Commissioned by the Salina Arts and Humanities, Little Girl in the Wind was a 3 acre portrait of Carole Cadue, of the Kickapoo tribe whose clan name Pah-e-Dahts-no-Qua translates to "the first breath of wind from an impending storm".

This realization about Carole's clan name was stunning to me because the origin of this work was related to an earlier viewing of the Costa Rican film, La Nina e El Viento a powerful work introduced by the image of a frightened child braced against the winds of worldly affairs.

This work was a collaborative effort with Wes Jackson and the Land Institute. The prairie portrait was the first of Stan's works which was created without plowing. This technique mirrors Jackson's philosophy of sustainable agriculture as it applies to the diversity of the prairie.