For the first time, the whole Dene family was talking to each other.
That s how Mountain Dene Elder and northern broadcasting icon Paul Andrew described the inquiry into the proposed Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline also known by the name of its chair, The Berger Inquiry.
Thomas Berger died this week at the age of 88.
CBC North has spent much of the last few days remembering the lawyer, judge and champion of Indigenous land and treaty rights. The stories and ways that northerners are remembering Mr. Berger have created incredible meaning for me, a non-Indigenous radio host living and working in the Northwest Territories, in Denendeh.