Prairie People

Author : James A. Clifton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prairie People written by James A. Clifton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to reprinting the full text of Clifton's extraordinary ethnohistory, this expanded edition features a new essay offering a narrative of his continuing professional and personal encounters, since 1962, with this enduring native community. -- ‡c From back cover.

Author : Valerie J. Korinek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802095313
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Fairies written by Valerie J. Korinek and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and organizations that they created from 1930 to 1985.? Challenging the preconceived narratives of queer history, Valerie J. Korinek argues that the LGBTTQ community has a long history in the prairie west, and that its history, previously marginalized or omitted, deserves attention. Korinek pays tribute to the prairie activists and actors who were responsible for creating spaces for socializing, politicizing, and organizing this community, both in cities and rural areas. Far from the stereotype of the isolated, insular Canadian prairies of small towns and farming communities populated by faithful farm families, Prairie Fairies historicizes the transformation of prairie cities, and ultimately the region itself, into a predominantly urban and diverse place.

Author : Marji Hadley
Publisher : Martingale & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781564770530
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie People written by Marji Hadley and published by Martingale & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Collins
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551995131
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie People written by Robert Collins and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at the people of the prairies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – who they are, how they live, what makes them a breed apart The prairies are Robert Collins’s spiritual home. He was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, but spent most of his adult life living elsewhere. Now he returns to his homeland to pay homage to the special character of the people who live in this unique region of Canada. Prairie People is an absorbing combination of stories, anecdotes, and touches of history told in the voices of ordinary people and linked by the author’s own narrative and memories. It explores the characteristics that define these people to themselves and to the rest of Canada. Prairie people are clearly not all alike: city and town dwellers differ from farmers, farmers from ranchers, ranchers and cowboys from oilmen. But many of the stereotypes are true. They are defiantly pessimistic. They believe they are tougher than everybody else. They are uncommonly independent and self-reliant. In this sympathetic yet realistic portrait, Collins looks at where the original settlers of the prairies came from. He describes how nature shaped them, and how hard work through good times and bad toughened them. He finds evidence of their legendary friendliness and neighbourliness. And he seeks to understand their deep attachment either to the left and right in politics and their unifying distrust of “Central Canada.”

Author : George Bird Grinnell
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613107595
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People written by George Bird Grinnell and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1908 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most shameful chapter of American history is that in which is recorded the account of our dealings with the Indians. The story of our government's intercourse with this race is an unbroken narrative of injustice, fraud, and robbery. Our people have disregarded honesty and truth whenever they have come in contact with the Indian, and he has had no rights because he has never had the power to enforce any. Protests against governmental swindling of these savages have been made again and again, but such remonstrances attract no general attention. Almost every one is ready to acknowledge that in the past the Indians have been shamefully robbed, but it appears to be believed that this no longer takes place. This is a great mistake. We treat them now much as we have always treated them. Within two years, I have been present on a reservation where government commissioners, by means of threats, by bribes given to chiefs, and by casting fraudulently the votes of absentees, succeeded after months of effort in securing votes enough to warrant them in asserting that a tribe of Indians, entirely wild and totally ignorant of farming, had consented to sell their lands, and to settle down each upon 160 acres of the most utterly arid and barren land to be found on the North American continent. The fraud perpetrated on this tribe was as gross as could be practised by one set of men upon another. In a similar way the Southern Utes were recently induced to consent to give up their reservation for another. Americans are a conscientious people, yet they take no interest in these frauds. They have the Anglo-Saxon spirit of fair play, which sympathizes with weakness, yet no protest is made against the oppression which the Indian suffers. They are generous; a famine in Ireland, Japan, or Russia arouses the sympathy and calls forth the bounty of the nation, yet they give no heed to the distress of the Indians, who are in the very midst of them. They do not realize that Indians are human beings like themselves. For this state of things there must be a reason, and this reason is to be found, I believe, in the fact that practically no one has any personal knowledge of the Indian race. The few who are acquainted with them are neither writers nor public speakers, and for the most part would find it easier to break a horse than to write a letter. If the general public knows little of this race, those who legislate about them are equally ignorant. From the congressional page who distributes the copies of a pending bill, up through the representatives and senators who vote for it, to the president whose signature makes the measure a law, all are entirely unacquainted with this people or their needs.

