Prairie Mosaic: An Ethnic Atlas of Rural North Dakota: An Ethic Atlas of Rural North Dakota - Hardcover

Sherman, William C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0911042881 ISBN 13: 9780911042887

Verlag: North Dakota State University, 2017

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“Sadly, it must be said that we know much more about the soil, crop, weed, and water conditions of any particular Dakota township than we know of the national character of the people who reside there,” writes William C. Sherman. This new edition of a classic work brings back into print Sherman’s study of North Dakota ethnic groups—from Native Americans to Norwegians—a virtual mosaic of the state’s ethnic settlement areas. Prairie Mosaic is a classic study of North Dakota’s ethnic group settlements. 50+ black & white photographs and maps.

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William C. Sherman is a retired professor of sociology from North Dakota State University, where he taught rural and regional sociology. He also served as pastor of St. Michael s Church in Grand Forks, ND, and still delivers mass daily. The scholarly contributions of Father Bill Sherman to ethnic studies on the northern plains did not cease with publication of Prairie Mosaic. It is but an early peak in a long line of meticulously researched, path-breaking studies. Most notable in the line is Plains Folk: North Dakota s Ethnic History, for which Bill was lead editor and first author. That work was published by the Institute for Regional Studies in 1986. Those wishing to explore the further contributions of Fr. Bill Sherman, and to be enlightened as to the rich ethnic diversity of North Dakota, may consult the selected bibliography (chronological listing) below.Sherman, William C. Assimilation in a North Dakota German-Russian Community. MA thesis, University of North Dakota, 1965. Sherman, William C. Prairie Mosaic: An Ethnic Atlas of Rural North Dakota. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1983.Sherman, William C., and Playford V. Thorson, eds. Plains Folk: North Dakota s Ethnic History. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1986.Lamb, Jerome D., William C. Sherman, and Jerry Ruff. Scattered Steeples: The Fargo Diocese, A Written Celebration of Its Centennial. Fargo: Burch, Londergan and Lynch, 1988.

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[Sherman provides] a comprehensive listing of the surprisingly large number of ethnic groups that had a hand in settling this northern state. [Prairie Mosaic contains] maps and lists and statistics the outcroppings of a rich vein of struggle. He uses Census Bureau data, railroad records, church archives, county land atlases, and local sources and correspondents to tell of those peoples comprising the state s rural population: the more numerous Norwegians, Germans, German-Russians, and Anglo-Americans; and also the less numerically significant ones such as Jews, blacks, Syrians, Czechs, Swedes, and others. Ron Vossler, North Dakota Quarterly, Fall 1983 The following review of Prairie Mosaic is reprinted here in its entirety by permission of North Dakota Horizons; the review first appeared in the magazine s Fall 1983 issue.Years of studying the tangle of North Dakota s roots have allowed Father William C. Sherman of Fargo to produce one of the most fascinating studies of the state ever to be presented to a lay audience. His Prairie Mosaic is truly the atlas its subtitle promises to be, but it s much more. It s organized around maps of six regions of the state; each is covered by rings and spots and stripes rather like the pattern of camouflage cloth, but with the intention of revealing rather than hiding what lies behind it. For the expert on regional and rural sociology, who teaches at North Dakota State University, has researched and mapped the ethnic origins of landholders on every foot of North Dakota soil. It s a breath-takingly enormous task, made more meaningful by an accompanying text that goes into more detail than the maps in answering one basic question: Who are these North Dakotans? Sherman begins with the Census Bureau s data but goes far, far beyond its obvious categories just German, for example to document the clans and movements within each generalization. To augment the federal data, he s turned to railroad records, church archives, county land atlases, and even the sources of names of towns, townships, and congregations for clues about their founders origins. He discusses no fewer than fifteen distinct branches of North Daktoa s German immigrants, from the Dunkards, German-Bohemians, and German-Hungarians to German-Russians from the Black Sea area, Dobrudja, Marienburg, and other locales, among others. Nor does he stop at sketching out the histories of the major groups who lived on and farmed the land in 1965, the year on which the study is based. He talks of less well-known settlers Bulgarian, Moslem, Jewish, Gypsy, black, and even Japanese who homesteaded and left their mark on rural Dakota history. (Since the research is based on documents showing rural settlement, only those who farmed are thoroughly represented; urban settlements are mentioned in passing but of necessity not represented on the maps.) This is not a book to count on reading from cover to cover. Instead, it is a sampler, meant to be dipped into again and again to explain the so-called North Dakota personality, learn more about why each part of the state has its own distinct character, and trace the countless routes that some 200,000 men and women took to find their way to prairie homesteads and the chance to carve new lives over the past one hundred years.

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• Verlag: North Dakota State University
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0911042881
• ISBN 13: 9780911042887
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
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