Great Plains Research Table of Contents
FEBRUARY 1994 VOL. 4/NO. 1
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
Sensitivity of Streamflow to Climate Change: A Case Study for Nebraska M. Rowe, Karl C. Kuivinen, and Francisco Flores-Mendoza 27
Inherited Morphologies of Two Large Basins in Clay County, Nebraska Mark S. Kuzila 51
Rural Population Change on the Canadian Prairies William J. Carlyle 65
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
A Review of White-tailed Deer Movements in the Great Plains Relative to Environmental Conditions Kurt C. VerCauteren and Scott E. Hygnstrom 117
Quantifying the Effect of Technology and Management on Wheat Yields in the Western Great Plains Elizabeth Law-Evans and Paul A. Kay 133
Ordination and Description of Prairie Plant Communities from the Southern Missouri Coteau in South Dakota Robert Tatina 147
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
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
The Politics of Retribalization: The Northern Ponca Case Beth R. Ritter 237
Kiowa Powwows: Tribal Identity Through the Continuity of the Gourd Dance Benjamin R. Kracht 257
Diet and Disease on the Plains: Diabetes Among the Omaha Lisa M. Hug 271
The Evolution of Bilingual Education in an American Indian Community: A Decade of Evaluation as Applied Anthropology Janet Goldenstein Ahler 293
Will the House Win: Does Sovereignty Rule in Indian Casinos? Beth M. Wilkins and Beth R. Ritter 305
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
FEBRUARY 1995 VOL. 5/NO. 1
A Note from the Director John Wunder 3
ARTICLES
Water Regulation Decisions in Central Kansas Affecting Cheyenne Bottoms Wetland and Neighboring Farmers Leslie Aileen Duram 5
Northern Great Plains Manufacturers: Assistance Needs and Potential EconomicContributions F. Larry Leistritz 21
Changing Employment Patterns on the Northern and Central Great Plains Richard E. Lonsdale and J. Clark Archer 47
The Nutritional Impacts of European Contact on the Omaha: A Continuing Legacy Christiana E. Miewald 71
Drought Evolution Patterns in the U.S.A. During Great Plains-Centered Droughts Peter T. Soulé 115
Hydroclimatic Perspectives on Waterfowl Production in the North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region Paul Todhunter 137
BOOK REVIEWS
The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West by Carl Abbott, reviewed by Eugene P. Moehring 163
Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy by Sarah Carter, reviewed by Todd Kerstetter 164
Community Development Strategies on the Northern Plains by Kevin A. Choy and Richard C. Rounds, reviewed by Joseph Luther 166
Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics by R. McGreggor Cawley, reviewed by Francis Moul 168
Meant To Be Wild: The Struggle to Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding by Jan DeBlieu, reviewed by William C. Scharf 169
Buffalo edited by John Foster, Dick Harrison, and I. S. MacLaren, reviewed by Alan Osborne 171
Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, September 13-15, 1990 by Friends of Fort Union Trading Post, reviewed by Laurie A. Milne 173
Watching Kansas Wildlife: A Guide to 101 Sites by Bob Gress and George Potts, reviewed by Ronald M. Case174
Policy for American Agriculture: Choices and Consequences E. by M. C. Hallberg, reviewed by Wesley F. Peterson 176
Colorado: The Place of Nature, The Nature of Place by Thomas P. Huber.A, reviewed by David Hill 177
American Agriculture: A Brief History by R. Douglas Hurt, reviewed by John Fraser Hart 178
On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History by Wilbur R. Jacobs, reviewed by Mark A. Eifler 179
Turning on Water With a Shovel: The Career of Elwood Mead by James R. Kluger, reviewed by James W. Hewitt 181
Trials and Triumphs: A Colorado Portrait of the Great Depression with FSA Photographs by Stephen J. Leonard, reviewed by Liston E. Leyendecker 182
Forgotten Places: Uneven Development in Rural America edited by Thomas A. Lyson and William W. Falk, reviewed by Karen Morin 184
Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West by M. Catherine Miller, reviewed by Linda S. Parker 185
The Fishes of Alberta (2nd edition) by Joseph S. Nelson and Martin J. Paetz, reviewed by R. A. Bodaly 187
Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land by John Opie, reviewed by Stephen E. White 188
Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 by Jeffrey Ostler, reviewed by Robert W. Cherny 190
Confronting Sexual Assault: A Decade of Legal and Social Change edited by Julian V. Roberts and Renate M. Mohr, reviewed by Cynthia E. Willis 192
Restructuring Rural Saskatchewan: The Challenge of the 1990s by Jack C. Stabler and M. R. Olfert, reviewed by James Knotwell 194
Not Room Enough: Mexicans, Anglos and Socioeconomic Change in Texas, 1850-1900 by Kenneth L. Stewart and Arnoldo De Leon, reviewed by F. Arturo Rosales 196
Farms, Mines, and Main Streets: Uneven Development in a Dakota County by Caroline S. Tauxe, reviewed by David B. Danbom 197
Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail by Jacqueline Williams, reviewed by Betsy Downey l99
NEWS AND NOTES 201
FALL 1995 VOL. 5/NO. 2
ARTICLES
Nebraska Quilts, 1870-1989: Perspectives on Traditions and Change Patricia Cox Crews and Wendelin Rich 211
What Kind of Woman Would Work in Meatpacking, Anyway? World War II and the Road to Fair Employment Deborah Fink 241
Secondary School Curriculum Change in Rural Nebraska Erwin Goldenstein and L. James Walter 263
Multivariate Analysis of Quality of Life and Migration in North Dakota Mohammad Hemmasi 283
Using Soils to Delineate South Dakota Physiographic Regions Rex R. Johnson, Kenneth F. Higgins, and Daniel E. Hubbard 309
River Protection in Texas: Up a Creek Without a Policy Michelle S. Pettit and F. Andrew Schoolmaster 323
BOOK REVIEWS
This Fragile Land: A Natural History of the Nebraska Sandhills by Paul A. Johnsgard, reviewed by Paul G. Risser 353
Restoring Prairie Wetlands: An Ecological Approach by Susan M. Galatowitsch and Arnold G. van der Valk, reviewed by John Ortmann and James Stubbendieck 354
Indian Water in the New West edited by Thomas R. McGuire, William B. Lord, and Mary G. Wallace, reviewed by Otis W. Templer 355
Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life by Frank Pommersheim, reviewed by Erin Hogan Fouberg 357
Aboriginal Peoples in Urban Centres: Report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Urban Issues by Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, reviewed by Russel Lawrence Barsh 359
Aboriginal Peoples and the Justice System: Report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Justice Issues by Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, reviewed by Russel Lawrence Barsh 359
Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 edited by Jerome A. Greene, reviewed by William Bridges 363
Apache Mothers and Daughters: Four Generations of a Family by Ruth McDonald Boyer and Narcissus Duffy Gayton, reviewed by Beth R. Ritter 364
Skeletal Biology in the Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health and Subsistence edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz, reviewed by LuAnn Wandsnider 366
Accidental Archaeologist: Memoirs of Jesse D. Jennings by Jesse D. Jennings. Foreword by C. Melvin Aikens, reviewed by Ralph J. Hartley 367
From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food edited by Allessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch, William Frieland, Lourdes Gouveia, and Enzo Mingione, reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt 369
Meatpackers and Beef Barons: Company Town in a Global Economy by Carol Andreas, reviewed by Laura Lacasa 370
Economic Adaptation: Alternatives for Nonmetropolitan Areas edited by David L. Barkley, reviewed by Richard L. Meile 372
Interest Group Politics in the Midwestern States edited by Ronald J. Hrebenar and Clive S. Thomas, reviewed by Russell Ross 373
Alberta's Local Governments: Politics and Democracy by Jack Masson with Edward C. LeSage, Jr., reviewed by Louis A. Knafla 374
