In 1973, a delegation of Yukon First Nations leaders went to Ottawa to deliver an indelible message to the Prime Minister of Canada in a historic document, Together Today for our Children Tomorrow. With it they convinced the federal government to begin a negotiation process for a modern-day treaty, the first in Canada. Yukon First Nations’ organizing was going to lead to profound and lasting change in the relationships between governments and between peoples.
Beginning in the 1990s, Yukon First Nations began finalizing their self-government agreements. As Implementation of these modern-day treaties began, so did the career and efforts of one aspiring Yukon First Nations performer.
Christine Genier tells the story of Indigenous arts and performance through a Yukon First Nations lens, as she ties together the importance of supporting Arts and Culture in the urgent conversation of Language and Cultural revitalization. She’ll draw the arc from self-governance to re-focussing Yukon First Nations arts, tourism and economic development organizations, to her own forays into the performing arts and early training initiatives through to the explosion of interest in All Things Indigenous in 2020.
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