Approximately 300 new and returning school staff from the Yellowknife Education District No. 1 gathered by the Yellowknife River on Thursday to take part in an Indigenous language education day.
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The Plan to Protect Indigenous Elders Living Under the Northern Lights
March 11, 2021
A remote region with a thriving tourism economy, a strict shutdown and a surprising transformation.
By Peter Kujawinski
March 11, 2021
It takes hours of flying across Canada’s vast, trackless north to reach Yellowknife, a small city on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake one of the deepest and largest lakes in the world. The region is as remote as it is pristine. But travelers are drawn here from around the world to witness the splendor of the aurora borealis, otherwise known as the Northern Lights.