Canadian Heritage committee  To the first part of your question, our young people are very hungry for it. There is a group of young people, probably in their 30s, who call themselves “Dene Nahjo”. It means “smart Dene”. They really started to work with the older people about the way of life, trying to get as

Canadian Heritage committee  What we're challenged with there—and this is just my experience—is that it has gone in-house. There is no real relationship with it, from our perspective. There was an idea there again, and they thought that it would work. Canada had understood that they were going to make separa

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. I just wanted to skip that part because I made my point. This is really significant, and I point out here that one only needs to examine the Northwest Territories Official Languages Act in comparison to Bill C-91 to see striking similarities. This is alarming to me. Bill C

Canadian Heritage committee  [Witness spoke in Dene Zhati] [English] I would like to thank the people here for giving me this time to share with you some of the things you're deliberating on with regard to Bill C-91. I come from a community called Liidlii Kue. Margo passed out the medallion. I'd like you

Canadian Heritage committee  Two sounds come from the word Dene. “De” makes reference to the river and “ne” makes reference to the land. You are of the land and of the water: That's what a Dene person is. Another thing is that our land is really big. Liidlii Kue is a functional area. It's a place name for t