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Marilyn Jensen: Transforming the Self in self-determination by reclaiming Ceremony

Bio: Marilyn Jensen, Yadultin, is Inland Tlingit and Tagish Khwáan from the Carcross/Tagish First Nation; belonging to the Dakhl’aweidí Clan under the Tagish Keét Hít (Killerwhale House) Killerwhale crest. Marilyn spends most of her time thinking, breathing, living and engaging in traditional dancing, singing and drumming with the Inland Tlingit dance group she founded and leads; the Dakhká Khwáan Dancers who are committed to representing their art form with the highest respect to authenticity and excellence. Since 2007, they have danced across the Yukon, Alaska, British Columbia and at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, New Zealand and numerous other cool places. The other passion of Marilyn’s life, finds her currently teaching First Nation Governance at Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon which she is thrilled to do after earning a Master’s Degree in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria and working in the frontlines for her own Nation and additional Indigenous organizations. She is fascinated with the idea that through reclamation of ceremony, and other foundational elements of her culture, which were displaced over the last 120 years of colonization, her people can fully embrace peace, strength and move towards fully asserting their self-determination to a much more meaningful and powerful degree.