Holy ground, healing water : cultural landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas / Donald J. Blakeslee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blakeslee, Donald J., 1943-

Series:

Environmental history series ; no. 24.

Environmental history series ; no. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Kansas--Waconda Lake.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Indians of North America--Kansas--Waconda Lake--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Kansas--Waconda Lake--Social life and customs.

Landscape protection--Kansas--Waconda Lake.

Landscape protection.

Waconda Lake (Kan.)--Antiquities.

Waconda Lake (Kan.).

Waconda Lake (Kan.)--Description and travel.

Waconda Lake (Kan.)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2010.

Summary:

Most people would not consider north central Kansas' Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control, irrigation, and water supply purposes, sits amid a region known-when it is thought of at all-for agriculture and, perhaps to a few, as the home of ""The World's Largest Ball of Twine"" (in nearby Cawker City).Yet, to the native people living in this region in the centuries before Anglo incursion, this was a place of great spiritual power and mystic significance. Waconda Spring, now beneath the waters of th

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of illustrations; list of tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Native Americans at Waconda Lake; 3. Tracing the Pawnee Trail; 4. Pawnee Trail in Regional History; 5. Holy Ground; 6. Creating the Post Rock Landscape; 7. Healing Water; 8. Lincoln Camp; 9. Perspectives; Appendix: Waconda Health Resort Brochure; Notes; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60344-792-X

OCLC:

829459947