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Raymond Yakeleya

Raymond Yakeleya

Raymond Yakeleya, a Dené filmmaker from Tulita, Northwest Territories, has produced award-winning programs for Bravo, APTN, PBS and other broadcasters through his Edmonton-based company, the Earth Magic Media Group. He studied photography and television production at the Banff School of Fine Arts and attended the UCLA summer cinema program in Los Angeles. His many credits include From the Spirit, a series profiling Indigenous artists; We Remember, featuring the testimony of elders from Slavey and Loucheux communities in the Mackenzie Delta; and The Last Mooseskin Boat (1982), which honours the traditional river-based culture of the Shotah Dené.

  • The Last Mooseskin Boat
    The Last Mooseskin Boat
    Raymond Yakeleya 1982 28 min
    This short documentary follows Gabe Etchinelle as builds a mooseskin boat as a tribute to an earlier way of life, where the Shotah Dene people would use a mooseskin boats and transport their families and cargo down mountain rivers to trading settlements throughout the Northwest Territories.

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