FDI - Deline

The Deline were nomadic hunter tribes of the sub-arctic. They ranged west and northwest of Great Bear Lake. Their remote range minimized the negative effect of the White influx though they suffered nonetheless from disease, and in modern times, from radioactive exposure.

Aboriginal Location

AB among Chipewyan or NT

Year	*History*
1670	Hudson Bay Company chartered
1697	The Cree, having guns received from traders, drove the Chipewyan north and east of their aboriginal territories
1717	Churchill post established
1730	Approximate date Alberta Indians acquired horses and guns
1769	Visited by Hearne
1784	Smallpox epidemic
1820	John Franklin visited tribe
1827	Franklins second visit
1835	Yellowknives defeated by the Slavey and driven from the rich area of the Yellowknife River to the barren hills about Great slave lake
1887	The Great Famine
1897	Indian Treaty No. 8 was signed by Alexander Laviolette for the Chipewyan
1920	Spanish Flu
1948	Measles epidemic

Year	NT Population	Source
1670	750	Mooney estimate
1700	750	NAHDB calculation
1800	600	NAHDB calculation
1858	467	Ross estimate
1867	422	Petitot
1900	500	NAHDB calculation
1921	520	Hurlbert
1929	320	Hurlbert
1944	337	G. Taylor
1955	291	Hurlbert
1970	365	CDIA
1978	430	CDIA
2000	600	NAHDB calculation
2005	550	Indian Life Online
2005	759	Aboriginal Canada

Yellowknife Tribe Sites:

Aboriginal History of Northern Canada http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/aborhist.htm

Affection/Aggression http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v10n5p12.htm

Canada, Racism, Genocide, and the Bomb http://dominionpaper.ca/original_peoples/2005/04/05/canada_rac.html

Cancer, Remorse Haunt Tiny Village http://www.junkscience.com/news3/greatbr.htm

Chipewyan/Dene Language http://www.native-languages.org/chipewyin.htm

Chipewyan Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipewyan_language

Chipewyan Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=chp

Chipewyan Language http://www.languagegeek.com/dene/denesulhine/denesulhine.html

Chipewyan Language Plaque http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/tribute/chipwyan-e.html

Chipewyan Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=chp

Dark Chapter in Canadian History http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/44/048.html

Deline http://pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/exhibits/nv/deline.htm

Deline http://www.deline.ca/community/

Deline Dene Band http://www.atns.net.au/biogs/A001779b.htm

Deline (Fort Franklin) http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/abdt/apps/connectivitysurvey.nsf/vAllCRSummaryEn/2603

Deline History http://www.deline.ca/community/history.html

Dene History http://www.denenation.com/denehistory.html

Dene Naowere Ko' http://collections.ic.gc.ca/sahtuotine/speaking_main.htm

First Arctic Land Expedition ... http://www.carc.org/pubs/v14no2/1.htm

Fort Franklin Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/nwt/pro_nt16.php

Fort Smith http://collections.ic.gc.ca/canoe/smith.htm

François Beaulieu, Legend of the Great Slave Métis http://www.greatcanadianlakes.com/northwest/slave/cul_page4.htm

Hare Indian Dog http://aradergalleries.com/detail.php?id=649

Hare Indians http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07136b.htm

Hare Language Plaque http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/tribute/hare-e.html

Maps of the Arctic Basin ... http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/scripts/minisa.dll/144/proe/proarc/se+arctic,+v.+36,+no.++2,+June+1983,*?COMMANDSEARCH

Sahtu Cultural Institute http://pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/research/Places/genrecomend.html

Sahtu Dene http://pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/research/Places/theland.html

Slave River History http://www.greatcanadianrivers.com/rivers/slaveriver/history-home.html

Traditional Tribes of Great Slave http://www.greatcanadianlakes.com/northwest/slave/cul_page2.htm

Treaty No. 8 http://www.treaty8.org/t8fn_fullTexttreaty8.htm

Treaty No. 8 http://www.theedge.ca/barbarabeck/page2.html

Voices of Deline http://www.sahtugotinegodi.ca/

*Ethnie:*	DELINE (SAHTU DENE)
*Dialect:*	North Slavey
*Language:*	Hare-Chipewyan
*Family:*	Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Nuclear Na-Dene
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Rocky Mountains