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A prairie is a natural ecosystem, which
has evolved over the millennia, with grasses the most visible
species. Teachers like prairie plant specialist Kelly Kindsher
remind us that we are driving past things we should know something
about. [Farm researcher] Wes Jackson suggests that "we cannot
know what we stand for, until we know what we stand on."
To date I have been unsuccessful in
pursuit of the second portrait in the series. In the few years
since the first work I have heard stories of at least two tribes
of native people whose time is running out, one in the South
American Amazon and the Kaw tribe, native to Kansas, with only
two old men of full blood left. |
