...Standing Bear of the Ogalala Sioux made this clear in reference to contacts with white civilization: "We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Only to the white man was nature a wilderness and...

...felt with the Europeans who colonized their land in the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century: We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness"...

...expansion" of the United States. For example, she read the following quote from Chief Luther Standing Bear: "We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful...'wild' animals and 'savage' people. To us it was tame. The earth was bountiful, and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until...

...the words of Chief Luther Standing Bear, who said in his autobiography, of himself and his people: We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful...streams with tangled growth as "wild." Only to the white men was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage"...

...beautiful and well-known passage, speak of the American prairies: The land was ours to roam. . . . We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness"...

...idea whereas others lack it. Take the following famous passage from Standing Bear, an Oglala Sioux: We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and the winding streams with their tangled growth as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness"...

...started moving on to the Plains it made some kind of clash between the two groups very likely. Source We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful...and winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild' . . To us it was tame. A Luther Standing Bear, My People the Sioux, 1975. lorthwest oast Far No or...

...Warrior (1870) 184-185 26. Sitting Bull 188 27. The Ghost Dance 197 INTRODUCTION How the West Was Lost We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and the winding streams with tangled growth, as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness"...

...SUBVERSION When Roderick Nash argues that "Civilization created wilderness," he quotes Luther Standing Bear: We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness"...

...band of Sioux, described the difference in the European and native American perceptions of nature. "We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful...white man was nature a 'wilderness' and only to him CHAPTER 23 Wilderness *»e. ivr.-» uf M " aracs •.£*.» * A .-:»».-r _= r _• r TI^TI »T»i...