Indian Chief Research Articles

Comparisons of Response to Alternative Selection Procedures Initiated with Two Populations of Maize (Zea mays L.)1

Experimental comparisons were made between full‐sib family selection and reciprocal recurrent selection for higher grain yield in populations of Zea mays L. following six selection cycles. The experimental populations involved two open‐pollinated varieties, ‘Jarvis’ and ‘Indian Chief,’ their F1 variety hybrid, and the variety composite formed by random mating the variety hybrid. Comparisons were made in terms of responses of the varieties themselves and the variety hybrid to both kinds of selection, and response of the variety composite to full‐sib selection.Significant increases in yield were observed after six selection cycles in six of the seven populations tested. The exception was the response of the Indian Chief variety to reciprocal recurrent selection, which was not statistically significant. Responses of both varieties to full‐sib family selection were 2.1 times greater than their responses to reciprocal recurrent selection. Response of the variety hybrid to reciprocal recurrent selection was 1.3 times greater than the response to full‐sib family selection. Response of the variety composite to full‐sib family selection was no greater than for Jarvis, which was the most responsive of the two varieties. Heterosis in the variety hybrid increased markedly after reciprocal recurrent selection, but showed little change after full‐sib family selection. An evaluation of five additional traits showed thatincreases in yield were generally accompanied by a change toward shorter plants, with lower ear height, more tillers, and more ears. No change in time of flowering was observed.

The Popular Western Novel: An Essay Review

Reviews The Popular Western Novel: An Essay Review. Last spring, when J. Golden Taylor and James K. Folsom were presenting a panel on Western American literature in Bemidji, Minnesota, Professor Taylor suggested that I write an article on the output of Double D Westerns published by Doubleday and Company. It sounded like a good idea at the time. Six months and eighteen novels later, the idea didn’t seem so good. I had, and still have, some grave reservations about the series. However, an essay-review of the series may provide an opportunity to place the popular Western novel somewhat in perspective in its relationship to serious Western American literature. First it might be a good idea to present a list of the novels I read while conducting this study. Ernest Hemingway once said something to the effect that there was no order for listing good books. Since there probably shouldn’t be any order at the other end of the scale either, I’ll arrange the novels alphabetically by author: Bickham, Jack M. Target: Charity Ross Brown, Dee. Action at Beecher Island Cheshire, Giff. Ambush at Bedrock Farrell, Cliff. Treachery Trail, and Death Trap on the Platte Grove, Fred. The Buffalo Runners Gulick, Bill. Liveliest Town in the West Hanlon, Edward S. The Lives that Die Hoffman, Lee. The Valdez Horses, and West of Cheyenne Huffman, Laurie. A House Behind the Mint Meade, Richard. Big Bend Olsen, Theodore V. Arrow in the Sun Patten, Lewis B. Posse from Poison Creek, The Youngerman Guns, and The Red Sabbath 300 Western American Literature Turner, William O. Maberly’s Kill Vernam, Glenn R. The Indian Hater There is little sense in describing the plot outlines for each one of these novels, but within that list may be found every stereotype of the popular Western, from the psychological examination of a disintegrating hired gun who has killed too many people to the shoot-out at somebody or other’s corral. There is a Shane-like novel, an Ox-Bow Incident-like novel, and even one that reads like a script for T.V.’s “F-Troop.” The most unsuccessful of the lot is Laurie Huffman’s A House Behind the Mint, which reads like a Life With Father in San Francisco, with a bit of the mysterious Black Bart thrown in for suspense. It is, perhaps, the only one of the eighteen that is not wellexecuted at the “action” level; at the same time, it must be admitted, Miss Huffman’s novel is perhaps the only novel that presumes to be anything more than an action story. One of the most important points about these novels, I think, is that they are not presumptuous. Each one (with the exception of Miss Huffman’s) is an “action-packed thriller,” to invent a phrase, and most of the writers are highly skilled in the development of plot. The novels carry one along despite the fact that they say nothing significant, that the characterization is about as deep as a New Mexican arroyo in the middle of a dry August, and that — as with some serious Western writers —the effort to achieve authenticity is often so obvious that it now and again strains the reader’s patience. In the middle of an ambush, with Indians howling around by the dozen and the embattled soldiers running out of ammunition plus being over-run by a prairie fire plus dying of hunger and thirst plus a heroine alone up in the rocks about to be discovered by a wicked Indian chief, the reader is not too con­ cerned, say, that some of the men are using Vickers-Webley 45-70’s or Purdey 36-80’s or Sophia Loren 36-24-32’s or whatever. Nor is he concerned about the history of the gun; he is concerned with the action. T o use a Western literature analogy, what the reader wants to know is whether Barney Tullus is going to get the hell up on that horse or sit back down in whatever it was he was sitting in. And pity the poor Indian with his war lance raised in the air and who must remain poised...

