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Home town awards
Antoine Mountain Guest columnist Monday, November 24, 2008 Previous columns 
Good to know that my 'ol home town of Radilih Koe/Fort Good Hope is doing well on the Northern Front, and time it receives some awards to tack on its Community Hall walls. One of the recent Canadian Boreal Awards was bestowed to this northern haven for its efforts toward the NWT Protected Strategy. The community worked toward gaining protection of the 25,000 sq.-km Ramparts/Ts'ude niline Tu'eyeta Region as a future Environment Canada National Wildlife Area. This Ramparts River watershed area is in the heart of the some of the best of our Mackenzie Mountain foothills country, home to some of the best moose-hunting in the North. Well I do remember the many trips to this one paradise with the leadership of my brother-in-law, Frank T'seleie, the present Chief of the community just down the river from there. Also, there are the famous Ramparts and Sans Sault Rapids for which the town of Radilih Koe' is named. And the town itself has moved a number of times for flooding, trading and other considerations. Which brings up another interesting fact as far as local and regional protection goes in that community. The place has also just opened up a new Lands and Resources Office to keep an eye on oil and gas exploration work going on in our K'ahsho Got'ine area. And finally, for all of you musical aficionados out there, this one area for which we have won our Canadian Boreal Award also just so happens to boast a real true-to-life song all about it - in the guise of Stephen Kakfwi's "Talking Fish Creek." I personally think this song should serve as the soundtrack for any film made of all of these happenstances! Mahsi cho, for now and again...
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