Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Territories, Canada
This article is about the First Nations people in the Northwest Territories. For other uses, see Yellowknife (disambiguation).
Ethnic group
Yellowknives
Tetsǫ́t'ınę
Yellowknife chief Akaitcho and his only son, by Robert Hood, 1821
Regions with significant populations
Northwest Territories, Canada
Languages
English, Wıı̀lıı̀deh Yatıı̀ and Tetsǫ́t’ıné Yatıé
Religion
Catholic & christianity
Related ethnic groups
Tłı̨chǫ, Dënesųłiné, Dene, Sahtu
The Yellowknives, Yellow Knives, Copper Indians, Red Knives or T'atsaot'ine (Wíílíídeh dialect: Tetsǫ́t'ınę) are indigenous peoples of Canada, one of the five main groups of the First Nations Dene who live in the Northwest Territories.[1] The name, which is also the source for the later community of Yellowknife, derives from the colour of the tools made from copper deposits.
^"Weledeh Yellowknives Dene a history" (PDF). Yellowknives Dene First Nation Elders Advisory Council. 1997. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-25.
early 1800s and 1900s, the Yellowknives were the largest and most powerful tribe in the geographic area. The Yellowknives and the Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib), who...
The Yellowknives Dene First Nation is a band government in the Northwest Territories. It represents the Yellowknives people, the namesake of the territorial...
Nunavut in Canada, especially the Chipewyan (Denesuline), Tlicho (Dogrib), Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), and Sahtu "Dene"...
incorporated as the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. They traded tools made from copper deposits near the Arctic Coast. Modern Yellowknives members can be found...
Territories and it has a visitor centre there in the homeland of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and the North Slave Métis Alliance. Canada's only four...
Government of the Northwest Territories. "Our Language". Yellowknives Dene First Nation. Yellowknives Dene First Nation. Archived from the original on 15 April...
#195, Fitzgerald #196 (Alberta), c. 230 km2. Population (2015): 971 Yellowknives Dene First Nation Reserves: Dettah Settlement, N'Dilo Settlement, Yellowknife...
ambiguous. The Yellowknives Dene First Nation is a signatory to Treaty 8, but according to the text of the treaties the Yellowknives Nation's territory...
largest drainage basin in Canada. The name of the river derives from the Yellowknives Dene, a First Nations people who have lived in the area for thousands...
Among the Athabaskan languages, syllabics are still in use among the Yellowknives Dene in Yellowknife, Dettah, and Ndılǫ, Northwest Territories. Recently...
envisioned for part of the former Giant Mine townsite. In winter 2020 the Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) demonstrated outside the site demanding a federal...
murder and cannibalism. The survivors were rescued by members of the Yellowknives Nation, who had previously given them up for dead. In the aftermath,...
reference to the Ahtna's copper-colored knives; however, another tribe, the Yellowknives, are also referred to as Copper Indians. The Ahtna are an Athabaskan...
science department at the University of British Columbia. A member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, he is also a co-founder, educator, and on the board...
the Coppermine River. The lake is named after Akaitcho, Chief of the Yellowknives. Canada Indian and Northern Affairs (1974). "North = Nord". 21. Ottawa:...
1991) part of the Akaitcho Territory Government, and represented by the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. It is located at 62°28′40″N 114°20′03″W / 62.47778°N...
Tulita Dene First Nation West Point First Nation Wha Ti First Nation Yellowknives Dene First Nation There are no First Nations band governments in Nunavut...
Tlicho Tsilhqot'in Northern Tutchone Southern Tutchone Upper Kuskokwim Yellowknives Tlingit, United States (Alaska) and Canada (British Columbia and Yukon)...
spears and club, prompting some to call it the first race war. The Yellowknives tribe in Canada was effectively obliterated by massacres committed by...
orders to the Yellowknives to leave food caches along the way back to Fort Enterprise, and to restock Fort Enterprise, the Yellowknives left for their...
were also many nations when the Europeans first arrived, among them the Yellowknives, Chipewyan, Sekani, Beaver, Nahanni, Dogrib, and Slavey. Martin Frobisher's...
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