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Yellowknives. The Yellowknives, Yellow Knives, Copper Indians, Red Knives or T'atsaot'ine (Wíílíídeh dialect: Tetsǫ́t'ınę) are indigenous peoples of Canada, one of the five main groups of the First Nations Dene who live in the Northwest Territories. [1] The name, which is also the source for the later community of Yellowknife, derives ...
Yellowknife. Yellowknife (/ ˈjɛloʊnaɪf /; Dogrib: Sǫǫ̀mbak’è) [12] is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
Stewart River is a former settlement at the juncture of the Yukon and Stewart rivers. A few buildings and cabins remain, as well as private museum, which are threatened by erosion. It was founded as a trading post in the 1880s before the Klondike Gold Rush to serve placer miners working along the Stewart River. The Burian family was still ...
Retrieved July 30, 2021. ^ Reserve, settlement or village details for Upper Hay River 212 Reserve at Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. Retrieved July 30, 2021. ^ Reserve, settlement or village details for Utikoomak Lake 155 Reserve at Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.
Manitoba. Missouri Territory. The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, on 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) of land in British North America. This land was granted to Douglas by the Hudson's Bay Company in the Selkirk ...
v. t. e. Settler colonialism in Canada is the continuation and the results of the colonization of the assets of the Indigenous peoples in Canada. As colonization progressed, the Indigenous peoples were subject to policies of forced assimilation and cultural genocide. The policies signed many of which were designed to both allowed stable houses.
Territorial evolution of Canada. The history of post-confederation Canada began on July 1, 1867, when the British North American colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia were united to form a single Dominion within the British Empire. [ 1 ] Upon Confederation, the United Province of Canada was immediately split into the provinces of ...
The North-West Territory shewing British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Red River and Saskatchewan Settlements, for the Canadian Almanac 1870. Local indigenous peoples including the Métis , Haaninin , and Siksika were accustomed to the buffalo hunt, however, some Métis had arrived from the Red River Valley in the 1840s-60 precisely because the ...