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Review Of Lakota Storytelling: Black Elk, Ella Deloria, And Frank Fools Crow, Thomas F. Schilz

Great Plains Quarterly

The reciting of oral traditions, or storytelling, is the oldest form of human literary achievement. But because time changes everything, including oral traditions, human societies finally are forced to put their stories into written form to preserve them for posterity.

Review Of Kaw Valley Landscapes, Huber Self

Great Plains Quarterly

This revised edition describes views a tourist might see when circling the Kansas or Kaw River valley from Kansas City on the north, westward to Wamego in Pottawatomie County and from Alma in Wabaunsee County, south of the river, back to Kansas City.

Review Of Hasinai: A Traditional History Of The Caddo Confederacy, Dee Ann Story

Great Plains Quarterly

This slender but far ranging volume presents the modem Hasinai Caddo view of their origin and traditional lifeways. It is based primarily on oral traditions and secondarily on published and archival material. The information culled from these sources is woven into a framework of twelve chapters, each of which is introduced by a description of a dance. All but one of the dances make up a night's cycle of ceremonial song and dance that reenact the tribal history.

Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Michael L. Tate

Great Plains Quarterly

More than a century has elapsed since George Armstrong Custer led his command into a military disaster on the hills above the Little Big Horn River. Yet public fascination with this man and his immortalized "Last Stand" has never waned as each new generation hungers for definitive explanations of his enigmatic life.

Review Of For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, Courtney Vaughn-Roberson

Great Plains Quarterly

For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, by Stella Gipson Polk, is a touching autobiography that tempts the reader by offering only a glimpse into the author's life. It is a series of vignettes primarily about Stella and the school children who, from 1918 to 1965, she taught and nurtured in several one-room country schools on the West Texas prairie. Thus, the book's organization flows from Stella's own remembrances, includes few pointedly personal insights about the author, and evades self-aggrandizement.

Coronado, Quivira, And Kansas: An Archeologist's View, Waldo R. Weldel

Great Plains Quarterly

Four hundred and forty-nine years ago this summer, the Kansas prairies were visited for the first time by white men. These were a select group of Spanish adventurers from Mexico led by a thirty-year-old nobleman by the name of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado. Francisco was a lad of eleven years when Hernando Cortez looted the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and sent back to Spain a vast treasure in gold, silver, and precious stones. One of several younger sons, and thus denied by the rule of primogeniture from inheriting any significant share of the family patrimony, Francisco followed …

The Contest For The "Nile Of America": Kansas V. Colorado (1907), James E. Sherow

Great Plains Quarterly

T he United States Supreme Court took its first notice of interstate squabbling over western water courses in the suit Kansas v. Colorado, 1907. ¹ The decision failed to stem a steady onslaught of interstate water litigation, but the justices did achieve the means to adjudge water disputes between states. To understand the justices' accomplishment, or lack of it, requires what James Willard Hurst called a "social history of law," law related to society and to ideas outside the narrow confines of jurisprudence. Such a methodology proves a useful means for understanding the significance of Kansas v. Colorado. …

Spanish Exploration And The Great Plains In The Age Of Discovery: Myth And Reality, Ralph H. Vigil

Great Plains Quarterly

T his essay attempts to place Spanish exploration on the Great Plains within the context of the temper and feelings prevailing in the first century of the "discovery" of the West. ¹ Because many writers of texts and more specialized works view the past in the light of the present, European expansion in the sixteenth century appears to be more modem than it was. This paper views Spaniards of the early colonial period as more medieval than modem in outlook; it also suggests that mythological geography and mixed spiritual and worldly motives, considered incompatible in our day, were as important …

The Dynamics Of Working Class Cultural Practice : An Ethnography Of Media Activities In Women Textile Workers, Ubonrat Siriyuvasak

Asian Review

No abstract provided.

The Required Course And The Advanced Student: A Placement Perspective, Michael R. Schliessmann, Laurie B. Haleta

Basic Communication Course Annual

Advanced placement describes a system in which incoming freshman students are invited to elect an advanced speech course, in lieu of taking the university required Speech course. The system is not an exemption system, like practiced in other colleges and universities. It allows the speech faculty to choose qualified students who have competence beyond the basic course. The paper describes the system, analyzes its advantages and discusses perceived disadvantages.

An Investigation Into The Communication Needs And Concerns Of Asian Students In Speech Communication Performance Classes, Ester Yook, William J. Seiler

Basic Communication Course Annual

The University of Nebraska is one of the many institutions of higher education in the United States with a growing foreign student enrollment. Consequently, the numbers of foreign students enrolled in speech communication classes has been increasing. There, however, is currently a lack of systematic investigation into the needs and concerns of foreign students in speech performance classes. This study investigates the needs and concerns of Asian students in speech performance classes.

