Finding Dahshaa

Please join us for the official book launch of

by Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox

July 11, 2009, 4-6pm

@ Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre Cafe, 2nd Floor
Yellowknife, NT

In conjunction with the International Congress on Circumpolar Health

About the Book…

Just as dahshaa — a rare type of dried, rotted spruce wood — is essential to the Dene moosehide-tanning process, self-determination and the alleviation of social suffering are necessary to Indigenous survival in the Northwest Territories. Finding Dahshaa shows where self-government negotiations between Canada and the Dehcho, Délįnę, Inuvialuit, and Gwich’in peoples have gone wrong and offers an alternative model for negotiations through descriptions of tanning practices that embody the principles and values of self-determination. read more…

About the Author…

Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox holds a doctorate in polar studies from Cambridge University and for the past decade has worked for Indigenous peoples on self-government and related political development processes in Canada’s Northwest Territories. read more…