An Ethnohistorical Perspective on Cheyenne Demography

Administrative censuses of the Southern Cheyenne Indians from 1880,1891, and 1900 permit family reconstitution, identification of residence groups, and comparisons of fertility between monogamous and polygynous women, when the records are approached by ethnohistori cal methods. This approach includes an awareness of the aboriginal adoption practices, kinship system, and naming practices. It is argued that the biases and distortions of administrative records can be effectively corrected to add to our store of information on band and tribal societies.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Morphological Alternations at the Intonational Phrase Edge

This article develops an analysis of a pair of morphological alternations in K\u27ichee\u27 (Mayan) that are conditioned at the right edge of intonational phrase boundaries. I propose a syntax-prosody mapping algorithm that derives intonational phrase boundaries from the surface syntax, and then argue that each alternation can be understood in terms of output optimization. The important fact is that a prominence peak is always rightmost in the intonational phrase, and so the morphological alternations occur in order to ensure an optimal host for this prominence peak. Finally, I consider the wider implications of the analysis for the architecture of the syntax-phonology interface, especially as it concerns late-insertion theories of morphology

Review of The Wolves of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, and Prehistoric Origins.

Karl Schlesier contends that the Cheyennes (or, as he prefers, the Tsistsistas, excluding the Suhtai branch of Northern Cheyennes) made their perfect adaptation to the northern Plains long before the 1700s. Indeed, he argues that the T sistsistas emerged as an ethnic group on the Plains about 500 B.C., attaining an identity through observances of a ceremony, the Massaum, which continued to be celebrated into the early twentieth century. The Massaum is represented as having constituted the set of sacred relations between the people and the universe. With respect to the plains environment in particular, Schlesier represents the Massaum as having been the model, with the force of law, for the manner of tribal hunting of herd animals in surrounds and impoundments

The evolution of the agricultural settlement pattern of the Southern Cheyenne Indians ...

The development, or lack of development, of American Indian agriculture after the subjugation of the Indians by European-Americans, has often been studied as merely one component of the general accommodation ("acculturation"), or failure of accommodation, of Indian societies to non-Indian cultures. In this dissertation, however, the methods of ethnohistorical research are employed to demonstrate that the rate of adoption of economically advantageous agricultural innovations among the Southern Cheyenne Indians of western Oklahoma, during the time perod 1876-1930, was not necessarily associated with the adoption of many other aspects of non-Indian culture.In particular, it is shown that the non-Indian ideal, enforced to some extent by the Bureau of Indian Affairs within the context of general allotment policy, of a settlement pattern characterized by independent, dispersed, nuclear-family farmsteads was not necessarily conducive to agricultural development. To the contrary, comparisons among the several Southern Cheyenne farm communities indicate that greater success in agricultural growth by some communities than others was largely dependent on the degree of success attained by the Indians in utilizing such forms of cooperation as are usually facilitated by nucleation of settlement.Emphasis on achievements in cooperation proved of more explanatory utility than theories of agricultural growth that feature the importance of increases in community demand for food resulting from increases in population pressure, or theories that stress the importance of degrees of proximity of farms to marketing facilities. These factors seem to have helped to shape some local configurations of agricultural settlement during certain time periods. More important than increases in gross population numbers, however, were increases in effective manpower (the value of "human capital"), resulting from better integration of the activities of Cheyenne wives and husbands in the division of farm labor, and from progress in "on-the-job" training of Cheyenne farmers. More important than relative proximity to marketing facilities was degree of development of cooperative marketing patterns, which permitted Cheyenne farmers in some communities to adjust the timing of their sales to the fluctuations of farm market prices

Precipitation Augmentation for Crops Experiment: Phase II, final report

"September 1988."Cooperative agreement: NA87RAH07077.Includes bibliographical references.Photocopy. Springfield, Va.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Technical Information Service, [1994?]. 28 cm. s1994 mdun rSponsored by Weather Modification Program, Environmental Research Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NA87RAH07077"PB91-140467.""Illinois State Water Survey.

Precipitation Augmentation for Crops Experiment: Phase II, final report

"September 1988."Cooperative agreement: NA87RAH07077.Includes bibliographical references.Photocopy. Springfield, Va.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Technical Information Service, [1994?]. 28 cm. s1994 mdun rSponsored by Weather Modification Program, Environmental Research Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NA87RAH07077"PB91-140467.""Illinois State Water Survey.

Operations Manual: the Precipitation Augmentation for Crops Experiment (PACE), Phase II: Exploratory Modification

The goal of the 1989 field operations is to collect cumulus cloud data using aircraft and radars that will allow comparisons between similar clouds treated with silver iodide and those not treated with silver iodide (placebos of sand). Field operations are headquarted at Willard Airport (CMI) just south of the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. The study area, as shown in Fig. 1, includes all Illinois counties within a 100 mile radius of the airport. Some seeding operations will be conducted outside the study area and occasionally missions will be conducted in near by adjacent states for the purpose of collecting in-cloud data on natural clouds.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe