♪
Every time you go on the land and you
immerse yourself in culture and the land,
you learn something new.
♪
Life is really short and you should really take
every opportunity I can,
especially about being on the land and Dene culture.
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
(indistinct chatter)
Got it... Go down.
This end, this side, goes down.
- Yeah. - Going down.
(laughs)
Okay, so we go, like, hand-over-hand there.
What we'll do, is we'll start off with
just the basics of canoeing.
So, how we want to prepare ourselves, and then,
how we want to get into these canoes without...
The Dehcho Dechinta River Semester is a semester that
starts in Providence, and ends in Fort Good Hope.
Along the way, we're gonna be stopping
in each community on the Dehcho Rivers.
You're on your own now.
What else it is, is a chance for me,
personally, to explore the region that my mother and
her side of the family came from.
I guess, like, a lot of my life,
I've struggled with my identity.
I didn't really get to know, like the Dene part of me,
and so, Dechinta has really provided that kind of outlet...
And, to learn more about myself and Dene culture.
I'm currently enrolled in a social work program
in Yellowknife.
Had I been provided, like, with an opportunity to take
social work programming with on-the-land learning,
which I think is so tied into one another...
it would've been a lot better.
I'm nervous about, like, what happens
if we dump and the canoe tips over.
But what's helping kind of curb that is that
I'm gonna be learning about the places that,
like, our ancestors traveled, and
traveling a route that many people traveled before us.
Oh, we're here!
(birds chirping)
(bugs buzzing & toads croaking)
(cocks gun)
(gun shot)
(bugs buzzing & toads croaking)
(indistinct speaking)
Dehcho, it means, "big river".
"Deh" is a river. And, "cho" is big.
Some people say, they say Dah'ro;
that's how I grew up talking about Dah'ro.
Many rivers flowing into it.
I was born at Gah The ah, or Rabbitskin River.
- Say that. - Tsá chi.
That would be tsá, is the beaver.
And tail, is chi
Sah. Like, this...
Sah, is bear.
You say, sah, sah, sah.
- And this is tsá. - Tsá.
Tsá, tsá, tsá, and sah, sah, sah.
(grinding)
Years ago, I was away a long time.
I came back in... the early 70s.
And one day I told them,
(speaking in Dene)
It means, "I don't speak our language too good."
They all scolded me. (speaking in Dene)
Says, "Don't say that. Just keep talking."
Mhm.
Now the wind's gotta blow this way.
Come on, wind. Come on.
Throughout my life, I've always been
really connected to our spirituality.
Through residential school and colonization,
that was taken away from the Dene people.
I'm hoping that they, they learn,
they really see the land for what it is.
It's not on, just paper that they read about.
The significance of the land and the water,
by Dene people in the north,
and they see it for themself, firsthand.
♪ (singing & drums) ♪
We've been actually talking a lot with elders and people...
And I think really vital to learn from the people from
the Northwest Territories and other Indigenous people
about the history of the Northwest Territories,
to tell you the stories about the place and to show you
how to respect the area that you're coming through.
♪ (singing & drums) ♪
♪ (singing & drums) ♪
Speaking in Dene (Language Class)
Speaking in Dene (Language Class)
Speaking in Dene (Language Class)
(laughs)
Speaking in Dene (Language Class)
Speaking in Dene (Language Class)
Speaking in Dene (Language Class)
I didn't really know what I was getting into,
other than six weeks of paddling.
I didn't know anything.
I didn't know what we were gonna be covering;
I didn't know, like, where we were going really
except past Simpson.
Speaking in Dene (Language Class)
(laughs)
Speaking in Dene (Language Class)
(speaking in Dene)
It's really frustrating to feel like a child,
like you're learning something new,
like A, B, Cs and 1, 2, 3s.
Trying to come to terms that it's okay,
you've just gotta keep trying.
(speaking in Dene)
(laughs)
You think about it, and like, that is a language that has
been birthed from the land; that is the language of the land,
and that we're speaking, or, at least that we have,
like, we're being surrounded by Dene Zhatie
while we're on Dehcho land.
I just sit and I think about that sometimes:
This is what my ancestors were speaking while they were here
and they were just traveling. This is how they prayed,
they prayed in this language. And that's, like...
That... (laughs)
That's so, that's so, that's so amazing.
♪
These are the best ones.
♪
Whoa, oh, that was a good one.
(laughs)
♪ (indistinct speaking) ♪
JIM: I remember, as a young child,
I was sent to residential schools...
It was pretty touch, but at the moment, we just--
that's just the way it is.
But now, everybody's maybe colonized too much.
And they all depend on the store.
But back then, the people depended on the land for food.
I don't want to say survival,
but it was a way of life, so...
♪
When I first came here, I kind of lost my language,
and it was hard for me to communicate.
It was just an Italian and French tongue;
that's what they gave us in the residential schools.
It took me about a year to really understand and...
And to be a true-- A real Dene again.
We never had the opportunity to name ourselves.
It's always other people telling us who we are and
what, what we're doing.
There's all these terminology out there,
so as a young person, trying to figure out who you are,
I think it's even harder as an Indigenous person
because, you know, are you Indian, or,
are you Aboriginal, or are you First Nations,
or are you Indigenous? What are you?
