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Music Collections In American Public Libraries, Linda B. Fairtile, Karen M. Burke

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This article presents a broad survey of music collections in public libraries in the United States. Characteristics common to the majority of American public libraries are discussed, including origin, funding, and mission as an educational institution. Using a 1949 survey compiled by Otto Luening, Music Materials and the Public Library, as a basis for comparison, the authors surveyed seven libraries representing one or more of the following communities: small towns, school districts with nationally recognized music education programs, large cities, and locations associated recognizably "American" musical styles (e.g., New Orleans and jazz). The results this informal web survey demonstrate …

Introduction, M. Suying Hugh

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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Message From The Editor, M. Suying Hugh

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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Address To Seton Hall University: President Mohammad Khatami, Islamic Republic Of Iran, Mohammad Khatami

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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Foreward, Giandomenico Picco

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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Global Politics And Global Ethics: Status Quo And Perspectives, Hans Kung

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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Reflections On Terrorism, Dialogue And Global Ethics, M. Javeed Zarif

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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Interreligious Dialogue In Global Perspective, Lawrence E. Frizzell

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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Vanquishing The Ghost Of Trianon: Preventing Hungarian Irredentism Through Western Integration, Thomas Ambrosio

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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The Economics Of The Environment: Acession Of The Czech Republic To The European Union, Terence Hoverter, Michael Hoverter

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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The Role Of The Small And Medium Enterprise Sector In Latin America And Similar Developing Economies, Albert Berry

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

The current economic setting in most Latin American countries suggests that, if the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector does not perform well during the next couple of decades, overall economic performance will also be unsatisfactory, especially in the areas of employment creation and income distribution. No other major sector has the potential to generate a large amount of adequate-income jobs. Experience of other countries has proven that this sector can play a central contributing role, under proper conditions and with adequate support. Various types of evidence from the countries of the region suggest that considerable potential is present in …

The Generals' Diplomacy: U.S. Military Influence In The Treaty Process, 1992-2000, Karl K. Schonberg

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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"Responsible… By Omission": The United States And Genocide In Rwanda, Lyn Graybill

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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Review Of The Frontiers And Catholic Identities Edited By Anne M. Butler, Michael E. Engh, And Thomas W. Spalding, Robert C. Carriker

Great Plains Quarterly

Sometimes small books can have a large impact. This is one of those publications. It might be likened to a bale of cotton which, in appearance, seems compact and contained, but, when opened, expands to generous proportions. The Frontiers and Catholic Identities is one of nine proposed or already issued titles in the American Catholic Identities Series, each a documentary sampling on specific topics. As such, it is a sort of proposal, or suggestion, about where to locate sources that will increase one's knowledge in two areas: the role of the frontier in the making of American Catholicism, and the …

Review Of Creating Colorado: The Making Of A Western American Landscape, 1860-1940 By William Wyckoff, Kenneth Helphand

Great Plains Quarterly

Most settlers and visitors to Colorado came across the Plains, watching the Front Range of the Rockies slowly materialize from what seems to be a mirage on the horizon. While the eastern third of the state is within the Great Plains, it is the mountains and beyond that dominate our perception. William Wycoff uses Colorado's diverse and distinctive regions as a framework for his fine historical and cultural geography of the state. Appropriately, he begins with the mountains, the state's spiritual heart, and then visits the Piedmont Heartland, that zone between mountain and Plain where Denver and most of the …

Review Of Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism And Contemporary Fictions Of The Transcultural Frontier By Carlton Smith, Shari M. Huhndorf

Great Plains Quarterly

Delivered at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner's now-famous frontier thesis speech, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," contends with only one other nineteenth- century development in terms of popularity and influence: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. These narratives provided complementary visions of Western history that centered on white males, marginalizing women and people of color. Together they shaped both academic and popular perceptions for most of the twentieth century .

