HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
To survive, Kansas has a man made nuclear power plant called the Wolf Creek Generating Station. It is located in Wyandotte County Lake. The Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, a Delaware corporation, operates the power plant and is a type of power station that generates electricity using heat from nuclear reactions. These reactions take place within a reactor which also has machines which remove heat from the reactor to operate a steam turbine and generator to make electricity. The ownership is divided between the Westar Energy (47%), Kansas City Power and Light Company (47%), and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (6%). The power plant causes pressurized water reactions and since the nuclear power plants are generated by nuclear reactions, they are slightly radioactive. This power plant does not have cooling towers but have the Coffey County Lake as a cooling source. The power plant supplies a large amount of the energy used in Kansas.
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Language:
People of Kansas speak the native Kansa language. This Siouan language includes: Western Siouan Languages, Missouri Valley Siouan Languages, Mississippi Valley Siouan Languages, Dakotan Languages, Chiwerean Languages, Ohio Valley Siouan Languages, Eastern Siouan Languages (Catawba) and the Uncertain Siouan Languages.
Shelter:
These people lived on villages of large round earthy lodges made with wooden frames and packed earth. They travelled on bull boats, swallow rods and buffalo hides. The dogs pulled on travois (sled) and there were no horses until colonists arrived.
Clothes:
The Native men wore red or blue breechcloth with a belt and deer skin leggings. Sometimes they wore a blanket over the upper part of the body which is often trimmed with fur. Buffalo hides were worn as cloaks and moccasins in the winter. They also wore roach headrests attached to their scalp lock on their head. Women wore buckskin dresses or skirt leggings and cloaks often decorated with ornaments such as beads, shells and metals, hair decorations and chokers. They also wore a hair pipe which is a long slim hollow.
Food:
People of Kansas ate food from Indian jerky made of dried buffalo meat and now modernized to hamburgers which first started in Wichita, eating in Kansas has changed. They have different ways of getting, preparing, and preserving food and these traditional ways have been changed different from those of today, but many of the foods are passed down.
Jerky:
Buffalo meat was very popular in Kansas. These Indians hunted the buffalo for food and sometimes ate part of the meat raw. Most often the meat was roasted or boiled in water over a fire. Indians learned to preserve the meat by cutting it in strips and drying it. This long lasting food was known as jerky.
Preservation:
Pemmican was another way of preserving food that is used for trail foods of campers today, they use the same ideas from Indian pemmican. Pemmican was a dried meat pounded finely. Buffalo, elk, deer, and antelope meat were used which were mixed with fat, sometimes berries were added.
Soups and Vegetables:
Besides eating buffalo meat, for hundreds of years native people farmed gardens along river bottoms and often cooked
the vegetables they grew with meat from the buffalo they hunted. For soups, they commonly placed before them a sort of soup made with maize boiled in water, and spiced with a few slices of bison meat, grease and some beans. To suit their palates it was generally seasoned with rock salt which was found near the Arkansas river.
Political Change/History:
Kansas has the history of many firsts in legislative initiatives. Kansas was the first state to institute a system of workers compensation (insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured at work) in 1910. They also started to regulate the securities industry in 1911. Kansas allowed women's suffrage (their right to vote) in 1912 which was almost a decade before the federal constitution was adjusted. The suffrage in all states wouldn't be guaranteed until approval of the 19th Amendant of the US Constitution in 1920. Kansas was one of the few states which had limited political support and has been strongly Republican back to when the Republican Party was created out of the movement to stop the extension of slavery into Kansas Territory.
Wichita:
In South-central Kansas, the Wichita area is home to over 600,000 people. Wichita is the largest city in the state in regarding both land area and population. There are a number of historic places, museums, and other entertainment destinations, wanting to become a cultural mecca in the Midwest. Wichita's population growth has increased at quite a fast pace and the surrounding areas are among the fastest growing cities in the state and was one of the first cities to add the city commissioner and city manager in their government. Wichita is located on the Arkansas River which is the centre of Sedgwick County and the main city of the its area.
History of Wichita:
Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and then was incorporated in 1870. It gradually became a key destination for cattle drives that traveled north from Texas and wanted to access railroads. Which earned olden day Wichita the nickname "Cowtown". In the 1920s and 1930s, businessmen and engineers established a group of successful companies in Wichita including Beechcraft, Cessna, and Stearman Aircraft. This city transformed into the hub of U.S. aircraft production and slowly because known as "The Air Capital of the World".
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Language:
People of Kansas speak the native Kansa language. This Siouan language includes: Western Siouan Languages, Missouri Valley Siouan Languages, Mississippi Valley Siouan Languages, Dakotan Languages, Chiwerean Languages, Ohio Valley Siouan Languages, Eastern Siouan Languages (Catawba) and the Uncertain Siouan Languages.
Shelter:
These people lived on villages of large round earthy lodges made with wooden frames and packed earth. They travelled on bull boats, swallow rods and buffalo hides. The dogs pulled on travois (sled) and there were no horses until colonists arrived.
Clothes:
The Native men wore red or blue breechcloth with a belt and deer skin leggings. Sometimes they wore a blanket over the upper part of the body which is often trimmed with fur. Buffalo hides were worn as cloaks and moccasins in the winter. They also wore roach headrests attached to their scalp lock on their head. Women wore buckskin dresses or skirt leggings and cloaks often decorated with ornaments such as beads, shells and metals, hair decorations and chokers. They also wore a hair pipe which is a long slim hollow.
Food:
People of Kansas ate food from Indian jerky made of dried buffalo meat and now modernized to hamburgers which first started in Wichita, eating in Kansas has changed. They have different ways of getting, preparing, and preserving food and these traditional ways have been changed different from those of today, but many of the foods are passed down.
Jerky:
Buffalo meat was very popular in Kansas. These Indians hunted the buffalo for food and sometimes ate part of the meat raw. Most often the meat was roasted or boiled in water over a fire. Indians learned to preserve the meat by cutting it in strips and drying it. This long lasting food was known as jerky.
Preservation:
Pemmican was another way of preserving food that is used for trail foods of campers today, they use the same ideas from Indian pemmican. Pemmican was a dried meat pounded finely. Buffalo, elk, deer, and antelope meat were used which were mixed with fat, sometimes berries were added.
Soups and Vegetables:
Besides eating buffalo meat, for hundreds of years native people farmed gardens along river bottoms and often cooked
the vegetables they grew with meat from the buffalo they hunted. For soups, they commonly placed before them a sort of soup made with maize boiled in water, and spiced with a few slices of bison meat, grease and some beans. To suit their palates it was generally seasoned with rock salt which was found near the Arkansas river.
Political Change/History:
Kansas has the history of many firsts in legislative initiatives. Kansas was the first state to institute a system of workers compensation (insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured at work) in 1910. They also started to regulate the securities industry in 1911. Kansas allowed women's suffrage (their right to vote) in 1912 which was almost a decade before the federal constitution was adjusted. The suffrage in all states wouldn't be guaranteed until approval of the 19th Amendant of the US Constitution in 1920. Kansas was one of the few states which had limited political support and has been strongly Republican back to when the Republican Party was created out of the movement to stop the extension of slavery into Kansas Territory.
Wichita:
In South-central Kansas, the Wichita area is home to over 600,000 people. Wichita is the largest city in the state in regarding both land area and population. There are a number of historic places, museums, and other entertainment destinations, wanting to become a cultural mecca in the Midwest. Wichita's population growth has increased at quite a fast pace and the surrounding areas are among the fastest growing cities in the state and was one of the first cities to add the city commissioner and city manager in their government. Wichita is located on the Arkansas River which is the centre of Sedgwick County and the main city of the its area.
History of Wichita:
Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and then was incorporated in 1870. It gradually became a key destination for cattle drives that traveled north from Texas and wanted to access railroads. Which earned olden day Wichita the nickname "Cowtown". In the 1920s and 1930s, businessmen and engineers established a group of successful companies in Wichita including Beechcraft, Cessna, and Stearman Aircraft. This city transformed into the hub of U.S. aircraft production and slowly because known as "The Air Capital of the World".