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Author Nest, Michael Wallace, author.

Title Cold case north : the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett / Michael Nest with Deanna Reder and Eric Bell
Published Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents A quintessential Canadian story -- Part 1. Last known position -- Circling -- Recovery -- Not just another Indian -- The enigma of Abbie Halkett -- Precambria -- The drop-off -- The search -- Misgivings -- Finding truth in stories -- Part 2. Parallel sweep -- Uncle Frank's theory -- Personss of interest -- The flying preacher -- Americans -- Zombies in Toronto -- The capitalist -- The boss -- Tough old Northerners -- La Ronge, late summer -- The guide -- River ice -- Part 3. Dead reckoning -- In plain sight -- Jigging for trout -- Dreams -- The friend -- The big find -- A tip-off -- "My answer is no" -- Omens -- "A lot of water out there" -- Anomaly -- Road to Saskatoon -- Reckoning -- Focusing -- Part 4. Steady green -- Pâstâhowin : as far as you can go
Summary "A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder? Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady's success made politicians and clergy fear him; he had enemies everywhere. In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree Band Councillor and fellow activist, Absolom Halkett, both men vanished from their remote lakeside camp. For 50 years rumours swirled of secret mining interests, political intrigue, and murder. Cold Case North is the story of how a small team, with the help of the Indigenous community, exposed police failure in the original investigation, discovered new clues and testimony, and gathered the pieces of the North's most enduring missing persons puzzle. 'Like too many cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people, authorities failed to ensure that Brady and Halkett's deaths were properly investigated. This book helps get to the bottom of the fate of these two men, and demonstrates why investigators should never dismiss the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples.' --Darren Prefontaine, author of Gabriel Dumont."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2020)
Subject Brady, Jim, 1908-1967.
Halkett, Absolom, -1967.
SUBJECT Brady, Jim, 1908-1967 fast
Subject Missing persons -- Investigation -- Saskatchewan -- Case studies
Missing persons -- Saskatchewan -- Case studies
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Saskatchewan -- Case studies
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
Missing persons
Missing persons -- Investigation
Saskatchewan
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Reder, Deanna, 1963- author.
Bell, Eric (Park warden), author
ISBN 0889777500
0889777527
9780889777521
9780889777507