Category: Trip to Luezan Tue

• Sister Rose Desjarlais

  Sister  Rose – Resilient Spirit (1954–) This is a picture of her. It includes our late brother Roger and her late son James. Rose Marina was born in 1954. She is more than my sister. She is my confidante and my companion. We share stories, joys, and the hardships that shaped us. Rose is a…

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  May 29, 2025

  family, intention, land Back, Life, Life Skills, Pain, Residential School, Trauma, Trip to Luezan Tue

  family, Healing, Life, love, sisters, writing

• 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

• Thoughts and Prayers …  And Indigenous Land Acknowledgments.  Meaningless Words? 

  While I accept the gesture of someone saying my thoughts and prayers are with you when I experienced a loss in my family, these words don’t really comfort me.  And yes, I understand they are meant to comfort.  Meanwhile, I began noticing people acknowledging they are on Indigenous territory, on TV news stations, and at…

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  April 30, 2023

  Empathetic Witness Podcast, family, Healing, Indigenous spirituality, land Back, Life, Mother Nature, Natural laws, Residential School, Stories, Trip to Luezan Tue

  family

• ROGER’S ADVENTURE PART ONE 2022 Luezan Tue

  Sacred ground In this blog I write about the incredible adventure my elder brother, Roger and our elder sister, Rose are taking to our traditional forest land by Lake Athabasca in Northern Saskatchewan, we call the land Luezan Tue! I admit what they are doing is incredibly brave and a bit risky. However, with risks…

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  May 26, 2022

  Healing, Trip to Luezan Tue, Uncategorized

  Adventure, Calling