Cry Wolf

Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator

By: Harold R. Johnson

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Paperback | 11 January 2020

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Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For more than 100 years, one of Canada's top predators seemed to have absorbed the same lesson about avoiding contact with people, who pose dangers. But this seems to be changing in the twenty-first century. In Cry Wolf , Johnson re-tells the story of a practically unheard of fatal wolf attack. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was cornered and killed by a lone wolf near his work camp. Johnson draws on his experience as a Crown prosecutor to forensically deconstruct the official reports of the killing. In his telling, the finger of blame points squarely to the lack of respect given to an animal which, as a result, is becoming more dangerous to humans. Johnson believes millennia of Indigenous teaching could have saved a life and rehabilitated the wolf to its honoured place. "This book hooked me early. ... Riveting, educational, rational." -John Lagimodiere, journalist and publisher of Eagle Feather News

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

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