Mandee McDonald is a hide tanner, workshop facilitator, and a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta where her work focuses on Indigenous governance and land-based learning. She is a co-founder of Dene Nahjo, an Indigenous innovation and arts collective based in Sǫ̀mbak’è (Yellowknife, NT), where she is also the Hide Camp Director, and she is a Pre-Doctoral Researcher and Instructor at Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. Mandee (Maskîkow) is from Mántéwisipihk (Churchill, MB). She is a member of York Factory First Nation and has lived in Sǫ̀mbak’è for most of her life.