Policing The Great Plains

Author : Andrew R. Graybill
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803260023

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Policing the Great Plains by Andrew R. Graybill Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, the Texas Rangers and Canada?s North-West Mounted Police were formed to bring the resource-rich hinterlands at either end of the Great Plains under governmental control. Native and rural peoples often found themselves squarely in the path of this westward expansion and the law enforcement agents that led the way. Though separated by nearly two thousand miles, the Rangers and Mounties performed nearly identical functions, including subjugating Indigenous groups; dispossessing peoples of mixed ancestry; defending the property of big cattlemen; and policing industrial disputes. Yet the means by which the two forces achieved these ends sharply diverged;øwhile the Rangers often relied on violence, the Mounties usually exercised restraint, a fact that highlights some of the fundamental differences between the U.S. and Canadian Wests. Policing the Great Plains presents the first comparative history of the two most famous constabularies in the world.

Author : R. G. MacBeth
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547027638

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Policing the Plains by R. G. MacBeth Pdf

This is the story of setting the governmental control over either end of the Great Plains. To complete that mission, the Texas state and Canada North-West Mounted Police sent their law enforcement agents to subjugate Indigenous groups, dispossessing peoples of mixed ancestry.

Author : R. G. MacBeth
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1508711704

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Policing the Plains by R. G. MacBeth Pdf

I A GREAT TRADITION II ENTER THE MOUNTED POLICE III MOBILIZING IV THE AMAZING MARCH V BUSINESS IN THE LAND OF INDIANS VI HANDLING AMERICAN INDIANS VII THE IRON HORSES VIII RIEL AGAIN IX RECONSTRUCTION X CHANGING SCENERY XI IN THE GOLD COUNTRY XII STIRRING DAYS ABROAD AND AT HOME XIII MODESTY AND EFFECTIVENESS XIV ON LAND AND SEA XV GLORY AND TRAGEDY IN THE NORTH XVI STRIKING INCIDENTS XVII THE GREAT WAR PERIOD 281 XVIII GREAT TRADITIONS UPHELD

Author : Zhiqiu Lin
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552381717

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Policing the Wild North-West by Zhiqiu Lin Pdf

In Policing the Wild North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32, the first comprehensive social history of provincial police in western Canada between 1905 and 1932, Zhiqiu Lin investigates the complex relationship between the role of policing, the political sphere, and social progress. This book attempts to analyze the effects on provincial police in Alberta and Saskatchewan of various social phenomena ranging from political radicals and vagrants to prohibition bootleggers and black market profiteers. These factors placed enormous demands on the development of policing and had a significant impact on three specific and interrelated areas: first, the professionalization of police organizations within society, as evidenced by changes in policing technology, varying political agendas, and, perhaps most importantly, within the police organizations themselves; second, the shifting of focus away from the "dangerous classes" and social agitators towards investigative procedures required for solving serious crime; and finally, the impact of policing on the rates of crime as influenced by the role of police officers as agents of social change and the value of social service in strengthening community and reducing the motivation towards criminal activity. The book concludes with an examination of the transition between federal and provincial responsibilities for policing in the two provinces, the reasons for the disbandment of the provincial police forces, and the broader issues of police development and the rationalization of policing in modern society.

Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496231338

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The Great Plains, Second Edition by Walter Prescott Webb Pdf

Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region of the Great Plains.

Author : Lesley Erickson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774818605

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Westward Bound by Lesley Erickson Pdf

Westward Bound debunks the myth of Canada’s peaceful West and the masculine conceptions of law and violence upon which it rests by shifting the focus from Mounties and whisky traders to criminal cases involving women between 1886 and 1940. Erickson’s analysis of these cases shows that, rather than a desire to protect, official responses to the most intimate or violent acts betrayed an impulse to shore up the liberal order by maintaining boundaries between men and women, Native people and newcomers, and capital and labour. Victims and accused could only hope to harness entrenched ideas about masculinity, femininity, race, and class in their favour. This fascinating exploration of hegemony and resistance in key contact zones draws prairie Canada into larger debates about law, colonialism, and nation building.

