Becoming Native to This Place

The New World-this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth-was to represent a new beginning for civilized humanity. Unfortunately, even the best of the European settles had a stronger eye for conquest than for justice. Natives were in the way-surplus people who must be literally displaced. Now, as ecologist Wes Jackson points out, descendants of those early beneficiaries of conquest find themselves the displaced persons, forced to vacated the family farmsteads

Author: Wes Jackson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 05/24/1994
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.85h x 5.78w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780813118468

About the Author
Jackson, Wes: - Wes Jackson, president of the Land Institute and former professor at Kansas Wesleyan and California State universities, is the author of several books, including Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place, Becoming Native to this Place, and Altars of an Unhewn Stone. He lives in Salina, Kansas.

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