People of the South Wind
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
People of the South Wind
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture And Enhancement
Description
Kansas is a located in the Midwestern United States and is named after the Kansas River flowing through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe that inhabited the area. The tribe's name is said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind."
For thousands of years what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys while the tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850's, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.
When officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine if Kansas would become a free or a slave state. The area became a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly, when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum and sunflowers. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States.
Some digital effects were applied to this image after the original photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during this transition...
Image copyright 2013 Jon Burch Photography
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June 10th, 2013
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Comments (5)
Angela Stanton
Looks like you were here in CA by Palm Springs--except you have grass... we only have sand... :) v.
Lianne Schneider
A lot of these windmills around here as well stretching as far as the eye can see. But I remember driving through North Texas and Oklahoma and thinking there'd be no end to them. Great capture Jon. F/V
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Thank you Lianne! It's so hot in Kansas they have to put their fans outdoors...
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