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Holy Ground, Healing Water Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781603447928
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E78 .H659 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:Subject: 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.
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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.

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