Nedaa Show Catalogue - Northern Native Broadcasting Yukon

Show Date MAIN DESCRIPTION SHOW TITLE LENGTH
Season # 19
01 10/10/2004 With songs and dances rapidly fading from memory, the Northern Tutchone people of
Central Yukon show faith and determination in trying to revive and reinstate their
traditions by holding their first cultural gathering. They expose the community to
traditions of their brother and sister First Nations, and carefully contemplate their
situation.
02 17/11/2004 The Gwitchin First Nation extends throughout the Yukon, the northwest part of NWT
and parts of Alaska. For thousands of years Gwitchin ancestors have used and continue
to use the land and its resources. Explorers, geologists, and surveyors may have tracked,
mapped and named every square inch of this vast Territory but the traditional names of
special places have special meaning to those who continue to live off the land.
02 17/11/2004 New placer mining regulations may mean the end of a way of life for hundreds of Yukon
people. We explore the potential impacts a Federal unilateral decision may have on the
placer industry and in particular, the Dawson Tron’dek H’wichen, who have invested
heavily in businesses that rely on the placer industry. Our cameras travel to Dawson City
as we talk to industry reps, ordinary townsfolk, and miners about the future of their
industry
03 24/10/2004 A cross section of Yukon musicians (and Mardy Lucier-Porte from Ontario) gather,
perform, and speak frankly about their youth as a way of promoting music and art as
avenues into which young people can direct energy to stay healthy and find their voice
04 31/10/2004 For over a century fiddle music has played an integral part in the social and cultural lives
of the First Nations in Alaska and Yukon. The Festival itself serves as a gathering point
for people to share and reminisce about the old time music. But more importantly it
works toward trying to preserve this unique musical style.
04 31/10/2004 In “Countdown to 2007” Nedaa takes a look at the upcoming 2007 Canada Winter
Games. Since 1967 the Canada Games have been a celebration of Canadian culture and
Athleticism and now for the first time it is coming north of sixty to Whitehorse, Yukon.
This first show in a series dedicated to the upcoming Canada Games focuses on the sheer
amount of work, organization and cooperation required to pull off an event of this size.
And the excitement generated knowing that for tens days Whitehorse will be the biggest
stage for Canadian athletics and culture in the country.
05 07/11/2004 This episode focuses on the Northern Tutchone teacher Evelyn Skookum. An avid
teacher and supporter of her language, Evelyn has overcome great personal and cultural
barriers; which nearly resulted in her losing her language, to become a professional
language teacher.
05 07/11/2004 In ‘To Preserve and Protect’ NEDAA profiles Hazel Bunbury, a Southern Tutchone
language teacher who has been teaching her language in schools in Whitehorse, Yukon
for over fourteen years. Ms. Bunbury explains that her dialect of Southern Tutchone is
threatened. She also explains what she believes must be done to save it.
05 07/11/2004 Gerald Dickson follows up a Language Conference that was conducted in 2000 and talks
to a government employee who is making efforts on the administration level and we hear
from 2 politicians who are making efforts at the political level to preserve the language
05 07/11/2004 In the mid-1970's, four people came together with the will to preserve, recover, and save
Yukon aboriginal languages. They were an American linguist named John Ritter, a
Southern Tutchone man from Burwash who was studying linguistics, named Daniel Tlen;
Julie Cruikshank, an anthropologist; and, Gertie Tom, a Northern Tutchone speaker
interested in developing a writing system. It evolved into the Yukon Native Language
Centre.
06 14/11/2004 The Yukon Trappers Association is making efforts to revive the Fur Industry in the
Yukon. We'll talk to a Yukon Trapper about the idea, the timing and his expectations
and a Local Designer who has big dreams despite a depressed trapping industry.
Mother People: Cultural
Revival of the Northern
Tutchone
24:00
Imprints of Our Ancestors 24:00
Striving For Recognition 24:00
Music Can Heal: The Blue
Feather Music Festival
The Athabascan Fiddlers’
Festival.
24:00
24:00
Countdown to 2007 24:00
Champions of the Language:
Evelyn Skookum
8:00
To Preserve and Protect 8:00
Politics of Language 24:00
Champions of the Language -
YNLS
8:00
Fashioning Fur 16:00
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