Great Plains Research 21:1

Great Plains Research 21:1

Edited by Robert F. Diffendal, Jr.

Table Of Contents

Workplace Religious Accommodation for Muslims and the Promise of State Constitutionalism
Peter J. Longo and Joan M. Blauwkamp

Using Euro-American Hunting Data to Access Western Great Plains Biogeography, 1806-35
Cody Newton

The Political Consequences of Population Consolidation in Nebraska
Diane L. Duffin

Cottonwood Riparian Site Selection on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
Julie A. Thorstenson, Diane H. Rickerl, and Janet H. Gritzner

Do Invasive Riparian Woody Plants Affect Hydrology and Ecosystem Processes
Julie A. Huddle, Tala Awada, Derrel L. Martin, Xinhua Zhou, Sue Ellen Pegg, and Scott J. Josiah

Estimation of Land Surface Evapotranspiration with a Satellite Remote Sensing Procedure
Ayse Irmak, Ian Ratcliffe, Pariskhit Ranade, Kenneth G. Hubbard, Ramesh K. Singh, Babuarao Kamble, and Jeppe Kjaersgaard

Health and Fertility Implications Related to Seasonal Changes in Kidney Fat Index of White-Tailed Jackrabbits in South Dakota
Dustin Schaible and Charles Dieter

Historic and Contemporary Trends of the Conservation Reserve Program and Ring-Necked Pheasants in South Dakota
Christopher R. Laingen

BOOK REVIEWS

Bridging the Divide: Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century by Caroline Phillips and Harry Allen, eds., reviewed by Larry J. Zimmermanp

Hell Gap: A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies by Mary Lou Larson, Marcel Kornfeld, and George C. Frison, eds., reviewed by Jack W. Brink

Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus rex by Lowell Dingus and Mark A. Norell, reviewed by Donald M. Henderson

Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery by Steve Nicholls, reviewed by John Herron

Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology by Mark V. Barrow, Jr., reviewed by Peter A. Bednekoff

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock, foreword by Martin Rees, reviewed by R. F. Diffendal, Jr

A Dry Oasis: Institutional Adaptation to Climate on the Canadian Plains by Gregory P. Marchildon, ed., reviewed by Siân Mooney

The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow by Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden, and H. V. Nelles, reviewed by Ted Binnema and David Vogt

The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States by Chris Helzer, reviewed by David J. Gibson

The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper Midwest by Daryl Smith, Dave Williams, Greg Houseal, and Kirk Henderson, reviewed by Gerry Steinauer

The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Seed and Seedling Identification in the Upper Midwest by Dave Williams, reviewed by H. L. Hillhouse

Gasoline, Diesel, and Ethanol Biofuels from Grasses and Plants by Ram B. Gupta and Ayhan Demirbas, reviewed by Adam L. Liska

620 Wild Plants of North America: Fully Illustrated by Tom Reaume, reviewed by Mark J. Leoschke

Pieces of the Plains: Memories and Predictions from the Heart of America by John Janovy, Jr., reviewed by Mark Hammer

Raptors of New Mexico by Jean-Luc E. Cartron, ed., reviewed by Brian A. Millsap

Whooping Crane: Images from the Wild by Klaus Nigge, reviewed by Paul A. Johnsgard

Cougar: Ecology and Conservation by Maurice Hornocker and Sharon Negri, eds., reviewed by Oranit Gilad

The Leadership of George Bush: An Insider’s View of the Forty-First President by Roman Popadiuk, reviewed by Caroline Heldman

Kansas Politics and Government: The Clash of Political Cultures by H. Edward Flentje and Joseph A. Aistrup, reviewed by Burdett A. Loomis

Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J. R. Miller, reviewed by Sidney L. Harring

Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows, reviewed by Signa A. Daum Shanks

Aboriginal title and Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Louis A. Knafla and Haijo Westra, eds., reviewed by Dwight Newman

“I Thought Pocahontas Was a Movie”: Perspectives on Race/Culture binaries in Educaitn and Service Professions by Carol Schick and James McNinch, eds., reviewed by Tracy L. Friedel

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma: A Legal History by L. Susan Work, foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson, reviewed by Andrew K. Frank

Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory and Ritual by William C. Meadows, reviewed by Gregory R. Campbell

Immigration and Settlement, 1870–1939 by Gregory P. Marchildon, ed., reviewed by Hans Werner

Immigrants in Prairie Cities: Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada by Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen, reviewed by Lori Wilkinson

Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin by William Scott Swearingen, Jr., reviewed by Jonathan R. Wynn

Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas by Joshua Long, reviewed by Sally Caldwell

Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas, reviewed by Peter F. Korsching