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40-582: South Slavey may refer to: The South Slavey people, or Slavey The Slavey language Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title South Slavey . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Slavey&oldid=1017836467 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

80-649: A small part of Yukon, together called the Inuvialuit Settlement Region , and sometimes includes Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk. The central Arctic covers the pre-division Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories . Since 1925, Canada has claimed the portion of the Arctic between 60°W and 141°W longitude, extending all the way north to the North Pole : All islands in the Arctic Archipelago and Herschel , off

120-565: Is a translation of Awokanak, the name given to Dene by the Cree "who sometimes raided and enslaved their less aggressive northern neighbors [ sic ]". The names of the Slave River , Lesser Slave River , Great Slave Lake , and Lesser Slave Lake all derive from this Cree name. Esclaves remains incorporated in the French names of these geographical features, since the French traded with

160-770: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Slavey The Slavey (also Awokanak , Slave , and South Slavey ) are a First Nations group of Indigenous peoples in Canada . They speak the Slavey language , a part of the Athabaskan languages . Part of the Dene people, their homelands are in the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories , northeastern British Columbia , and northwestern Alberta . Slavey or just Slave

200-457: Is home to the various sub-groups of the Inuit , a people unrelated to other Indigenous peoples in Canada . These are people who have traditionally relied mostly on hunting marine mammals and caribou , mainly barren-ground caribou , as well as fish and migratory birds. The Inuit lived in groups that pursued a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, with a basic governmental system in which power was exercised by

240-601: Is in the true Arctic, being north of the Arctic Circle ), sometimes excluding Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk ; Nunavik , an autonomous part of the province of Quebec; Nunatsiavut , an autonomous part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and perhaps a few parts of the Hudson Bay coast of Ontario and Manitoba. The western Arctic is the northernmost portion of the Northwest Territories (roughly Inuvik Region ) and

280-526: Is within 20 km (12 mi) of Canadian islands; however, the United States claims that it is in international waters . As of 2023, ice and freezing temperatures have always made this a minor issue, but climate change may make the passage more accessible to shipping. Furthermore, the thawing of the polar ice cap increases the mutual proximity of Canada and Russia as a result of the historically unusable Arctic Ocean becoming increasingly navigable. Using

320-751: The Arctic Cordillera mountain system, are geologically distinct from the Arctic Region (which consists largely of lowlands ). The Arctic and Hudson Bay Lowlands comprise a substantial part of the geographic region often considered part of the Canadian Shield (in contrast to the sole geological area). The ground in the Arctic is mostly composed of permafrost , making construction difficult and often hazardous, and agriculture virtually impossible. The Arctic watershed (or drainage basin) drains northern parts of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, most of

360-522: The Chipewyan making up the largest sub-group. The three territories each have a greater proportion of Aboriginal inhabitants than any of Canada's provinces. There are also many more recent immigrants from around the world; of the territories, Yukon has the largest percentage of non-Aboriginal inhabitants, while Nunavut the smallest. As of 2021 , the largest settlement in Northern Canada is Whitehorse ,

400-509: The far north . The different climates of these two regions result in vastly different vegetation, and therefore very different economies, settlement patterns and histories. The "near north" or sub-Arctic is mostly synonymous with the Canadian boreal forest , a large area of evergreen -dominated forests with a subarctic climate . This area has traditionally been home to the Indigenous peoples of

440-569: The Arctic lie behind differences in territorial claims in the Arctic . This claim is recognized by most countries with some exceptions, including the United States; Denmark, Russia, and Norway have made claims similar to those of Canada in the Arctic and are opposed by the European Union and the United States. This is especially important with the Northwest Passage , which Canada asserts control of as part of Canadian Internal Waters because it

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480-534: The Arctic watershed. Each of these elements eventually merges with the Mackenzie so that it thereby drains the vast majority of the Arctic watershed. Under the Köppen climate classification , much of mainland Northern Canada has a subarctic climate , with a tundra climate in most of the Arctic Archipelago and on the northern coasts, and an ice cap climate in some parts of the Arctic Cordillera . For more than half of

520-517: The Cree before the English did. The people now called Slavey in English were not necessarily taken as slaves in that period. The name Slavey is seldom used by the people themselves, who call themselves Dene. Indigenous ethnonyms for South Slavey people and language are Dehcho , Deh Cho Dene (" Mackenzie River People") or Dene Tha . Though most Athabaskan peoples call themselves Dene , those in

560-468: The NWT and 0.02/km (0.052/sq mi) for Nunavut), compared with 4.2/km (11/sq mi) for Canada. The region is heavily endowed with natural resources, but in most cases they are very expensive to extract and situated in fragile environmental areas. Though GDP per person is higher than elsewhere in Canada, the region remains relatively poor, mostly because of the extremely high cost of most consumer goods, and

