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Program Info

INLB 201F: Dene Internationalism and Practices of Solidarity

Dates: February 16th - 20th, 2026

Location: Camp Connections, YKDFN Territory

Course Description: This course explores the role of Dene land based practice in informing Dene practices of international 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 Dene 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.

Childcare and onsite accommodations are available. Limited scholarships for tuition are available.

INLB 201D: Indigenous Storytelling and Sovereign Creative Practice

Dates: February 23rd - 27th, 2026

Location: Camp Connections, YKDFN Territory

Course Description: This course uses the metaphor of “mapping” as a way for us to engage with the world around us, trace and create relationships, and share those relationships with others. Maps can be used to cause harm, renaming places in colonial languages, after people who caused violence and destruction -and they can also be used to create new ways of knowing and relating, or retrace old ways. In this course, students will engage with a variety of Indigenous artists and their work and they’ll be exposed to the different ways that these creators are creating with intention, practicing in place, and responding to/refusing the political worlds around them. Half of this course is experiential, in that students will be honing their creative practice through building relationships with Dene Elders, laws, practices, and community. While colonial violences and interruptions continue to shape Indigenous life and lands, Indigenous artistic practices are mapping connections to an elsewhere rooted in love, land, and collectivity.

Childcare and onsite accommodations are available. Limited scholarships for tuition are also available.