When he began his career with the Saskatoon Police in 1987, Ernie Louttit was only the city’s third native police officer. “Indian Ernie”, as he came to be known on the streets, details an era of challenge, prejudice, and also tremendous change in urban policing which included the Stonechild Inquiry. Drawing from his childhood, army career, and service as a veteran patrol officer, Louttit shares stories of criminals and victims, the night shift, avoiding politics, but most of all, the realities of the marginalized and disenfranchised. Though Louttit’s story is characterized by conflict, danger, and violence, he argues that empathy and love for the community you serve are the greatest tools in any officer’s hands, especially when policing society’s less fortunate.

Ernie Louttit is a retired soldier and police officer, and has written three books, Indian Ernie: Perspectives on Leadership and Policing , More Indian Ernie, Insights from the Streets, and The Unexpected Cop: Indian Ernie on a Life of Leadership. Winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award in 2014 and the Reveal Indigenous Arts Award in 2017. Pine Bugs and 303's is his debut novel. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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• Short-listed, Book of the Year Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
• Short-listed, First Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
• Short-listed, Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
• Short-listed, The Aboriginal Peoples’ Publishing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
• Short-listed, Saskatoon Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards