The indigenous civilizations of the Great Plains did not die out in the nineteenth century, whether the frontier had ended or not. They were present when the settlers arrived, and they are fiercely alive right now. So why have the keepers of Western history, including friend Wallace [Stegner], been so obsessed with defining the end of the old, indigenous West? Candace Savage *A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape* (Greystone Press/David Suzuki Foundation, 2012: page 65).
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:56:08 +0000
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