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Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains
Author(s): Frances W. Kaye (Author)
- Publisher: Athabasca University Press
- Publication Date: May 1, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 1897425988
- ISBN-13: 9781897425985
Book Description
Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem that the peoples who originally populated the land had long understood and were able to use wisely. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency, according to which the vast area of the Great Plains was inadequate in flora and fauna and lacking in the advances of modern civilization.
