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Ghost dances : proving up on the Great Plains
Growing up in South Dakota, Josh Garrett-Davis always knew he would leave. But as a young adult, he kept going back-in dreams and reality and by way of books. With this beautifully written narrative about a seemingly empty but actually rich and complex place, he has reclaimed his childhood, his unusual family-and the Great Plains. Among the subjects and people who bring his Plains to life are the destruction and resurgence of the American bison; his great-great-grandparents' twenty-year sojourn in Nebraska as homesteaders; Native American \"Ghost Dancers,\" who attempted to ward off destruction by supernatural means before the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee; the political allegory to be found in The Wizard of Oz; and current attempts by ecologists to \"rewild\" the Plains. Ghost Dances is a fluid combination of memoir and history and reportage that reminds us that our roots matter-and might even be inspiring and fascinating.
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Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region. Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern prairies. The contemporary archaeologists working in this small area have chosen diverse approaches to understand the past and its relationship to the present. Through these ten case studies, this variety is highlighted but leads to a common theme - that the High Plains contains important locales to which people, over generations or millennia, return. Providing both data and theory on a region that has not previously received much attention from archaeologists, especially compared with other regions in North America, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Contributors: o Paul Burnett o Oskar Burger o Minette C. Church o Philip Duke o Kevin Gilmore o Eileen Johnson o Mark D. Mitchell o Michael R. Peterson o Lawrence Todd
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Women on the North American Plains
\"The first comprehensive work highlighting the diversity of women's experiences on the North American Plains; twelve essays present women's perspectives from prehistory to the present, across the northern, central, and southern plains\"--Provided by publisher.
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Nomads, Migrants and Cotton in the Eastern Mediterranean
Drawing on a variety of both narrative and archival sources, this study deals with the region of Adana and its new port-city Mersin as part of the transformation of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. The book analyzes the socio-economic side of the region's emergence through cotton production and trade with its nomadic and migrant populaces.
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Playas of the Great Plains
Shallow wetlands that occur primarily in semi-arid to arid environments, playas are keystone ecosystems in the western Great Plains of North America. Providing irreplaceable habitat for native plants and animals, including migratory birds, they are essential for the maintenance of biotic diversity throughout the region. Playas also serve to recharge the aquifer that supplies much of the water for the Plains states. At the same time, however, large-scale habitat changes have endangered playas across the Great Plains, making urgent the need to understand their ecology and implement effective conservation measures. This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of all that is currently known about Great Plains playa ecology and conservation. Loren Smith synthesizes his own extensive research with other published studies to define playas and characterize their origin, development, flora, fauna, structure, function, and diversity. He also thoroughly explores the human relationship with playas from prehistoric times, when they served as campsites for the Clovis peoples, to today’s threats to playa ecosystems from agricultural activities and global climate change. A blueprint for government agencies, private conservation groups, and concerned citizens to save these unique prairie ecosystems concludes this landmark study.
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The legend of the White Buffalo Woman
A Lakota Indian legend in which the White Buffalo Woman presents her people with the Sacred Calf Pipe which gives them the means to pray to the Great Spirit.
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Selling the Serengeti
Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation—international NGO and state-sponsored conservation efforts on the one hand and the neoliberal private investment in tourism on the other—and investigates their profound effect on the Maasai's culture and livelihood. It further explores how these changing social and economic forces remake the terms through which state institutions and local people engage with foreign investors, communities, and their own territories. And finally it highlights how the new tourism arrangements change the shape and meaning of the nation-state and the village and in the process remake cultural belonging and citizenship.
Benjamin Gardner's experiences in Tanzania began during a study-abroad trip in 1991. His stay led to a relationship with the nation and the Maasai people in Loliondo lasting almost twenty years; it also marked the beginning of his analysis of and ethnographic research into social movements, market-led conservation, and neoliberal development around the Serengeti.
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The woman who lived with wolves & other stories from the tipi
A collection of folklore stories from Native American tribes of the Great Plains.
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The First Migrants
The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of
Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains
between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised
their rights under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000
acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states. Some created
Black homesteader communities such as Nicodemus, Kansas, and
DeWitty, Nebraska, while others, including George Washington Carver
and Oscar Micheaux, homesteaded alone. All sought a place where
they could rise by their own talents and toil, unencumbered by
Black codes, repression, and violence. In the words of one
Nicodemus descendant, they found \"a place they could experience
real freedom,\" though in a racist society that freedom could never
be complete. Their quest foreshadowed the epic movement of Black
people out of the South known as the Great Migration. In this first
account of the full scope of Black homesteading in the Great
Plains, Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld weave together two
distinct strands: the narrative histories of the six most important
Black homesteader communities and the several themes that
characterize homesteaders' shared experiences. Using homestead
records, diaries and letters, interviews with homesteaders'
descendants, and other sources, Edwards and Friefeld illuminate the
homesteaders' fierce determination to find freedom-and their
greatest achievements and struggles for full equality.
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