Tłı̨chǫ
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thumb|Photo album page showing Tłı̨chǫ settlement at Behchokǫ̀|Fort Rae The Tłı̨chǫ (; ) people, sometimes spelled Tlicho and also known as the Dogrib, are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Tłı̨chǫ
- Ethnic group.image
- 235px
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Tłı̨chǫ tipis c. 1900.
- Ethnic group.population
- 1,935
- Ethnic group.popplace
- CanadaNorthwest Territories
- Ethnic group.langs
- Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib), English
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity, Animism
- Ethnic group.related
- Yellowknives, Chipewyan (Dënesųłiné), Sahtu
- Ethnonym.root
- Tłı̨chǫ"dog-flank"
- Ethnonym.person
- Tłı̨chǫ Done
- Ethnonym.people
- Tłı̨chǫ Done Do
- Ethnonym.language
- Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
- Ethnonym.country
- Tłı̨chǫ Ndé, Denendeh
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Dene
- Part of
- First Nations
- Image
- Five boys with movie camera - NWT 1939.jpg
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- Tłı̨chǫ
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Name
- Communities
- Treaty Process
- Yellowknife B Band (Treaty No. 8 Dogrib)
- Dog Rib Rae Band (Treaty No. 11 Dogrib)
- Tłı̨chǫ First Nations
- Yellowknives Dene First Nation (formerly Yellowknife B Band)
- Tlicho Government (formerly Dog Rib Rae Band)
- The Tlicho Agreement
- Notable Tłı̨chǫ persons
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Photo album page showing Tłı̨chǫ settlement at Behchokǫ̀|Fort Rae The Tłı̨chǫ (; ) people, sometimes spelled Tlicho and also known as the Dogrib, are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
== Name == The name Dogrib is an English adaptation of their own name, (or ) – “Dog-Flank People”, referring to their fabled descent from a supernatural dog-man. Like their Dene neighbours they called themselves often simply ("person", "human") or ("People, i.e. Dene People"). The Tłı̨chǫ's land is known as (or , or ). On the 1682 Franquelin map, Dogrib was recorded as "Alimousp[i]goiak" (from Cree , "Dog-Flanks").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tłı̨chǫ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.