Social history/ideas for the future
Who’s from the prairie? Is there a distinct prairie culture? How did we get here? Look at our social history and in exploring our paths to the future.
- Who’s From the Prairie?
Some Prairie Self-Representations in Popular Culture - By Alison Calder
- Excerpt from Aboriginal People And Birds: A Brief Cultural History of Manitoba's First People
The Birds of Manitoba - By Virginia Petch
- The Prairie Still Lives in Winnipeg
- By Robert W. Nero
- The First Manitoba Farmers: Plant Remains from the Lockport Site
- By C. Thomas Shay, Ph.D. and Margaret Kapinga
- Don’t Give Me No More of Your Lip; or, the Prairie Horizon as Allowed Mouth
- By Robert Kroetsch
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Calder’s essay asks the question of who defines who in prairie culture, and what is prairie culture.
Excerpted notes about some beliefs about birds within Manitoba’s many Aboriginal traditions.
This gives insight into conservation efforts in the recent past by a champion of tall grass prairie preservation.
An abbreviated report on archaeological evidence that farming occurred long before European settlement.
What makes a prairie writer a prairie writer? Does that designation really exist?