In his new memoir, 'Stoneface: A Defiant Dene,' Stephen Kakfwi recounts his life starting from when he was three years old, including his experiences at residential school, the effect of tuberculosis on his family and his political career in the Northwest Territories.
Stephen Kakfwi poses for a photo in Yellowknife on Thursday, April 13, 2023. In his new memoir, "Stoneface: A Defiant Dene," the former Northwest Territories premier recounts his life starting from when he was three years old, including his experiences at residential school, the effect of tuberculosis on his family and his political career. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Emily Blake
The former Northwest Territories premier said he felt lucky when he met his wife, former journalist and Truth and Reconciliation commissioner Marie Wilson, in 1976. "The book is in a way a celebration," he said. "A lot of things happened to me, not all of them were good, but I worked hard for everything that's good."
"It kind of stuck with some of the other ministers," he said. " would say … 'we can't read you, you're a hard person to read.' I kind of liked that, I liked my persona." "I went back over everything and I actually relived everything," he said. "It's not a natural thing, it's like asking somebody to go back to that time you had your worst toothache and tell me how you felt that time."
Kakfwi said every lawyer, judge and teacher in Canada should read books like his to learn about the experiences of Indigenous people.Kakfwi is known for fighting against development of the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in the 1970s, his efforts to have Pope John Paul II visit the Northwest Territories in the 1980s and establishing the Dene Cultural Institute, now known as the Yamozha Kue Society.
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