Full Description
A motley group's long trek across the prairies, witnessing the land, reflecting on the past, and creating new paths for the future
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 edged 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.
Contents
A THANKSGIVING by Richard Kotowich
INTRODUCTION: A New Story
CHAPTER 1: Walking
New Paths on Traditional Trails
For Further Reading
Old Montreal to Kahnawà:ke
For Further Reading
Fibbers and Fabulists
For Further Reading
CHAPTER 2: The Traders' Road, Treaty 4
Everett Baker and His Posts
The North West Mounted Police Patrol Trail/Traders' Road
Wood Mountain Post
For Further Reading
Val Marie to the Whitemud River Valley
A Spirituality of Unsettling
A Personal Reconciliation
Eastend
To Cypress Lake
The Frontier Adventure Genre
Cypress Lake to Fort Walsh
For Further Reading
CHAPTER 3: The Fort Battleford Trail, Treaty 6
New Shoes
For Further Reading
Swift Current to Fort Battleford
The Fort Battleford Trail
The Landing
For Further Reading
Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear)
The Right of Responsible Access and the Canadian West
The Bad Hills
For Further Reading
Mosquito-Grizzly Bear's Head-Lean Man First Nation
Fort Battleford
CHAPTER 4: More Prairie Trails
The Good Walk on the Prairies
Epilogue: The Frenchman's Trail
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archival Sources
Web Materials
Books and Articles
INDEX
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