Amanda L. Witte, Amanda Prokasky, Courtney E. Boise, R. T. M. Gomes, Gwen Nugent, S. Sheridan
ABSTRACT:During the spring of 2020, Nebraska's 983 public schools sat vacant, and Nebraska's 329,290 Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 students were learning in environments other than school. Educators were expected to pivot quickly from traditional classroom instruction to remote experiences. Understanding the effects of the pandemic on educators is necessary to effectively meet their needs and the needs of students. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the experiences of Nebraska's urban and rural PreK–Grade 12 educators during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. In surveys collected in July 2020, participants (i.e., superintendents, principals, and teachers) completed both fixed-response items and one open-ended question that assessed experiences during the initial pandemic-related school closings. The results indicate educators identified lack of family help and inability to engage students as a top concern about student academic progress. Educators reported dramatic increases in stress during school closures. Many reported coping only somewhat well or worse. Educators also reported personal challenges with remote instruction, including mental health issues and blurred work- and home-life boundaries. Significant differences were found between rural and urban educators, as well as between elementary and secondary educators. Direct quotes from participants vividly describe their lived experiences.
{"title":"Concern, Conflict, and Chaos: Nebraska Educator Experiences during the Pandemic","authors":"Amanda L. Witte, Amanda Prokasky, Courtney E. Boise, R. T. M. Gomes, Gwen Nugent, S. Sheridan","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:During the spring of 2020, Nebraska's 983 public schools sat vacant, and Nebraska's 329,290 Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 students were learning in environments other than school. Educators were expected to pivot quickly from traditional classroom instruction to remote experiences. Understanding the effects of the pandemic on educators is necessary to effectively meet their needs and the needs of students. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the experiences of Nebraska's urban and rural PreK–Grade 12 educators during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. In surveys collected in July 2020, participants (i.e., superintendents, principals, and teachers) completed both fixed-response items and one open-ended question that assessed experiences during the initial pandemic-related school closings. The results indicate educators identified lack of family help and inability to engage students as a top concern about student academic progress. Educators reported dramatic increases in stress during school closures. Many reported coping only somewhat well or worse. Educators also reported personal challenges with remote instruction, including mental health issues and blurred work- and home-life boundaries. Significant differences were found between rural and urban educators, as well as between elementary and secondary educators. Direct quotes from participants vividly describe their lived experiences.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"47 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42383365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1353/gpr.2023.0003
Regina Idoate, Aislinn C Rookwood, Lisa Spellman, Hannah Robbins, Mi'oux Stabler, Mark Gilbert, Maurice Godfrey, Joyce C Solheim, Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway
American Indians' cancer disparities vary by region, signifying the importance of understanding community-specific levels of readiness to address cancer. Twenty-four key respondents from an urban American Indian community in the Great Plains, community leaders (n = 8), educators (n = 8), and students (n = 8), were interviewed following the Community Readiness Model. Using framework analysis, we qualitatively examined data related to efforts and resources in interview transcripts. One overarching emergent theme and three subthemes were identified. We found that communication of efforts and resources is critical to increasing community readiness to address cancer and is most successful when the community (1) prioritizes cancer as an issue in the community, (2) cultivates trusting relationships among stakeholders, and (3) practices cultural responsiveness in efforts. These findings emphasize the need for better communication of cancer efforts and resources and can inform strategic efforts to promote cancer prevention, treatment, and research among American Indians/Alaska Natives in the Great Plains.
{"title":"Communicating Native American Cancer Efforts and Resources in the Great Plains.","authors":"Regina Idoate, Aislinn C Rookwood, Lisa Spellman, Hannah Robbins, Mi'oux Stabler, Mark Gilbert, Maurice Godfrey, Joyce C Solheim, Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"10.1353/gpr.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>American Indians' cancer disparities vary by region, signifying the importance of understanding community-specific levels of readiness to address cancer. Twenty-four key respondents from an urban American Indian community in the Great Plains, community leaders (<i>n</i> = 8), educators (<i>n</i> = 8), and students (<i>n</i> = 8), were interviewed following the Community Readiness Model. Using framework analysis, we qualitatively examined data related to efforts and resources in interview transcripts. One overarching emergent theme and three subthemes were identified. We found that communication of efforts and resources is critical to increasing community readiness to address cancer and is most successful when the community (1) prioritizes cancer as an issue in the community, (2) cultivates trusting relationships among stakeholders, and (3) practices cultural responsiveness in efforts. These findings emphasize the need for better communication of cancer efforts and resources and can inform strategic efforts to promote cancer prevention, treatment, and research among American Indians/Alaska Natives in the Great Plains.</p>","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"33-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11218712/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44638104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Turk, R. A. Young, N. Jelinski, Amber D. Anderson, A. Dere, C. Moorberg, Rachel K. Owen
abstract:Understanding soil systems that characterize a region is critical to natural resource management. However, the knowledge gained through intensive study of local soil systems, which takes place annually as part of collegiate soil judging contests, is often poorly preserved for future use. In this study, field descriptions and laboratory data for 16 soil profiles described for the 2019 Region 5 Soil Judging Contest were used to characterize the soil system of the Central Nebraska Loess Hills and Central Loess Plains. Three landscape components of this soil system were analyzed: the loess uplands and rainwater basins, the transitional zone, and bottomlands. Rainwater basins exhibit increasing clay, clay films, and melanization compared to surrounding uplands. The transitional zone between the upland and bottomlands exhibits fining and aging of parent material with increasing elevation, resulting in increased prevalence of clay films, lower pH relative to parent material, and melanization. The bottomlands exhibited subtle variations in texture of the alluvium resulting in differences in expression of melanization, effervescence, pH, and redoximorphic features. Patterns observed within this soil system are well explained by existing pedogenic theories and demonstrate the unique interplay between soil-forming factors characteristic of this region of the Great Plains.
