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Argues for the cause of protecting native grasslands and reconciliation on the Great Plains Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses the question of our relationship with the land by enlisting the help of a Metis Elder and revisiting the history of one corner of the Great Plains. This book's lyrical blend of personal narrative, prairie history, imagery, and argument begins with the cause of protecting native grasslands 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 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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[Herriot] has a strong naturalist bent and writes in illuminating detail about what he sees and hears on the ground, and about what has been lost. --Dennis Gruending The Catalyst Praise for Trevor Herriot's previous books: [A] profound and moving journey over our wild, fragile planet. Margaret Atwood Herriot walks slowly, mindfully. Every stand of aspen and mycorrhizal fungi sends him on a rewarding, lyrical detour... he pushes beyond the symbiotic beauty of biological processes to see our entire existence--body and soul--as a reflection of forces that we can never possess. --Dan Rubenstein, Globe and Mail

"""[Herriot] has a strong naturalist bent and writes in illuminating detail about what he sees and hears on the ground, and about what has been lost.""--Dennis Gruending ""The Catalyst"" ""Praise for Trevor Herriot's previous books: ""[A] profound and moving journey over our wild, fragile planet."" Margaret Atwood ""Herriot walks slowly, mindfully. Every stand of aspen and mycorrhizal fungi sends him on a rewarding, lyrical detour... he pushes beyond the symbiotic beauty of biological processes to see our entire existence--body and soul--as a reflection of forces that we can never possess.""--Dan Rubenstein, Globe and Mail"

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Trevor Herriot is an award-winning author and a naturalist. Married with four children, Trevor and his wife, Karen, have a home in Regina, Saskatchewan, and a small cabin in the Aspen Parkland prairie south of Indian Head.

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