Kluane, a region of the southwest Yukon is a national park, a wildlife preserve, and critically, the home of the self-governing Kluane First Nation. It is also singularly beautiful and where Diyet once performed to an audience consisting of an ocean of ice and moraine on the grand piano she helicoptered in.

Diyet is the region’s poet laureate and generational voice. But to truly understand a home you also have to leave it, and after moving to the city to pursue a music degree and a more traditional career, Diyet received her marching orders. Though the image of the piano being flown into a glacial forefield as part of her work on the Kluane Compositions, a visual and musical portrait of the region, her usual musical brigade is a tad less grandiose, but hardly less evocative. Her mission is simple: she is, and commands, The Love Soldiers. The music is gentle and loving Americana, vivid portraits of the peaks and people of her Yukon home.

Diyet performs in her native language of Tuchone as well as English, writing and recording in her music in the Yukon. Her latest, the ruminative Seeds of Dreaming, was recorded during a cold, dark week in January.

To be a Love Soldier is to be drafted into kindness and reverence for family, friends, and the complex category of home. When Diyet performs, you would be remiss not to heed her orders.

Liam Prost