Epistasis in Maize (Zea mays L.) I. F1 Hybrids and Their S1 Progeny1

Interpopulation single crosses (F1's) and the progenies from one generation of selfing (S1's) arising from 128 unselected lines (64 from the maize variety ‘Jarvis Golden Prolific’ and 64 from the variety ‘Indian Chief’) were evaluated to determine the importance of epistasis. Significant epistatic effects were detected in some specific sets of crosses. However, the amount of the total variability that could be attributed to epistasis was, on the average, less than 10%. These and earlier results suggest that epistasis may be important in unique genetic combinations but these combinations occur either too infrequently or with such limited effect that they are not detectable in random mating equilibrium populations.

Quantitative genetic investigations of yield of maize

Numerous quantitative genetic studies of yield of maize, conducted at North Carolina State University, are reviewed in order to provide a joint interpretation of the various kinds of evidence found. Estimates of variance components and the comparison of observed and expected response to selection have led to the following conclusions: 1. Sufficient additive genetic variance for yield exists within many locally adapted maize populations to permit improvement by selection. 2. Average dominance for genes affecting yield of ear corn is in the range of partial to complete. 3. Overdominance is not a prevalent source of genetic variation for yield. 4. Linkage disequilibrium can result in effects which mimic overdominance. These effects diminish with random mating. 5. Epistatic variance (i. e., genetic variance not accounted for by additive and dominance variances) is negligible in the varieties, Jarvis and Indian Chief, and in the F1 hybrid. 6. Short term predictions of response to full-sib and to reciprocal selection, based on genetic theory and computed from reasonably precise estimates of variances, are reasonably reliable.

The Lautaro Lodges

The Lautaro lodges of revolutionary South America had their roots in Spain and England where creole patriots dreamed and plotted the overthrow of Spanish colonial power. The name was that of an Indian chief of the Araucanians of Chile, immortalized by the poet, Alonzo de Ercilla y Zúñiga. There is general agreement among Latin American historians that the Lautaro lodges played a significant role in the struggle for independence. Still debated is whether or not they were masonic or merely resembled the Freemasons in organization and principles.

The Elementary-School Principal-Doctor, Lawyer, or Indian Chief?

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Elementary-School Principal-Doctor, Lawyer, or Indian Chief?Robert G. ForestRobert G. Forest Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Elementary School Journal Volume 67, Number 5Feb., 1967 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/460364 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1967 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

At the Sign of Gabriel, Flag, or Indian Chief

At the Sign of Gabriel, Flag, or Indian Chief

Epistatic and Other Genetic Variances in Two Varieties of Maize1

We obtained full‐sib and half‐sib covariances in two open‐pollinated varieties of maize, ‘Jarvis’ and ‘Indian Chief,’ from families derived from both inbred and noninbred parents. These covariances provide estimates of additive, dominance, and certain estimable functions of epistatic variances, and are useful to investigate the relative importance of the different types of genetic variation in these varieties.Seven characters were studied in both varieties, and no evidence of epistatic variance was noted except possibly for yield in Indian Chief. During development of the random inbred lines natural selection increased ear number and yield in both varieties. It may also have reduced the total genetic variance for characters that showed no change in the mean.Both the observed and “expected” standard errors were smaller for estimates of variance components obtained from the Design II than from the Design I experiments. Observed standard errors of the experimental error variances were larger than “expected standard errors” for both Designs.Additive variance appeared to account for the largest proportion of the total genetic variance for all characters in both varieties. Hence, recurrent selection should be effective in improving these varieties.

VI. The Strategic Background to the Anglo-Russian Entente of August 1907

In July 1905 Lord Kitchener, the Indian chief of General Staff, wrote at the krequest of the viceroy a memorandum entitled A note on the Military policy of India, which was in due course sent to England for consideration by the home government. Its plea was for a consistent policy with regard to the North-West Frontier. At the moment, Kitchener complained, this was ‘apt to change with every ministry and almost with every minister, while each incoming Viceroy probably develops a policy of his own’. The main danger facing India was uncompromisingly described as ‘the menacing advance of Russia towards our frontiers’.

