TY - BOOK ID - 78489912 TI - Towards a prairie atonement AU - Herriot, Trevor AU - Fleury, Norman PY - 2016 SN - 0889774552 9780889774568 0889774560 9780889774551 9780889774544 0889774544 PB - Regina, Saskatchewan, [Ontario] : University of Regina Press, DB - UniCat KW - MeĢtis KW - Grassland ecology KW - Grasslands KW - Ecology KW - Indians of North America KW - Indigenous peoples KW - History. KW - Land tenure KW - Mixed descent KW - Ste. Madeleine (Man.) KW - Ethnic relations KW - Sainte Madeleine (Man.) KW - Metis. KW - pasture land. KW - reconciliation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78489912 AB - Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses this question by enlisting the help of a Metis Elder and revisiting the history of one corner of the Great Plains. Set on a prairie remnant seven thousand years old, this book's lyrical blend of personal narrative, prairie history, imagery, and argument begins with the cause of protecting native grassland 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 colonial decisions to remove the Metis and their community land ethic from the prairie. With Indigenous and settler people alienated from one another and from the grassland itself, hope and courage are in short supply. This book proposes an atonement that could again bring people and prairie together. ER -