Remembering Our Past Nourishing Our Future

Home to the highest glacial mountains in Canada and one of the largest lakes in Yukon, Kluane First Nation traditional territory is a part of internationally recognized Kluane National Park. Ä si Keyi, means "Our Grandfather's land." This dramatic sub-arctic land is changing. The film tells a story about how climate change and the history of food insecurity have affected Kluane First Nations people and the land they call home. It portrays strategic adaptation by embracing their past as the foundation towards prioritizing their culture and traditional values, practices and knowledge. Ultimately, it is a story of resilience of a peoples in the wake of a changing world. As Diyet van Lieshout, Narrator of the film profoundly says: "The future may be a difficult path but we know that if we care for each other and for this land, the land will care or us." This documentary was created as part of Kluane First Nation's "Nourishing Our Future" project completed in collaboration with the Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research (AICBR). This film and all the contents of the Nourishing Our Future project are owned by Kluane First Nation; AICBR has been given the rights to disseminate and share the deliverables, as per the agreed terms of the copyright agreement.