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Whitemud Walking tells stories about Matthew Weigel's relationship to the land he was born on and the institutions that occupy that land. It is about the interrelatedness of his own story with that of the colonial history of Canada and the North-West, a resistance historiography that clamours for an Indigenous imaginary that seeks to envision and enact a future of reciprocity and obligation to each other and the land. This book sits within a network of stories that extends to treaties signed by his ancestors, investigations of documents and materials sequestered by institutions, and the violence of dispossession and extinguishment of Indigenous title to land. These stories spiral outward from him to his kin, his communities, his nations, the land, the world. But as these spirals move outward, they return, expand, revisit. Memories cling to documents and sometimes this palimpsest can be read, other times the margins must be centered to gain a fuller picture. It is a rumination on the complex and long-lasting consequences of the signing of the Numbered Treaties of the North-West. Whitemud Walking is a genre-bending work of visual and lyric poetry, non-fiction prose, photography, and digital art and design.