In 1865, more than a century before computer models began pointing toward a future where drought, heat waves and hurricanes bring the world’s population to its knees, an eight-year-old boy from De?line, a small community on the southwestern shore of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories, began having visions. The story goes that the boy, Louis Ayah, was visited by angels throughout his lifetime who rolled out glimpses of the future, prompting him to issue some 30 prophecies, several of which came to pass: white men discovered shiny, glass-like rocks (diamonds); something that’s not a cigarette but is rolled by twisting the paper ends became harmful to kids (marijuana); and De?line came to be led by one united body, the De?line Got’ine government — the administration that as of Sept. 1, 2016, oversees the Northwest Territories’ first independently self-governed community.