It is this racialized and gendered vision of the West that Carlton Smith takes as the starting point for Coyote Kills John Wayne. …

Review Of Mari Sandoz's Native Nebraska: The Plains Indian Country By Laverne Harrell Clark, Kim Lee

Great Plains Quarterly

Mari Sandoz's Native Nebraska is essentially a collection of photographs with extended captions relating to Sandoz and her writings. Author LaVerne Harrell Clark has drawn on several sources for the book's images: archival photographs, Sandoz family photographs, and Clark's own photography. At first glance, the reader may well believe this book, Clark's seventh, to be uniquely focused on the Native people of the Great Plains about whom Sandoz wrote; in fact it is centered squarely on Sandoz. After a one-page introduction, Clark takes the reader-viewer on a photographic tour of significant Sandoz sites, found mostly in northwestern Nebraska (where Sandoz …

Review Of Shapers Of The Great Debate On Native Americans- Land, Spirit, And Power: A Biographical Dictionary By Bruce E. Johansen, Robert L. Bee

Great Plains Quarterly

This useful compilation of biographical sketches spans about 375 years of conflict. The basic issue is Native land rights versus unremitting colonial expansion. The eight chapters are arranged as separate chronological periods, beginning with seventeenth-century New England, and generally track the westward movement of the frontier. Each chapter presents a biographical sketch of its period's key players. The actors are juxtaposed to present both Native and non-Native views of Native land rights and sovereignty. Sequoyah and John Ross appear in a chapter with Andrew Jackson and John Marshall; Custer is set against Sitting Bull and Red Cloud. Lakota spokesmen Black …

Review Of Greengrass Pipe Dancers By Lionel Little Eagle, Kathleen Danker

Great Plains Quarterly

Greengrass Pipe Dancers is an account of Little Eagle's trips in 1988 and 1990 to Lakota communities in South Dakota, notably Greengrass on the Cheyenne River Reservation, on a quest for counsel about an old Oglala pipe bag that had come into his possession, for physical healing for his sick wife, and for his own emotional and spiritual healing following her death. During these brief visits, the author, who claims European and Micmac ancestry, meets several well-known Lakota religious leaders and elders; attends ceremonies including pipe ceremonies, inipis, a yuwipi, and a sun dance; and experiences visions.

Little Eagle states …

Review Of Videostyle In Presidential Campaigns: Style And Content Of Televised Political Advertising By Lynda Lee Kaid And Anne Johnston, E.D. Dover

Great Plains Quarterly

American elections have increasingly become candidate-centered campaigns in which solitary aspirants for office bear the primary responsibility for generating their own money, issues, imagery, and support. Candidates present themselves through televised advertising appearing as social tribunes instead of representatives for political and governmental institutions. News media respond by depicting campaigns as ongoing battles among individual combatants and direct much of their attention to the question of who is winning and who is not.

In an important book addressing these electoral features, Kaid and Johnston focus on the personal style candidates develop through television advertising. They claim a candidate's style is …

Review Of Kit Carson And The Indians By Tom Dunlay, Robert S. Mcpherson

Great Plains Quarterly

Kit Carson-the name conjures images of a bigger-than-life mountain man and Indian fighter who attained the skills and knowledge necessary to "win the West." As cliché-bound as this dime store novel impression may be, part of it may be warranted. Even while still alive, Carson became subject to the mythologizing process associated with the American frontier. Since that time, historians have added their own interpretations, in some cases clarifying and in others confusing the man and his times.

Tom Dunlay recognizes these errors and their origins, believing that in order to uncover the real Carson, one must understand the context …

Review Of Gathering Remnants: A Tribute To The Working Cowboy Photographs By Kendall Nelson, J. C. Leacock

Great Plains Quarterly

About five years ago, Kendall Nelson, then a segment producer for Fox Television in Los Angeles, was invited to photograph cowboys on a large ranch in Texas. Coming from a photographic and artistic background, with degrees from San Francisco State and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Nelson jumped at the chance. At first she was only visually interested in the opportunity, but in no time found herself captured by the culture as well. What started out as a week at the ranch lengthened to a month. "I fell in love with it," she says. "I knew I would …

Review Of Our Town On The Plains: J. J. Pennell's Photographs Of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922 By James R. Shortridge, Alfred Young Man

Great Plains Quarterly

The nineteenth-century settlement of the Great Plains coincided with a number of technological developments, including improved railroad equipment, the steel plow, and the agricultural combine. Photography was among these technical developments, ensuring that the process of settlement would be both celebrated and recorded. The history of Junction City, Kansas, is bound up with such technological developments. Located near the junction of the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers, it grew close by the site of Fort Riley in north central Kansas and became a railroad town and county seat by the 1870s. By 1890 the community was prosperous and its economy …

