PreviewsDallas Hunt

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  Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock

  Dallas Hunt, Amanda Strong (Illustrator)

  This charming story of Awâsis, who accidentally loses the batch of bannock she is delivering, introduces readers to Cree vocabulary and worldviews as various other-than-human relatives help her. The book includes the recipe and a pronunciation guide.

  (Portage & Main Press, $19.95 Hardcover, 32 pages, ISBN: 978-15-53797-79-1)  

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  Creeland

  Dallas Hunt

  This debut poetry collection is concerned with ideas of home, and the everyday attachments we feel to those ideas – how people can live and love and laugh, even in the midst of destructive resource extraction. By examining all the relationships and meanings Cree words can contain but not fully convey, Hunt nurtures the Indigenous aesthetics and futures that colonialism is trying to erase.

  (Nightwood Editions, $18.95 Paperback, 128 pages, ISBN: 978-08-89713-92-5)  

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  Storying Violence

  Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial

  Dallas Hunt, Gina Starblanket

  The authors explore the 2018 murder of Colten Boushie and the subsequent trial of Gerald Stanley, arguing that Boushie’s death and Stanley’s acquittal are a manifestation of the crisis-ridden relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Saskatchewan.

  (Arbeiter Ring Publishing Ltd., $15.00 Paperback, 120 pages, ISBN: 978-19-27886-37-3)