Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
This thesis explores stories about how people farmed and learned about farming on the Great Plains from 1880-1920 through three inter-connected narratives: the Allotment system, agricultural education programs at federal Indian Boarding Schools, and the rapid rise and fall of the Dry Farming movement. These systems were built on stories about how people should live with and on the land that promoted unsustainable, destructive ways of farming and knowledge production. This scholarship places Assimilation Era agricultural education for Native and non-Native farmers within the context of the increasing reliance on systems and science and the institutionalization of agricultural knowledge.
Recommended Citation
Shuffelton-Sobe, Philomena, "Unsustainable Stories: Agricultural Knowledge on the Great Plains, 1880-1934" (2026). History Honors Projects. 39.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/history_honors/39
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