Setbacks and Successes: Cameron University's Library, 1909-2000 (open access)

Setbacks and Successes: Cameron University's Library, 1909-2000

Article examines the Cameron library's policies for collections development, materials access, and constant improvement of buildings that helped this important regional institution reach full university status.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Young, Sheridan Eleanor
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Land Is Always With Us": Removal, Allotment, and Industrial Development and Their Effects on Ponca Tribalism (open access)

"The Land Is Always With Us": Removal, Allotment, and Industrial Development and Their Effects on Ponca Tribalism

Article describes how developments like removal, land allotment, and the development of the oil and gas industry undermined the relationship the Ponca tribe had with their lands, and the way the Poncas coped with the broken treaties, divisions within the tribes over land-related decisions, and damage done by neighboring towns that cropped up with the increase in industrial growth.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: van de Logt, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Looking for Adventure: Ponca Warriors of the Forty-fifth Infantry Division in the Korean War (open access)

Looking for Adventure: Ponca Warriors of the Forty-fifth Infantry Division in the Korean War

Article describes the military service of the Ponca men who served in the 279th Infantry Regiment of the Forty-fifth Infantry Division in the Korean War.
Date: Spring 2006
Creator: van de Logt, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Lost Shepherds": Methodist Missionaries among the Ponca Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, 1888-1940 (open access)

"The Lost Shepherds": Methodist Missionaries among the Ponca Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, 1888-1940

Article describes the efforts of early Methodist Episcopal missionaries to convert members of the Ponca tribe to the Methodist faith and renounce some of their traditional practices after government agents had reported a need for cultural assimilation. Mark van de Logt illuminates the negative bias held towards some Native American traditions and the reasoning of both the missionaries and the Poncas for their actions.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: van de Logt, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History