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Jean and I recently spent a glorious eight days on the shores of Great Bear Lake delivering an on-the-land workshop called the Deline Women’s Healing Camp. Woohoo!

While tourists are slowly returning to the territory, moves are being made in the right direction to increase the enjoyment of their visits.

A good tracker learns to read the signs. The leaves on the trees are starting to change colour and fall to the ground. So, fall is here, even though it doesn’t officially arrive until Sept. 22 this year. I guess because we live in the North, it unofficially arrives a little early. To me, fall starts when I can no longer comfortably wear shorts.

What does it mean to bring the past, forward to the present, honouring lessons learned along the way towards integration and evolution, towards a future that represents each of us as nations, unique, individual, of value — dancing in our sacred ecstatic differences, utilizing economy, politic, and society as expressions of compassion, connection and freedom?

If you’re looking for a place where political interests collide with business, labour, academics and social justice groups, then it’s the minimum wage.

In 1974, regional communities had no voice regarding the onslaught of legislation passed in the new legislative assembly powers.

Do you ever get the sneezels for no known reason?

Well, we seem to be slipping into autumn and you know what that means? I will let you answer that question yourself because it means different things to different people.

Within a month of arriving in Yellowknife, I started work with the Indian Brotherhood of the NWT – now the Dene Nation — as a community development worker to assist with the operations of the first Joint Dene Metis Assembly in Fort Good Hope.

On the afternoon of Aug. 17, fire trucks were called out to extinguish what appeared to be an abandoned campfire in Range Lake. Attending crews had some challenges dealing with it from ground level because of difficult accessibility and a helicopter was brought in by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to help.