Athabasca's Place in the Future

Abstract A general survey of Western Canada's oil industry from 1778 to the presentsuggests that development of the Athabasca oil sands will play a prominent partin sustaining Alberta's key position in the national energy picture. The First Oil Men Oil development in Western Canada has had a long and sometimes weirdhistory. Many events from the past are now all but forgotten, but there areothers which stand out as milestones in our struggle for world recognition as asignificant oil-producing area. Although the experiences and happenings thateach of us remembers may vary, every one of them has its place in ourindustry's colourful background. Looking back in time, we must recognize that Canada's first oil men were theIndians who lived along the Athabasca river in 1778. Even then, nearly twohundred years ago, they realized the importance of this product that was allaround them, having found that a mixture of Athabasca bitumen and spruce-treegum made a fine compound for waterproofing canoes. History does not relatePeter Pond's experiences with Athabasca oil but, by the time AlexanderMackenzie relieved him in 1787, the oil men were ready for business. For asuitable amount of whisky, the Indian chief would provide Mackenzie with thebitumen he needed to caulk his canoes. I have often wondered how the Scotsmanreacted when he found the stuff he had been forced to buy was literally runningout of the banks in many places for over 100 miles along the Athabasca river!These spots he later described as "fountains of bitumen." Early Beginnings Despite this early "commercialization" however, Athabasca oil remainedrelatively unheeded until recent years. Instead, other major fields in manyareas were discovered and developed until Western Canada became established asone of the leading oil-and-gas-producing areas of the world. Let us take a lookat how this came about.

To Make a Better Workshop

T HE workshop technique, by which people together in small groups to discuss the problems most pertinent to those present, has grown enormously in the last ten years. It is now used by people in all walks of life-wherever individuals with similar interests are assembled. The older pattern for holding a meeting was to have a series of speeches, where someone from afar, quite removed from the people assembled, lectured on the ideas that were important to the speaker. Those who had assembled to learn merely sat and listened, or slept, or dreamt. The chance that the speaker could meet the needs of all his hearers was extremely remote. Sometimes he missed the interests of everyone in his audience. Not infrequently, believe it or not, the speaker was employed specifically because he would talk about something of no immediate concern to his learners. It is not uncommon even now, for example, for teachers, at their conventions, to call in someone to entertain them, or to a fake Indian chief to tell them of tepee life. This apparently is an effort to get away from it all, although the meeting has been called to improve their understanding of their work. The workshop movement has thrived because of the general revulsion against boring speeches, little related to what the learner came to learn. There is but one way to sure that discussions will be apropos to the interests and needs of those present, and that is to give them a chance to ask questions and to contribute from their own knowledge and experience. There is great promise for better learning in the recognition of the fact that each individual in a group knows things which no one else knows. Each one, therefore, has a unique contribution to to the whole. This is the significance of uniqueness. Many of us think we have to make people learn, that the learner does not know anything, has nothing to contribute, and has to be told all that he will learn. This attitude on the part of teachers and parents has caused people to lose confidence in themselves, and respect for their own ability to think and to contribute. The fact is that the total knowledge of the group members about any topic under consideration far exceeds that of any expert who may be brought in. We outsiders may not always be pleased with the quality, the so-called level, of discussion, because we expect others to share our own interests. The place to start, however, is with the current present concerns of the group members, whether that starting po t pleases us or not. A successful small group, operating toward and, at least in part, accomplishing a goal held by its members to be worthy, constitutes the best learning experience known to me.

