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About

George Blondin

George Blondin is a Dene Elder who was born in 1923 in the Northwest Territories. He has been a wilderness guide, a miner, a trapper, Vice President of the Dene Nation, and in 1989 was elected chairman of the Denendah Elders Council. He now works parttime with the Dene Cultural Institution and writes articles for local newspapers. In 1990, Mr. Blondin was the recipient of the annual Ross Charles award for native journalism. He is the author of When the World Was New and Yamoria the Lawmaker.

Books by George Blondin

We Remember the Coming of the White Man

Special Edition in Recognition of the 100th Anniversary of the Signing of Treaty 11

by (author) Raymond Yakeleya, Elizabeth Yakeleya, Simon Sarah, Leanne Goose, Sarah Simon & George Blondin
edited by Sarah Stewart
illustrated by Antoine Mountain
foreword by Walter Blondin

The Legend of the Caribou Boy / Ekwò Dǫzhìa Wegondl

by (author) George Blondin
illustrated by Ray McSwain
translated by Mary Rose Sundberg

The Old Man with the Otter Medicine / Eneèko Nàmbe Ik’oo K'eèzho

by (author) George Blondin & John Blondin
illustrated by Archie Beaverho
translated by Mary Rose Sundberg

Trail of the Spirit

Mysteries of Medicine Power Revealed

by (author) George Blondin

Yamoria the Lawmaker

Stories of the Dene

by (author) George Blondin