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This article describes the fights over banks and paper money in state constitutional conventions in the antebellum Northwest. These debates played a central role in the development of popular self-government and democracy in the region. Citizens demanded fundamental constitutional reforms that would circumvent irresponsible legislatures and thwart undemocratic financial institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the twentieth-century history of Native Americans, based on the papers at the Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives of the University of Oklahoma. Native Americans' sources of learning; Effort to protect ceremonial use of peyote; Other issues discussed by Oklahoma's Native Americans with their congressmen.

The Western Federation of Miners (WFM), the principal organization involved in creating the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, disassociated itself from that organization in 1907. This paper analyzes votes of the 1907 WFM convention showing that the federation abandoned the IWW more for tactical than ideological reasons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses efforts by survivors of the conflict known as the Wounded Knee, South Dakota, massacre of May 28, 1903, of Lakota Sioux people perpetrated by the U.S. Army Seventh Cavalry, during which Lakota chief Big Foot was killed, to build a monument named "In Memory of the Chief Big Foot Massacre." According to the article, the effort by survivors, led by survivor Joseph Horn Cloud, was a significant intervention by Native Americans to engage in the politics of memory in the U.S. The article also discusses efforts to extract compensation from the U.S. government.