Dene

Welcome to Native Calgarian and Mossy for listening.

I'm your host, Michelle Robinson, speaking to you in Mokinstas in the Blackfoot Confederacy, home of the Nitsatapi, Tsutina Dene, and the Yee Harhee Nakoda.

I talk about history, current news, unheard news, book clubs, with special guests to give local or national issues a voice through an urban Satu Dene lens.

My life's work will be to honour the voices of my ancestors and next generation with humour, love and truth.

Reconciliation is work, not performance.

And so I encourage people to use they, them.

And I would never correct you otherwise, but it's a colonized issue.

My Dene lineage roots me in the land of the Great Bear Lake tribe in Treaty 11 in Delaunay.

Yeah.

They look around and they can't find anything, which leaves the local Decho Dene community as well as the family and friends of Fred and David.

And I believe Fred was himself a team man of the Decho community.

I think I

He looked like a Metis man.

Yeah.

And given the area, that would make perfect sense, especially since the Lidli First Nation, who are themselves Dene, wanted to help find him.

Yeah.

Still hanging out in Treaty 1 territory.

Homeland of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji, Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples.

The national homeland of the Red River Métis.

Shout out Louis Riel.

Writers from across Yukon, NWT and Nunavut are invited to submit short pieces.

Clean chart Dene author Richard Van Camp is the lead editor.

What chills me the most about Northern horror is that it's spiritual horror and cultural horror.

And I think great literature has to cross lines.

So there are other people.

And I believe the Northern Manitoba Dene are also involved.

because their relationship with the caribou herds, they're also a group that we have to talk with as well.

So, yeah, it's an ongoing process.

Thanks, Elaine.

Glenn is Yellowknives Dene, an associate professor in political science and in First Nations and Indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia.

And he's the author of Red Skin, White Masks, Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition.

among other important works.

alongside those with the expertise, more institutionalized expertise of the university, so people like me.

And it had to be and incorporate knowledge taken from the land and land-based harvesting practices.

So this is why we take out students fishing, hunting, moose-eye tanning, or what have you, and then we integrate that sort of Dene practice into shedding light on some of the core literatures that we read and experiences of folks in the North and vice versa.

So what does This literature on the political economy of Indigenous resistance have to teach about the importance of maintaining these reproductive land-based practices over time.