Because I feel like it's just a part of me,
like, this is me. Like, I'm from the earth, and like,
we're made up of the same things,
like, my ancestors and everything,
so I'm like, this is...
I'm the same thing as the ground.
It's really beautiful to be on the--
I'm gonna cry. (laughs)
♪ (singing) ♪
♪ (singing) ♪
♪ (singing) ♪
♪ (singing) ♪
♪ (singing) ♪
- Probably a good idea. - Yeah.
I was really yearning for cultural experiences.
And the fact that they let me bring my kids,
I'm like, "Pfft, we're going."
I wanted to bond with my kids more,
in a different way.
I wanted us to have a shared new experience together.
And I wanted us all to reconnect and reclaim some of
our culture that in some ways was stripped away from us
because we had a number of...
Well, both sides of the family did go to residential school,
so we've had to deal with a lot of that.
It was to reclaim and just re-strengthen and...
And to just really connect with the land.
(indistinct speaking)
(thunder)
(heavy rain)
(thunder)
It hasn't been an easy trip.
It's physically a lot of work.
Getting used to this type of like life on the land and
in the water, the sun, and having to paddle
even though you're tired, or having to paddle
until you can eat...
And I can't just like fall apart.
Like, I have to really-- there's other people
kind of counting on me, physically, to pull through.
You also have to think of your community,
and I think it's important to realize that
it's not just you in the equation.
(indistinct speaking)
And it doesn't have to be super thin, okay,
'cause it'll dry all the moisture.
And we call meat, tthé.
- tthé? - tthé.
- tthé - tthé
tthé
- Say it again. - tthé
Yeah. You?
- tthé - tthé
- tthé - Right.
My Dene name, since I was a girl,
when I was a little girl was Dudu.
And, when I went through residential school that's
what all of my little friends called me,
was Dudu.
When they started saying "Ethel Antoine",
I didn't know who they were talking to.
I only knew myself as Dudu.
When I joined the group, I realized that, oh my gosh,
I am the eldest person with the group, you know.
I do have something to offer.
They were so willing to learn.
We'll start with a prayer
acknowledging the spirits from here.
I just want to acknowledge all of the people,
all of our ancestors that traveled here.
I've been told that my family on my mother's side
used to live in this area.
So, this place is really significant to me.
The fact that my great grandparents and
my grandfather, like, lived in this area...
really brings, like, a connection to me.
♪ Speaking in Dene (Prayer) ♪
♪ Speaking in Dene (Prayer) ♪
♪ Speaking in Dene (Prayer) ♪
♪ Speaking in Dene (Prayer) ♪
♪
♪
Bear Rock is a really significant place
to Dene people.
It's a place where Yamoria
had skinned three beavers, which you can see
in the mountains still to this day.
Yamoria is one of our creation stories.
We felt like kind of we were tested because we had to
like bushwhack, we couldn't find the trail.
Our elder instructors said often it's romanticized
how life was back on the land, but it was a lot of tough work.
♪
For me, like the significance of Bear Rock
was that it's the first time I've really connected
to any sort of Dene story.
What brought it together, what really made it hit home
was being on Bear Rock.
It made Dene stories come alive for me,
and so, being able to climb up there,
you could just feel the power and significance and
you know that, like, thousands,
thousands and thousands of people have climbed up there
before you.
♪
You can see the whole landscape below,
you can see everything around you.
It was just, it was just beautiful.
♪
(machine whirring)
(machine whirring)
As we were passing through Norman Wells,
you saw all of the manmade islands and
the oil rigs and whatnot.
It really put into perspective what we've seen
along the whole way.
It made me more think of the social effects that
that all had on the people here.
With more people and that type of transient lifestyle
comes alcohol and drugs, and a whole bunch of
social issues that still exist today.
And so, it was really sad. At least, I question,
what am I doing to make a difference in that?
So, little by little, I guess.
I really gave that a lot of thought.
♪
♪
My grandparents would have lived
on the land, in the bush.
You have my generation where that connection between
land and culture was really like starting to sever.
This is the most I've ever spent on the traditional
territory that my family lived on,
and a part of my spirituality
was really strengthened by being here.
♪
So I think it's really important that we -
and that I - try to relearn or rediscover all those
cultural practices in the places of our forefathers
so that we can maintain that.
♪
This whole experience has really been transformational
for me to feel more grounded and more centered
in feeling the pride, feeling Dene.
It's so, it's so different to learn from elders and to
learn from the land than it is to learn from books
or western academia.
And, I think it's really set me up with,
with a guide of how I'm gonna go about
the rest of my learning.
♪
It's integral for people to start stepping up so that
they know the history and they're learning the things
that have been done before because if no one does it,
then there won't be much of a community left.
♪
You really don't know who you are until you know
where you come from, and for the majority of my life
I never really knew that part, so...
now I'm hearing more and more, and...
Rediscovering who that person is.
♪
Being able to travel the Dehcho and being able to travel
where so many before me have traveled and lived life...
I think, deepens my understanding of my culture
and who I am.
♪
♪
♪
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