Dakelh
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Dakelh |
| Ethnie: | DAKELH (CARRIER) |
| Dialects | Carrier and Babine |
| Language: | Carrier-Chilcotin |
| Family: | Canadian Athapaskan |
| Stock: | Nuclear Na-Dene |
| Phylum: | Na-Dene |
| Macro-Culture: | Rocky Mountian Western Plateau |
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| Aboriginal Locations: Divisions (# of Villages) |
| BC Southern (7), Northern (16), Babines (8) |
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| Year | History |
| 1793 | Alexander Mackenzie became the first white man to travel through Carrier and Sekani territories while looking for fur-trading areas for the North West Company |
| 1805 | Simon Fraser began to establish four trading posts in Carrier and Sekani territories with Fort McLeod in Sekani territory |
| 1806 | Simon Fraser built Fort St. James in Carrier territory |
| 1807 | Simon Fraser built Fort George and Fort Fraser and built built an 83 mile road from Ft. St. James to Ft. McLeod, the first colonial developed road in the territories |
| 1811 | D. William Harmon became the first recorded farmer west of the Rocky Mountains, in the Fort St. James area |
| 1843 | Missionary work began by Fr. Demers |
| 1848 | Measles epidemic |
| 1862 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1884 | The Potlatch was outlawed |
| 1885 | The arrival of Father A.G. Morice created the Carrier syllabary |
| 1899 | Treaty 8 recognized some rights in northeastern British Columbia |
| 1906 | Barricade Treaty with the Babine Nation required salmon fishermen to abandon traditional weir systems and use gillnets instead, in exchange for largely unfulfilled promises |
| 1909 | The first sternwheeler steamboat landed at South Fort George and the first sawmill was built in South Fort George |
| 1914 | Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was completed from Prince George to the mouth of the Skeena River. The "last spike" was driven between Ft. Fraser and Vanderhoof |
| 1918 | Spanish Flu epidemic |
| 1951 | Potlatch ban repealed |
| 1952 | Kenny Dam stopped the Nechako River, Cheslatta territories were flooded and the entire nation was relocatedm water systems and chinook and sockeye runs were degraded throughout the Carrier territories |
| Year | BC Population | Source | |
| 1700 | 6,000 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1780 | 5,000 | Mooney estimate | |
| 1800 | 4,500 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1806 | 3,600 | Harmon, Morice estimate | |
| 1839 | 2,625 | Swanton | |
| 1889 | 1,600 | Morice estimate | |
| 1900 | 1,600 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1902 | 1,551 | CDIA | |
| 1909 | 1,614 | CDIA | |
| 1929 | 2,145 | CDIA | |
| 1939 | 2,359 | CDIA | |
| 1944 | 2,443 | CDIA | |
| 1963 | 3,897 | Duff | |
| 1970 | 4,736 | CDIA | |
| 1978 | 5,765 | CDIA | |
| 2000 | 11,000 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2005 | 12,250 | Indian Life Online |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Chilcotin |
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