Dakwäkãda Warriors

by Cole Pauls

Paperback, 2019

Status

Checked out

Call number

FIC PAU

Call number

FIC PAU

Local notes

After discovering Space Kwädày Dän’s (Long Ago People) plans to assimilate more Nàį (Bushman) for Mbà (War), Ts’ürk’i (Raven) and Aghay (Wolf) ask the Dakhká Khwáan Warriors (Inland Tlingit) and the Łu’än Män Warriors (Kluane Lake) for their help. Can all tayke (three) Warrior groups defeat what Space Kwädày Dän has in store? Will Cyber Nàį (Bushman) help our Warriors like he said? Find out in the final issue of the Dakwäkãda Warriors!

Description

"Artist Cole Pauls wanted to reclaim the Southern Tutchone language he had learned as a youth while performing in the traditional song and dance group the Dakwakada Dancers, based in Whitehorse (YT) [Yukon Territory, Canada]. So, he created a comic about two Earth Protectors saving the Earth from evil pioneers and cyborg sasquatches. But he also went to his elders and asked them to translate his comic into the two dialects of Southern Tutchone. The resulting work is an allegory of colonialization done in an accessible format, a whimsical young adult graphic novel which helps to revitalize the language. Pauls includes a "making of" postscript to give context to the project, and invites guest Indigenous Canadian artists to provide "pin-ups" of his characters (Gord Hill, Whess Harman, Blake Lepine, Teresa Vander Meer-Chasse)."--… (more)

Publication

Conundrum Press (2019), 112 pages

Original language

English

Language

ISBN

1772620416 / 9781772620412
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