Hide Camp Course [Course Number TBD]:  Indigenous Self Determination in Practice
Dates: May 13 to 31st
Location: Chief Drygeese Territory (Yellowknife)
 
This course will introduce students to hide tanning as an approach to self-determination and governance. 
 
This course is open to students who are attending Dechinta for the first time, as well as for Dechinta Alumni who have completed accredited courses previously with Dechinta.
 

INLB 401: Land-Based Sovereign Creative Practice  
Dates: June 2024 (to be confirmed) 
Location: Chief Drygeese Territory (Yellowknife)

In this course, students will engage with a variety of northern Indigenous artists and makers who ground their artistic pursuits in land-based practice. Through artists talks, lectures and hands-on workshops, students will be exposed to different ways these artists and practitioners are creating with intention, practicing in place, co-creating with the land, and responding to/refusing the political worlds around them. For half of the day, students will be engaged in land based practices such as fishing, medicine harvesting and hide tanning with Dechinta Elders.  For the other half, they will be honing their own creative practices by engaging in creative pursuits with established Indigenous artists and makers. While colonial violences and interruptions continue to shape Indigenous life and our relationship to our homelands, this course offers students an opportunity to root themselves in Indigenous creative practices and build connections to Indigenous creative practices rooted in land and community and the embodied practice of Dene law. 
 
This course is only open to Dechinta Alumni who have completed accredited courses previously with Dechinta.


INLB 452: Solidarity: Land, Gender and Movement Building
Dates: June 2024 (to be confirmed)
Location: Chief Drygeese Territory (Yellowknife)
 
This course explores the role of Indigenous land based practice in informing Indigenous practices of solidarity with anti-colonial struggles in Indigenous homelands and globally. Students will spend half the day engaged with Elders engaged in land based activities such as fishing, harvesting medicines and hide tanning with Dechinta Elders. For the other half, they will participate in lectures, film screenings and workshops led by activists, organizers and scholars engaged in movement building, struggle and building relationships of solidarity across movements. By grounding solidarity in Indigenous land-based practice, this course offers students an opportunity to think more deeply about Indigenous anti-colonial struggle within a global context, and through the practice of solidarity with other movements.
 
This course is only open to Dechinta Alumni who have completed accredited courses previously with Dechinta.
 

INLB 220: Indigenous Self Determination in Practice
Dates: May to September 2024 
Location: Varies
 
This course is 100% land based course and is required to take the Dechinta Certificate in Land and Community Based Research. Students will complete 40 hours of land-based practice. Dates and locations will vary, depending on cohort size. 
 
This course is open for students who have previously completed INLB courses with Dechinta/UBC.