Molly P. Rozum

Grasslands Grown (eBook, PDF)

Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies

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Produktbeschreibung

In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the U.S. Great Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. All or parts of modern-day Alberta, Montana, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Manitoba form the center of this transnational region. As children, the first postconquest generation of northern grasslands residents worked, played, and traveled with domestic and wild animals, which introduced them to ecology and shaped sense-of-place rhythms. As adults, members of this generation of settler society worked to adapt to the northern grasslands by practicing both agricultural diversification and environmental conservation. Rozum argues that environmental awareness, including its ecological and cultural aspects, is key to forming a sense of place and a regional identity. The two concepts overlap and reinforce each other: place is more local, ecological, and emotional-sensual, and region is more ideational, national, and geographic in tone. This captivating study examines the growth of place and regional identities as they took shape within generations and over the life cycle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496227973
• Artikelnr.: 72428311

Autorenporträt

Molly P. Rozum is associate professor and Ronald R. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota History at the University of South Dakota. She is the coeditor of Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains and editor of Small-Town Boy, Small-Town Girl: Growing Up in South Dakota, 1920–1950.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Looking Northwest from La Vérendrye Hill
1. Parents’ Choice: Taking Root on the Northern Grasslands
2. Small Worlds: Animal Friends, Foes, and Place Rhythms
3. Sensing Prairies and Plains: Grasses, Grains, Waters, Woods, Rocks, and
Snow
4. “The Purple Hills That Beckoned”: Growing Up, Travel, Education, and
Region
5. “Old Woman Who Never Dies” and Old Man’s Garden: Settler and Indigenous
Relations over the Generations
6. “All Is So Still—So Big, I Scarce Can Speak”: New Literature and
Settler-Society Aesthetics
7. “Surely, Grass Is the Great Mother of All Plains Agriculture”:
Agricultural Adaptation and Grasslands Conservation
8. “All That Vast Region of Grass Land”: The United States, Canada, and
Changing Cultural Geography
Conclusion: Looking across the Line from the Prairies and Plains
Notes
Bibliography
Index