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“Take your maps and go!" From colonialism to consent in conservation”

By Larry Innes

50 years ago, a delegation from Ottawa chartered a bush plane into the small and remote Denesǫłine village of Łutsël K’e (then called Snowdrift). Twenty-one federal officials packed into the small band council office, and unrolled maps showing the boundaries of a new National Park on the East Arm of the Great Slave Lake, covering much of the territory that the community hunted and trapped for its livelihood.

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