A memoir that reckons with the high costs of European settlement
and Indigenous dispossession on the Great Plains. A surprise rodeo
leaves a buffalo bull dead and a cowboy gored to death. Seeing the
death of the one man who was kind to him, Dawn Morgan's father
shoulders the blame and ends up dead. His sudden death, and the
blundering way Morgan learns of it, forces her to reflect not only
on the events in the bloodied corral, but also on the buffalo herds
decimated and Indigenous Peoples displaced to make way for
settlement in ranching and farming country in the prairies.
Unsettled is a deeply moving work of literary non-fiction, a
probing memoir examining family tragedy in relation to stories-both
fact and fiction-of settlers and Indigenous Peoples on the Great
Plains. Morgan shares the internal struggle between resistance and
allegiance to the settler-descendent stories she grew up with while
paying respects to her father and documenting the censorship she
faces from her mother, loyal still to the pioneer myth of the early
twentieth century. It is only when both parents are gone that
Morgan is liberated to write a story of reckoning on the northern
Great Plains.
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