For many people, this Canada Day weekend is about celebrating a significant birthday. For many others, the sesquicentennial represents a whitewash of history and a failure to acknowledge the diversity, sweat and tears that combined to make Canada what it is today.

A sign at the Canada Day parade in Whitehorse marked the birthday as 150 years of Indigenous resistance.

Stories North is an experiential learning initiative that has brought 14 journalism students and one linguistics student from Carleton University to the Yukon for one month. We’re learning and listening and trying to grasp what it means to live in this part of the North.

At a time when conventional narratives tend to limit understanding and the potential for creative, productive shifts in relationships, we are looking for ways to privilege other perspectives.

Here’s is a video that we put together from Canada Day. We used the national anthem as spoken word, part of our quest to see in new ways.

The Yukon is a diverse place. It’s a vast territory. It’s also a community.

Let’s celebrate that.