutionized and rural America has been dramatically transformed. The industrial revolution had arrived in American agriculture in the 1840s when machines and animal power began replacing some hand tools wielded by humans. But not until the 1930s, when petroleum-driven machines rapidly displaced both animal and human power, did this revolution intensify sufficiently to have significant impacts on rural life and farm numbers. Since that time, reliance on farm-produced inputs-fertilizer, seed, energy-has given way to dependence on purchased factors of production. The commercial aspects of farming have nearly obliterated the subsistence components. …
The Transition From Farming To Ranching In The Kansas Flint Hills, Joseph V. Hickey, Charels E. Webb
The Transition From Farming To Ranching In The Kansas Flint Hills, Joseph V. Hickey, Charels E. Webb
Great Plains Quarterly
For more than a century the Flint Hills have been a stronghold of the livestock industry, an area of Kansas devoted almost exclusively to the feeding and breeding of cattle. One of the last large segments of tall grass prairie that once stretched from Canada to Texas and from Kansas to Indiana, the Flint Hills region covers some five thousand square miles of rolling hills and narrow valleys in east central Kansas. The Flint Hills embrace all or parts of thirteen counties: Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Geary, Greenwood, Lyon, Marion, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and Wabaunsee (fig. 1).1
Review Of Prohibition In Kansas: A History, Patrick G. O'Brien
Review Of Prohibition In Kansas: A History, Patrick G. O'Brien
Great Plains Quarterly
Owner of the prohibition longevity record, Kansas has a history that in large part focuses on the suppression of intoxicating beverages. Prohibition divided Kansans longer and deeper than any other issue, and none is better to explain the social texture and personality of the state. Eschewing that opportunity, historians have tended to minimize its importance and treat it in a cursory fashion. This book is the first scholarly and comprehensive analysis of prohibition from inception to demise in the purportedly driest state iIi America. The examination of Kansas in a broad context also adds a dimension to prohibition as a …
Prohibition And The Kansas Progressive Example, Patrick G. O'Brien
Prohibition And The Kansas Progressive Example, Patrick G. O'Brien
Great Plains Quarterly
Wets and drys freely exchanged epithets as Kansas began the twentieth century. They agreed only upon the fact of mass violations of prohibition. Kansas was dry in law and had local option in reality; and cities like Wichita, Kansas City, and Leavenworth had open saloons that conducted business on main streets in full public view. Kansas had a vast amount of "wet" territory, but estimates varied on exactly how much. One report of the Kansas Temperance Union stated that two thirds of the 129 cities and towns surveyed in 1900 ignored prohibition laws.1
Nature In Don Segundo Sombra And The Virginian, John Donahue
Nature In Don Segundo Sombra And The Virginian, John Donahue
Great Plains Quarterly
Environment and culture shape human beings, both as individuals and as societies. In all the vast plains of the Americas where a cattle industry developed, a human type evolved a distinct way of life: the gaucho in Argentina, the charro in Mexico, the llanero in Venezuela, the guaso in Chile, and the cowboy in the United States and Canada. 1 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, an Argentine intellectual who was an avid reader of James Fenimore Cooper, was perhaps the first to state clearly in regard to the Americas that wherever a similar combination of geographical features occurs, parallel customs and occupations …
Review Of Prairie Women: Images In American And Canadian Fiction, Susan J. Rosowski
Review Of Prairie Women: Images In American And Canadian Fiction, Susan J. Rosowski
Great Plains Quarterly
In Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction, Carol Fairbanks has taken materials suitable for a fine annotated bibliography, then, disappointingly, presented them in the guise of critical interpretation.
Review Of The Prairie West: Historical Readings, John C. Scott O.S.B.
Review Of The Prairie West: Historical Readings, John C. Scott O.S.B.
Great Plains Quarterly
The Prairie West makes available thirty-two essays which provide "both overview interpretations and current research" on the history of the Canadian Prairie West. Although the book lacks an index (which would make its content more easily accessible for readers with very specific interests), each of the volume's fourteen sections is preceded by a very competent and instructive introduction as well as a "Selected Bibliography."
Comparative Frontier Scoial Life: Western Saloons And Argentine Pulperias, Richard W. Slatta
Comparative Frontier Scoial Life: Western Saloons And Argentine Pulperias, Richard W. Slatta
Great Plains Quarterly
In sparsely populated cattle frontier regions of the nineteenth century, only a limited number of social institutions functioned. The ranch, as a central socioeconomic complex, took on added importance. Ranch owners often took upon themselves political and legal powers exercised by civic officials in more settled areas. In the cattle regions of the American West and the pampas of Argentina, taverns were important local institutions. A comparison of social activities in the western saloon and the Argentine pulperi'a-a combination country store and tavern-reveals strong similarities. As frontier institutions, they served analogous multiple functions, and their cowboy and gaucho patrons behaved …
Review Of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, Patricia L. Yongue
Review Of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, Patricia L. Yongue
Great Plains Quarterly
I remain unconvinced that Willa Cather led even the emotional life of a lesbian. Cather, I think, communicates a sympathy for heterosexuality, an increasing remoteness from sexuality altogether, and a valuing of woman "unnatural" because "unAmerican." Cather early suspected-and regretted-that her intimidating reserve about sexuality, moderated by Victorian and Southern gender polity, prohibited the flowering of intimacy. Instead of the risky intimacies, Cather sought what an intellectually strong but sexually reticent woman might seek: stimulating or "useful" friendships-with women and with men. Her major characters repeat the pattern. They experience intense excitements; often they transform obvious sexual emotion into other …