FDI - Beaver

The Beaver separated from the Sekani just before White contact. The Tsuu T'ina in turn separated from them. They were a nomadic hunter tribe of the Peace River and the prairies to the south, and were constantly at war with the Cree.

Aboriginal Locations

Among Sekani in AB and BC

Present Locations

AB	Beaver First Nation Band, High Level
BC	Blueberry River, Buick Creek
	Doig River First Nation, Rose Prairie
	Halfway River First Nation , Wonowon
	Heart Lake First Nation, Lac La Biche
	Horse Lake, Hythe
	West Moberly First Nation

Year	*History*
167X	Were driven into Rocky Mountains by westward thrust of armed Cree
1778	Peter Pond established a post on the Athabaska River
1780	Fission of Sekani/Beaver with the Sekani retreating from the Beaver
1782	Secured firearms
18XX	Epidemics
1838	Tranquille, a respected Beaver warrior and hunter, worked for the Hudson Bay Company as a hunter at Fort Dunvegan
1845	Catholic missionary arrived
1898	Klondike gold rush negatively affected tribe
1899	Signed Treaty No. 8

Year	. Population	AB	BC	Source
1700	0			NAHDB calculation (Enumerated with Sekani)
1800	900	150	750	NAHDB calculation
1859	800			Farraud estimate
1900	700	100	700	NAHDB calculation
1970	710			CDIA
1978	912			CDIA
2000	2,000	500	1,500	NAHDB calculation
2005	2,147	576	1,571	Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Beaver Tribe Sites:

Beaver http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Beaver.html

Beaver Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t133

Beaver Indian La Glace http://www.calverley.ca/Part01-FirstNations/01-127.html

Beaver Indians' Habitations http://www.calverley.ca/Part01-FirstNations/01-053.html

Beaver Language http://www.ydli.org/langs/beaver.htm

Beaver Language http://www.native-languages.org/beaver.htm

Beaver Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bea

Beaver Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=bea

Beaver Nation: The Fur Trade and Treaty No. 8 http://www.albertasource.ca/treaty8/eng/Peoples_and_Places/Profiles_of_the_Treaty_Makers/Bands_and_Nations/beaver_bands_fur_trade.html

Beaver (Native Group) http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000614

Capots http://www.northwestjournal.ca/XIII3.htm

Dane-zaa Living Landscape ... http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/prnr/dane_zaa/report.html

Doig River First Nation http://www.doigriverfn.com/

Dunneza http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunneza

Halfway River First Nation ... http://www.ainfos.ca/01/aug/ainfos00487.html

Peace River Indian Bands http://www.calverley.ca/Part01-FirstNations/01-121.html

Sekani Indians of Canada http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/indians/sekani_indians.htm

Sekani of British Columbia ... http://www.calverley.ca/Part01-FirstNations/01-033.html

Treaty 8 First Nations http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/negotiation/first_nations_in_the_process/treaty_8.htm

West Moberly First Nation http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ps/lts/fng/mp/pg87_e.html

*Ethnie:*	BEAVER (DUNNEZA)
*Dialect*	Beaver
*Language:*	Sekani
*Family:*	Canadian Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Nuclear Na-Dene
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Rocky Mountains