The Pursuit of an Indian Chief

The Pursuit of an Indian Chief

Sealsfield’s Early Reception in England and America

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size NotesHeller and Leon, Charles Sealsfield, Bibliography of his Writings together with a Classified and Annotated Catalogue of Literature Relating to his Works and his Life, St. Louis, 1939.A. B. Faust, Charles Sealsfield, der Dichter beider Hemisphären (Weimar, 1897), p. 176.Ibid., pp. 178-181.Ibid., p. 184, where the text of the agreement is cited.Ibid., p. 188.Ibid., p. 188.Ibid., p. 202.Ibid., p. 203. This date conflicts with information given by Dr. Heller in his “Sealsfield-Funde,” German American Annals, March and April, 1910, p. 83.Ibid., pp. 204-205.London Quarterly Review, p. 604; Blackwood’s, p. 755.London Quarterly Review, pp. 260-297.Ibid., January, 1828, pp. 261-262.Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor (Philadelphia, 1828), ii, 349. Cf. Karl J. Arndt, “The Cooper-Sealsfield Exchange of Criticism,” American Literature, xv, No. 1 (March, 1943), 16-24.American Quarterly Review, pp. 491-505.Ibid., p. 492.Faust, op. cit., p. 213.Austria as It Is: or, Sketches of Continental Courts. By an Eye-Witness, London, 1828.Meyer’s British Chronicle, Vor. ii, No. 25 (1827), 769-778. I am indebted to Miss May Olson of the Louisiana State Library staff for this important reference.London Literary Gazette, January 12, 1828, pp. 22-23; January 19, pp. 39-41.Ibid., January 12, p. 22.London Monthly Review, January, 1828, pp. 102-110.Ibid., p. 102.London New Monthly Magazine, February 1, 1828, pp. 53-54.London New Monthly Review, February, 1828, pp. 196-205.C. Sidons, Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika (Stuttgart, 1827), p. v. The United States of North America, etc. (London, 1828), p. x.Loc. cit., p. 197.Ibid., p. 205.Philadelphia National Gazette, March 1, 1828, p. 2.The Americans as They Are; Described in a Tour through the Valley of the Mississippi, etc. by the Author of Austria as It Is, London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828.Faust, op. cit., p. 209.London Athenaeum, March 7, 1828, pp. 198-199.London Literary Gazette, March 8, 1828, pp. 146-148.London Eclectic Review, March, 1828, pp. 232-248.Ibid., p. 233.Ibid., p. 234.That this view was by no means the prevailing one in the United States will be seen a little later in a discussion less obscured by the patriotic fury of the journalist. We find, however, the same feeling expressed in the London New Monthly Magazine (Aug. 28, 1828; Part 2, 165) in a review of Cooper’s Notions of Americans. Here, in a footnote to a statement expressing surprise at the sensitiveness of some Americans at a joke on the phraseology of American backwoodsmen, the critic remarks: “It is true, one book has lately been published on the American character, by a writer who appears never to have been in one of the old States of the Union, but who had sailed up the Mississippi, and sojourned a while among the Kentuckians on the Ohio!.”London New Monthly Magazine, May 1, 1828, p. 195.London Eclectic Review, May, 1828, pp. 399-406.Faust, op. cit., 61-63.Gustav Winter, “Einiges Neue über Charles Sealsfield,” Beiträge zur neueren Geschichte Österreichs, Wien, (May) 1907, pp. 1-23.Seufzer aus Österreich und seinen Provinzen, Leipzig, 1834.Österreich wie es ist, oder Skiszen von Fürstenhöfen des Kontinents, Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Victor Klarwill, Wien, 1919.The Indian chief; or, Tokeah and the white rose, London, 1829.Der Legitime und die Republikaner, Zürich, 1833.London Eclectic Review, November, 1829, pp. 365-398.Southern Literary Messenger, July, 1844, p. 447.

History of Medicine in Nebraska.

This is the first full record of the achievements of the Nebraska medical profession. The editor, Dr. Albert F. Tyler of Omaha, was assisted by twenty-four collaborators from different sections of the state. The beginning of the history of medicine in Nebraska can be traced to the week of Sept. 26, 1819, when United States troops came up the Missouri River by steamboat and landed at Fort Calhoun, near Omaha. One of this band, Dr. John Gale, married an Indian chief's daughter, and his grand-daughter, Dr. Suzanne La Flesche, afterward Picotte, graduated from the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia. She thus was the only American Indian woman physician. The medical work of Gale and his associate Mower is notable in medical annals in their handling of the terrible scurvy epidemic in 1819, when 500 of the 788 soldiers were ill and 157 of them died. It is indeed a far

Wabaunsee, the Indian Chief (A Fragment)

Wabaunsee, the Indian Chief (A Fragment)

Side-lights on Old British regiments : The Major of the 82nd, an Indian Chief

Side-lights on Old British regiments : The Major of the 82nd, an Indian Chief

Papunahung, the Indian Chief

Papunahung, the Indian Chief

Indian chief's oration to lord dunmore

Indian chief's oration to lord dunmore

Indian chief's oration to lord dunmore

Indian chief's oration to lord dunmore

The Indian Chief Appanoose

The Indian Chief Appanoose