Joe Buffalo Child’s earliest boyhood memories are of cold, barren landscapes, wolves howling outside a warm tent, and emerald green northern lights—miraculous coloured curtains dancing between Earth and the stars. For Buffalo Child, raised in the traditional Dene lifestyle by his grandparents in the Northwest Territories, it was like a dream.
Lately, posts about those dancing aurora borealis are all over social media; prominent geomagnetic storms last fall—and now again this new year—caused the whole online buzz. But for Buffalo Child, who founded Yellowknife-based aurora-chasing tour company North Star Adventures, the hype doesn’t mean much.
