Tony Penikett, the former two-term NDP premier of the Yukon, will be in Whitehorse next week to discuss aboriginal land claims and read from his new book.

Penikett recently released his book Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia. The 62-year-old ex-premier lives in that province.

After serving two consecutive terms as the leader of the first New Democratic government of the Yukon in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, Penikett served as B.C.'s deputy minister of treaty negotiations.

Penikett will be at the Whitehorse Public Library for a book reading at 7 p.m. Monday.

He will also read from his book on Tuesday of next week at Yukon College, and Wednesday evening in Dawson City at the Danoja Zho Cultural Centre.

In addition to his reading engagements, he'll be available Tuesday to speak to individual classes at Yukon College.

As premier, he took part in the official opening of the Whitehorse campus in October 1988.