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The name "Denendeh", though now confined to the NWT, could conceivably be employed as a supra-national name for all the Northern Athabaskan traditional territories as a whole, in a similar way that "Anishinaabewaki" transcends modern political boundaries. See also Tłı̨chǫ Ndè (Dogrib country).
Pages in category "Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total.
Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern Canada and most of the Arctic Archipelago. Its vast territory makes it the fifth-largest country subdivision in the world, as well as North America's second-largest (after Greenland). The capital Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay), on Baffin Island in the east, was chosen by a capital plebiscite in 1995.
The Northern Territory has one university which opened in 1989 under the name of the Northern Territory University. [82] Now renamed as the Charles Darwin University, it had about 19,000 students enrolled: about 5,500 higher education students and about 13,500 students on vocational education and training (VET) courses.
According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Métis were historically the children of French fur traders and Cree women or, from unions of English or Scottish traders and Cree, Northwestern Ojibwe, or northern Dene women (Anglo-Métis). The Métis National Council defines a Métis as "a person who self-identifies as ...
The name was gazetted in 1865 applying to the portion South of 16°S of what is now the Northern Territory. [9] For some time, Northern Territory including Arnhem Land referred only to the region north of that line. [10] [11] [12] In 1863, the Northern Territory was annexed by South Australia by letters patent.
There is a movement to remove the name "squaw" from geographic place names across the United States. [76] There is a minority counter-movement among a small number of academics to "reclaim" what they claim is the possible original meaning of the word, as an in-group term, which could still be offensive if used outside of that speech community.