“Yukon, Alaska, and Northwest Territories are probably one of the last places in the world where there was a significant contact between European cultures and Aboriginal people. The contact has only been about one hundred years.

“It was a century later in January, 2003 that Chief Jim Boss of the Lake Le Barge Indians, as they were known, filed a letter of claim to settle up with the Queen on all those people coming in and using their land and everything else.

“There are a lot of Cultural Camps that have been set up in the last number of years. These kinds of really remarkable experiments are to me the really successful parts of how this is taking root and working hard to build bridges between the cultures that are here in the Yukon.

“There are elders who have taken a lot of time to talk with me or to teach me - to tell me how they lived.To tell me what was important to them. And that for me has been a real eye-opener in how the world should work. I hope that I have been able to do the same back.”