We Are All Treaty People

Prairie Essays

Roger Epp

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780888645067
• eBook ISBN:
  9781772123425
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

In his collection of Prairie essays-some of them profoundly personal, some poetic, some political-Roger Epp considers what it means to dwell attentively and responsibly in the rural West. He makes the provocative claim that Indigenous and settler alike are "Treaty people"; he retells inherited family stories in that light; he reclaims the rural as a site of radical politics; and he thinks alongside contemporary farm people whose livelihoods and communities are now under intense economic and cultural pressure. We Are All Treaty People invites those who feel the pull of a prairie heritage to rediscover the poetry surging through the landscapes of the rural West, among its people and their political economy.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: A Prairie Accent
• 1 The Measure of a River
• 2 Oklahoma: Meditations on Home and Homelessness
• 3 Hanley, Saskatchewan
• 4 “Their Own Emancipators”: The Agrarian Movement in Alberta
• 5 Statues of Liberty: The Political Tradition of the Producer
• 6 Populists, Patriots and Pariahs
• 7 We Are All Treaty People: History, Reconciliation, and the “Settler Problem"
• 8 What is the Farm Crisis?: Seven Short Commentaries
• 9 Two Albertas: Rural and Urban Trajectories
• 10 A University at Home in the Rural
• Notes
• Index