The Gwitch'in people of Old Crow, Yukon, face challenges to their culture and keeping their language alive. Gwitch'in is part of the Athapaskan language group. A language teacher holds a class out on the land teaching about traditional plant medicines. An oral history project takes elders out to record and preserve their knowledge and stories.

For eons the Gwitch'in and the caribou have lived in symbiosis, one feeding the other protecting. Traditional songs express this unique vital relationship. In the past the Gwitch'in people were nomadic, following the caribou. Now they travel up the river annually to hunt at the spring crossing point of the Porcupine Caribou Herd. They fight to protect the ecosystems of the caribou from disruption by oil and gas extraction.