The Sahtú or North Slavey (historically called Hare or Hareskin Indians ) are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the vicinity of Great Bear Lake ( Sahtú , the source of their name), Northwest Territories , Canada. The Sahtú peoples live in Colville Lake , Deline , Fort Good Hope , Norman Wells and Tulita which form the Sahtu Region of the NWT. The Dene of the region are represented by the Sahtu Dene Council who, in 1993, signed the Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement . Sahtú groups include the Hare Dene (K'ahsho Got'ine District, today: Colville Lake and Fort Good Hope), Bear Lake Dene (Déline District), and Mountain Dene (Tulit'a District). They call themselves also Ɂehdzo Got’ı̨ne (Trap People).
6-754: The Sahtu Dene Council is a council that represents the Sahtu people of the Northwest Territories , Canada . The council signed a comprehensive land claim agreement in 1993 with the Government of Canada , the Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement , for the seven Dene and Métis communities in the Sahtu Region . It is the first such agreement to include three Métis members ( Tulita , Fort Good Hope and Norman Wells ) in
12-921: Is given in Alexander Mackenzie 's journal of his voyage down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean in 1789. Although there are close interrelationships among the Dene communities, they are culturally and linguistically distinct. The K’ahsho Got’ine (Hare(skin) Dene) are now centred in Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake. The Shita Got’ine (Mountain Dene) have joined with the K’áálǫ Got’ine (Willow Lake Dene) (they lived around K’áálô Tué – ″Willow Lake″, today known as Brackett Lake) in
18-617: The Northwest Territories. The Sahtu Secretariat Incorporated and various designated organizations implement the agreement and pursue ongoing negotiations. The Sahtu Dene Council represents the four Indian Band councils. This First Nations in Canada –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Canadian government –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sahtu An early description of Sahtú cultures
24-644: The Sahtú Dene experienced great loss during Canada's participation in the Manhattan Project . The need for radioactive materials, (such as radium ), to create atomic weapons was met with the deposits mined from the Eldorado Mine at Port Radium on Great Bear Lake. The Sahtú Dene were hired to transport the ore containing radium from the Northwest Territories to be processed in Ontario or
30-700: The United States. Since much of the uranium that existed in Europe was under Nazi control, the radium deposits in Canada were vital to the creation of the first atomic bombs. Unaware of the radiation's effects, the Sahtú Dene used cloth sacks to transport the ore. The number of deaths caused by radiation is disputed by the Government of Canada. The government report says that the people of Deline did not handle yellowcake but sulfur powder. The level of exposure to uranium ore without modern safety standards
36-614: The community of Tulit’a. The Sahtúot’ine (Sahtú Dene or Great Bear Lake Dene) are named after Sahtú/Great Bear Lake, and are based in Deline. Métis people, descendants of relationships established between Dene people and fur traders, reside in all five communities of the region. The Hareskin Dene called themselves K'a so Got’ine/Katoo Got’ine ("big willow people") or K’ahsho Got’ine/K'áshot’ Got’ine (″big-arrowhead-people″, mistranslated as Hareskin people, an English rendering of Gahwié Got’ine – ″Rabbit(skin) People″). The Déline community of
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