Photo courtesy of Allan Hayton

Baasee’, thank you, to our speaker Eliza Jones for sharing our December 2020 Native Word of the Month in Denaakk’e.

Huyh = Winter

Huyh neets do’ots’en’. = It is coming to mid-winter.

For more translations, view our Native word of the month archives on the Foundation website.

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