When Wendy Stephenson was a teacher in Wekweètì 40 years ago, getting students interested in books was a challenge. “In the 70s, 80s, there weren’t a lot of materials that were relevant to kids that were living in communities,” she says. She wrote a handful of children’s books — Randy…
Lisa Boivin was taken from her home community of Deninu Kųę́ when she was a baby. Nearly 40 years later, she reconnected with her father Bill Norn. Prior to his passing in 2016, Boivin says they spoke often of the meaning of their dreams. Boivin leaned on her father’s teachings…
While offering tourists an authentic Arctic experience is a benefit, the main goal for Tuktuyaaqtuuq’s upcoming arts and culture centre is for Inuvialuit to honour their own people. “The project really is for the community and for the Inuvialuit to celebrate who we are,” says Annie Steen, the project’s leader. …
CKLB Radio · Canol Trail Hike The Canol Trail Hike is happening again in July in the Sahtu. Norman Yakeleya goes on the hike every year, even though he tells himself at the end of the hike each year, that he’s not doing it again as he looks at the…
Both the oil sands industry and the Alberta government are reporting that the wastewater levels are so high that a natural event like what happened in BC recently with the heavy rains could cause an even worse environmental event in Alberta. Their solution? Release some of the waste water even…
High school students will now be able to get credits for learning to hunt. The territorial government says the hunter education course will “provide new hunters with the fundamental knowledge and basic skills needed for them to become respectful and safe hunters.” The course will be offered to Grade 10…
The territorial government is hoping to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks in schools with a new pilot project for students to be tested for the virus at home. The project is to have 10 per cent of students aged 5 to 11 randomly chosen to be tested at home using the Abbot…
It was the first time Danielle Takazo had been away from her two-year-old son. The young mom was one of 43 paddlers that travelled from Délı̨nę to Tulít’a along Sahtú Deh (Great Bear River) for the commemoration of Treaty 11. It took the group about two days to travel the…
Let’s get one quick thing out of the way: the simulation is not a reenactment of signing a treaty. For the past year or so, Jane Arychuk has been working for Dene Nation to come up with a plan to improve education for Indigenous youth in the NWT. As part…
After graduating with a prestigious university award, Laney Beaulieu of Deninu Kųę́ First Nation is one step closer to becoming the first doctor from her community. Beaulieu graduated from Western University two weeks ago with a double major honours degree in biology and medical sciences. She received the Gold Medal…