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Title : Pilgrimage to Gahnįhthah
A young Indigenous female interpreter says “Welcome” in the regional language. There are lake, forests and mountains behind her.
E’hé é Mahsii – Welcome to Gahnįhthah Mįe
Close up of hiking boots walking down a single lane path boots
Indigenous female interpreter returns there is a different lakescape behind her
Here is a place of creation in the heart of Nahʔą Dehé, Nahanni National Park Reserve.
Camera pans left to right across scenic lake vista. Fog shrouded forest and mountains are in the background
camera zooms out to show mountains surrounded by low clouds. A lake appears in the foreground.
In this place of creation the Dene have travelled since time before memory.
camera pan left to right across top of Tufa Mound showing scalloped hillside with pooled water
We come here to pay our respects to Yamba Deja a powerful medicine man who walked the horizon of the earth.
group of women with bowed heads stand around a campfire
The indigenous female interpreter returns
He returned to Gahnįhthah to make his home at the tufa mounds.
forested landscape with grey stone hills showing in distance
camera tilts up a large imposing stone cliff face on a hill.
Gah means rabbit, nįhthah means kettle.
The indigenous female interpreter returns to explain the regional name for tufa mound
The tufa mounds resemble kettles that are used to cook rabbits
camera zooms in from a distance to show tufu mound in forest
series of 3 shots near the top of the tufa mound. There is quite a bit of cascading and pooling water.
The indigenous female interpreter returns to explain the bones found on top of the mounds
The birds of prey bring rabbits along with other small mammals as offering to Yamba Deja.
Pan across flat dry area on top of tufa mound.
Close up of rabbit skull and jawbone on dry weathered calcium
The indigenous female interpreter returns to talk about how Tufa mounds grow
The tufa is created drop by drop, growing 2.7 mm each year each year to become the largest tufa mounds in Canada.
pan across scalloped, layered calcium deposits. Water flows overtop of deposits.
camera tilts up from very clean flowing water to show it flows from tufa central pool. People stand round the pool edge
pan across scalloped, layered calcium deposits. Water flows overtop of deposits.
Left to right pan from base of tufa mound on dry side showing that it is several stories tall
The indigenous female interpreter returns to talk about UNESCO site
It is one of the many land form types that contribute to Nahanni’s designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
white scalloped calcium deposit in foreground Blue river and forest in back ground.
close up of water flowing through a small pool.
dozens of grey calcium ‘marbles’ in dried up pool area
water cascading down layered side of tufa mound. Mountains and forest in back ground.
Dry area highlighting layers of calcium.
water cascading down layered side of tufa mound. Sunshine reflects off flowing water
man walks barefoot across wet are of tufa mound
water cascading down layered side of tufa mound. Sunshine reflects off flowing water
close up of feet ankle deep in pools of water on tufa mound
The indigenous female interpreter returns to talk about removing shoes
When we arrive at the tufa mounds, we pay our respects and remove our shoes.
close up shot of a barefoot person standing on tufa with water flowing around them
Barefoot we enter the home of Yamba Deja for a unique Dene experience like no other in the world.
barefoot male crouched down to shoot photograph of water flow on tufa. Forest and mountains are in background.
wide shot showing multiple people walking on the tufu mound. River and mountains in background.
close up of feet as two people and climb the wet terraced tufa mound.
view of group walking down hiking path surrounded by boreal forest.
The narrator returns to talk about finding your connection to the land
Find your connection to the land and the people.
a Parks Canada interpreter talks to a group of hikers along the trail
Come find your Nahanni
two people stand on top of tufa mound and look towards distant river, forest and mountains. Man on left points towards the horizon
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