600-714: The Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and parts of Yukon into the Arctic Ocean , including the Beaufort Sea and Baffin Bay . With the exception of the Mackenzie River , Canada's longest river, this watershed has been little used for hydroelectricity . The Peace and Athabasca rivers, along with Great Bear and Great Slave Lake (respectively the largest and second largest lakes wholly enclosed within Canada), are significant elements of

640-558: The Northwest Territories tend to use it for their particular group specifically. However, the northern Slavey are also known in English as the Sahtú , while the southern band are known as the Deh Cho. The South Slavey live in northwestern Alberta , northeastern British Columbia, and the southern Northwest Territories. First Nations of South Slavey people: The Sahtu, Sahtu Dene (" Great Bear Lake People") or North Slavey people live exclusively in

680-762: The Northwest Territories. They speak the North Slavey language . The Navajo people (Diné) of the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States are said to be descended from the Nahani , who lived where the Nahanni National Park Reserve is, and also the Slavey of Northern Canada . Most residents of Lynx River, the fictional town in which CBC drama North of 60 is set, are Slavey. Though

720-726: The Subarctic , that is the First Nations , who were hunters of moose , freshwater fishers and trappers . This region was heavily involved in the North American fur trade during its peak importance, and is home to many Métis people who originated in that trade. The area was mostly part of Rupert's Land under the nominal control of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) from 1670 to 1869, who regarded Rupert's Land as their proprietary colony. In 1670, King Charles II of England in his grant creating

760-567: The Yukon coast, form part of the region and are Canadian territory, and the territorial waters claimed by Canada surround these islands. Views of territorial claims in this region are complicated by disagreements on legal principles. Canada and the Soviet Union / Russia have long claimed that their territory extends according to the sector principle to the North Pole. The United States does not accept

800-547: The area it had purchased the Northwest Territories . Shortly thereafter the government made a series of treaties with the local First Nations regarding land title. This opened the region to non-Native settlement, as well as to forestry, mining, and oil and gas drilling. In 1896, gold was discovered in the Yukon, leading to the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896-1899, and the first substantial white settlements were made in

840-446: The capital of Yukon, with 28,201 inhabitants. Second is Yellowknife , the capital of the Northwest Territories, which contains 20,340 inhabitants. Third is Iqaluit , the capital of Nunavut, with 7,429. Although it has not been on the same scale, some towns and cities have experienced population increases not seen for several decades before. Yellowknife has become the centre of diamond production for Canada (which has become one of

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880-472: The dry cold air prevalent throughout most of the region, snowfall is often light. During the short summers, much of Northern Canada is snow free, except for the Arctic Cordillera, which remains covered with snow and ice throughout the year. In the summer months, temperatures average below 7 °C (45 °F) but may occasionally exceed 18 °C (65 °F). Most of the rainfall accumulated occurs in

920-498: The early 20th century treaty process, and aboriginal title to the land has been acknowledged by the Canadian government with the creation of autonomous territories instead of the Indian reserves of further south. In 1982 a referendum was held to decide on splitting the Northwest Territories. This was followed by the 1992 Nunavut creation referendum , with the majority of the people in

960-542: The existence of the British Arctic territory claim nor were they aware for some time afterwards that under international law their territories had just been included in Canada. It was not until 1920, when detachments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) started being sent into the far north to enforce Canadian law, that Canadian sovereignty over the region became effective. This area was not part of

1000-447: The far north voting to leave the Northwest Territories, leading to creation of the new territory of Nunavut in 1999. Very few non-Indigenous people have settled in these areas, and the residents of the far north represent less than 1% of Canada's total population. The far north is also often broken into western and eastern parts and sometimes a central part. The eastern Arctic includes the self-governing territory of Nunavut (much of which

1040-527: The late 18th century to assert its claim to Rupert's Land in response to rival fur traders coming out of Montreal who were hurting profits by going directly to the First Nations. The HBC's claim to Rupert's Land, which, as the company was the de facto administrator, included the North-Western Territory , was purchased by the Canadian government in 1869. After buying Rupert's Land, Canada renamed

1080-533: The late 19th and early 20th centuries, Canada reduced the size of the Northwest Territory by carving new provinces out of it such as Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, together with the new territory of the Yukon, while transferring other parts of the Northwest Territory to Ontario and Quebec. The "far north" is synonymous with the areas north of the tree line : the Barren Grounds and tundra . This area

