The Chipewyan (/ ˌtʃɪpəˈwaɪən / CHIP-ə-WY-ən, also called Denésoliné or Dënesųłı̨né or Dënë Sųłınë́, meaning "the original/real people") [2][3] are a Dene Indigenous Canadian people of the Athabaskan language family, whose ancestors are identified with the Taltheilei Shale archaeological tradition. [4][5][6] They are part of the Northern Athabas...

Chipewyan, Athabaskan-speaking North American Indians of northern Canada. They originally inhabited a large triangular area with a base along the 1,000-mile-long (1,600 km) Churchill River and an apex some 700 miles (1,100 km) to the north; the …

May 21, 2018 · The Chipewyan inhabit the central Canadian subarctic region. The Chipewyan people call themselves collectively Dene (The People). Chipewyan, their common English name, generally is regarded as deriving from a pejorative Cree description of the inadequacy of their first attempts to prepare beaver skins for the fur trade.

Feb 6, 2006 · The Denesuline (also known as Chipewyan) are Indigenous Peoples in the Subarctic region of Canada, with communities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The Denesuline are Dene, and share many cultural and linguistic similarities with neighbouring Dene communities.

Chipewyan / ˌ tʃ ɪ p ə ˈ w aɪ ə n / [4] or Dënesųłinë́ (ethnonym: Dënesųłinë́ yatié [5] [6] [tènɛ̀sũ̀ɬìné jàtʰìɛ́]), often simply called Dëne, is the language spoken by the Chipewyan people of northwestern Canada. It is categorized as part of the Northern Athabaskan language family.

The Chipewyan (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ p ə ˈ w aɪ ə n / CHIP-ə-WY-ən, also called Denésoliné or Dënesųłı̨né or Dënë Sųłınë́, meaning "the original/real people") [2] [3] are a Dene Indigenous Canadian people of the Athabaskan language family. Their ancestors are …

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Even today, in settled Cree-Chipewyan communities, ethnic relations are usually strained. Direct contact with Europeans was initiated in the late seventeenth century when French and English traders encountered Chipewyan women and children who had been taken captive by the Cree.

The Chipewyan, also known as Denesuline, are an Indigenous people primarily located in the northern regions of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories in Canada. With a population of over 23,000 registered members, they are one of …

Chippewa and Chipewyan Indians of Canada. Chippewa or Ojibwa. Bands of this immense tribe extended from Lake Nipissing westward along the north shore of Lake Superior, and in later times they settled in southern Manitoba, in the northern part of the present States of Minnesota and North Dakota and along the southern shore of Lake Superior.