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from the issue of March 8, 2007
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Great Plains Quarterly features Plains artists, Treaty Six, Crazy Horse
The winter issue of UNL's Great Plains Quarterly (issued March 1), contains articles about contemporary Plains artists, the 1876 Canadian Treaty Six with Saskatchewan Crees, and a historiography of Mari Sandoz and her book, "Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas."
The winter issue is the quarterly's 105th edition of Great Plains Quarterly.
In her article, "The Art of Open Spaces," retired University of Kansas English professor Elizabeth Schultz focused on six artists whose extensive works depict their various views of the prairie: Robert Sudlow, Keith Jacobshagen, Lisa Grossman, Louis Copt, Terry Evans and Larry Schwarm. Schultz, whose article is accompanied by 12 images of paintings and photographs by these artists, wrote, "The work of these artists creates an ethic of caring about the prairie environment, about its loss and the need for its conservation."
In an article about the 1876 Treaty Six between the Canadian government and the Crees in Saskatchewan, historian Derek Whitehouse-Strong compares a 2005 Canadian federal court justice who discounted the testimony of Samson Cree tribal elders in favor of "the written word of the white man" to the 1880s Canadian Department of Indian Affairs' belief "that the oral accounts were more accurate than its own written records."
In his evaluation of Treaty Six, Whitehouse-Strong wrote, "The Canadian government wanted to use the treaty process to facilitate peaceful Euro-Canadian settlement of western Canada by extinguishing Indian title to the land and establishing a reserve system, but Indian negotiators intended to use the clauses contained in the treaty to protect their cultures and economies from the effects of settlement pressures and of diminishing buffalo herds."
In her article on Sandoz's "Crazy Horse," University of Nebraska at Kearney graduate Mary Dixon began, "A true evaluation of the history of the American West is an important consideration for Americans, because as (historians Will and Ariel Durant) claim, there is much to gain from a proper understanding of it." With this introduction, Dixon identifies Sandoz's unconventional and interpretive historical writing as important to regional identity. "She was a biographer who intelligently and diligently researched the details of her subjects' lives, the people who surrounded them, the places they inhabited, and the times in which they lived," Dixon wrote.
Great Plains Quarterly is published by the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL.
The journal may be purchased in the Great Plains Art Museum gift shop or by calling 472-3082.
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ARTS HEADLINES FOR MARCH 8
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British quilter to discuss U.K. craft March 19
Great Plains museum offers 'Journey Home' to March 26
Great Plains Quarterly features Plains artists, Treaty Six, Crazy Horse
Kruger offers new miniatures March 19
'Lives of Others,' 'Commune' open March 16
Paddywhack offers Free at 6 performance
Ross event explores German cinema
Scarlet and Cream Singers to open Nebraska tour
Sheldon's 'Room in New York' to go on tour
Steamroller presents 'Fresh Aire' at Lied
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