This short documentary film was shot during the Berger Inquiry, mostly at Fort Good Hope. It includes footage both of Justice Berger and of many speakers, including the Fort Good Hope chief and a K’asho Got’ine translator. It deals with the issues not just of development, but also of education, language, cultural skills, employment, and land skills.

Fort Good Hope, Ron Orieux, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Orieux, Ron. Fort Good Hope. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1977.

This text presents a valuable overview and analysis of presentations made at the Mackenzie Valley Development in the 1970s. It contains material both from Dene peoples and from other researchers and involved parties.

One chapter of this book is "Country Food" by Scott Rushforth. 

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ISBN: 9780802063151

Watkins, Mel. The Colony Within. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977.

This document is part of a study done for the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories for Submission to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. It forms part of an overall effort to document traditional land use and occupancy during the 1970s.

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This document was an unpublished paper prepared for presentation to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. It is archived by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada: http://science-catalogue.canada.ca/record=3994070~S6

Find the Hard Copy in DFO Sidney, BC - Room 2616 - Monographs.  HD 319 .N7 R42 1976 .

Rushforth, Scott. “The Dene and Their Land.” In Recent Land-Use by the Great Bear Lake Indians, Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories volume 3, part 2 (1976): 1-65.