Walter Hildebrandt

Historian and poet Walter Hildebrant was born in Brooks, Alberta and now lives in Edmonton. He has worked as an historian for Parks Canada and as a consultant to the Treaty 7 Tribal Council, the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Banff Bow Valley Task Force. He is co-author of The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7 and The Cypress Hills: The Land and Its People, and author of Views From Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West. His long poem Sightings was nominated for the 1992 McNally-Robinson Book of the Year for Manitoba. His book Where the Land Gets Broken won the Stephen G. Stephensson Award for Poetry in 2005. He is presently the Director of the Athabasca University Press. This is his seventh book of poetry.

Books by Walter Hildebrandt

Rupture

Conatus

Blackfoot Country

Documentaries

Now Time / Jetztzeit / Nunc Stans

Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan

The Battle of Batoche

The Time in Between / Adorno's Daemons

Winnipeg from the Fringes

Views from Fort Battleford

Finding Louis O'Soup

The Cypress Hills

Writing the Terrain

Where the Land Gets Broken

Brooks: Coming Home

Outlier