Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction
1. Ethno-Religious Settlement: The Canadian Prairies in Context
2. Possessing the Land: The Secular, the Sacred, and the Dead
3. Founding Stories and Founding Fathers: Beginnings, Place, and Belonging
4. Region and Nation: Situating the Prairie Experience within National Narratives
5. Outside Connections: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Forty-Ninth Parallel
6. Wheat, Dragon Ships, and Baba: Symbols of Prairie Ethnicity
7. Returning to the Land: Commemoration and Preservation of the Past
8. Pilgrimage: The Land as “Sacred Ground” and Gathering Point
Conclusion
Notes
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