1120-511: The local headman, a person acknowledged to be the best hunter, and the angakkuq , sometimes called shamans. This area was somewhat involved in the fur trade , but was more influenced by the whaling industry . Britain maintained a claim to the far north as part of the British Arctic Territories , and in 1880 transferred its claim to Canada, who incorporated the far north into the Northwest Territories. The Inuit were not aware of

1160-583: The near north. To deal with the increased settlement in the Klondike , the Yukon Territory was created in 1898. Today several million people live in the near north, around 15% of the Canadian total. Large parts of the near north are not part of Canada's territories, but rather are the northern parts of the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, meaning they have very different political histories as minority regions within larger units. In

1200-473: The political definition of the three northern territories, the north, with an area of 3,921,739 km (1,514,192 sq mi), makes up 39.3% of Canada. Although vast, the entire region is very sparsely populated. As of 2021, only about 118,160 people lived there, compared with 36,991,981 in the rest of Canada. The population density for Northern Canada is 0.03/km (0.078/sq mi) (0.08/km (0.21/sq mi) for Yukon, 0.03/km (0.078/sq mi) for

1240-460: The portion of Canada that lies north of the Arctic Circle , east of Alaska and west of Greenland . However, in many other uses the two areas are treated as a single unit. The capital cities of the three northern territories, from west to east, are: As a social rather than political region, the Canadian North is often subdivided into two distinct regions based on climate, the near north and

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1280-489: The proprietary colony Rupert's Land defined its frontiers as all the lands adjudging Hudson Strait , Hudson Bay or rivers flowing into Hudson Bay, in theory giving control of much of what is now Canada to the HBC. Under the royal charter of 2 May 1670, the HBC received the theoretical control of 1.5 million square miles (3.9 million square kilometres) making up 40% of what is now Canada. Despite its claim that Rupert's Land

1320-542: The region is heavily subsidised by the government of Canada . As of 2016, 53.3% of the population of the three territories (23.3% in Yukon, 50.7% in the NWT and 85.9% in Nunavut ) is Indigenous, Inuit , First Nations or Métis . The Inuit are the largest group of Indigenous peoples in Northern Canada , and 53.0% of all Canada's Inuit live in Northern Canada, with Nunavut accounting for 46.4%. The region also contains several groups of First Nations, who are mainly Dene , with

1360-483: The sector principle and does not make a sector claim based on its Alaskan Arctic coast. Claims that undersea geographic features are extensions of a country's continental shelf are also used to support claims; for example the Denmark/ Greenland claim on territory to the North Pole, some of which is disputed by Canada. Foreign ships, both civilian and military, are allowed the right of innocent passage through

1400-622: The summer months, ranging from 25 to 51 mm (1 to 2 in) in the northernmost islands to 180 mm (7 in) at the southern end of Baffin Island . The northern territories are represented in the Parliament of Canada by 3 Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons (1 from each territory) and 3 senators (1 from each territory). Currently, of the 3 northern MPs in the Commons, 2 are Liberals,

1440-570: The territorial waters of a littoral state subject to conditions in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea . The right of innocent passage is not allowed, however, in internal waters , which are enclosed bodies of water or waters landward of a chain of islands. Disagreements about the sector principle or extension of territory to the North Pole and about the definition of internal waters in

1480-460: The top three countries for diamonds). In the 2006 Canadian Census , the three territories posted a combined population of over 100,000 for the first time in Canadian history. While the largest part of the Arctic is composed of permanent ice and the Canadian Arctic tundra north of the tree line , it encompasses geological regions of varying types: The Innuitian Mountains , associated with

1520-511: The word itself is seldom mentioned in dialogue (band members generally identifying themselves as Dene), the town is located in Slavey territory and on one occasion a character proposes a toast before the assembled members in the Slavey language. Northern Canada The terms "northern Canada" or "the North" may be used in contrast with the far north , which may refer to the Canadian Arctic ,

1560-486: The year, much of Northern Canada is snow- and ice-covered, with some limited moderation by the relatively warmer waters in coastal areas, with temperatures generally remaining below the freezing mark from October to May. During the coldest three months, mean monthly temperatures range from −29 °C (−20 °F) in the southern sections to −34 °C (−30 °F) in the northern sections, although temperatures can go down to −48 to −51 °C (−55 to −60 °F). Owing to

1600-456: Was a proprietary colony, the HBC controlled only the areas around its forts ( trading posts ) on the shores of James Bay and Hudson Bay, and never sought to impose political control on the First Nations peoples, whose co-operation was needed for the fur trade. For its first century, the HBC never ventured inland, being content to have the First Nations peoples come to its forts to trade fur for European goods. The HBC started to move inland only in

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