The Great War and Lake Superior PART 2

This two-part article documents World War I’s influence in the Lake Superior Basin, in both Canada and the United States. It examines how the Great War affected Native Americans, recent immigrants, and the host society, with an emphasis on rumored and actual sabotage activities. It likewise explores vigilantism and regional responses. The War also engendered food production, scrap metal drives, and other habits of resource. These and other activities, designed to further the war effort in the Lake Superior region, are also studied. This final part of the two-part article focuses on recruitment, transportation, mining, and industry among other topics

Plains Indians in New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance

T he colonial period in American history must, include not only the English experience on the Atlantic shore but the Spanish story in the Southwest and the approaches to the Great Plains. l Part of the New Mexican story is the emergence of a new people who become part of our multicultural experience, the detribalized Indians of the Plains and Mountains who were given the name genfzaros and were eventually absorbed into Pueblo-Spanish society. 2 The Spanish had tried to implement their Indian policy on the Great Plains, but frustrated by the environment and the native people, they remained in their New Mexican settlements and watched as Plains Indians involuntarily came to them

Review of Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction Between the Southwest and Southern Plains

The idea for this monograph goes back to September 1987 when the editor, Katherine Spielman, organized a meeting of scholars. A series of formal papers and discussions on the interaction of the Southwest and Plains Indians resulted, forming the basis of this work