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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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne's books are regularly used in courses across Canada and the United States including Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back, The Gift Is in the Making, Lighting the Eighth Fire (editor), This Is An Honour Song (editor with Kiera Ladner) and The Winter We Danced: Voice from the Past, the Future and the Idle No More Movement (Kino-nda-niimi editorial collective). Her paper "Land As Pedagogy" was awarded the Most thought-provoking 2014 article in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Her latest book, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance is being published by the University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2017. As a writer, Leanne was named the inaugural RBC Charles Taylor Emerging writer by Thomas King. She has published extensive fiction and poetry in both book and magazine form. Her second book of short stories and poetry, This Accident of Being Lost is a follow up to the acclaimed Islands of Decolonial Love and was published by the House of Anansi Press in Spring 2017. Leanne is Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg and a member of Alderville First Nation.

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