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Join MATTHEW R. ANDERSON and special guest TREVOR HERRIOT for the Regina launch of THE GOOD WALK: CREATING NEW PATHS ON TRADITIONAL TRAILS Books will be available for purchase by Penny University Bookstore!
Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and manifesto, THE GOOD WALK recounts the adventures of settler and Indigenous ramblers who together retrace the earliest historical trails and pathways of the prairies. Readers will share the experience of trekking thousands of kilometres on swollen feet along the Traders' Road, the Battleford Trail, and the Frenchman Trail - prairie paths that haven't been trod for over a century.
The story is steeped in Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 history and is eded with Canadian, nêhiyaw, and Métis stories, politics, and poetry. It braids Indigenous and settler perspectives together along routes increasingly emptied of the family farms and small towns that once defined a province and doesn't shy away from the 1870s and 1880s clearing of the plains nor the 2016 killing of Colton Boushie.
Travel with the group of dreamers who instigated these annual prairie pilgrimages through prairie storms, small-town welcomes, and humorous chance encounters, all while bearing witness to the evolving politics of land ownership and the racialization of access.
Matthew R. Anderson was born to settlers on Treaty 4 territory near the Cypress Hills area. He now teaches part-time at both St. Francis Xavier and Concordia universities. Anderson is the author of several books, including Our Home and Treaty Land (with Raymond Aldred).
Trevor Herriot is a prairie naturalist and the author of award-winning books, including Towards a Prairie Atonemet and the national bestseller River in a Dry Land. A grassland activist and skilled birder, he is a frequent guest on CBC Radio, and he posts regularly on grassland culture and environmental issues on his blog Grass Notes (trevorherriot.blogspot.ca). He and his wife, Karen, live in Regina, and spend much of their time on a piece of Aspen Parkland prairie east of the city.
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Regina Public Library, 2311 12th Ave, Regina, SK S4P 0N3, Canada,Regina, Saskatchewan