[Review of] Wilbur S. Nye. Plains Indian Raiders

Published in 1968, reprinted in 1974, and a third printing in 1984, this volume contains a collection of 112 superb photographs, mostly by William S. Soule. Born in Maine in 1836, he was wounded in the Civil War and in 1865 entered the photography business, but sold this to become chief clerk in the sutler store operated by John Tappan at Fort Dodge (Kansas), where he resumed his photographic activity during off-duty hours. Soule probably made most of his photographs of Cheyennes and Araphoes [Arapahos] at Fort Dodge, some others at Camp Supply and Fort Sill (Indian Territory). All of the pictures are probably from the period 1867-1875, and they, perhaps more than the text, explain the need for the third printing of this volume

[Review of] Anthony D. Brown, et al. New Directions in Federal Indian Policy

This volume consists of an introduction and ten articles which were originally presented as papers at the second annual conference (sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA) held to examine contemporary issues of importance to Indian Americans. The conference of 1978 focused on a review of the recently completed work of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC), which Congress had created in 1975 in order to study past Indian/federal government relationships and to recommend new national policies and programs

[Review of] Jack D. Forbes. Native Americans and Nixon: Presidential Politics and Minority Self-Determination 1969-1972

In Native Americans and Nixon, Jack D. Forbes, author of several monographs on the Indian in America\u27s past, has undertaken an important subject, one also difficult because essential sources are lacking. Forbes therefore employs a number of hedges such as we can only guess (116) in his conjecture about the motives and actions of the Nixon administration relative to Indian Americans. In a foreword taking twenty-three of the 124 pages of text, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz of California State University, Hayward, sets the theme of neocolonialism. Explaining the background of post-World War II techniques of colonial control, she states that Hundreds of thousands of democratic groups were executed or imprisoned by United States forces directly or through military training and aid to puppet regimes (7). Readers receptive to this statement will have little difficulty in speculating with these writers that Nixon\u27s words were hollow when he stated in 1970 that We must assure the Indian that he can assume control of his own life without being separated involuntarily from the tribal group (5)

Systematic experimental exploration of bifurcations with non-invasive control

We present a general method for systematically investigating the dynamics and bifurcations of a physical nonlinear experiment. In particular, we show how the odd-number limitation inherent in popular non-invasive control schemes, such as (Pyragas) time-delayed or washout-filtered feedback control, can be overcome for tracking equilibria or forced periodic orbits in experiments. To demonstrate the use of our non-invasive control, we trace out experimentally the resonance surface of a periodically forced mechanical nonlinear oscillator near the onset of instability, around two saddle-node bifurcations (folds) and a cusp bifurcation.Comment: revised and extended version (8 pages, 7 figures

Radio observations of four anticenter 2CG gamma-ray sources

The 2CG sources 218-00, 135+01, 121+04 and 95+04 have been observed at two radio frequencies and the flux values and spectra of the radio sources observed within the gamma-ray fields are catalogued down to a sensitivity of approx 30 mJy at lambda 11 cm. Possible gamma-ray counterpart candidate objects are briefly discussed

[Review of] H. Craig Miner and William E. Unrau. The End of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution 1854-1871

The forced removal of thousands of Indians from eastern Kansas between 1854 and 1871 adversely affected even more Native Americans and occupied even more government time than did the struggle between the army and the tribesmen of the western plains, who forcibly resisted subjugation