TY - JOUR
T1 - Restorative narrative
T2 - Nonfiction and the resetting of the grasslands' future
AU - Maher, Susan Naramore
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - The diminishment of the ancient North American grasslands on both sides of the forty- ninth parallel and the undermining of Indigenous ways of life are among the most disheartening histories of the western states and provinces. When trying to understand how such an alteration of the grasslands happened, writers and historians use words such as catastrophe, ecological holocaust, and unmitigated tragedy. In the centuries since European contact and the radical transformations of European settlement, the Great Plains of North America has endured a thorny, difficult, disruptive historical passage that has significantly tested Indigenous communities and the grasslands biome. In this essay, I focus on non- Native late twentieth- and early twenty- first-century essayists from the Plains of Canada and the United States who are helping to shift the paradigm and define restorative narrative.
AB - The diminishment of the ancient North American grasslands on both sides of the forty- ninth parallel and the undermining of Indigenous ways of life are among the most disheartening histories of the western states and provinces. When trying to understand how such an alteration of the grasslands happened, writers and historians use words such as catastrophe, ecological holocaust, and unmitigated tragedy. In the centuries since European contact and the radical transformations of European settlement, the Great Plains of North America has endured a thorny, difficult, disruptive historical passage that has significantly tested Indigenous communities and the grasslands biome. In this essay, I focus on non- Native late twentieth- and early twenty- first-century essayists from the Plains of Canada and the United States who are helping to shift the paradigm and define restorative narrative.
KW - Agriculture
KW - Canada
KW - Criminology
KW - Journalism
KW - Lakota
KW - Water
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U2 - 10.1353/gpq.2020.0000
DO - 10.1353/gpq.2020.0000
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85083498988
VL - 40
SP - 1
EP - 22
JO - Great Plains Quarterly
JF - Great Plains Quarterly
SN - 0275-7664
IS - 1
ER -