Abstract
Heartland: Reflections on the Politics of a Regional Signifier Middle West Review, Vol. 1, Number 1 (Spring 2014): pp. 81-‐90. Tobias Higbie Figure 1: A huge crop art image protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline covers an 80 acre corn field outstide of Neligh, Nebraska, on April 12, 2014. The image, which lies on the proposed pipeline route that crosses the Ponca Trail of Tears, was created by the farmers, ranchers, and Native American tribes of the Cowboy and Indian Alliance in collaboration with artist John Quigley. Photo by Lou Dematteis / Spectral Q. Accessed at https://www.flickr.com/photos/boldnebraska/13828142263 Used by permission of the artist. In a protest against the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline in April 2014, activists in rural Nebraska created a massive public art display invoking the history, natural resources, and cultural identity of the American Midwest. Cut into the upper half of a circular wheat field were the rays of a rising sun, the outlined heads of a cowboy and a Native American, undulating lines depicting water, and the phrase
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