difficult to find. Moreover, the book tends to treat Winnipeg in isolation, as its relationships to other cities, and the effects of upperlevel jurisdictions on municipal politics, are not well explored. That said, Blanchard’s book does a good job of chronicling a decade of Winnipeg history that to date has been underrepresented in scholarship. Scholars of Winnipeg and of Manitoba in the early twentieth century will find this book to be a helpful reference to guide their historical investigations.
{"title":"Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma by Gunlög Fur (review)","authors":"Yve Chavez","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"difficult to find. Moreover, the book tends to treat Winnipeg in isolation, as its relationships to other cities, and the effects of upperlevel jurisdictions on municipal politics, are not well explored. That said, Blanchard’s book does a good job of chronicling a decade of Winnipeg history that to date has been underrepresented in scholarship. Scholars of Winnipeg and of Manitoba in the early twentieth century will find this book to be a helpful reference to guide their historical investigations.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49129963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Willa Cather and the Arts ed. by Guy J. Reynolds (review)","authors":"M. D'amore","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66403116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines the importance of isolation to the self-development of midwestern women in Willa Cather's early novels, O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. Cather employs the natural physical isolation of the Great Plains and the Arizona desert to give her protagonists physical space for their work. Unlike some of Cather's other works, such as My Ántonia, which focus more on the negative effects of physical isolation, Cather offers in these novels a more complicated portrait of isolation's value to women who need independence from their communities in order to explore the widely dissimilar fields of agriculture and opera. While Cather does not shy away from the mental toll of isolation on her characters, she demonstrates the vital role that physical isolation plays in their successful careers.
{"title":"\"The Great Divide\": Isolation in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark","authors":"Sophie Farthing","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the importance of isolation to the self-development of midwestern women in Willa Cather's early novels, O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. Cather employs the natural physical isolation of the Great Plains and the Arizona desert to give her protagonists physical space for their work. Unlike some of Cather's other works, such as My Ántonia, which focus more on the negative effects of physical isolation, Cather offers in these novels a more complicated portrait of isolation's value to women who need independence from their communities in order to explore the widely dissimilar fields of agriculture and opera. While Cather does not shy away from the mental toll of isolation on her characters, she demonstrates the vital role that physical isolation plays in their successful careers.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49411402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans by L. K. Bertram (review)","authors":"Kirsten Wolf","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42355477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:After the stock market crashed in 1929, financially strapped students left high school and college, joining the ranks of approximately five million unemployed young adults. To bring students back to the classroom through a work-study program and to give employment and teach marketable skills to "out-of-school" youth twenty-four years old and younger, President Roosevelt created the National Youth Administration in 1935 with Executive Order 7086. The National Youth Administration was sometimes compared to the Civilian Conservation Corps, but there were notable differences. The National Youth Administration included both men and women, enrolled males too young for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and incorporated work projects similar to those undertaken by the Works Progress Administration. This article focuses on the Kansas experience to illustrate and examine the National Youth Administration's national policies, implementation, relationship to war work during World War II, and long-term legacy.
