Louise Profeit Leblanc
Louise is from the Nacho Nyak Dun First Nation in northeastern Yukon. She has come from a long line of storytellers and is now the keeper of many of these stories of the ancient and not so distant past. For 15 years she worked with her people all over the Yukon to ensure that the oral histories and stories of the First Nations people were recorded and transcribed for posterity. Cofounder of the Yukon International Storytelling festival, Yukon and the Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry, Louise has attempted to ensure the voice of her people is heard and will be protected for the future generations. This voice and information is a gift that her people must share for the betterment of the world. She presently works at the Canada Council for the Arts in Ottawa, where she has migrated to with her husband and her grandson to serve the needs of many Aboriginal artists of Canada and abroad. In 2006 she wrote a piece for the New Media Arts program at Banff and has also participated as a guest artist, storyteller, choreographer, and film script writer.