Author : Robert Collins
Publisher : M&S
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie People written by Robert Collins and published by M&S. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prairies are Robert Collins's spiritual home. He was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm but lived most of his adult life elsewhere. Now he returns to his homeland to pay homage to the special nature of the people who live in this unique region of Canada. His cast of characters, some poignant, some hilarious, includes city- and town-dwellers, farmers, oilmen, politicians, artists. He encounters a cowboy poet with a Ph.D.; the private world of a Hutterite colony; a single mother who is a rancher; the banker who saved an historic tree; a native woman fighting to clean up the reserves. He takes a sly look at the Western "redneck," samples local culinary delights, and finds a passionate love of prairie in Peter Lougheed. Prairie People describes the stark misery of the earliest settlers and the fierce elements that shape and toughen their descendants to this day. And it examines the increasingly urban face of the region, explains the unifying distrust of "Central Canada," and illustrates the people's hardy pessimism, their uncommon independence and self-reliance, their legendary humour, warmth, and friendliness. An absorbing compilation of stories told in the voices of ordinary people and the author's own memories and commentary on the region's past and present, Prairie People explores the characteristics that define these people to themselves and reveals them to the rest of Canada. Book jacket.

Author : Shannon Stunden Bower
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077485992X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wet Prairie written by Shannon Stunden Bower and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian prairies are often envisioned as dry, windswept fields; however, much of southern Manitoba is not arid plain but wet prairie, poorly drained land subject to frequent flooding. Shannon Stunden Bower brings to light the complexities of surface-water management in Manitoba, from early artificial drainage efforts to late-twentieth-century attempts at watershed management. She engages scholarship on the state, liberalism, and bioregionalism in order to probe the connections between human and environmental change in the wet prairie. This account of an overlooked aspect of the region’s environmental history reveals how the biophysical nature of southern Manitoba has been an important factor in the formation of Manitoba society and the provincial state.

Author : Matt White
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603445560
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Time written by Matt White and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt White's connections with both prairie plants and prairie people are evident in the stories of discovery and inspiration he tells as he tracks the ever dwindling parcels of tallgrass prairie in northeast Texas. In his search, he stumbles upon some unexpected fragments of virgin land, as well as some remarkable tales of both destruction and stewardship.

Author : S. D. Nelson
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613127278
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Star People written by S. D. Nelson and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grandmother’s love is forever in Star People, a picture book about remembrance and tradition from S. D. Nelson, award-winning author and member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. “A young Lakota Indian girl narrates the story of how she and her little brother, Young Wolf, survive a prairie fire.” —School Library Journal “A stirring, original story based on Lakota legend . . . The swirling images of the celestial dance beautifully reflect the story’s celebration and awe of the natural world.” —Booklist Sister Girl and her brother, Young Wolf, wander away from their village and soon find themselves far out in the surrounding prairie. They sit down in the grass and watch the clouds passing above billow to form an eagle, horses, and other creatures. We sat in the dry, sweet-smelling grass, watching the clouds drift overhead. Young Wolf pointed and said, “Sister Girl, that cloud looks like a buffalo’s head!” We both laughed with amazement. “There’s an eagle,” I cried! Suddenly, animals begin to race past the children on the ground—followed by a wall of fire! Fleeing along with the frightened beasts, Sister Girl and Young Wolf save themselves by tumbling into a shallow stream. The fire leaves behind ash and a barren, forbidding landscape. The children realize that they are hopelessly lost. Night is coming—how will they get home to their parents? And why are the evening stars dancing so? Drawing upon traditional Lakota ledger book art, S. D. Nelson’s illustrations bring to life a memorable new legend about the Star People.

Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Clarion Books
ISBN 13 : 132878150X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Lotus written by Linda Sue Park and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling, emotionally engaging novel set in 1880, a half-Chinese girl and her white father try to make a home in Dakota Territory, in the face of racism and resistance.