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The Nutritional Impacts Of European Contact On The Omaha: A Continuing Legacy, Christiana Miewald

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

For the majority of Native American tribes on the Great Plains, contact with Euro-Americans resulted in a number of changes in their lifeways. For the Omaha tribe, the introduction of both the horse and firearms meant a diversification in nutritional strategies and a florescence in their culture. After being confined to their reservation in 1855, the Omaha continued to remain largely self-sufficient in food production. During the early years of the reservation until the turn of the century, the Omaha were highly successful farmers, producing surpluses of cash• and garden variety crops. In this paper I argue that today the …

Drought Evolution Patterns In The U.S.A. During Great Plains-Centered Droughts, Peter T. Soule

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This study examines the spatial evolution of drought severity within the contiguous United States during the first six months of average Great Plains-centered drought events. It identifies Great Plains-centered drought events from 1895-1989 based on the drought history of the North Central, South Dakota and Low Rolling Plains, Texas climatic divisions. Time series of warm- and cold-season average drought severity based on Great Plains drought for all United States' climatic divisions are calculated and spatially analyzed.

Mapped patterns show spatial teleconnections in drought development. Cold-season drought patterns based on the North Central, South Dakota climatic division are clearly in-phase with …

Hydroclimatic Perspectives On Waterfowl Production In The North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region, Paul Todhunter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region is one of the most unique and important wetland environments for waterfowl in North America. A water balance climatology is developed for this region for the period 1895-1990. A monthly water balance time series for the 96-year period was computed utilizing the Thornthwaite water balance methodology and a regional time series developed from area-weighted National Climate Data Center divisional data. Results illustrate the unique seasonal dynamics of the mean soil moisture regime, the frequency distribution of selected water balance variables over the period of record, and the large intra-annual and interannual variability which characterizes …

A Note From The Director - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This edition marks the first issue of Great Plains Research under the editorship of J. Clark Archer.

The article, "Changing Employment Patterns on the Northern and Central Great Plains," co-authored by Richard E. Lonsdale and 1. Clark Archer and coincidentally printed in this issue, was accepted under the previous editorship of Clare V. McKanna, Jr. I have copyedited the article for this volume.

News And Notes - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Contents:

Great Plains Research Science Award

Calls for Papers

Conferences

Reports on Past Conferences

Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Todd Kerstetter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Until recently, prevailing wisdom in academic circles held that nomadic, buffalo hunting tribes on the Great Plains resisted all efforts to make them farmers. According to the old school, sedentary, regimented agricultural life on a reservation violated these noble hunters' culture. Sarah Carter says that the old school was dead wrong. Carter, a Canada Research Fellow with the Department of History and Rupert's Land Research Centre at the University of Winnipeg, argues that during the last quarter of the nineteenth century Indians in Canada's prairie provinces stood ready and willing to adopt an agricultural lifestyle. The Canadian government, however, despite …

Review Of Community Development Strategies On The Northern Plains By Kevin A. Choy And Richard C. Rounds, Joseph Luther

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Kevin Choy and Richard Rounds, of the Rural Development Institute at Brandon University in Manitoba, have examined strategies for rural community economic development on the conterminous Great Plains of North America. Their exploration, description and explanation of these strategies has derived a fresh look at community economic development theory that could serve to unite many of the competing factions in this field. Their schematic of rural development theories provides an understanding of the various frames of reference for this field of study and practice. For this reason, this book should be a highly recommended reading for students in the rural …

Review Of Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion And Environmental Politics By R. Mcgreggor Cawley, Francis Moul

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The public policy issue this book explores is a continuing one, especially after the Republican take-over of Congress in 1994. In a sense, then, this study of the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s is incomplete. It seems clear that the issue, governmental control and use of the public lands of twelve western states, will change-perhaps radically.

Yet, the book is an important study of a highly volatile public issue in the West, and gives us an understanding of its dimensions no matter what turn policy or public indignation will take. A crucial part of that understanding is the …

Review Of Meant To Be Wild: The Struggle To Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding By Jan Deblieu, William Scharf

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In the early 1970s, when I watched Frances Hamerstrom's initial attempts to achieve captive breeding of golden eagles, and later to induce red-tailed Hawks to complete most of their life cycle in captivity, I thought the practice to be only a novelty and biological sideline. I had no idea that the captive breeding and re-release of wild species into their natural environments would become such an accepted and important technique. Indeed this book documents many such attempts and some notable successes.

Review Of Buffalo By John Foster, Dick Harrison, And I. S. Maclaren, Edmonton, Alberta, 1992, University Of Alberta Press, Alan J. Osborn

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This volume contains 12 contributions that deal with North American bison in relation to paleontology, archaeology and cultural resource management, the fur trade, portrayal in art and literature, disease and population ecology, and Native American land tenure.

