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| m:m_moses [2025/02/22 17:15] – created sallyr | m:m_moses [2025/12/16 19:45] (current) – sallyr |
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| Mary Jane Moses | Mary Jane Moses |
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| Mary Jane Moses is Tetl’it Gwich’in, originally from Fort MacPherson, Northwest Territories. She was the heritage coordinator for the Vuntut Gwitchin Government in Old Crow for twenty years. She is a filmmaker, mentor, researcher and translator. She contributed to both the Tetl’it Gwich’in and Vuntut Gwitchin communities, translating and indexing hundreds of Gwich’in interviews.((Lawrie Crawford, Mary Jane Moses and Colleen James recognized for preservation and revitalization of cultural knowledge.” //Yukon News,// 9 June 2022.)) | Mary Jane Moses is Tetl’it Gwich’in, originally from Fort MacPherson - Teetł’it Zheh, Northwest Territories. She moved to Old Crow in 1979 and worked as a receptionist at the nursing station before moving on to become a community heath worker. She then worked with the Heritage Department of the Vuntut Gwitchin Government as the heritage coordinator, doing cultural projects and translating Gwich'in oral stories and histories. She retired in March 2022.((Karl-Antoine Hogue, Mary Jane Moses, Jeremy R. Brammer, Allyson Menzies and Jesse Popp, "Applying the 5 R’s of Indigenous Research in Practice: Graduate Student and Van Tat Gwich’in Elder Reflections in Old Crow, Yukon." //The Northern Review,// Volume 58, 2025: 83-104.)) Mary Jane worked as the heritage coordinator for twenty years.((Lawrie Crawford, Mary Jane Moses and Colleen James recognized for preservation and revitalization of cultural knowledge.” //Yukon News,// 9 June 2022.)) |
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| Her films share Gwich’in stories celebrating the knowledge of elders and the Gwich’in language and culture. They include //Imprints of Our Ancestors Parts I and II// (2007); //Dinjii Shik Trał Tat Gwich’in ~ Man Who Always Lives in the Bush// (2008); //Nilii Gaii Tr’ahtsii// (2009); //Caribou, Our Livelihood// (2010); //Geh eenjit di’tr’iheetl’yaa ~ We Will Set Snares for Rabbit// (2010); and //Adhòh Tr’ahshii ~ Hide Tanning// (2019). Her work has been critical in cultural revitalization, ensuring the knowledge and stories of elders are captured and shared.((Lawrie Crawford, Mary Jane Moses and Colleen James recognized for preservation and revitalization of cultural knowledge.” //Yukon News,// 9 June 2022.)) | Mary Jane is also a filmmaker. Her films share Gwich’in stories celebrating the knowledge of elders and the Gwich’in language and culture. They include //Imprints of Our Ancestors Parts I and II// (2007); //Dinjii Shik Trał Tat Gwich’in ~ Man Who Always Lives in the Bush// (2008); //Nilii Gaii Tr’ahtsii// (2009); //Caribou, Our Livelihood// (2010); //Geh eenjit di’tr’iheetl’yaa ~ We Will Set Snares for Rabbit// (2010); and //Adhòh Tr’ahshii ~ Hide Tanning// (2019). Her work has been critical in cultural revitalization, ensuring the knowledge and stories of elders are captured and shared.((Lawrie Crawford, Mary Jane Moses and Colleen James recognized for preservation and revitalization of cultural knowledge.” //Yukon News,// 9 June 2022.)) |
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| In 2022, Mary Jane Moses received an honorary bachelor of northern heritage and culture from Yukon University for her work in Old Crow.((Lawrie Crawford, Mary Jane Moses and Colleen James recognized for preservation and revitalization of cultural knowledge.” //Yukon News,// 9 June 2022.)) | In 2022, Mary Jane Moses received an honorary bachelor of northern heritage and culture degree from Yukon University for her work in Old Crow.((Lawrie Crawford, Mary Jane Moses and Colleen James recognized for preservation and revitalization of cultural knowledge.” //Yukon News,// 9 June 2022.)) |
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