Towards a Prairie Atonement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780889779648)

Argues for the cause of protecting native grasslands and reconciliation on the Great Plains

Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses the question of our relationship with the land by enlisting the help of a Metis Elder and revisiting the history of one corner of the Great Plains.

This book's lyrical blend of personal narrative, prairie history, imagery, and argument begins with the cause of protecting native grasslands on community pastures. As the narrative unfolds, however, Trevor Herriot, the award-winning author of Grass, Sky, Song and River in a Dry Land, finds himself recruited into the work of reconciliation.

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.

Author: Trevor Herriot
ISBN-10: 0889779643
ISBN-13: 9780889779648
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2023
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.50w x 0.40d