Marsha Weisiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4367735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marsha Weisiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marsha |
| FAMILY NAME | Weisiger |
| SIGNATURE | WEISIGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Floating Coast
At the age of eighteen, Bathsheba Demuth migrated from the Great Plains to the Arctic, where she apprenticed for several years with a Gwich’in dog musher. Her work in that landscape attuned her to the sounds, sights, smells, and stories of a place transformed not only by humans, but also by the more-than-human world of sea ice and marine and terrestrial mammals. Demuth thus brings to this dazzling environmental history a singular sensibility and …
Happy Cly and the Unhappy History of Uranium Mining on the Navajo Reservation
Weaving Women's Lives
Journal Article Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family Get access Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family. By Lamphere Louise Price Eva Cadman Carole Darwin Valerie. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xiii + 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.) Marsha Weisiger Marsha Weisiger New Mexico State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Special Forum
Nature's Altars
Journal Article Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism Get access Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism. By Schrepfer Susan R.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xii + 316 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $35.00.) Marsha Weisiger Marsha Weisiger New Mexico State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume …
Gendered Injustice
Navajo livestock reduction illuminates the gendered politics of conservation and the crucial contribution of women in resisting environmental injustice. In developing programs to halt soil erosion on the Navajo Reservation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Soil Conservation Service made matters worse, largely because they ignored the importance of women as livestock owners. Women's resistance helped bring an end to stock reduction and the con…
The Debate over El Lobo
In February 2003, historians, wolf-experts, ranchers, environmental activists, and some tow hundred members of the general public gathered in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to discuss the past, present, and future of the Mexican gray wolf. Leopold Forum: El Lobo tested effort to reintroduce keynote addresses by a historian, a wolf biologist, and a ranching spokesperson; a series of panel presentations; a dinner featuring an environmental activist as spe…
The Debate over El Lobo
In February 2003, historians, wolf-experts, ranchers, environmental activists, and some two hundred members of the general public gathered in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to discuss the past, present, and future of the Mexican gray wolf. “Leopold Forum: El Lobo” explored the history of wolf extirpation in the early twentieth century and the recent contested effort to reintroduce wolves into the Southwest, under the Endangered Species Act. The program …
Land of Plenty
Land of Plenty
Land of Plenty
Journal Article Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933–1942 Get access Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933–1942. By Weisiger Marsha L.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. xvi + 238 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) James D. McBride James D. McBride Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar We…
Happy Cly and the Unhappy History of Uranium Mining on the Navajo Reservation
The Debate over El Lobo
In February 2003, historians, wolf-experts, ranchers, environmental activists, and some two hundred members of the general public gathered in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to discuss the past, present, and future of the Mexican gray wolf. “Leopold Forum: El Lobo” explored the history of wolf extirpation in the early twentieth century and the recent contested effort to reintroduce wolves into the Southwest, under the Endangered Species Act. The program …
Special Forum
Gendered Injustice
Navajo livestock reduction illuminates the gendered politics of conservation and the crucial contribution of women in resisting environmental injustice. In developing programs to halt soil erosion on the Navajo Reservation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Soil Conservation Service made matters worse, largely because they ignored the importance of women as livestock owners. Women's resistance helped bring an end to stock reduction and the con…
Land of Plenty
Land of Plenty
Journal Article Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933–1942 Get access Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933–1942. By Weisiger Marsha L.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. xvi + 238 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) James D. McBride James D. McBride Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar We…
Land of Plenty
The Debate over El Lobo
In February 2003, historians, wolf-experts, ranchers, environmental activists, and some tow hundred members of the general public gathered in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to discuss the past, present, and future of the Mexican gray wolf. Leopold Forum: El Lobo tested effort to reintroduce keynote addresses by a historian, a wolf biologist, and a ranching spokesperson; a series of panel presentations; a dinner featuring an environmental activist as spe…
The Debate over El Lobo
In February 2003, historians, wolf-experts, ranchers, environmental activists, and some two hundred members of the general public gathered in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to discuss the past, present, and future of the Mexican gray wolf. “Leopold Forum: El Lobo” explored the history of wolf extirpation in the early twentieth century and the recent contested effort to reintroduce wolves into the Southwest, under the Endangered Species Act. The program …
Special Forum
Nature's Altars
Journal Article Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism Get access Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism. By Schrepfer Susan R.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xii + 316 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $35.00.) Marsha Weisiger Marsha Weisiger New Mexico State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume …
Gendered Injustice
Navajo livestock reduction illuminates the gendered politics of conservation and the crucial contribution of women in resisting environmental injustice. In developing programs to halt soil erosion on the Navajo Reservation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Soil Conservation Service made matters worse, largely because they ignored the importance of women as livestock owners. Women's resistance helped bring an end to stock reduction and the con…
Weaving Women's Lives
Journal Article Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family Get access Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family. By Lamphere Louise Price Eva Cadman Carole Darwin Valerie. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xiii + 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.) Marsha Weisiger Marsha Weisiger New Mexico State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Happy Cly and the Unhappy History of Uranium Mining on the Navajo Reservation
Floating Coast
At the age of eighteen, Bathsheba Demuth migrated from the Great Plains to the Arctic, where she apprenticed for several years with a Gwich’in dog musher. Her work in that landscape attuned her to the sounds, sights, smells, and stories of a place transformed not only by humans, but also by the more-than-human world of sea ice and marine and terrestrial mammals. Demuth thus brings to this dazzling environmental history a singular sensibility and …
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