Harold R. Johnson

Harold R. Johnson is a Canadian lawyer and writer, whose book Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (And Yours) was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.[1] The book, an examination of the problem with alcohol consumption among Canadian First Nations, draws on Johnson's work as a Crown prosecutor in northern Saskatchewan.[2]

Harold R. Johnson
BornSaskatchewan, Canada
Occupationlawyer, writer, trapper, fisher, mechanic, heavy equipment operator, miner, logger, firefighter, tree planter
NationalityCanadian
Notable worksFirewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (And Yours)

Corvus, The Cast Stone, Charlie Muskrat, Two Families Treaties and Government, Back Track,

Billy Tinker.
Notable awardsGovernor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

Saskatchewan Fiction Book Award 2011 for The Cast Stone. Saskatchewan Aboriginal Publishing Award for Two Families Treaties and Government.

All titles shortlisted for Saskatchewan book awards in years published.

Johnson told CBC Radio interviewer Shelagh Rogers in 2016 that his father was a Swedish immigrant and his mother a Cree aboriginal in Saskatchewan, where he was born. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy and worked as a logger, trapper and miner before going to university as an adult, completing his education in law with an MA at Harvard.[3]

Bibliography

Fiction

  • Billy Tinker (2001)
  • Back Track (2005)
  • Charlie Muskrat (2008)
  • The Cast Stone (2011)
  • Corvus (2015)

Nonfiction

  • Two Families: Treaties and Government (2007)
  • Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours) (2016)
  • Clifford (2018)
  • Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada (2019)
  • Cry Wolf: (2020)[4]

References
  1. "Two Sask. authors up for Governor General's awards". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, October 5, 2016.
  2. "Indigenous people need to tell their stories of sobriety, says lawyer". The Current, September 27, 2016.
  3. "Harold R. Johnson on changing the narrative around alcohol in Indigenous communities". CBC Radio. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2020-04-09. Harold R. Johnson is a Harvard-educated lawyer and crown prosecutor who works in Northern Saskatchewan in Treaty 6 territory. He's also a fiction writer, a trapper and a member of the Montreal Lake Cree nation.
  4. "The CBC Books spring reading list: 40 great books to read this season". CBC Books. 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2020-04-09. Johnson takes on wolves and the mythology around them in Cry Wolf. He explores Carnegie's death and other wolf attacks and suggests that we should take wolves more seriously.


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