Goodlands [electronic resource] : a meditation and history on the Great Plains / Frances W. Kaye.
2011
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Title
Goodlands [electronic resource] : a meditation and history on the Great Plains / Frances W. Kaye.
Published
Edmonton : AU Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Description
1 online resource (377 pages).
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Series statement
West unbound : social and cultural studies series, 1915-8181
Summary
"Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency, according to which the Great Plains region was inadequate in flora and fauna and the region lacking in modern civilization. Drawing on history, sociology, art, and economic theory, Frances W. Kaye counters the argument of deficiency, pointing out that, in its original ecological state, no region can possibly be incomplete. Goodlands examines the settlers' misguided theory, discussing the ideas that shaped its implementation, the forces that resisted it, and Indigenous ideologies about what it meant to make good use of the land. By suggesting methods for redeveloping the Great Plains that are founded on native cultural values, Goodlands serves the region in the context of a changing globe"--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A unified field theory of the great plains
Exploring the explorers
Spiritual and intellectual resistance to conquest. Part 1: Custer and Riel
Part 2: Messianism, the 1885 northwest resistance, and the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance
Part 3: John Joseph Mathews' "Wah'Kon-Tah" and John G. Neihardt's "Black Elk Speaks"
Intellectual justification for conquest : comparative historiography of the Canadian and US Wests
Homesteading as capital formation on the Great Plains
The women's west
And still the waters
Dust bowls
Mitigating but not rethinking : George W. Norris, Tommy Douglas, and the Great Plains
Planning and economic theory
Mouse beans and drowned rivers
Oil
Arts, justice and hope on the Great Plains.
Exploring the explorers
Spiritual and intellectual resistance to conquest. Part 1: Custer and Riel
Part 2: Messianism, the 1885 northwest resistance, and the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance
Part 3: John Joseph Mathews' "Wah'Kon-Tah" and John G. Neihardt's "Black Elk Speaks"
Intellectual justification for conquest : comparative historiography of the Canadian and US Wests
Homesteading as capital formation on the Great Plains
The women's west
And still the waters
Dust bowls
Mitigating but not rethinking : George W. Norris, Tommy Douglas, and the Great Plains
Planning and economic theory
Mouse beans and drowned rivers
Oil
Arts, justice and hope on the Great Plains.
Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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All rights reserved.
Series
West unbound (Series)
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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