Melaw Nakehk’o is a multidisciplinary Dehcho Dene and Dënesųłıné artist and educator, rooted in Dene relationality and based in Yellowknife, Denendeh (Northwest Territories). Their practice fuses Dene ways of knowing through soft sculptures sewn from traditionally tanned caribou hide, documentary filmmaking, installation, and digital media, inviting the land to speak through memory and relationality. The work centers sovereignty, language, land, and spirituality as grounded forces—reminding us who we are and who the land knows. Through collaborative making and land-based camps, Melaw teaches moosehide tanning as a living lineage, a pedagogy of care and resistance. Melaw is a founding member of Dene Nahjo and a mother of three.