Born a Sakaw Cree from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, Dale was a highly talented speaker, educator and visual artist. His vividly coloured and highly provocative paintings captured the attention and imagination of audiences everywhere and are included in numerous high-profile public and well-known private collections throughout the world.

The subject of Auger's lectures and paintings had varied and evolved throughout the years. Where he once sought to portray various aspects of Native history, he eventually began working toward capturing the deeper, more spiritual complexities of Native life in the contemporary world, particularly the intricate links between Native spirituality, the natural laws of the land and how knowledge is gained and transferred between all Beings.

Dale was also an award winning children's book author and illustrator. His book, Mwakwa – Talks to the Loon: A Cree Story for Children, was illustrated and written in English and Cree and won the award for "Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year" at the Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival and Book Awards in 2006. Dale's book was also a finalist for Alberta's prestigious Grant MacEwan Author's Award and received the 2007 R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature.

Dale was also well known to viewers of APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) for his documentary, Medicine Walker, which takes viewers on two inspirational medicine walks. The first is through his home territory of Wabasca, north of Lesser Slave Lake in northern Alberta. The second is to the island archipelago of Haida Gwaii where he visited a Haida elder/medicine person.

As reflected in everything he did, Dale was profoundly interested in gathering and passing on knowledge, utilizing both Traditional and Western modes of education as his inspiration. As such, he studied education at the University of Calgary and graduated with a doctoral degree in 1999. By combining the traditional with the contemporary, the Native with the non-Native, Dale transcended typical educational techniques and communicated knowledge, experience and belief in ways that very few artists and educators could or can.

Dale was always in demand throughout Canada and the United States for his visual work, motivational lectures, workshops and keynote addresses.

Dale Auger is survived by the love of life, his wife of twenty-seven years and best friend, Grace, his loving children: daughters, Sekwan (Jordan) and Neepin (Robyn), son Sohkes, grandchildren Cree, Nitanis and Gracie.