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Notorious Dr. Flippin
Abortion and Consequence in the Early Twentieth Century
Av Jamie Q. Tallman, Harriet A. Washington
Inbunden, 2011
415 kr
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In 1910 a central Nebraska newspaper, the Aurora Sun, printed an editorial condemning a physician it dubbed “the notorious Dr. Flippin.” Dr. Charles Flippin’s reputation came under siege throughout the state as another newspaper editor alleged that the African American physician had committed “that …
Route 66
A Road to America's Landscape, History, and Culture
Inbunden, 2011
678 kr
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When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song ""(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"" was one of only two he could recognize in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would catch his first glimpse of the legendary highway. It was enough to lure Henriksson four years later …
Indigenous Albuquerque
Av Myla Vicenti Carpio, P. Jane Hafen
Inbunden, 2011
436 kr
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Some 30,000 American Indians call Albuquerque, New Mexico, home, and twelve Indigenous nations, mostly Pueblo, live within a fifty-mile radius of it. Yet no study until now has focused on the complexities of urban American Indian experience in the state’s largest city. Indigenous Albuquerque …
Oysters, Macaroni and Beer
Thurber, Texas and the Company Store
Inbunden, 2012
403 kr
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From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company operated and managed the various commercial and service enterprises essential to the life and history of Thurber, Texas. Thurber was a …
Trail Sisters
Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850–1890
Inbunden, 2013
436 kr
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African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations faced an arduous journey from Indian Territory to free citizen status in 1890. Following the Trail of Tears in the footsteps of their Indian slaveholders, they experienced the same hardships, death, and …
Free Radical
Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race
Häftad, 2016
291 kr
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Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognized black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most powerful legislators …
Trail Sisters
Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890
Häftad, 2017
311 kr
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African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations led lives ranging from utter subjection to recognized kinship. Regardless of status, during Removal, they followed the Trail of Tears in the footsteps of the slaveholders, suffering the same …
Flood on the Tracks
Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin
Inbunden, 2019
495 kr
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The Elkhorn River originates in north-central Nebraska and empties into the Platte River just west of Omaha. One of the first written records of the Elkhorn describes a flood. A flood hindered travel up the river by the valley's first non-Indian settlers. Decade after decade, floods have swept away …
Sacred People
Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation
Inbunden, 2019
478 kr
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Selected for the 2021 Donald L. Fixico Award for Best Book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations HistoryBefore an indigenous people can decolonize, Leo Killsback explains, they must first understand what the world was like before colonization. Such understanding allows indigenous people to …
Sovereign People
Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law, and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation
Häftad, 2019
495 kr
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Selected for the 2021 Donald L. Fixico Award for Best Book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History(Volume 2 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinking that became casualties of …
Help Indians Help Themselves
The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša)
Av Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin, P. Jane Hafen
Häftad, 2022
449 kr
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Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influential American Indian writer/activists of the twentieth century. "Help Indians Help Themselves": The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin …
Help Indians Help Themselves
The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Å a)
Inbunden, 2020
449 kr
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Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influential American Indian writer/activists of the twentieth century. "Help Indians Help Themselves": The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin …
Falls of Wichita Falls
An Environmental History of the Red Rolling Plains
Häftad, 2023
332 kr
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In Texas, Wichita Falls lies at the nexus of many strains of American environmental history. Covering Progressive Era land ethics, water management, boom and bust oil towns, colorful municipal boosters, and many other topics. The Falls of Wichita Falls analyzes a local history with dramatically …
Where the West Begins
Debating Texas Identity
Av Glen Sample Ely, Alwyn Barr
Inbunden, 2011
409 kr
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Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state’s roots in slavery, segregation, and cotton make it southern. Another argues that its Native and ranching history make it western. Outside Texas, southern and western …
Women on the North American Plains
Häftad, 2011
510 kr
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The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences. From prehistory to the present, the Great Plains have played a significant role in the lives of women who moved to or across them, cleaving to …
Women on the North American Plains
Inbunden, 2011
754 kr
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The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences. From prehistory to the present, the Great Plains have played a significant role in the lives of women who moved to or across them, cleaving to …
Route 66
A Road to America's Landscape, History, and Culture
Häftad, 2014
452 kr
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When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song ""(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"" was one of only two he could recognize in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would catch his first glimpse of the legendary highway. It was enough to lure Henriksson four years later …
Urban Villages and Local Identities
Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska
Inbunden, 2015
754 kr
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Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese that settled in enclaves in Lincoln, Nebraska, beginning in 1876, 1941, and 1975, respectively. These urban …
Urban Villages and Local Identities
Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska
Häftad, 2015
452 kr
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Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups—Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese—that settled in enclaves in Lincoln, Nebraska, beginning in 1876, 1941, and 1975, respectively. These urban …
Law at Little Big Horn
Due Process Denied
Inbunden, 2015
524 kr
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During the nineteenth century, the rights of American Indians were frequently violated by the president and ignored or denied enforcement by federal courts. However, at times Congress treated the Indians with good faith and honoured due process, which prohibits the government from robbing any …
Food, Control, and Resistance
Rations and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and South Australia
Av Tamara Levi, Walter R. Echo-Hawk
Inbunden, 2016
754 kr
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An essential component of every culture, food offers up much more than mere sustenance. Food is also important in religion, ceremony, celebration, and cultural knowledge and transmission. Colonial governments were well aware of the cultural importance of food. In the nineteenth and twentieth …
Food, Control, and Resistance
Rations and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and South Australia
Av Tamara Levi, Walter R. Echo-Hawk
Häftad, 2016
452 kr
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An essential component of every culture, food offers up much more than mere sustenance. Food is also important in religion, ceremony, celebration, and cultural knowledge and transmission. Colonial governments were well aware of the cultural importance of food. In the nineteenth and twentieth …
Witness to History
George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman
Inbunden, 2017
540 kr
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This is the story of George H. Mahon, a man who went to Congress in 1935, when the House Committee on Appropriations still allocated a small amount of money to buy military horses. Forty-four years later, when Mahon retired as Chairman of that same committee, the committee was debating funds to …
As a Farm Woman Thinks
Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890–1960
Av Nellie Witt Spikes, Geoff Cunfer
Häftad, 2019
350 kr
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In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscing about pioneer settlement, farm and small-town culture, women’s work, and the natural history of the …
Where the West Begins
Debating Texas Identity
Häftad, 2011
280 kr
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Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state's roots in slavery, segregation, and cotton make it southern. Another argues that its Native and ranching history make it western. Outside Texas, southern and western …
Flood on the Tracks
Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin
Häftad, 2018
337 kr
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The Elkhorn River originates in north-central Nebraska and empties into the Platte River just west of Omaha. One of the first written records of the Elkhorn describes a flood. A flood hindered travel up the river by the valley's first non-Indian settlers. Decade after decade, floods have swept away …
