By Jill Westerman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWT News/North The K’atl’odeeche First Nation is all the stronger in its culture and Dene Yatie language after a group of students decided to write and record a song with an elder from their community. And just days after posting it on YouTube, the video already had more than 1,200 views. Miley Fabian, Piper Sunrise and Aryn Buggins-Deneyoua, Grades 5 and 6 students from the Chief Sunrise Education Centre on the Hay River Reserve, with support from their Language instructor and elder Auntie Diane Tourangeau, wrote Lyrics From the Land – a song that makes a connection to the students’ personal identity as Indigenous people and overcoming barriers, Dr. Deborah Reid, principal of the school, said. “For the girls, this song is deeply

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