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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. ....
Winnipeg Free Press Thomas Berger a visionary who advanced Indigenous rights By: Niigaan Sinclair | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Apr. 30, 2021 Thomas Berger gave Indigenous people a voice. In 1974, when Canada held an inquiry into the construction of a gas pipeline through the Mackenzie River Valley in the Yukon and Northwest Territories through Dene, Inuit, and Métis land commissioner Berger did something unheard of. He went to the people. In what became known as the Berger Inquiry, he held hearings in all 35 communities. Most had a majority of Indigenous populations or were First Nations. Instead of continuing the practice of government inquiries at the time (and frankly still is), Berger didn’t host meetings in expensive and intimidating city hotels. He held them in community halls and other places Indigenous people lived and worked. ....