{"title":"Soils of the Central Nebraska Loess Hills and Central Loess Plains","authors":"J. Turk, R. A. Young, N. Jelinski, Amber D. Anderson, A. Dere, C. Moorberg, Rachel K. Owen","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Understanding soil systems that characterize a region is critical to natural resource management. However, the knowledge gained through intensive study of local soil systems, which takes place annually as part of collegiate soil judging contests, is often poorly preserved for future use. In this study, field descriptions and laboratory data for 16 soil profiles described for the 2019 Region 5 Soil Judging Contest were used to characterize the soil system of the Central Nebraska Loess Hills and Central Loess Plains. Three landscape components of this soil system were analyzed: the loess uplands and rainwater basins, the transitional zone, and bottomlands. Rainwater basins exhibit increasing clay, clay films, and melanization compared to surrounding uplands. The transitional zone between the upland and bottomlands exhibits fining and aging of parent material with increasing elevation, resulting in increased prevalence of clay films, lower pH relative to parent material, and melanization. The bottomlands exhibited subtle variations in texture of the alluvium resulting in differences in expression of melanization, effervescence, pH, and redoximorphic features. Patterns observed within this soil system are well explained by existing pedogenic theories and demonstrate the unique interplay between soil-forming factors characteristic of this region of the Great Plains.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"133 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46019435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Household Economy at Wall Ridge: A Fourteenth-Century Central Plains Farmstead in the Missouri Valley ed. by Stephan C. Lensink, Joseph A. Tiffany, and Shirley Schermer (review)","authors":"Brennan J. Dolan","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"182 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47068578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clovis Mammoth Butcher: The Lange/Ferguson Site and Associated Bone Tool Technology by L. Adrien Hannus (review)","authors":"Christopher W. Schmidt","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"177 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48643839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise by Paul D. Earl","authors":"Joseph M. Santos","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48568666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis by Seamus McGraw (review)","authors":"P. Farca","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"178 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42034508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of Kansas faces woody plant encroachment as one of several incessant threats. Many factors affect woody plant encroachment into prairies, and the effects of climatic variability, including temperature and precipitation, are among the most debated. Plants, in the long term, alter their physical structure and functional capacity to adapt to changes in external environmental conditions. These changes include changes to vascular tissue. We conducted a survey of three habitat types (prairie, a transitional woodland, and a forest edge) to identify the impacts of annual weather on woody plant cell physiology; specifically, lumen area, cell wall thickness, and cell diameter in both earlywood (produced during spring) and latewood (produced during summer). Intraspecific comparisons showed little difference among sites. However, there were differences in earlywood cell lumen area and overall cell diameter with precipitation among sites while latewood showed weak positive correlations. Cell wall thickness showed little or no correlation with precipitation in both earlywood and latewood. Temperature had no impact on our cellular metrics among all habitats, suggesting precipitation is the driving stressor in our species in this prairie setting.
{"title":"Cellular Changes and Weather Variability in Encroaching Woody Plants","authors":"Bin Li, David A. McKenzie","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of Kansas faces woody plant encroachment as one of several incessant threats. Many factors affect woody plant encroachment into prairies, and the effects of climatic variability, including temperature and precipitation, are among the most debated. Plants, in the long term, alter their physical structure and functional capacity to adapt to changes in external environmental conditions. These changes include changes to vascular tissue. We conducted a survey of three habitat types (prairie, a transitional woodland, and a forest edge) to identify the impacts of annual weather on woody plant cell physiology; specifically, lumen area, cell wall thickness, and cell diameter in both earlywood (produced during spring) and latewood (produced during summer). Intraspecific comparisons showed little difference among sites. However, there were differences in earlywood cell lumen area and overall cell diameter with precipitation among sites while latewood showed weak positive correlations. Cell wall thickness showed little or no correlation with precipitation in both earlywood and latewood. Temperature had no impact on our cellular metrics among all habitats, suggesting precipitation is the driving stressor in our species in this prairie setting.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"147 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49662110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The term “landscape” entered the lexicon of American social scientists approximately one hundred years ago primarily through the work of the eminent geographer Carl Sauer. Since that time, its myriad definitions have been engaged with by numerous scholars seeking to employ it as a meaningful concept, particularly in the study of what geographers call “human–environment interactions.” It has become a central concept in related fields like cultural ecology, landscape architecture, conservation, and planning, yet when the term is used it is often unclear what precisely it is meant to denote. This article engages several contemporary definitions of landscape to investigate one of Nebraska’s most famous landscapes, known colloquially as the Bohemian Alps. Ultimately, I suggest that Kenneth Olwig’s concept of substantive landscape is the most useful for coming to a deeper understanding of this region and should be employed in similar studies.
{"title":"The Bohemian Alps as a Substantive Landscape","authors":"B. Chloupek","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The term “landscape” entered the lexicon of American social scientists approximately one hundred years ago primarily through the work of the eminent geographer Carl Sauer. Since that time, its myriad definitions have been engaged with by numerous scholars seeking to employ it as a meaningful concept, particularly in the study of what geographers call “human–environment interactions.” It has become a central concept in related fields like cultural ecology, landscape architecture, conservation, and planning, yet when the term is used it is often unclear what precisely it is meant to denote. This article engages several contemporary definitions of landscape to investigate one of Nebraska’s most famous landscapes, known colloquially as the Bohemian Alps. Ultimately, I suggest that Kenneth Olwig’s concept of substantive landscape is the most useful for coming to a deeper understanding of this region and should be employed in similar studies.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"135 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49273227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species by Mary Anne Andrei (review)","authors":"J. W. Helmer","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"180 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44982876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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