Towards a Prairie Atonement
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2023
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-964-8 (ISBN)
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-964-8 (ISBN)
In the wake of colonization, in a landscape of loss and dispossession, can we rediscover ways to share the land with other creatures and one another?
When the government recently tried to abandon its responsibility to protect what little remains of the natural prairie, Trevor Herriot pushed back, only to discover an injustice haunting the lands he was trying to defend. In 1938, when the Métis of Ste. Madeleine returned from working away, they found their homes burnt to the ground and their animals shot. The land they held in common was no longer theirs, but was now controlled by the federal government.
Facing his own responsibility as a descendent of settlers, he connects today's ecological disarray to the legacy of Metis dispossession and the loss of their community lands. With Indigenous and settler people alienated from one another and from the grassland itself, hope and courage are in short supply. This book offers both by proposing an atonement that could again bring people and prairie together.
When the government recently tried to abandon its responsibility to protect what little remains of the natural prairie, Trevor Herriot pushed back, only to discover an injustice haunting the lands he was trying to defend. In 1938, when the Métis of Ste. Madeleine returned from working away, they found their homes burnt to the ground and their animals shot. The land they held in common was no longer theirs, but was now controlled by the federal government.
Facing his own responsibility as a descendent of settlers, he connects today's ecological disarray to the legacy of Metis dispossession and the loss of their community lands. With Indigenous and settler people alienated from one another and from the grassland itself, hope and courage are in short supply. This book offers both by proposing an atonement that could again bring people and prairie together.
Trevor Herriot is an award-winning author and a naturalist. Married with four children, Trevor and his wife, Karen, have a home in Regina, Saskatchewan, and a small cabin in the Aspen Parkland prairie south of Indian Head.
Contents
Map
Timeline of Events
Acknowledgements
Part 1: One Tent Peg to Share
Part 2: On the Sand Plains
Part 3: A Pasture to Share
A Small Good Thing: An Afterword
Notes
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Regina Collection |
| Nachwort | Norman Fleury |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Regina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 120 x 190 mm |
| Gewicht | 209 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-88977-964-3 / 0889779643 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-88977-964-8 / 9780889779648 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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