Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson dead after battle with cancer
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The family of Harold R. Johnson said he died Wednesday in Toronto surrounded by loved ones after a battle with cancer. He was 68.
A prominent Saskatchewan Indigenous author has died.
The family of Harold R. Johnson said he died Wednesday in Toronto surrounded by loved ones after a battle with cancer. He was 68.
“The storyteller, trapper, father, brother, husband, uncle Harold R. Johnson took his final breath today and will continue the rest of his journey on to the other side,” Johnson’s family posted on Facebook on Wednesday.
Johnson, a member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation, was born and raised in northern Saskatchewan and joined the Canadian Navy at the age of 17.
He went on to work as a logger and miner before returning to school and graduating with a law degree from Harvard. Johnson also attended the University of Saskatchewan.
Johnson practiced law in a private firm for several years then became a Crown prosecutor.
His first book, Billy Tinker, was published in 2001. Johnson went on to write five more fiction novels and five non-fiction books.
He was short-listed for a Governor General’s Award for his non-fiction book, Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours).
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