FDI - Sekani

The Sekani were a nomadic hunter/gatherer nation of the northern Rocky Mountain Trench. They were aboriginally located in the territories about the headwaters of the Finlay, Peace, and Laird Rivers. The Sekani and the Beaver fissioned after White contact with the Sekani retreating westward.. The Sarcee separated from the group sometime before White contact. The Sekani suffered from the White influx and from conflicts with the Cree and to a lesser extent, the Beaver..

Aboriginal Locations

AB Beaver

BC Sekani (9 bands per Morse)

Present Locations

BC	Kwadacha Nation, Fort Ware via Kackenzie (Formerly Fort Ware Indian Band)
	McLeod Lake Tse K'hene First Nation, McLeod Lke
	Tsay Keh Dene Band, Ingenika Point via Mackenzie (Formerly Ingenika Indian Band)

Year	*History*
167X	Were driven into Rocky Mountains by westward thrust of armed Cree
1780	Fission of Sekani/Beaver with the Sekani retreated from the Beaver
1793	Encountered by Mackenzie of the Northwest Company
1797	Visited by James Finlay
1805	Simon Fraser of the Northwest Company established Fort McLeod on McLeod Lake for Sekani trade and
1810	Visited by Daniel William Harmon of Northwest Company
1821	Northwest Company and Hudson Bay Company united
1824	Visited by Samuel Black
1826	Fort Connelly established at Bear Lake
1861	Omineca gold rush
1870	1200 Whites in territory
1884	Canadian Pacific Railroad completed
1916	Most Whites had left territory

Year	. Population	AB	BC	Source
1700	5,700	1,700	4,000	NAHDB calculation
1780	3,200	1,700	3,500	Mooney estimate
1800	2,100		2,100	NAHDB calculation
1820	1,000			Drake estimate
1887	500			Morice estimate
1893	500			Morice estimate
1900	250		250	NAHDB calculation
1923	160			CDIA
1934	290			Canadian government
1978	598			CDIA
2000	1,000		1,000	NAHDB calculation
2005	1,075			Indian Life Online

Sekani Tribe Sites:

Carrier Sekani Statement of Intent http://www.bctreaty.net/soi_3/soicarrier.html

Carrier Sekani Treaty Commission http://www.bctreaty.net/nations_3/carrier.html

Carrier Sekani Tribal Council http://www.cstc.bc.ca/

Fort Ware Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc72.php

Fort Ware No. 1 http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/abdt/apps/connectivitysurvey.nsf/vAllCRSummaryEn/1723?OpenDocument

Ingenika Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc71.php

Kwadacha http://www.bcfn.org/profile/kwadacha.htm

Kwadacha Nation http://www.kwadacha.com/Kwadacha/home.htm

McLeod Lake http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc80.php

McLeod Lake http://www.bcfn.org/profile/mcleod_lake.htm

McLeod Lake Indian Band http://www.bctreaty.net/nations_3/mcleod.html

McLeod Lake Indian Band http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/negotiation/first_nations_in_the_process/tsekani.htm

McLeod Band Near Accord http://sisis.nativeweb.org/clark/may1998bc.html

McLeod Lake Final Agreement http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nr/prs/j-a2000/00115bk_e.html

McLeod Lake Tse K'hene First Nation http://www.tsekhene.net/

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

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

Sekani Language http://www.ydli.org/langs/sekani.htm

Sekani Language http://www.native-languages.org/sekani.htm

Sekani Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=sek

Sekani Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=sek

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

Tsay Keh Dene http://www.bcfn.org/profile/tsay_keh_dene.htm

Tsay Keh Dene Band http://www.bctreaty.net/nations_3/tsaykeh.html

Tsay Keh Dene Band http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/negotiation/first_nations_in_the_process/tsaykeh_dene.htm

*Ethnie:*	SEKANI
*Language:*	Sekani
*Family:*	Canadian Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Nuclear Na-Dene
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Rocky Mountains