Abstract
Ken Wilson’s ‘Wood Mountain Walk: Afterthoughts on a Pilgrimage for Andrew Suknaski’ reflects on a 250-kilometre walking pilgrimage made in honour of the late Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski. Wilson’s autoethnographic essay considers the possibilities and challenges of walking as a way to engage with land and community; Suknaski’s book Wood Mountain Poems and the issue of cultural appropriation; what it is like to walk in a sparsely populated and arid agricultural province where trespassing laws confine walkers to roads; and walking as both pilgrimage and artistic practice.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 13 |
| Pages (from-to) | 123-134 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Aboriginal
- Andrew Suknaski
- Creative nonfiction
- Cultural appropriation
- First Nations
- Indigeneity
- Journal
- Nan Shepard
- Pilgrimage
- Poetry
- Prairies
- Richard Long
- Robert Macfarlane
- Saskatchewan
- Settler
- The Living Mountain
- The Wild Places
- Travelogue
- Trevor Herriot
- Walking as art
- Western Canada
- Wood Mountain Poems
