Elder Dave News Today

The early morning sun rising over the High Uintas cast shadows onto the rock-hard corduroy. A feeling of joy came over me as I set an edge in the snow, linking arcs down the frozen mountainside. It’s springtime in the Wasatch!

The son of a prominent Manitoba elder who died Wednesday at age 71 hopes the work his father was doing to share Indigenous knowledge and teachings will continue at the internationally recognized centre he founded decades ago.

Manitoba elder Dave Courchene Jr. died Wednesday at age 71, after decades of reviving Indigenous spi...