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Cry Wolf

Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator

by (author) Harold R. Johnson

Publisher
University of Regina Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2020
Category
Wolves, Indigenous Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889777385
    Publish Date
    Jan 2020
    List Price
    $16.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780889777446
    Publish Date
    Jan 2020
    List Price
    $89.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889777422
    Publish Date
    Jan 2020
    List Price
    $12.99

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“Required reading for anyone invested in our shared future with these powerful and complex creatures.” —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce

Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a wolf attack near his work camp. Part story, part forensic analysis, Cry Wolf examines this and other attacks, showing how we fail to take this apex predator seriously at our own peril.

“A crucial and timely examination of our shifting relationship to the land in general and the Canis lupus in particular.” —Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster

“Insightful . . . . Johnson eloquently argues that Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the wisdom of Indigenous people can help us better understand the true nature of predators such as wolves.” —Cristina Eisenberg, PhD, author of The Wolf’s Tooth and The Carnivore Way

About the author

HAROLD R. JOHNSON is the author of five works of fiction and five works of nonfiction, including Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. Born and raised in northern Saskatchewan to a Swedish father and a Cree mother, Johnson served in the Canadian Navy and has been a miner, logger, mechanic, trapper, fisherman, tree planter, and heavy-equipment operator. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and managed a private practice for several years before becoming a Crown prosecutor. Johnson is a member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation. He is now retired from the practice of law and writes full time.

 

Harold R. Johnson's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoples’ Writing
  • Short-listed, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing

Editorial Reviews

Winner, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award, 2021
Short-listed, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoples’ Writing, 2020

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