Great Plains Quarterly Table of Contents

 

WINTER 2008 VOL. 28/ No. 1

The Pageant of Paha Sapa: An Origin Myth of White Settlement in the American West by Linea Sundstrom 3

    Key Words: Black Hills, gender, Indian-white relations, Lakota, Progressive Movement, South Dakota

U.S. Indian Policy, 1865-1890: As Illuminated through the Lives of Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman by Gretchen Cassel Eick 27

    Key Words: Charles A. Eastman, Elaine Goodale Eastman, Lakota/Dakota, Native American History, U.S. colonization

Naming a Place Nicodemus by Rosamond C. Rodman 49

    Key Words: African Americans, Bible, Kansas, Nicodemus

REVIEW ESSAY

The Persistence of Popular Memory: The Cinematic Construction of the American Indian by S. Elizabeth Bird. A review of "Injuns!": Native Americans in the Movies and Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film 63

BOOK REVIEWS

Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney: With a Catalogue of His Works by Linda Bantel and Peter H. Hassrick, with essays by Sarah E. Boehme and Mark F. Bockrath; Kathleen Luhrs, ed., reviewed by Kenneth Haltman 67

Saskatchewan: The Luminous Landscape by Courtney Milne, reviewed by Terry Graff 69

Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music by Christopher J. Oglesby, reviewed by Kent Blaser 69

Writing the Trail: Five Women's Frontier Narratives by Deborah Lawrence, reviewed by Sherry L. Smith 70

Cather Studies 6: History, Memory, and War by Steven Trout, ed., reviewed by Margaret Doane 71

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman by Ruth Panofsky, reviewed by Leslie Ianno 72

Jane Gilmore Rushing: A West Texas Writer and Her Work by Lou Halsell Rodenberger, reviewed by Tom Pilkington 73

John Graves, Writer by Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon, eds., reviewed by Pete A.Y. Gunter 73

By His Qwn Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis by John D.W. Guice, ed., reviewed by Robert Carriker 74

Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, eds., reviewed by Susan A. Stebbins 75

War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners by Brad D. Lookingbill, reviewed by Michael P. Jordan 76

900 Miles from Nowhere: Voices from the Homestead Frontier by Steven R. Kinsella, reviewed by Thomas D. Isern 77

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails by Sara R. Massey, ed., reviewed by Judy Alter 77

Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939 by Steve Hewitt, reviewed by Michael Dawson 78

Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale, eds., reviewed by Anne Gagnon 79

In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women's History in Canada by Mary-Ellen Kelm and Lorna Townsend, eds., reviewed by Gillian Poulter 80

Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975-1993 by George Pierre Castile, reviewed by Larry Burt 81

 

SPRING 2008 VOL. 28/NO. 2

Extending the Security Net: The Impact of Rangeland Insurance on Ranching Economy and Culture by Rex J. Rowley 91

    Key Words: crop insurance, Department of Agriculture, Homestead Act, ranching, rangeland management, risk management

Constructing a Home on the Range: Homemaking in Early-Twentieth-Century Plains Photograph Albums by Christina E. Dando 105

    Key Words: home, landscape, Montana, North Dakota, photograph albums, photography, visual culture

Life and Landscapes in the Post-Office Communities of Holt County, Nebraska by Rebecca A. Buller 135

    Key Words: cultural landscape, European American settlement, historical geography, Nebraska, post offices

BOOK REVIEWS

Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West by Richard W. Etulain, reviewed by Julie Courtwright 153

Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West by Stan Hoig, reviewed by Robin C. Henry 154

The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line by Jeremy Neely, reviewed by Nicole Etcheson 154

Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan by Robert Collins, reviewed by Craig Miner 155

The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War by Clarissa W. Confer, reviewed by Brad Agnew 156

The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76 by Eugene H. Berwanger, reviewed by Stephen J. Leonard 157

Lady Blackrobes: Missionaries in the Heart of Indian Country by Irene Mahoney, reviewed by William J. Furdell 157

Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe—Russia—Canada, 1525-1980 by James Urry, reviewed by Benjamin W. Redekop 158

Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada by Arthur Kroeger, reviewed by Royden Loewen 160

Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land by Laura L. Camden and Susan Gaetz Duarte; foreword by Ann W. Richards, reviewed by Marilyn E. Lehman 161

Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution by Brian Mann, reviewed by Donald P. Haider-Markel 162

After Lewis & Clark: The Forces of Change, 1806-1871 by Gary Allen Hood, reviewed by Suzan Campbell 162

Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960 by Bill Anthes, reviewed by Joyce M. Szabo 163

Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art edited by Marjorie Devon, reviewed by Janet Catherine Berlo 164

A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 by Gregory and Susan Michno, reviewed by Katheryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola 165

Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions by James H. Cox, reviewed by Susan Bernardin 166

The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart by John Clayton, reviewed by Karen Walcott 167

Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather; historical essay and explanatory notes by Tom Quirk; textual essay and editing by Frederick M. Link, reviewed by Elizabeth Ammons 168

Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest by Rudy Wiebe, reviewed by Hildi Froese Tiessen 169

Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, reviewed by Jace Weaver 170

The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers edited by Ladette Randolph and Nina Shevchuk-Murray, reviewed by Becky Faber 170