“I was scared,” Cora said. “I’ve always been in and around Dene people, barely speaking English.”
Cora was raised by her grandparents, who only spoke Dene with her, and rarely travelled south to the city. So the prospect of moving south to Saskatoon or Regina for four years, as northerners had always been required to do in order to take a university program entirely in English, was too daunting. Learn more about this topic by reading in on NewsInteractives.