{"title":"The New Deal's National Youth Administration in Kansas","authors":"M. Holt","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:After the stock market crashed in 1929, financially strapped students left high school and college, joining the ranks of approximately five million unemployed young adults. To bring students back to the classroom through a work-study program and to give employment and teach marketable skills to \"out-of-school\" youth twenty-four years old and younger, President Roosevelt created the National Youth Administration in 1935 with Executive Order 7086. The National Youth Administration was sometimes compared to the Civilian Conservation Corps, but there were notable differences. The National Youth Administration included both men and women, enrolled males too young for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and incorporated work projects similar to those undertaken by the Works Progress Administration. This article focuses on the Kansas experience to illustrate and examine the National Youth Administration's national policies, implementation, relationship to war work during World War II, and long-term legacy.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49510408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation by Leo K. Killsback (review)","authors":"J. Morsette","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42515514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this richly illustrated book, photography scholar Mick Gidley makes a convincing case for greater attention to the work of Helen Post. While her sister, Marion Post Wolcott of Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography fame, was and remains better known, Gidley argues that Helen Post’s images of Native Americans in the Great Plains and West expand our understanding of New Deal documentary photography in important ways. Gidley opens by introducing us to Post and her photographic training in Vienna in the early thirties before turning specifically to her work on Indian reservations. He reads Post’s photography of Native people in three ways: through an analysis of her collaboration with author Oliver La Farge on the 1940 nonfiction book As Long as the Grass Shall Grow, which purported to visualize “Indians today”; through a discussion of her portraits of Native people, including images produced to illustrate Ann Clark’s 1944 novel, Brave Against the Enemy; and through situating Post’s work in the context of the work of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Across these analyses Gidley balances readings of Post’s photographs with attention to how they were produced, reproduced, and circulated. As a result, the reader gets a sense not only of Post’s photographic skill (e.g., how she successfully employed flash photography) but also the larger cultural and governmental contexts in which she was working. Throughout the book Gidley argues that Post’s photographs avoided stereotypes, even when they were embedded in contexts that might have perpetuated them. In particular, he highlights Post’s lack of mythologizing and her emphasis on contemporary people living ordinary lives. As the author of two books on Edward Curtis, Gidley is aware of the power dynamics involved when nonNative photographers picture Native people. Gidley acknowledges that he does not have archival access to how Post’s subjects felt about being photographed, so he largely relies on her and her son’s accounts of the relationships she built with Native people. Yet at least one image in the book suggests there is more to be explored here. The book’s opening image, bled onto a full page, features a Lakota woman, Annie Bordeaux, fitting Post for a pair of moccasins. The photograph captures what appears to be a friendly, perhaps even intimate, moment. More than a simple picture of photographer with subject, though, the photograph invites questions about cultural appropriation as well as further exploration of the tensions inherent in the transactional nature of documentary encounters. Gidley’s book brings to light important work by a talented photographer who has been largely lost to history until now. It is a valuable addition to scholarship on photography of Native Americans, the Great Plains, and the New Deal era.
{"title":"The Grass Shall Grow: Helen Post Photographs the Native American West by Mick Gidley (review)","authors":"C. Finnegan","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"In this richly illustrated book, photography scholar Mick Gidley makes a convincing case for greater attention to the work of Helen Post. While her sister, Marion Post Wolcott of Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography fame, was and remains better known, Gidley argues that Helen Post’s images of Native Americans in the Great Plains and West expand our understanding of New Deal documentary photography in important ways. Gidley opens by introducing us to Post and her photographic training in Vienna in the early thirties before turning specifically to her work on Indian reservations. He reads Post’s photography of Native people in three ways: through an analysis of her collaboration with author Oliver La Farge on the 1940 nonfiction book As Long as the Grass Shall Grow, which purported to visualize “Indians today”; through a discussion of her portraits of Native people, including images produced to illustrate Ann Clark’s 1944 novel, Brave Against the Enemy; and through situating Post’s work in the context of the work of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Across these analyses Gidley balances readings of Post’s photographs with attention to how they were produced, reproduced, and circulated. As a result, the reader gets a sense not only of Post’s photographic skill (e.g., how she successfully employed flash photography) but also the larger cultural and governmental contexts in which she was working. Throughout the book Gidley argues that Post’s photographs avoided stereotypes, even when they were embedded in contexts that might have perpetuated them. In particular, he highlights Post’s lack of mythologizing and her emphasis on contemporary people living ordinary lives. As the author of two books on Edward Curtis, Gidley is aware of the power dynamics involved when nonNative photographers picture Native people. Gidley acknowledges that he does not have archival access to how Post’s subjects felt about being photographed, so he largely relies on her and her son’s accounts of the relationships she built with Native people. Yet at least one image in the book suggests there is more to be explored here. The book’s opening image, bled onto a full page, features a Lakota woman, Annie Bordeaux, fitting Post for a pair of moccasins. The photograph captures what appears to be a friendly, perhaps even intimate, moment. More than a simple picture of photographer with subject, though, the photograph invites questions about cultural appropriation as well as further exploration of the tensions inherent in the transactional nature of documentary encounters. Gidley’s book brings to light important work by a talented photographer who has been largely lost to history until now. It is a valuable addition to scholarship on photography of Native Americans, the Great Plains, and the New Deal era.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49167682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
coverage he earned through success in battle and his natural talent for publicity— like creating a character through designing his own uniform. “The Little Bighorn simply took the story out of his hands. . . . [and] the Custer legend factory began production” (302– 3). The authors’ contribution to the Custer story is not unique in emphasizing his Civil War career nor in looking at his life as a whole rather than its end on a Great Plains battlefield. Other recent authors, such as T. J. Stiles in Custer’s Times, have taken a similar approach. The authors’ main achievement instead is an encyclopedic review of the literature, skillfully using press accounts, works of fiction, and histories to show how, as the title says, these widely divergent sources were inventing Custer. For example, they analyze the imagined scenes of Quentin Reynolds’s 1951 juvenile biography, Custer’s Last Stand, which gave kids growing up during the Cold War a Western hero to worship. They look at the sensationalistic coverage of Custer’s 1874 Black Hills expedition, which they compare to the “modernday hokum of celebrity outdoorsmen taking fellow celebrities to exotic locales” (173– 74). Caudill and Ashdown have written a lively, thorough study of Custer’s life and the various interpretations of it that have created a legend. Anyone who wants to better understand Custer’s role in Great Plains history would do well to read it.
