Louise Profeit-LeBlanc

In this episode, Louise Profeit-LeBlanc, a storyteller from Nacho Nyak Dun, shares her life’s work preserving and sharing Indigenous oral traditions. She recounts her early experiences recording stories from elders for Yukon land claims, the founding of the Yukon International Storytelling Festival, and the importance of different types of stories—ancestral, regional, community, family, and personal. Louise emphasizes that stories are living, adaptive, and often teach through humor, symbolism, and layered meaning. She explains how storytelling strengthens memory, builds community, and maintains cultural connection, especially among Elders.