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Due to its location on Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife has a frost-free growing season that averages slightly over 100 days. [39] In an occasional year, the first fall frost does not come until October. [45] Most of the limited precipitation falls between June and October, with April being the driest month of the year and August having the most ...
The historic Yellowknive tribe lived north and northeast of the Great Slave Lake (Tinde'e - "Great Lake") around the Yellowknife River and Yellowknife Bay (Wíílíídeh cho - "Inconnu River") and northward along the Coppermine River, northeast to the Back River (Thlewechodyeth or Thlew-ee-choh-desseth - "Great Fish River") [2] and east to the Thelon River. [3]
The Inuit Circumpolar Council is a United Nations-recognized non-governmental organization (NGO), which defines its constituency as Canada's Inuit and Inuvialuit, Greenland's Kalaallit Inuit, Alaska's Inupiat and Yup'ik, and Russia's Siberian Yupik, [179] despite the last two neither speaking an Inuit dialect [70] or considering themselves "Inuit".
The Inuit self-governing region of Nunatsiavut, the unrecognized Inuit territory of NunatuKavut and Nitassinan, the ancestral homeland of the Innu, are also located in Labrador. The Qalipu Mi'kmaq , [ 181 ] a Miꞌkmaq people, have passed the final stages of obtaining Status under the Indian Act, and since 2011 has been a recognized band in ...
Tuktoyaktuk (/ ˌ t ʌ k t ə ˈ j æ k t ʌ k / TUK-tə-YAK-tuk; Inuvialuktun: Tuktuyaaqtuuq [təktujaːqtuːq], lit. ' it looks like a caribou ') [5] is an Inuvialuit hamlet near the Mackenzie River delta in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, at the northern terminus of the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway.
Inuvik / ɪ ˈ n uː v ɪ k / (place of man) is the only town [9] in the Inuvik Region, and the third largest community in Canada's Northwest Territories.Located in what is sometimes called the Beaufort Delta Region, [10] it serves as the region's administrative and service centre.
The non-Inuit population was estimated to total around 1,000. Inuit were not counted at the time because they had no status under Canadian law, and were not yet settled in towns or villages. [2] In the period without a sitting council from 1905 to 1921, the government of the Territories was small but still active.
Tuktut Nogait National Park (/ ˈ t ʊ k t ʊ t n oʊ ˈ ɡ aɪ t /) [3] is a national park located in the Northwest Territories of Canada that was established in 1998. Meaning "young caribou" in Inuvialuktun, the park is home to the calving grounds of the Bluenose-West caribou herd.