The Ni'Hat'ni Dene guardians keep watch over Thaidene Nëné, an Indigenous protected area spanning more than 26,000 square kilometres, where the boreal forest transitions into tundra
OTTAWA — On the shores of the eastern arm of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Iris Catholique and the Ni Hat'ni Dene Indigenous Guardians have spent several years watching the ice take longer and longer to form every winter.
Valérie Courtois, the executive director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative that advocates for the network of independent guardian programs, said the number of programs quadrupled in the last five years. "Our ultimate goal is that every First Nation that wants a guardian program should be able to have that support and the second goal is that funding should be ongoing and permanent in the same way as health funding and education funding and all of the other issues," Courtois said.The guardians programs are as varied as the lands they occupy.
Amberly Quakegesic, the Wahkohtowin program manager, said the program has a heavy emphasis on reconnecting young people to their land and traditions. Every spring they hire post-secondary students to work all summer.
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