Goodlands : : a meditation and history on the Great Plains / / Frances W. Kaye.
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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, [Alberta] : : AU Press,, 2011. ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | West unbound.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (377 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- A unified field theory of the Great Plains
- Exploring the explorers
- Spiritual and intellectual resistance to conquest, part 1 : Custer and Riel
- Spiritual and intellectual resistance to conquest, part 2 : Messiansim, the 1885 Northwest resistance and the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance
- Spiritual and intellectual resistance to conquest, part 3 : John Joseph Mathews' Wah'Kon-Tah and John G. Neihardt's Black Elk speaks
- Intellectual justification for conquest L 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
- Migrating 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
- Conclusion.