Review of \u3ci\u3eGoodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains\u3c/i\u3e by Frances W. Kaye

Frances Kaye examines the different ways that Natives and Europeans perceived and interacted with the Great Plains during the age of nineteenth- and twentieth-century North American settlement. Commendably, she conceptualizes the Great Plains as a unity rather than two distinct regions bisected by the 49th parallel. Kaye uses the history of the region to articulate a Great Plains consciousness rooted in Indigenous ideologies to establish what it means to make good use of the land