Elders of Lhtako Dene Nation spent several days creating a ceremonial staff.
Jim Edgar said one of the uses of the staff is to escort the Elders into gatherings and powwows.
"The staff is put together by the elders for the elders, and for the community," Edgar said.
The staff has 19 eagle feathers, horse hair, beads and in the future they're planning to add a dream catcher to it. Each of the Elders' families are represented on the staff.
"It's gonna be there for the next 150 years, for the next generation after we leave, this will still be here for them," Umayaz Dulk'un said.
The Elders said the staff will soon connect with one from the Navajo Nation. A dozen Lhtako Elders went to Navajo for two weeks in the 1990s to connect with them, they said the Navajo are Dene people like Lhtako.
"We understood each others' language. They are us and we are them," Dulk'un said of the Navajo. They explained that the languages have slight differences but can be understood by one another.
