This is a unilingual story with hand-drawn illustrations and Dene text. It also has an Englısh guide at the end of the document (p. 35) but it comes with clear instructions that the teacher is to use the document’s Dene language only when teaching. The story is also paired with a Dene questionnaire about the story for students. It is about two men who grow past marrying age: their community tells them to go look for wives, so they do so, and save a different community from monsters that have been eating people. They use Dene medicine to kill the monsters, and end up marrying and settling down in the new, saved community.

The first section reads:

Yahnı̨́ı̨ ts’ę́ chıleku náke, ts’ǫ́dane gı̨lı̨ gots’ę ts’éku gı́hchú le, ékagı̨t’é déot’ı̨nę hé dene gı̨lı̨ redı. Kút’a surı ɂǫhdaa ts’ę́ nǫwá le agejá ekáa gonǫ ékagóhdı. “Seyaa ékahht’e gha dúwé, ası̨́ dúle ts’éku hat’ı̨ ghǫ ɂaht’e,” góhdı. “Hęɂę,” gedı redı, “ékanı̨́ nı̨dé ts’éku hút’ı̨́ gha k’énaút’á kúlú,” gedı redı.

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Modeste, Isodore, Jane Modeste and Fibbie Tatti. Chıleku Náke Įk’ǫ́ T’á Echoho Łágenı’hdé. Northwest Territories Department of Education and the Fort Franklin Band Council, n.d.