Author : Roderick George MacBeth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1013762871

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Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by Roderick George MacBeth Pdf

Author : Pamela Palmater
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773634333

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Warrior Life by Pamela Palmater Pdf

In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; the government lie that is reconciliation is exposed. Renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist, Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media headlines and government propaganda and get to heart of key issues lost in the noise. Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second collection of writings by Palmater. In keeping with her previous works, numerous op-eds, media commentaries, YouTube channel videos and podcasts, Palmater’s work is fiercely anti-colonial, anti-racist, and more crucial than ever before. Palmater addresses a range of Indigenous issues — empty political promises, ongoing racism, sexualized genocide, government lawlessness, and the lie that is reconciliation — and makes the complex political and legal implications accessible to the public. From one of the most important, inspiring and fearless voices in Indigenous rights, decolonization, Canadian politics, social justice, earth justice and beyond, Warrior Life is an unflinching critique of the colonial project that is Canada and a rallying cry for Indigenous peoples and allies alike to forge a path toward a decolonial future through resistance and resurgence.

Author : Richard Edwards,Jacob K. Friefeld,Rebecca S. Wingo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496202291

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Homesteading the Plains by Richard Edwards,Jacob K. Friefeld,Rebecca S. Wingo Pdf

"Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plainsdemonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plainsprovides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. "--

Author : Pekka Hamalainen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300215953

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Lakota America by Pekka Hamalainen Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 - Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine - Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction "Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out."--Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019 "My favorite non-fiction book of this year."--Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion "A briliant, bold, gripping history."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019 "All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree of attentiveness"--Parul Sehgal, New York Times This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.

Author : Michel Hogue
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469621067

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Metis and the Medicine Line by Michel Hogue Pdf

Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both the United States and Great Britain, the Metis emerged as a people with distinctive styles of speech, dress, and religious practice, and occupational identities forged in the intense rivalries of the fur and provisions trade. Michel Hogue explores how, as fur trade societies waned and as state officials looked to establish clear lines separating the United States from Canada and Indians from non-Indians, these communities of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry were profoundly affected by the efforts of nation-states to divide and absorb the North American West. Grounded in extensive research in U.S. and Canadian archives, Hogue's account recenters historical discussions that have typically been confined within national boundaries and illuminates how Plains Indigenous peoples like the Metis were at the center of both the unexpected accommodations and the hidden history of violence that made the "world's longest undefended border."

Author : Stewart Wakeling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Indian reservation police
ISBN : NWU:35556036981165

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Policing on American Indian Reservations by Stewart Wakeling Pdf

Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803247877

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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains by David J. Wishart Pdf

"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have

Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496232595

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The Great Plains, Second Edition by Walter Prescott Webb Pdf

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment . . . constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered." This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design.

Author : Matthew S. Luckett
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496223234

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Never Caught Twice by Matthew S. Luckett Pdf

2021 Nebraska Book Award Never Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four Plains groups--American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and cowboys, and farmers--Matthew S. Luckett clarifies a widely misunderstood crime in Western mythology and shows that horse stealing transformed plains culture and settlement in fundamental and surprising ways. From Lakota and Cheyenne horse raids to rustling gangs in the Sandhills, horse theft was widespread and devastating across the region. The horse's critical importance in both Native and white societies meant that horse stealing destabilized communities and jeopardized the peace throughout the plains, instigating massacres and murders and causing people to act furiously in defense of their most expensive, most important, and most beloved property. But as it became increasingly clear that no one legal or military institution could fully control it, would-be victims desperately sought a solution that would spare their farms and families from the calamitous loss of a horse. For some, that solution was violence. Never Caught Twice shows how the story of horse stealing across western Nebraska and the Great Plains was in many ways the story of the old West itself.