The study uses three methods to determine the needs of Asian students: (1) participant observation, (2) survey and (3) focus group interviews. The findings show that Asian students …

Age And Experience Effects In Spatial Visualization, Timothy A. Salthouse, Renee L. Babcock, Eric Skovronek, Debora R. D. Mitchell, Roni Reiter-Palmon

Psychology Faculty Publications

Three studies were conducted to investigate effects related to age and experience on measures of spatial visualization ability. All research participants were college-educated men; those in the experienced group were practicing or recently retired architects. The major results of the studies were (a) that increased age was found to be associated with lower levels of performance on several tests of spatial visualization and (b) that this was true both for unselected adults and for adults with extensive spatial visualization experience. These findings seem to suggest that age-related effects in some aspects of cognitive functioning may be independent of experiential influences. …

Cover And Front Matter, Volume One, Number One, Winter 1990, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Cover image and print journal front matter for the inactive journal Risk including masthead, publication information, manuscript guidelines, and other prefatory matter.

Introduction, Thomas G. Field Jr.

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

[Excerpt] "This is a double welcome: first, to a new interdisciplinary quarterly, and, second, to the first two issues. Taking them in reverse order, this and the next issue consist primarily of papers presented at a [very well received] conference entitled Public Participation in Risk Management: Ethics, Science & Law which was held in Concord about a year ago - with financial assistance from the New Hampshire Humanities Council and the Administrative Conference of the United States."

Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism, And Public Decision-Making, Kristin Shrader-Frechette

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

An examination of the legitimacy of attacks on lay assessments of environmental or other technological Risk. The case is made that rational policy requires an epistemology in which what we believe about Risk is bootstrapped onto how we should act concerning Risk.

Risk Regulation At The Federal Level: Administrative Procedure Constraints And Opportunities, Jeffrey S. Lubbers

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

An introduction to the legal framework within which employees of the "twigs" on our fourth branch of government must operate. Particular attention is given to research sponsored by the Administrative Conference of the United States which has dealt with, for example, process problems in resolving specific issues and in building consensus on broad policy matters. [Excerpt] “Administrative agencies - the "twigs" on our fourth branch of government - are established to handle the details of administration deemed too painstaking, technically complex or even controversial for direct Congressional or Presidential involvement. In the current government structure, sometimes called the "modem administrative …

Making A Difference: Psychology And The Construction Of Gender, Rachel T. Hare-Mustin , '49, Jeanne Marecek

Psychology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Special Libraries, Winter 1990, Special Libraries Association

Special Libraries, 1990

Volume 81, Issue 1

Laminal Sibilants In Chamicuro, Steve Parker

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "This paper examines the phonological status of laminal sibilants in Chamicuro. Chamicuro is a Maipuran Arawaken language spoken in the Amazonian lowlands of Eastern Peru. The phonemic inventory of Chamicuro sibilants exhibits a very strong symmetry of three affricates and three corresponding fricatives. However, when the laminal alveolar fricative [š̯] is considered, the pattern of distribution becomes more complicated. Specifically, it is very difficult to account for the occurrence of syllable-final [š̯]'s in a simple and elegant way. Two possible solutions are outlined and discussed, and the advantages and disadvantages of each one are evaluated."

Possessor Ascension In Dakota Sioux, Thomas M. Pinson

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "The goal of this paper is to present evidence for Possessor Ascension in Dakota Sioux. In this construction, a nominal which is semantically a possessor is syntactically not a constituent of the noun phrase, but rather a constituent of the clause. I first discuss the universal characterization of Possessor Ascension from within the framework of Relational Grammar and give an introduction to the ways possession is expressed in Sioux. Next I present four arguments for this construction in Sioux. One is based on verb agreement, the second on reflexivization, the third on the distribution of the possessive …

Case Marking Strategies In Kope, John M. Clifton

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "In this paper I will examine case marking strategies in Kope, a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea, in light of claims made by Foley (1986:92-98). Foley makes a basic distinction between 'core' and 'peripheral' case relations in his typological study of case marking in the Papuan languages of New Guinea. Core relations include actor and undergoer, while peripheral relations include instrument, locative, and temporal. Syntactically, Foley claims that most Papuan languages have one strategy for marking core relations, and another strategy for marking peripheral relations.

