FEBRUARY 1994 VOL. 4/NO. 1
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ARTICLES
"Wading to Pembina": 1849 Spring and Summer Weather in the Valley of the Red River of the North and Some Climatic Implications Danny Blair and W. F. Rannie 3
Key Words: Red River of the North
Sensitivity of Streamflow to Climate Change: A Case Study for Nebraska M. Rowe, Karl C. Kuivinen, and Francisco Flores-Mendoza 27
Key Words: streamflow
Inherited Morphologies of Two Large Basins in Clay County, Nebraska Mark S. Kuzila 51
Key Words: Clay County, Nebraska, basins
Rural Population Change on the Canadian Prairies William J. Carlyle 65
Key Words: Canadian prairies, population change
The Effects of Migration Upon the Quality of Life of Elderly Movers in a Small Prairie City: The Case of Brandon, Manitoba John Everitt and Barbara Gfellner 89
Key Words: quaility of life, Brandon, Manitoba
A Review of White-tailed Deer Movements in the Great Plains Relative to Environmental Conditions Kurt C. VerCauteren and Scott E. Hygnstrom 117
Key Words: white-tailed deer
Quantifying the Effect of Technology and Management on Wheat Yields in the Western Great Plains Elizabeth Law-Evans and Paul A. Kay 133
Key Words: wheat yields, Western Great Plains
Ordination and Description of Prairie Plant Communities from the Southern Missouri Coteau in South Dakota Robert Tatina 147
Key Words: prairie plant communities, Southern Missouri Coteau
BOOK REVIEWS
Life at Four Corners: Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945 by Carol K. Coburn, reviewed by Susan Rugh 163
The Proper Edge of the Sky: The High Plateau Country of Utah by Edward A. Geary, reviewed by John A. Butler 164
Texas Range Plants by Stephan L. Hatch and Jennifer Pluhar, reviewed by James Stubbendieck 166
Flat Water: A History of Nebraska and its Water by Robert K. Kuzelka, project manager; Charles A. Flowerday, ed.; Robert Manley, contr. ed.; Bradley C. Rundquist, ed. assoc., reviewed by Thomas C. Gustavson 167
Science with Practice: Charles E. [Edwin] Bessey and the Maturing of American Botany by Richard A. Overfield, reviewed by Linda Johnson Rossi 169
Gentle Conquest: The Botanical Discovery of North America with Illustrations from the Library of Congress by James L. Reveal, reviewed by Richard A. Overfield 170
Symposium on the Impacts of Climatic Change and Variability on the Great Plains edited by Geoffrey Wall, reviewed by Paul A. Kay 171
Robert S. Roeschlaub: Architect of the Emerging West, 1843-1923 by Francine Haber, Kenneth R. Fuller and David N. Wetzel, reviewed by H. Keith Sawyers 173
Oklahoma Bird Life by F. M. and A. M. Baumgartner, reviewed by Jack D. Tyler 174
The Palliser Triangle: A Region in Space and Time edited by R. W. Barendregt, M. C. Wilson, and F. J. Jankunis, reviewed by Alex Paul 176
Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849-1989 by Paul Tennant, reviewed by Bruce Stadfeld 177
The Administration of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930 by Kirk N. Lambrecht, reviewed by Louis A. Knafla 179
NEWS AND NOTES 181
AUGUST 1994 VOL. 4/NO. 2
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DIRECTOR'S NOTE John R. Wunder 197
INTRODUCTION John R. Wunder 198
ARTICLES
"Make-Believe White-Men" and the Omaha Land Allotments of 1871-1900 Mark J. Swetland 201
Key Words: Omaha, land allotments
The Politics of Retribalization: The Northern Ponca Case Beth R. Ritter 237
Key Words: Northern Ponca, retribalization
Kiowa Powwows: Tribal Identity Through the Continuity of the Gourd Dance Benjamin R. Kracht 257
Key Words: Kiowa powwows, Gourd Dance
Diet and Disease on the Plains: Diabetes Among the Omaha Lisa M. Hug 271
Key Words: diabetes, diet
The Evolution of Bilingual Education in an American Indian Community: A Decade of Evaluation as Applied Anthropology Janet Goldenstein Ahler 293
Key Words: bilingual education
Will the House Win: Does Sovereignty Rule in Indian Casinos? Beth M. Wilkins and Beth R. Ritter 305
Key Words: Indian casinos
BOOK REVIEWS
Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States by Roger C. Echo-Hawk and Walter R. Echo-Hawk, reviewed by Larry J. Zimmerman 325
Native American Dance: Ceremonies and Social Traditions by Charlotte Heth, reviewed by Eric J. Jolly 326
Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life by Evan M. Maurer, reviewed by Richmond L. Clow 327
The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 1877-1900 by Orlan J. Svingen, reviewed by Michael L. Tate 329
Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century by Sidney L. Harring, reviewed by Richmond L. Clow 330
The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920 by Melissa L. Meyer, reviewed by Jerry A. Schultz 332
The Hunt for Willie Boy: Indian Hating and Popular Culture by James A. Sandos and Larry E. Burgess, reviewed by Linda S. Parker 334
The First Americans: Photographs from the Library of Congress by William H. Goetzmann, reviewed by Mary Beth Klauer 335
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump, reviewed by Lynn Williams 337
American Indian Law Deskbook edited by Julie Wrend and Clay Smith, reviewed by Sidney L. Harring 338
Indians in Prison: Incarcerated Native Americans in Nebraska by Elizabeth S. Grobsmith, reviewed by Ronet Bachman 341
Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala by Michael F. Steltenkamp, reviewed by Lee Irwin 342
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined by Richard Allan Fox, Jr., reviewed by Mark F. Baumler 344
Battles and Skirmishes of the Creat Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View by Jerome A. Greene, reviewed by Gary P. Smith 346
Swords and Ploughshares: War and Agriculture in Western Canada edited by R. C. Macleod, reviewed by Ken Leyton-Brown 347
Without Reserve: Stories from Urban Natives by Lynda Shorten, reviewed by Steve Potts 349
What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village by Janet D. Spector, reviewed by Jennifer S. H. Brown 350
American Indian Lacrosse: Little Brother of War by Thomas Vennum, Jr., reviewed by Brian S. Butler 352
Disease and Demography in the Americas edited by John W. Verano and Douglas H. Ubelaker, reviewed by Karl J. Reinhard 353
Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz by Sandra C. Taylor, reviewed by Matthew Toshiaki Estes 354
The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities edited by Larry S. Bourne and David F. Ley, reviewed by Abraham Akkerman 356
Long Vistas: Women and Families on Colorado Homesteads by Katherine Harris, reviewed by Glenda Riley 357
The Great American Outlaw: A Legacy of Fact and Fiction by Frank Richard Prassel, reviewed by David J. Bodenhamer 359
NEBRASKAland Magazine's The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska by Michael R. Voorhies, John R. Bozell, Gayle F. Carlson, and John Ludwickson, reviewed by Karl J. Reinhard 360
Kansas Quilts and Quilters by B. Brackman, J. A. Chinn, G. R. Davis, T. Thompson, S. R. Farley, N. Hornback, reviewed by Laurel Horton 362
NEWS AND NOTES 365
ANNUAL INDEX 371