DEADLINE EXTENDED: Spring/Summer edition

We've extended the deadline for our next edition to March 15, 2024. 

The theme for this issue has evolved as the Northwest Territories comes to grips with the experiences of wildfire evacuations and floods over the past few years, as well as ongoing systemic inequities in our context. Originally announced as Living Well, the theme has expanded, and contributions exploring Surviving and Thriving in the North are welcomed.

A conversation about living well in the North needs to understand how Northerners have and continue to survive and build meaningful lives in the face of past, present and future crises. Whether the challenges be local, national or on a global scale, the effects are being felt in the North. Resilience provides a strength-based lens to explore ideas and knowledge about how to survive and thrive in the North, while acknowledging the challenges. In this frame, contributions that explore all aspects of what it means to live well, to survive challenges, and to thrive in the North are encouraged.

Xàgots’eèhk’ǫ̀ accepts submissions from across regions, disciplines, languages and genres. Scholars, artists, researchers, youth, community members, Elders and Knowledge Holders are invited to submit original work. This can be research papers and academic work, but can also include literature reviews, essays, photo essays, conference reports, stories, oral storytelling, creative works, interviews, biographies, art and more.

The journal utilizes a relational-review model, where the rigour of peer review is inclusive of Northern Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing as well as scientific and academic knowledge. To do this, reviewers are experts from the academy as well as the community, and can include Elders, Traditional Knowledge Holders, artists and more, as best suits the piece being reviewed.

The Spring/Summer edition is co-edited by Dr. Jessica Dutton, Manager, Learning Health Systems, Community, Culture and Innovation with the GNWT Department of Health and Social Services and Dr. Candice Lys, Co-Founder and Executive Director of FOXY/SMASH. Dr. Dutton and Dr. Lys are both Research Associates at Aurora College.