6-593: The South Slave Region is one of five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada. According to Municipal and Community Affairs the region consists of seven communities with the regional office situated in Fort Smith and a sub-office in Hay River . With the exception of Enterprise and Hay River the communities are predominantly First Nations . The South Slave Region includes
12-709: The Health and Social Services Authority groups Fort Resolution with the North Slave Region, and divides South Slave Region into two regions: Hay River and Fort Smith. The Department of Natural Resources uses the same borders, but calls the Inuvik Region "Beaufort Delta". Land and self-government treaties with First Nations , Inuvialuit ( Inuit ), and Métis groups recognise a significant amount of authority for their governments to manage land use within agreed-upon areas. These areas are each much larger than
18-606: The Northwest Territory's Department of Municipal and Community Affairs divides the territory into five regions. Other services have adopted similar divisions for administrative purposes, making these the de facto regions of the territory. These divisions have no government of their own, but the Northwest Territories' government services are decentralized on a regional basis. Some government departments make slight changes to this arrangement. For example,
24-497: The area fully owned by the indigenous government. Within each of these areas, the indigenous nation has jurisdiction over several areas of law, and land use is effectively co-governed by the territorial government and indigenous government. A treaty also exists with the Salt River First Nation , but it establishes reserves rather than a joint land use area. Nihtat Gwichʼin (Inuvik) Statistics Canada divides
30-534: The following communities: Download coordinates as: 60°00′19″N 111°53′26″W / 60.00528°N 111.89056°W / 60.00528; -111.89056 ( South Slave Region centred on Fort Smith ) List of regions of the Northwest Territories The Canadian territory of the Northwest Territories is subdivided into administrative regions in different ways for various purposes. The Government of
36-420: The territory into six census divisions . These areas exist solely for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government of their own. They are listed below with their most populous municipality on the right: Prior to the 2011 census, there were two census divisions. The former census division of Inuvik was considerably larger than the administrative region of the same name. Prior to
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