Blakeslee, Donald J. <br/><br/>
Holy Ground, Healing Water  Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas. 

 - College Station :  Texas A&M University Press,  (c)2010. 
 - 1 online resource (268 pages) 
 - Environmental History Series .
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781603447928 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Excavations (Archaeology).<br/>Indians of North America.<br/>Landscape protection.<br/>Waconda Lake (Kan.).<br/>Indians of North America--Antiquities.--Kansas--Waconda Lake<br/>Indians of North America--Social life and customs.--Kansas--Waconda Lake<br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--Kansas--Waconda Lake.<br/>Landscape protection--Kansas--Waconda Lake.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E78  / .H659 2010