Ndè Sı̀ı̀ Wet’aɂà: Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life, & Art includes essays, short stories, interviews, and poetry by various Indigenous women and Two-Spirit/LGBTQIA2S+ writers from the North. Contained within this book are also interviews with Indigenous artists and musicians. These writings were originally used for a course offered through the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning and are now, through this book, available to everyone. These First Voices offer insights into Knowledges, perspectives, histories, and experiences from Indigenous worldviews such as Dene, Inuit, Métis, and Nêhiyawak (Cree). Included within Ndè Sı̀ı̀ Wet’aɂà are Stories and conversations around drumming, herds of caribou, Inuit throat singing, hand games, Sámi yoiking (a traditional form of song), and much more. These powerful contributions give meaning to Indigenous connections and relationships to land, the importance of language, understandings around appropriation, and the necessity for reclamation, resurgence, and revitalization.

Other End Matter: Contributors’ information
Images: b&w photographs
Contributor Affiliation: Editors Kyla LeSage, (Vuntut Gwitchin) Thumlee Drybones-Foliot (Dënesųłiné), Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg), Illustrator Lianne Marie Leda Charlie (Tagé Cho Hudän), Others Robert Grandjambe (Mikisew Cree First Nation), Kristin Tanche (Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation)
Bibliography: No
Index: No

Source: Books BC - Indigenous Books for Schools

Kyla LeSage is Vuntut Gwitchin from Old Crow, Yukon, and Anishinaabe from Garden River, Ontario. She is the Land Based Academic and Regional Outreach Coordinator at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning.

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Thumlee Drybones-Foliot is Dënesųłiné from Yellowknives Dene First Nation and is an alumni of the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning.

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