Getting Greater ,

and Less Plain

The Great Plain
 X man NO.1
• Its rather disturbing to know that humans had to devour
over 50% of the Great Plains. I have always had a dream to
move there and become a Mountain Man when I turn 40. But
the Old West, people treated the Great Plains nice,
otherwise the Great Plains would be a wasteland. We have
enough land, why expand over nice areas of earth? Its
rather Depressing. That video was enlightening though,
your words have touched me and your pictures are just
excellent. Thank you for making this video
 X man NO.2
• This brought tears to my eyes.
• Thank you. We cannot stop fighting for
what we know is right.

X man NO.3

What a mesmerizing video :-)

• They were strong until they meet
what is called human being….
And gone forever
Prior to the arrival of Europeans and their powerful,
transforming products, desires, and structures,
American Indians possessed extensive knowledge
about the environments in which they lived and
made sense of living beings in myriad culturally
appropriate ways. They drew on an extraordinary
variety of animals and plants in daily subsistence
• The buffalo was first and foremost of utmost significa
nce to people of the plains and prairies. In a very differ
ent way, its crucial standing was underscored by nativ
e people generally, after the spread of Plains traits and
imagery—especially the eagle-feathered bonneted war
rior-hunter astride his horse in pursuit of meat and ho
nor—ultimately to symbolize the North American India
n. Moreover, no story of wildlife decline in North Ameri
ca is more widely known than the demise of the buffal
o. It is one of the most important stories in the environ
mental history of North America.
• The dust storms that swept across the southern plains in the
1930s created the most severe environmental catastrophe in
the entire history of the white man on this continent. In no
other instance was there greater or more sustained damage
to the American land, and there have been few times when so
much tragedy was visited on its inhabitants. Not even the
Depression was more devastating, economically. And in
ecological terms we have nothing in the nation’s past,
nothing even in the polluted present, that compares