Description
Catherine (Katłı̨̀ą) Lafferty is a Northern Dene woman who spends her time between her ancestral homelands in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Lekwungen Speaking Peoples Coast Salish Territory. She is the author of four books, including a memoir, Northern Wildflower, written as Catherine Lafferty. Katłı̨̀ą is a mother, grandmother, and articling lawyer.
Gathering and sharing knowledge, stories, and worldviews from across Dene Nations in the Northwest Territories, this is a timely, insightful, and urgent call for reciprocity with nature to combat the global emergency of climate change.
Mother Earth is Our Elder is an urgently needed collection of personal reflections and testimonies from the Northern Dene of the Northwest Territories that offer solutions to the climate crises facing us all.
Exploring these crises through the lens of Dene Laws and Knowledge, place-based teachings, food sovereignty, and environmental racism this remarkable work highlights the importance of story from knowledge-keepers and people who have lived through catastrophic natural and human-made disasters. Katłįà’s professional and personal experiences create an ideal lens for these layered calamities and social problems, and she guides the reader to understand that Dene teachings can help us recognize how caring for the land will correct the earth from its trajectory toward irreparable harm.
This book contains: 8-page Colour Page insert.