There are two general themes that dominate this book. First, two articles by Jack Brink and Ed Sponholz discuss the role of Native Americans in the interpretation and preservation of cultural resources. Both authors focus on the spectacular prehistoric Head-Smashed-In bison jump in southwestern Alberta. Head-Smashed-In is a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization World Heritage site that has been developed in …

Review Of Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, September 13-15,1990, Laurie A. Milne

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The 13 papers in this volume derive from the Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium held in mid-September 1990 at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, the heartland of the 19th-century American fur trade. Conference organizers, intending this meeting to be reminiscent of the well known, periodic North American Fur Trade Conferences, had invited nearly two dozen preeminent scholars to offer their insights into the trade .and traders of the upper Missouri country. To this end the papers appearing in this publication cover such diverse topics as the geographic setting, the construction of Fort Union, the men of the …

Review Of Watching Kansas Wildlife: A Guide To 101 Sites By Bob Gress And George Potts, Ronald M. Case

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This publication is designed for the novice wildlife watcher and it is a guide to where to go to watch wildlife, not how to identify them. The authors are enthusiastic, and rightfully so, about wildlife in Kansas. There is considerable wildlife diversity throughout the Great Plains yet many people do not know or appreciate this treasure.

The book provides a statewide map showing the physiographic regions and all 101 viewing sites in Kansas. Additionally, there are six maps indicating the locations of sites and highways in that region. Each site description includes directions to the site, its size, ownership, wildlife …

Review Of Policy For American Agriculture: Choices And Consequences By M. C. Hallberg, E. Wesley F. Peterson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

M. C. Hallberg is a professor of agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State University and this book treats agricultural policy almost exclusively from that disciplinary perspective. For Hallberg, agricultural policy is largely confined to the various market interventions of national governments, particularly those programs that have been put in place to regulate farm production, prices and incomes. The book is organized into four parts. The first section includes three chapters dealing with the nature of agricultural policy and the legislative and political processes that produce U.S. farm programs. The second section includes two chapters designed to provide an analytical framework for …

Review Of American Agriculture: A Brief History By R. Douglas Hurt, John Fraser Hart

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This book is a history of American agriculture by an academic agriculturalist who is interested in farm programs, policies, organizations, institutions, and bureaucracies, but cares little about real farms. Although he occasionally itemizes the products of farms, he largely ignores cropping systems, livestock feeding operations, and the ways farmers integrate them to produce these products.

Review Of On Turner's Trail: 100 Years Of Writing Western History By Wilbur R. Jacobs, Mark A. Eifler

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The addition of another study assessing the legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner will surely elicit a few groans among western scholars. This is too bad, for Wilbur Jacobs' On Turner's Trail is a detailed, insightful, and richly rewarding trek that should be undertaken by all western historians.

Jacobs' book mixes the best of biography, historiography, and institutional history, while adding a good deal of personal reminiscence as well. As a biography, Jacobs paints a portrait of an ambitious and complex historian, a man struggling to synthesize a huge quantity of data, who retains a genuinely open mind regarding material and …

Review Of Trials And Triumphs: A Colorado Portrait Of The Great Depression With Fsa Photographs By Stephen J. Leonard, Liston Leyendecker

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Stephen J. Leonard has written a book about Colorado during the depression. He portrays an economically and politically conservative state whose failed attempts at local relief forced its officers to seek solutions offered by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Both Colorado officials and residents resented federal assistance believing that it threatened their state's independence. Leonard sets the scene by summarizing the final years of the 1920s in Colorado before describing how the crash affected the state and its dwellers. After commenting on its devastation in urban areas, he turns to rural sections particularly the agricultural Plains, the San Luis Valley and …

Review Of Forgotten Places: Uneven Development In Rural America Edited By Thomas A. Lyson And William W. Falk, Karen Morin

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The editors and authors of this fine collection of articles, though mostly sociologists, demonstrate how geography is in a sense destiny to the rural poor. By focusing on nine regions spanning the country from New England to the Rio Grande Valley to the Pacific Northwest, they show how social as well as spatial isolation has created common problems among a rural underclass that is "forgotten" by mainstream America.

Socio-spatial isolation may take many forms, but the outcome for all the places studied is the same: lack of full participation in American economic life. Educational isolation in the Black Belt of …

Review Of Flooding The Courtrooms: Law And Water In The Far West By M. Catherine Miller, Linda S. Parker

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The arid but fertile San Joaquin Valley yielded fortunes for whoever owned the water that trickled down from the neighboring Sierra Nevada Mountains. Landowners avidly brought lawsuits seeking rulings that would favorably define stream flows, property boundaries, and economic uses of water. Oddly, California courts followed the legal doctrine of the eastern rather than neighboring western states, upholding the "riparian" claims of those who owned land bordering a river rather than "prior appropriators" who discovered and first used the water. Riparian law laid the foundation for the enormous cattle company, Miller and Lux. During its heyday between 1870 and 1930 …

Review Of The Fishes Of Alberta (2nd Edition) By Joseph S. Nelson And Martin J. Paetz, R. A. Bodaly

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This useful and attractive book is a much needed second edition of The Fishes of Alberta, first published in 1970. It is expanded and improved from the first edition and will be an essential reference for biologists working with the fishes of Alberta and surrounding areas, for those interested in the distribution of freshwater fishes in North America, and for anglers and the interested public as well.

