Some mixed feelings are brewing in the Dehcho about Great Slave Helicopters’ new “lean mean management” after staff and pilots in Fort Simpson were fired on Friday. The Yellowknife-based chopper company was issued a…
The NWT’s four year action plan for language revitalization and growth has been released, and a big part of it involves learning what’s working from other jurisdictions. This raises some questions about just who…
The community of Old Crow, Yukon is in shock, after long-time Vuntut Gwitchin leader Joe Linklater’s death this past weekend. Leaders from the Gwich’in Nation and Council of Yukon First Nations confirm Linklater passed…
December 1st 2017, was a historic day for the Tr’ondek Hwech’in, Na Cho Nyak Dun, Vun Tut Gwitchin, and Gwich’in Tribal Council with the Supreme Court of Canada upholding Yukon Justice Ron Veale’s 2014…
The Assembly of First Nations Fiscal Renewal continued to be the main topic Wednesday morning, at Day 2 of the Dene Nation Fall Leadership Meeting. Tetlit Gwich’in Chief Wanda Pascal says the budget cuts…
Working aboard Ferries in the Mackenzie Delta has become a bit of a family tradition for the Firth’s of Fort McPherson. Wilbert Firth says there’s been many Gwich’in deckhands, but his grandson Darcy is…
The tents are up, moose hides are soaking and Dene women are preparing their tools to start scrapping in Yellowknife. Gwich’in artist Karen Wright Fraser explains the difference between commercially tanned hides and the…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. PROTECTING THE PEEL WATERSHED: VOICES FROM CANADA’S NORTH traveled thousand of miles back to Fort McPherson for a special display in the Gwich’in Community. Joanna…
Saturday marked the 25th Anniversary of the Gwich’in Comprehensive Landclaim. GTC Vice President Jordan Peterson says it was good to pay tribute to the leaders who are still alive from 1992 and the memory…