FDI - Yellowknife

The Yellowknife were a nomadic hunter tribe of the sub-arctic. They were located on the northern shores and eastern bays of Great Slave Lake having been driven there in war by the Slavey from the Yellowknife River.. Their remote location minimized their contact with Whites. The tribe was known and named for manufacturing knives, axes, and other cutting tools from the ore of a local copper mine. Cheaper and more durable European tools ruined their market. The Cree were their enemies as were the other Inuits and other Athapaskan tribes of the region.

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
1718	Chipewyan were living on Peace River, but after Cree obtained guns and drove Slaveys tribe from Slave River, the Chipewyan drove off Cree and stayed on Slave River
1730	Approximate date Alberta Indians acquired horses and guns
1769	Visited by Hearne
1784	Smallpox epidemic killed 90% of Chipewyans and Yellowknife
1789	Visited by Mackenzie and Metis Francois Beaulieu II
1820	John Franklin visited tribe and met Chief Akaitcho
1827	Franklins second visit, Yellowknives and Dogribs at war
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	430	Mooney estimate
1700	450	NAHDB calculation
1800	300	NAHDB calculation
1859	219	Census
1900	500	NAHDB calculation
1906	500	Official
2000	12,000	NAHDB calculation
2005	13,011	Indian Life Online

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

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

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

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

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

Gold Mines Built Yellowknife http://pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/nwtminingcentre/goldinfo.htm

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

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

Where Are the Real Yellowknives? http://www.theedge.ca/barbarabeck/

Wolf at the Door http://www.carc.org/pubs/v14no2/1.htm

Yellowknife Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/nwt/pro_nt58.php

Yellowknife City http://groups.msn.com/Halifaxonline/yellowknifecity.msnw

Yellowknife, NWT http://www.nwtandy.rcsigs.ca/stations/yellowknife.htm

Yellowknife, NWT http://members.tripod.com/~higharc/yellowk.html

Yellowknife, NWT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowknife,_Northwest_Territories

*Ethnie:*	YELLOWKNIFE
*Dialect:*	Yellowknife
*Language:*	Hare-Chipewyan
*Family:*	Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Nuclear Na-Dene
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Rocky Mountains