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Let's talk about it, anywhere in the world # 7: Dallas Hunt

by Radio Aula Mundi

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Sometimes the best things happen when there are no plans, and you've got to go with the flow.
So, let me tell you a story about a day that starts with disaster. First, a professional appointment gets canceled. A couple of more mishaps later, I just decide to stick to my daily routine with no further ambitions.
One of the presumably more predictable things I do is to send several people a reminder about interviews I had requested a while ago. Five minutes into that task I get a response from a man by the name of Dallas Hunt. All I remember about him at this point is that he is a First Nations author, poet, and educator belonging to the Cree Nation of Canada.
The extension of his email address also reminds me of the fact that he teaches at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. And so, that very same day he and I email each other back and forth, until he sends me a message asking me a simple question: “Are you free now?”
I'm totally unprepared, and so, Dallas Hunt and I keep emailing back and forth. I try to make an appointment with him even the same day, but about half an hour to an hour later, so that I'd be able to prepare some questions. But his replies pretty much boil down to that recurrent question: “Are you free now?” And that is right now.
Eventually, there is silence, and no more feedback comes from Dallas Hunt. So, I pretty much give up on the interview with him and try to go about my daily business taking a two-hour walk through town sitting down on a bench in a city park across a scenic canal from some older buildings. And the urban beauty surrounding me sort of inspires and motivates me to get to a place where I can pick up a public Wi-Fi signal and check if Dallas Hunt has gotten back to me anyway, but he hasn’t.
And so, the afternoon comes to an end and fades into evening.
I get some shopping done and eventually go back to my place.
I sit down in my favorite armchair and try to relax a little bit turning on the internet on my smartphone. And here it is, an email from Dallas Hunt, and guess what it says…
“Are you free now?”
It was sent approximately five minutes earlier.
And so, this time I decide to seize the opportunity and go for it.
So, I send Dallas a message saying: “Sure. Let's do it.”
And here we are, a couple of minutes later, chatting on Zoom.
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Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada.
He has had creative and critical work published in the Malahat Review, Arc Poetry, Canadian Literature, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock, was published through Highwater Press in 2018, and was nominated for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award.
His teaching and research interests include Indigenous literature, Indigenous theory & politics, Canadian Literature, speculative fiction, settler colonial studies, and environmental justice.
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languagesciences.ubc.ca/news-events/announcement-research-news-story/jul-22-2021-how-hunt-bannock-inspired-cree-language
harbourpublishing.com/collections/dallas-hunt
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So, the following narrative includes excerpts from a collection of testimonies and interviews entitled “Let's Talk About It Anywhere In The World...”, where it is all about people's voices, accents and speech patterns, hand in hand with my own personal anecdotes and observations. In addition to that, people are allowed to introduce themselves in their respective, often indigenous, languages and dialects, and to speak their minds freely, without any paraphrases or expectations.
So, let the story go on from there...
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It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…
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released July 25, 2022

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