Firekeeper (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773636573)

Katlıà is a northern Dene novelist specializing in intellectual property law with a focus on mitigating cultural appropriation and creating empowering Indigenous storytelling narratives. Katlįà's northern homeland and matrilineal lineage inform her storytelling. She is the author of novels This House Is Not a Home and Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat'a and a memoir, Northern Wildflower, written as Catherine Lafferty. Katlįà is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation from Somba K'e (Yellowknife), Northwest Territories. She currently splits her time between her northern homeland and the occupied and unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples in lək̓ʷəŋən territory, where she graduated from the University of Victoria with the double law degree Juris Indigenarum Doctor and Juris Doctor. Katlįà is the co-chair of the National Indigenous Housing Network and the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network and is working on a constitutional charter rights court challenge for Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people for right to adequate housing.