Roadside History of South Dakota by Linda Hasselstrom, reviewed by Darrell Napton 376
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 378
NEWS AND NOTES 383
INDEX 385
SPRING 1996 VOL. 6/NO. 1
ARTICLES
The Canoe as Failure on the Canadian Plains Norman Henderson 3
Empirical Valuation of Prairie Potholes: Five Case Studies Jay A. Leitch and Brett Hovde 25
Fate of Wetlands Associated with the Central Nebraska Irrigation Canal System Jason D. Ekstein and Scott E. Hygnstrom 41
Niches of Homelessness in Rural Nebraska: Bolstering Existing Understandings Sharon Lord Gaber 61
Leisure and Aging in Southern Saskatchewan Ralph Nilson, David Weaver, and Carlton Yoshieka 85
BOOK REVIEWS
Geologic Field Trips in Nebraska and Adjacent Parts of Kansas and South Dakota edited by Robert F. Diffendal, Jr. and Charles A. Flowerday, reviewed by James E. Martin 105
Wild Animals and Settlers on the Great Plains by Eugene D. Fleharty, reviewed by Charles A. Flowerday 106
Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas by James Shortridge, reviewed by D. Aidan McQuillan 109
Politics in the Postwar American West edited by Richard Lowitt, reviewed by Clive S. Thomas 112
A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education by Paul E. Wilson, reviewed by Anna Williams Shavers 113
Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada edited by Noel Dyck and James B. Waldram, reviewed by Adrian Tanner 115
Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities by William A. Galston and Karen J. Baehler, reviewed by Don Macke 117
Atlas of Oklahoma Climate by Howard L. Johnson and Claude E. Duchon, reviewed by John A. Harrington, Jr. 118
Future Harvest: Pesticide-Free Farming by Jim Bender, reviewed by George E. Ham 120
Wetland and Environmental Applications of GIS by John G. Lyon and Jack McCarthy, reviewed by Scott E. Richert 121
NEWS AND NOTES 123
FIVE-YEAR INDEX 129
FALL 1996 VOL. 6/NO. 2
ARTICLES
Underinsurance: The Hidden Dimension to the Health Care Crisis John Comer, Keith Mueller, and Joseph Blankenau 163
South Dakota Gaming: A Regional Analysis Erin Hogan Fouberg 179
Occupational Segmentation in Kansas and Nebraska, 1890-1900 Lisa M. Frehill 213
The Challenge of Waste Stewardship and Sustainable Development: A Study of Municipal Waste Management in Rural Manitoba C. Emdad Haque and Karen T. Hamberg 245
Populist Entrepreneur: Douglas Bruce and the Tax and Government Limitation Moment in Colorado, 1986-1992 Daniel A. Smith 269
BOOK REVIEWS
Conservation of Great Plains Ecosystems: Current Science, Future Options edited by S. R. Johnson and Aziz Bouzaher, reviewed by .David Wishart 295
Planting the Future: Developing an Agriculture that Sustains Land and Community edited by Elizabeth A. R. Bird, Gordon L. Bultena, and John C. Gardner, reviewed by Charles Francis 296
Guide to Rural Data by Priscilla Salant and Anita J. Waller, reviewed by Cornelia Butler Flora 297
An Illustrated Guide to Endangered or Threatened Species in Kansas by Joseph T. Collins, Suzanne L. Collins, Jerry Horak, Dan Mulhern, William Busby, Craig C. Freeman, and Gary Wallace, reviewed by Michael A. Mares 299
The Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Nebraska by Brett C. Ratcliffe, reviewed by Stephen Trumbo 300
NEBRASKAland Magazine's Weather and Climate of Nebraska by Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, reviewed by Pamela Naber Knox 301
Editing Early and Historical Atlases edited by Joan Winearls, reviewed by Theodore Binnema 303
The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics by Peter H. Argersinger, reviewed by Scott G. McNall 304
Decision at Midnight: Inside the Canada-US Free-Trade Negotiations by Michael Hart with Bill Dymond and Colin Robertson, reviewed by Christopher D. Merrett 306
Rethinking Restructuring: Gender and Change in Canada edited by Isabella Bakker, reviewed by Barbara L. Marshall 307
Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit edited by Antonia Mills and Richard Slobodin, reviewed by Jennifer S. H. Brown 309
NEWS AND NOTES 312
ANNUAL INDEX 314
