Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethno-religious settlement : the Canadian prairies in context
  • Possessing the land : the secular, the sacred, and the dead
  • Founding stoires and founding fathers : beginnings, place, and belonging
  • Region and nation : situating the prairie experience within national narratives
  • Outside connections : homelands, diasporas, and the Forty-ninth Parallel
  • Wheat, dragon ships, and baba : symbols of prairie ethnicity
  • Returning to the land : commemoration and preservation of the past
  • Pilgrimage : the land as "sacred ground" and gathering point.