When the World was New compiles stories from the Sahtú region, ranging throughout different time periods and dealing with themes of tradition and change. The stories incorporate elements such as handgames, medicine, prophecy, industrialization, trade, subsistence, and Yamoria.

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A collection of stories of the Sahtu Dene people of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, both traditional and contemporary, dealing with history and cultural traditions as well as adaptations to social change. Oral history in book form, covering five generations of the Blondin family of Fort Franklin.

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Blondin, George. When the world was new: Stories of the Sahtú Dene. Yellowknife: Outcrop, 1990.