Category: Roger

• Resilience and Harmony: An Indigenous Denesuline Perspective on Life

  My family are Densuline from northern Saskatchewan. The Dene are a proud people who lived off the land hunting and fishing prior to (and even after) European contact. I am one of sixteen children: ten brothers and five sisters. When I was young, we would have Dene tea dances which involved drumming and storytelling. In…

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  August 5, 2024

  Brother, family, Grateful, gratitude, Happiness, Healing, Holy Angels, Indigenous spirituality, Indigenous worldview, Life, Residential School, Roger, spirit, Stories, Trauma, Trip to Luezan Tue, Uncategorized

• Lived His GIFT

  Roger John Deranger (Denekizi) March 03, 1956- December 7, 2023 He was spiritual, both as a Catholic and in our Dene Spirituality.  When he was about 14, he had developed arthritis in his knees but that never stopped him from doing the things he enjoyed, traveling.   Until his passing, nothing stopped him from getting where he…

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  December 7, 2023

  Artist, family, Memorials, Roger