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Towards a Prairie Atonement (Unabridged) by Trevor Herriot

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Towards a Prairie Atonement (Unabridged)

Author
Trevor Herriot
Narrator
Trevor Herriot, Lincoln McGowan
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Publish Date
3 March 2026
Run Time
2 hours 55 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Indigenous peoples, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Plains and grasslands
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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.

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Author
Trevor Herriot
Narrator
Trevor Herriot, Lincoln McGowan
Duration
2 hours 55 minutes
Release Date
3 March 2026
ISBN
9781779401366
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Genre
Indigenous peoples, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Plains and grasslands

Synopsis

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.

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