Dallas Hunt, author, poet, and college professor introduces himself in Cree and English...

Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation)  in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada.    He has had creative and critical work published in the Malahat Review,  Arc Poetry, Canadian Literature, and the American Indian Culture and  Research Journal. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-Famous  Bannock, was published through Highwater Press in 2018, and was  nominated for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award.    His teaching and research interests include Indigenous literature,  Indigenous theory & politics, Canadian Literature, speculative  fiction, settler colonial studies, and environmental justice.    https://languagesciences.ubc.ca/news-events/announcement-research-news-story/jul-22-2021-how-hunt-bannock-inspired-cree-language