Donald J Blakeslee: 2 books
Holy Ground, Healing Water
Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
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...
Plains Earthlodges
Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2005
A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains.
Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers...