Description
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 kilometers on swollen feet along the Trader’s Road, the Battleford Trail, and the Frenchman Trail–prairie paths that haven’t been trod in over a century.
The story is steeped in Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 history and is edged with Canadian, nehiyaw, and Metis 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 instigate 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.
