The good walk : creating new paths on traditional Prairie trails / Matthew R. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Matthew R. (Matthew Robert), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trails--Prairie Provinces.

Trails.

Trails--Social aspects--Prairie Provinces.

Prairie Provinces--Description and travel.

Prairie Provinces.

Hiking--Prairie Provinces.

Hiking.

Hiking--Social aspects--Prairie Provinces.

Hiking--Prairie Provinces--History.

Prairie Provinces--Ethnic relations--History.

Indigenous peoples--Prairie Provinces--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Prairie Provinces--History.

Ethnic relations.

Hiking--Social aspects.

Travel.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xviii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2024]

Summary:

"A motley group's long trek across the prairies, witnessing the land, reflecting on the past, and creating new paths for the future. The Good Walk is a memoir, travelogue, and manifesto, recounting how a growing group of dreamers instigated prairie pilgrimages on foot, starting in 2015 and continuing almost every year since. The story is steeped in Treaty Four and Treaty Six history and edged with Canadian, nêhiyaw, and Métis stories and poetry. It braids Indigenous perspectives together with rural Saskatchewan characters along routes increasingly emptied of the family farms and small towns that once defined a province. It doesn't shy away from the clearing of the plains in the 1870s and 1880s nor the 2016 killing of Colton Boushie that again separated the rural communities from the Indigenous communities. Travel with the author through prairie storms, family histories, and humorous encounters, and bear difficult witness to the evolving politics of ownership and of racialized land access. Readers will share the real-life adventures of a group of Indigenous and settler walkers, trekking thousands of kilometres on swollen feet along the Traders' Road, the Battleford Trail, the Frenchman and the Fort Qu'Appelle Trails--prairie paths that haven't been walked in over a century."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Anderson, Matthew R. (Matthew Robert) Good walk.

ISBN:

9780889779686

0889779686

9780889779655

0889779651

OCLC:

1401987193