Towards a Prairie Atonement
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Towards a Prairie Atonement
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Narrated by:
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Trevor Herriot
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Lincoln McGowan
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By:
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Trevor Herriot
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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.
©2016 Trevor Herriot (P)2026 University of Regina PressCritic reviews
“Towards a Prairie Atonement is ultimately a call to action and a testimonial to the power of amends.”—Toronto Star
“Herriot’s writing sweeps across the page with the same breadth of the prairie he loves...by book's end, Towards a Prairie Atonement becomes an important call to action for increased prairie conservation and more communal land use.”—Foreword Reviews
“Explores the psychogeography of the grasslands of the Aspen Parkland in Saskatchewan. More than just a recounting of history, Towards a Prairie Atonement is a call to action for author and reader alike.”—World Literature Today