Nde? S???? Wet?a?a?: Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life & Artis a collection of essays, interviews, short stories, and poetry written by emerging and established northern Indigenous writers and artists. Centered on land, cultural practice and northern life, this ground-breaking collection shares wealth of Dene (Gwich?in, Sahtú, Dehcho, T???ch?, Saysi, Kaska, Dënes??iné, W?ìl?ìdeh) Inuit, Alutiiq, Inuvialuit, Métis, Nêhiyawak (Cree), Northern Tutchone, and Tanana Athabascan creative brilliance. Nde? S???? Wet?a?a? holds up the voices of women and Two-Spirit and Queer writers to create a chorus of voices reflecting a deep love of Indigenous cultures, languages, homelands, and the north. The book includes a series of pieces and interviews from established northern artists and musicians including Leela Gilday, Randy Baillargeon (lead singer for the W?ìl?ìdeh Drummers), Inuit sisters, song-writers and throat singers Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay of Piqsiq, Two-Spirit Vuntut Gwitchin visual artist Jeneen Frei Njootli, Nunavik singer-songwriters Elisapie and Beatrice Deere and visual artist Camille Georgeson-Usher. Nde? S???? Wet?a?a? also includes writing from well-known northern writers Siku Allooloo, T?áncháy Redvers (Fireweed), Antione Mountain (From Bear Rock Mountain), Glen Coulthard (Red Skin, White Masks), Kat??à Lafferty (Northern Wildflower, Land-Water-Sky, and Lianne Marie Leda Charlie, in amongst the best emerging writers in the north.

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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