Whitemud Walking

WINNER OF THE 2020/2021 ALCUIN SOCIETY BOOK DESIGN AWARD FOR POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERSFINALIST FOR THE ROBERT KROETSCH CITY OF EDMONTON BOOK PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2023 STEPHAN G. STEPHANSSON AWARD FOR POETRYLONGLISTED FOR THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARDAn Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive Whitemud Walking is about the land Matthew Weigel was born on and the institutions that occupy that land. It is about the interrelatedness of his own story with that of the colonial history of Canada, which considers the numbered treaties of the North-West to be historical and completed events. But they are eternal agreements that entail complex reciprocity and obligations. The state and archival institutions work together to sequester documents and knowledge in ways that resonate violently in people's lives, including the dispossession and extin