Born and raised in Northern Saskatchewan, HAROLD
JOHNSON has a Master of Law degree from Harvard
University. He has served in the Canadian Navy, and
worked in mining and logging. Johnson is the author
of two novels, Billy Tinker (Thistledown Press) and
Back Track (Thistledown Press), both shortlisted for
Saskatchewan Book Awards. Back Track was also
shortlisted for Aboriginal Book of the Year and Fiction
Book of the Year, Anskohk Book Awards. His most
recent publication Tiwo Families: Treaties and Government
(Purich Publishing) won a 2007 Saskatchewan Book
Award.

Johnson practices law in La Ronge, Saskatchewan, and
balances this with operating his family’s traditional
trap line using a dog team. -