Notes and News

Call for Papers

The fiftieth annual Dakota Conference on Northern Plains History, Literature, Art, and Archaeology will be held April 20–21, 2018, at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The conference theme is "Korea and Vietnam: 25 Years of War in Asia, 1950–1975," and will examine how the twenty-five years of war in Asia that followed World War II continue to influence the lives of those who live in the Northern Plains (the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana). Veterans of these wars are especially encouraged to consider presenting on their service, but also those whose lives were impacted indirectly by the wars. Native Americans from the Plains states who served in either conflict are also encouraged to consider presenting on their service. Papers about life in the Plains states during these years are also welcome, along with papers about Korea and Vietnam today. Scholars whose specialty is the twentieth-century Great Plains or Northern Plains are also sought for their contextual knowledge of the conflicts. All sessions or panels related to the conference topic are welcome. Online submissions are encouraged at the following site: http://www.augie.edu/2018-dakota-conference-paperpanel-proposal-form. Submissions should include title, brief description, biographical sketch, and full contact information, and be sent to dakotaconference@augie.edu or, by mail, to "Dakota Conference," The Center for Western Studies, Augustana University, 2001 South Summit Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57197. Proposals are due on or before February 9, 2018. Additional information may be found at http://www.augie.edu/dakota-conference.

Call for Entries: Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

Each year the Center for Great Plains Studies presents a prize for the previous year's best book on the Great Plains. The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize carries a cash award of $10,000. Publishers or authors may make nominations; each publisher may submit up to five titles. Only first-edition, full-length nonfiction books copyrighted in 2017 are eligible. Recent winners of the Stubbendieck Prize include American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Dan Flores); Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (Michael Hogue); Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People (Elizabeth Fenn); and Architecture of Saskatchewan: A Visual Journey, 1930–201 (Bernard Flaman). For additional information, visit www.unl.edu/plains.

Resident Fellowships

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, invites proposals for its Resident Fellowship Program. Fellowships are intended to fund research advancing knowledge, understanding, and passion about the cultural and natural heritage of the American West and its global relevance. Fellows will be granted a stipend based on their submitted budget and the availability of funding, not to exceed $5,000. Fellows may conduct archival and artifactual research among the collections of the Center's five museums (Buffalo Bill, Cody Firearms, Draper Natural History, Plains Indian, and Whitney Western Art) and McCracken Research Library. Fellows may also pursue field research within northern Wyoming and the Greater Yellowstone region. Research and collection strengths at the Center include, but are not limited to, western art and art history; Plains Indian art and cultures; Greater Yellowstone ecology, conservation, and wildlife management; firearms history and technology; western history; and the life and times of William F. Cody. Some recent topics researched include "How the War Bonnet Was Perceived and Written about Historically by Non-Native People"; "Hollywood Horse Soldiers: The US Cavalry in Popular Culture"; "Beyond Stereotypes: The Multivocal Possibilities in 'Reading' the 19th- and 20th-Century Material Culture of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation"; "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons"; and "Arab Performers in the Wild West Show." For more information, please visit the Center's website, https://centerofthewest.org/, or contact John C. Rumm, director of the Center's curatorial division, at johnr@centerofthewest.org.