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Storied landscapes : ethno-religious identity and the Canadian Prairies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swyripa, Frances, 1951-
Corporate Author: Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Winnipeg [Man.] : University of Manitoba Press, [2010]
Series:Studies in immigration and culture. 5.
Canadian electronic library. Canadian publishers collection.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Prairie Provinces > History.
Minorities > Prairie Provinces > History.
Prairie Provinces > Social conditions.
Prairie Provinces > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.