Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

By Warren Cariou format: trade paperback publication: January 2003 ISBN: 9780385259613

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Winner of the 2002 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize.

Grounded in the fertile soil of Meadow Lake are two historical traditions: Native and settler. Warren Cariou's maternal grandparents were European immigrants who cleared acres of dense forest and turned it into pasture. This land also held traces of centuries of Cree settlement arrowheads, spear points and stone hammers, which Cariou stumbled upon as a boy. In the schoolyard and on the street corners Warren witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the town's Cree and Metis populations, prejudices he absorbed as his own. As an adult, Warren Cariou was forced to confront the politics of race in Meadow Lake. He then discovered family secrets kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Short-listed for the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award.

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