The Fishes of Alberta is organized into two main sections. An introductory section has chapters on various types offish habitat in the different river basins and regions of Alberta, fish management and …

Review Of Prairie Populism: The Fate Of Agrarian Radicalism In Kansas, Nebraska, And Iowa, 1880-1892 By Jeffrey Ostler, Robert W. Cherny

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Why was there no populism in Iowa? That is the question posed by Jeffrey Ostler, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon, in this revised version of his dissertation. The question itself is more complicated than it might first seem, and Ostler's thoughtful and carefully-researched answers have interesting implications for the study of late 19th century politics more generally.

Ostler approaches his question by comparing Iowa with Kansas and Nebraska. Arguing that the economic situation of farmers in the three states was not sufficiently different to explain the great dissimilarity in their support for the Populist Party in …

Review Of Confronting Sexual Assault: A Decade Of Legal And Social Change By Julian V Roberts And Renate M. Mohr, Cynthia Willis-Esqueda

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In Confronting Sexual Assault Julian V Roberts and Renate M. Mohr have edited a collection of chapters written by various scholars and professionals on issues central to Canadian social change concerning legal conceptions of rape, as well as the legal ramifications of such change for Canada. The book also contains a reprint of 1992 legislation, Bill C-49, that provides tests for when judges may allow a complainant's sexual history to be admitted as evidence and provides a definition of "consent" for determining sexual assault. Moreover, the bill "... restricted the defense of mistaken belief in consent ... " (p. 11). …

Review Of Restructuring Rural Saskatchewan: The Challenge Of The 1990s By Jack C. Stabler And M. R. Olfert, James Knotwell

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Stabler and Olfert have contributed a well-conceived empirical analysis of a truly rural economic region (about 18% of the Saskatchewan population is employed in primary sectors, overwhelmingly agriculture). This book tends to support most of the same phenomena postulated in Central Place Theory literature, and observable in similar case studies of similar regions. Great Plains development and planning agencies should find in Stabler and Olfert's methods a rich harvest of easily applicable approaches to analyzing their respective economic spaces, provided they have access to a large, diverse database, or can compile it themselves with a minimal expenditure. Unfortunately, the theoretical …

Review Of Farms, Mines, And Main Streets: Uneven Development In A Dakota County By Caroline S. Tauxe, David B. Danbom

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Anthropologist Caroline Tauxe's Farms, Mines, and Main Streets is a study of the impact of energy development in Mercer County, North Dakota. Mercer County's rich deposits of lignite became the focus of attention by energy companies and policymakers during the energy crisis of the seventies. Already the site of several mines and power plants-lignite begins to lose its potency soon after it is taken out of the ground-the county was the focus of intense energy development, the most important facet being the Great Plains coal gasification plant, which converted lignite into natural gas.

Review Of Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food On The Oregon Trail By Jacqueline Williams, Betsy Downey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

By the end of her wagon journey west, Phoebe Judson recalled, "all of the little delicacies we brought ... from home were gone, ... the thought of a 'baked kidney' or 'pink-eyed' potatoes caused the tears to roll down my face" (p. 2). For Judson and other emigrants, daily life on the Oregon Trail revolved around food; the journey often took six months and meant more than seven hundred meals cooked out or eaten cold, in all kinds of weather. Food historian Jacqueline Williams sees these meals as a vital part of the history of the overland travelers. Her Wagon …

Review Of Forgotten Places: Uneven Development In Rural America Edited By Thomas A. Lyson And William W. Falk, Karen M. Morin

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The editors and authors of this fine collection of articles, though mostly sociologists, demonstrate how geography is in a sense destiny to the rural poor. By focusing on nine regions spanning the country from New England to the Rio Grande Valley to the Pacific Northwest, they show how social as well as spatial isolation has created common problems among a rural underclass that is "forgotten" by mainstream America.

Socio-spatial isolation may take many forms, but the outcome for all the places studied is the same: lack of full participation in American economic life. Educational isolation in the Black Belt of …

The Silent Witness, February 1995

Silent Witness, The

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Washington, D.C.

Newsletter Catholic Deaf Of Detroit, February 1995

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Detroit, MI

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit Finding Aid

Unemployment Insurance In The United States, Benefits, Financing, And Coverage: A Report To The President And Congress, U.S. Advisory Council On Unemployment Compensation

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Spartan Daily, February 1, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

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Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for February of 1995.