[Review of] Rodney Frey. The World of the Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges

Ethnographic studies have long been plagued by questions of credibility. Can the ethnographer believe his or her sources? And, in turn, can readers believe the ethnographer? Ronald Frey knows full well that such issues of believability plague anyone attempting to understand a culture\u27s otherness from the outside. He is determined to explain general historical, religious, and cultural aspects of the world of the Crow Indians from as close to the inside as he possibly can tell them

[Review of] Anne Hodges Morgan and Rennard Strickland, eds. Oklahoma Memories

Oklahoma looms large in the legends and imagination of westering Americans. Much more than one of the most northeastern of the Southwestern states, Oklahoma in the hearts and minds of many amounts to the fiction of Edna Ferber\u27s Cimarron or John Steinbeck\u27s Grapes of Wrath. Okies assuredly have their own mystique if not their own stereotype. Anne Hodges Morgan and Rennard Strickland, the editors of Oklahoma Memories, seek to document that the history of Oklahoma, as recorded by people who have traveled across it and settled it from Indian Territory days to the present, is just as fascinating as its story. And much of that fascination, as this collection of first-hand reminiscences and reporting shows, focuses on the various Native American peoples-generally the so-named Five Civilized Tribes-who have played every bit as large a part in defining Oklahoma as place, idea, and myth, as the oil derricks which stake the state and various and sundry millionaires wheeling and dealing in Tulsa

[Review of] Hugh A. Dempsey. Big Bear: The End of Freedom

The more one reads contemporary Native American writing, the more one realizes certain overreaching universal themes: namely, that the Native American past lives on, and strongly so, in the soul and consciousness of descendants; and, regardless of tribal affiliation or homeland, the nineteenth-century cultural collision with whites lingers in all such rememberings of the past and in all accounting of the present. These themes transcend the boundaries of history and fiction, prose and poetry, and offer solace to Indian and non-Indian alike

[Review of] Fred W. Voget. The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance

The University of Oklahoma Press has long led the way in publications about the American West, and more particularly about Native American experience in that sometimes limitless region. In keeping with that tradition, The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance is volume 170 in the University of Oklahoma Press\u27s Civilization of the American Indian Series -- a series distinctive in its purpose if not always in its result. Professor of anthropology emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Fred W. Voget -- as author of this comprehensive study -- adds yet another title to his list of ethnological studies about American Indians, and in the process adds to our overall knowledge about the diversity of Native American cultures

[Review of] Tom Miller, On the Border

Tom Miller\u27s On The Border is a disarmingly straightforward book. At first glance it seems to be a simple travelog-the account of his journey at the dawn of the decade in a 1968 Valiant, accompanied by a photographer companion, Norah Booth, along the entire distance of the United States/Mexico border from Brownsville and Matamoros to Chula Vista and Tijuana. The only photographs in the book, however, are verbal ones

Review of \u3ci\u3eSinging an Indian Song: A Biography of D\u27 Arcy McNickle\u3c/i\u3e By Dorothy R. Parker

D\u27Arcy McNickle occupies a position of relatively minor but increasing stature in American Indian history and literature. Dorothy R. Parker\u27s volume is thus a welcome addition to the increasing number of monographs, critical studies, and general commentaries about this ordinary but successful individual. Modern biography is characterized by a fascination with people who, although notable, are seldom as illustrious and famous as the figures who traditionally engaged the attention of earlier, particularly nineteenth-century, biographers. In this sense, McNickle is clearly a modern subject; and reader interest in him, although keen among enthusiasts, will probably be limited

Transcript of the Interview with Bob Bishop

A transcript of an oral history with Bob Bishop, conducted by Shirley Gish, about his recollection of Dr. Louise Caudill and the community of Morehead, Kentucky during the early half of the 20th century

Model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) exception for uncommon hepatic tumors

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Clinical characteristics of antimitochondrial antibody-positive patients at a safety net health care system in Arizona.

Background and aimsTo assess whether aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and alkaline phosphatase (AP) levels can predict the diagnosis of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) or any other diagnoses and whether PBC occurs either simultaneously or independently of other liver diseases among antimitochondrial antibody (AMA)-positive patients.MethodsDemographic and clinical variables were assessed in 90 AMA-positive patients with and without liver biopsies. These patients were further categorised as having a diagnosis of PBC, overlap syndrome or 'not established with a diagnosis of PBC'. Receiver operating characteristic curves were constructed to determine the thresholds of liver enzymes that predict these three diagnoses.ResultsThe 48 patients with liver biopsies were more frequently female and had significantly higher AP levels compared with the non-liver biopsy group. Based on liver biopsy findings, 12, 12 and 22 patients were assigned a diagnosis of PBC, overlap syndrome with autoimmune hepatitis and PBC and 'not established diagnosis of PBC', respectively. Seven of 12 patients classified as PBC had AP level of ˂200 IU. AST, ALT and AP levels were significant predictors of a diagnosis of overlap syndrome compared with the rest of the patients; however, these tests were not discriminatory between diagnoses of PBC and 'not established with PBC'. Findings of fatty liver and bile duct injury on liver biopsies were not significantly associated with any liver test pattern.ConclusionsAs the liver test pattern did not correlate with the liver biopsy findings of PBC or other non-PBC diagnoses in AMA-positive patients at risk for other disease, a liver biopsy and/or non-invasive liver assessment along with serum liver tests should be interpreted to complete liver evaluation