How has Kansas adapted to the environment

Congress created Kansas Territory in 1854 by inscribing fictional lines across the grasslands. Nature, that ever-present agent of change, paid the politicians no mind. Wind, weather, soil, and water-the whole suite of nonhuman phenomena-continued shaping Great Plains human history. Culture, in varieties nearly infinite, still enabled humans to cope with natural forces and features. People living in what was now officially Kansas still had to solve the basic ecological problem of enduring on the grasslands. The endless conversation-culture that expressed humans’ distinctive status inflecting nature that owed nothing to humans-continued after 1854. This perpetual dialogue still transforms the land that gave life to its human occupants.