{"title":"The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I by William C. Meadows (review)","authors":"R. Hughes","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"coverage he earned through success in battle and his natural talent for publicity— like creating a character through designing his own uniform. “The Little Bighorn simply took the story out of his hands. . . . [and] the Custer legend factory began production” (302– 3). The authors’ contribution to the Custer story is not unique in emphasizing his Civil War career nor in looking at his life as a whole rather than its end on a Great Plains battlefield. Other recent authors, such as T. J. Stiles in Custer’s Times, have taken a similar approach. The authors’ main achievement instead is an encyclopedic review of the literature, skillfully using press accounts, works of fiction, and histories to show how, as the title says, these widely divergent sources were inventing Custer. For example, they analyze the imagined scenes of Quentin Reynolds’s 1951 juvenile biography, Custer’s Last Stand, which gave kids growing up during the Cold War a Western hero to worship. They look at the sensationalistic coverage of Custer’s 1874 Black Hills expedition, which they compare to the “modernday hokum of celebrity outdoorsmen taking fellow celebrities to exotic locales” (173– 74). Caudill and Ashdown have written a lively, thorough study of Custer’s life and the various interpretations of it that have created a legend. Anyone who wants to better understand Custer’s role in Great Plains history would do well to read it.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49076709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines the indita of Manuel Maés, a Nuevomexicano ballad about the death of a cibolero, or buffalo hunter, in the Llano Estacado in the late nineteenth century. It analyzes the ballad through the lens of environmental humanities in Spanish, Hispanic, and US Latinx studies, particularly with regard to water scarcity and the tradition of "goodlife writing," as conceived by Priscilla Ybarra. Through its emphasis on water landmarks and tragic lament of life lost, the ballad demonstrates the centrality of water in crafting a cultural sense of place in the Southern Plains. The article includes as an appendix the Manuel Maés Ballad Corpus, a compendium of seven different versions collected from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The original Spanish appears alongside English translations and transcriptions of four unique melodies, in addition to links to musical recordings of the different versions.
{"title":"The Thirsty Llano Estacado: The Manuel Maés Ballad Corpus","authors":"Timothy M. Foster, John Beusterien","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the indita of Manuel Maés, a Nuevomexicano ballad about the death of a cibolero, or buffalo hunter, in the Llano Estacado in the late nineteenth century. It analyzes the ballad through the lens of environmental humanities in Spanish, Hispanic, and US Latinx studies, particularly with regard to water scarcity and the tradition of \"goodlife writing,\" as conceived by Priscilla Ybarra. Through its emphasis on water landmarks and tragic lament of life lost, the ballad demonstrates the centrality of water in crafting a cultural sense of place in the Southern Plains. The article includes as an appendix the Manuel Maés Ballad Corpus, a compendium of seven different versions collected from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The original Spanish appears alongside English translations and transcriptions of four unique melodies, in addition to links to musical recordings of the different versions.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42658809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polish War Veterans in Alberta: The Last Four Stories by Aldona Jaworska (review)","authors":"A. Mazurkiewicz","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41286026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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