Lecture 9:  Wir Sehen Uns Nimmer Mehr

 

Immigration and ethnicity

 

Outline of Lecture

Introduction: Tragedy & Triumph

Being Ethnic on the Plains

The German-Russian Diaspora

Travel on the Gravel: Iron Crosses

El Norte

Epilogue: 

 

Assignments

WWW

Survey of Iron Cross Cemeteries in North Dakota

Reading

Thinking About the Great Plains

Cather, Willa Sibert. "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," The Nation 117 (5 September 1923): 236-38.

The Great Plains at the Grassroots

Advertisement for Nicodemas, 1877, and Go to Kansas, 1877

Homestead File for Valentin Hutmacher, 1912-19

Homestead File for John Dolyniuk

Homestead file for George Gregory, 1907-13

Homestead File for John Stern, 1904-10

Selected Bibliography

Cather, My Antonia

Film

Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie

Iron Spirits

 

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