Review Of Collecting Native America, 1870-1960 Edited By Shepard Krech Iii And Barbara A. Hail, Margaret A. Mackichan

Great Plains Quarterly

Setting out to explore the roles of private collectors in founding North American public museums of American Indian materials, the editors of Collecting Native America have assembled discussions of Sheldon Jackson (1834-1909), Alaska's best known late-nineteenth- century missionary collector; David Ross McCord (1844-1930), founder of the McCord National Museum, Montreal, which opened in 1921; Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928) of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, chartered in 1907; Rudolf F. Haffenreffer (1874-1954), of Rhode Island's King Philip Museum, established during the 1920s; Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919), mother of newspaper publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and founder, in 1901, of the Museum …

Review Of Voices Of Wounded Knee By William S. E. Coleman, Christer Lindberg

Great Plains Quarterly

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

The heartbreaking words of Black Elk and the tragic events at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, in December of 1890, …

Review Of Fort Reno And The Indian Territory Frontier By Stan Hoig, Warren Metcalf

Great Plains Quarterly

A prolific writer on the Southern Plains and the people who have lived in the region, Stan Hoig focuses here on the Fort Reno and Darlington Agency of the Indian Territory, contending that these were "center posts around which western Indian Territory was transformed from raw frontier" to an "agricultural/ commercial domain of the white man by the end of the 1880s." Until the mid-1880s, these twin outposts served primarily as agencies for controlling and suppressing the activities of the relocated Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. Later, the military outpost served largely to intercept and remove white settlers in Indian Territory. …

Review Of Dakota Circle: Excursions On The True Plains By Tom Isern, Kimberly K. Porter

Great Plains Quarterly

Tom Isern's Dakota Circle marks the inauguration of North Dakota State University's Institute for Regional Studies Pathmaker Series. Begun as "a collection of new reflective or creative works that address the question of identity on the Great Plains of North America," the series intends to follow the pathways of daily living and to "help us think about who we are .... " Culled from his syndicated "Plains Folk" column, and augmented by further ponderings, Isern's contribution to the achievement of this goal is significant.

By way of introduction, Isern notes that his musings are not intended "to argue fine points …

The Making Of Little Sweden, Usa, Steven M. Schnell

Great Plains Quarterly

Ethnic tourism in the United States has become big business. An estimated six billion dollars were spent on various forms of "heritage tourism" (including ethnic tourism) in the US in 1995 alone.¹ At first glance, this desire for roots and tradition within an American public more often noted for its worship of progress and individualism may seem surprising. Yet as Americans have become increasingly mobile, wired, and rootless,² many have become disillusioned with the growing urbanization and industrialization of their society³ and have begun efforts to recapture a sense of what they perceive as traditional rural community. …

The Beginning Of The End The Indian Peace Commission Of 1867~1868, Kerry R. Oman

Great Plains Quarterly

In 1867, in an effort to avoid the high costs of war and protect overland transportation routes, Congress passed a bill authorizing a commission to establish peace with the Plains Indians. In less than two years, what proved to be the last major commission sent out by the government to treat with the Indians met and signed treaties with the Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Northern and Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho, Crow, Navajo, Eastern Shoshone and Bannock, and the Brule, Oglala, Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Cuthead, Two Kettle, Sans Arc, and Santee bands of Lakota Sioux. Their efforts helped end Red Cloud's …

Review Of The Kiowas And The Legend Of Kicking Bird By Stan Hoig, With Three Kiowa Tales By Col. W. S. Nye, Charles M. Robinson Iii

Great Plains Quarterly

Stan Hoig is known for outstanding books on Southern Plains Indians. The Kiowas and the Legend of Kicking Bird joins that corpus. With his usual thoroughness, Hoig has gone back to the original sources, breaking new ground, cross-checking, and, where possible, resolving contradictions in the old accounts. When contradictions cannot be settled, Hoig considers the various possibilities and allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. He also reflects on political infighting among the Kiowas, particularly between the Kicking Bird and Satanta factions, which exists to some degree even today.

The result goes far beyond what the title …