Bøger i Plains Histories serien

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 to the second international Route 66 festival in Fl...

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.

Uses four case studies to examine food rationing policies, practices, and results in the United States and South Australia. Tamara Levi explores how differences in environment, indigenous and colonial populations, and overall indigenous policies impacted the rationales for and implementation of food rationing as a tool for forced acculturation.

"A political biography of Nebraska state senator Ernest (Ernie) Chambers, investigating the tumultuous local and national political climate for African Americans from the late twentieth century to today"--Provided by publisher.

Examines Texas' historical DNA, making sense of Lone Star identity west of the hundredth meridian and defining Texas's place in the American West. Focusing on the motives that shape how Texans appropriate their past - from cashing in on tourism to avoiding historical realities - Glen Sample Ely reveals the inner workings of a multiplicity of Texas identities.

Zitkala-a, 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"" is a critical collection of primary documents written by Bonnin.

Zitkala-i?1/2a, 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. This book is a critical collection of primary documents written by Bonnin.

Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, this book's joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people.

Before 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 generate realistic goals and achieve positive change, reinventing themselves into people who can honour original ways without corrupting or disgracing them.

Presents 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 purchase a bomber capable of traveling at 2,000 miles an hour.