5-838: The Tulita Dene First Nation is a Dene First Nations band government in the Northwest Territories . The band's main community is Tulita , along the Mackenzie River . The Tulita Dene First Nation is a member of the Sahtu Dene Council . Under the Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement , the First Nation shares title to 41,437 square kilometers of land in the Sahtu Region . This Northwest Territories -related article
10-424: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dene The Dene people ( / ˈ d ɛ n eɪ / ) are an Indigenous group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal , subarctic and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languages and it is the common Athabaskan word for "people". The term "Dene" has two uses: Dene are spread through a wide region. They live in
15-551: The Dene People decided to join the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) seeking recognition for their ancestral cultural and land rights. The largest population of Chipewyan language (Dënesųłinë́ or Dëne) speakers live in the northern Saskatchewan village of La Loche and the adjoining Clearwater River Dene Nation . In 2011 the combined population was 3389 people. The Dënesųłinë́ language
20-601: The Dene and the Inuit . In 1996, Dene and Inuit representatives participated in a healing ceremony at Bloody Falls to reconcile the centuries-old grievances. Behchokǫ̀ , Northwest Territories is the largest Dene community in Canada. The Dene include six main groups: Although the above-named groups are what the term "Dene" usually refers to in modern usage, other groups who consider themselves Dene include: In 2005, elders from
25-529: The Mackenzie Valley (south of the Inuvialuit ), and can be found west of Nunavut . Their homeland reaches to western Yukon , and the northern part of British Columbia , Alberta , Saskatchewan , Manitoba , Alaska and the southwestern United States. Dene were the first people to settle in what is now the Northwest Territories . In northern Canada, historically there were ethnic feuds between
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