"A third group of relations discussed by Foley includes the beneficiary …

Unmarked And Marked Instances Of Topicalization In Hebrew, Stephen H. Levinsohn

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "My aims in this paper are twofold: first, to spell out the normal or UNMARKED function of topicalization (as defined below) in narrative discourse; and second, to consider what Sperber & Wilson call the "additional contextual effects" (1986:196) that MARKED or apparently redundant instances of topicalization are intended to achieve in Hebrew.

"In sect. 2, I argue in favour of Beneš 1962 characterization of topicalization as bidirectional. It not only serves "as point of departure for the communication", but also provides the basis for linking the communication to its context. I then review my 1987 work on …

Zapotec Pronoun Classification, Stephen A. Marlett

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "Zapotec languages have sometimes been described as having two sets of (nonreflexive) personal pronouns: bound and free (Butler 1976), clitic and free (Jones and Church 1985, Marlett 1987), dependent and independent (Pickett 1960, Bartholomew 1983), inseparable and separable (Butler 1980), suffixes and pronouns (Briggs 1961), particles and pronouns (Pickett et al. 1965). The variety of terminology used indicates that the syntax of Zapotec pronouns requires further study. The goal of this article is to clarify the behavior of these pronouns across the Zapotec language family (using a subset of languages to illustrate), noting where these languages are …

Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 34 (1990)

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Unofficial Latvian Political Organizations In The Gorbachev Era: Their Evolution, Accomplishments, And Goals, Peter Albertins

Honors Theses

Since the people called Latvians began living on the shores of the Baltic Sea, they have almost continually been in conflict with their neighbors, including the Estonians, Lithuanians, Swedes, Germans, and Russians. The major enemy to the Latvians over the centuries, however, has been the Russians. Perhaps this is because the Russians always wanted access to the Baltic Sea and the rest of Europe, but whatever the case, Russians and Latvians have not had a friendly history.

Social Anxiety And The Recall Of Interpersonal Information, Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg, John F. Klein

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Sixty subjects classified as high or low in social anxiety participated in a structured heterosocial interaction under conditions of either high or low social-evaluative threat. Following the interaction, subjects were asked to recall detailed information about the interaction partner’s appearance and the content of the conversation. Socially anxious subjects recalled less information and made more errors in recall than nonanxious subjects. Contrary to prediction, social-evaluative threat did not affect recall. Anxious subjects also reported greater self-focused attention during the interaction. High self-focused attention was associated with superior recall for nonanxious subjects but associated with more frequent omission errors for anxious …

Gvsu Press Releases, 1990, Grand Valley State University

University Press Releases, 1961-Present

A compilation of press releases for the year 1990 submitted by University Communications (formerly News & Information Services) to news agencies concerning the people, places, and events related to Grand Valley State University.

The Effect Of A Pet's Presence Upon Anxiety During A Simulated Clinical Interview, Kenneth G. Weigand

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Recognizing the importance of evolutionary parallels between humans and other animals, researchers make use of animals to better the understanding of people in various fields of study, such as history, ecology, medicine, psychology, and sociology (Levinson, 1978). Boris Levinson (1962) was an early advocate for the inclusion of pets in psychotherapeutic intervention. His theories have been frequently cited in research that has attempted to define the possible benefits associated with utilizing pets as an adjunct in the treatment of disturbed populations. The results of studies with varied populations indicate that a pet's presences can lower a person's anxiety level, positively …

Personality Variables Mediating Change In Concern Toward Environmental Issues, John Mark Davis

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Researchers have for several decades examined the relationships between personality and demographic variables, pro-environmental behaviors, and level of concern toward environmental problems. In this study, personality and selected demographic variables contributing to an increase in concern toward environmental issues were examined. Subjects included 79 females and 46 males with a mean age of 22.5 years who were enrolled in undergraduate courses at the University of Central Florida. During the first session, information concerning personality and demographic variables was obtained and subjects completed Weigel and Weigel's (1978) Ecological Concern Scale (ECS). During the second session, experimental group subjects viewed a video …

Design And Development Of A Photodegradable Bottle Cap, Kenneth S. Chon '87, Javier H. Idrovo '89, Donald S. Remer, Kenneth Pawlek '90, Kusha Janati '90

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

The first photodegradable plastic cap for a glass beer bottle was developed and tested. The cap's design is the same as the current plastic, screw-on cap for soda bottles. A photodegradable resin was added to the soda cap plastic to make it photodegradable. Caps with 0%, 10%, and 25% photodegradable additive were made. Tests show that the photodegradable cap meets most of the physical properties required for a beer or a soda cap. A photodegradable cap with 10% degradable additive will cost about three times more than current metal crowns, but only about 10% more than current plastic soda caps. …