Slavey Indians
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Name (Hebrew)
סלביי (שבט אינדיאני)
Name (Latin)
Slavey Indians
Other forms of name
Awokanak Indians
Etchareottine Indians
nne Slave Indians
See Also From tracing topical name
Indians of North America Alberta
Indians of North America British Columbia
Indians of North America Northwest Territories
Tinne Indians
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1151353
Library of congress:
sh 85123307
Sources of Information
- Hodge handbk. Am. Ind.:p. 569 (Prairie Provinces)
- Murdock world cult.:p. 110 (Prairies)
- Waldman. Atlas No. Am. Ind.:p. 230 (Athapascan; Prairies, B.C., N.W. Territories)
- Moore, P. Wolverine myths and legends ... 1990:preface abstract (Slavey Indians, Dene Dhaá Indians) table of contents (Dene Dhah) preface p. ix (Dene Thá)
- Goulet, J.A. Ways of seeing, 1999.
- Ethnologue WWW site, June 2, 2009(Slavey, North; Slavey, South)
- Wikipedia WWW site, June 2, 2009(Slavey (also Slave): First Nations aboriginal people of the Dene group, indigenous to the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories, and extending into northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta. This name was previously spelled in English as "Slave" but was changed to avoid confusion with the common noun referring to slavery)
- Britannica online, June 2, 2009(Slave (also called Slavey, Awokanak, or Etchareottine): group of Athabascan-speaking Indians of Canada, originally inhabiting the western shores of the Great Slave Lake, the basins of the Mackenzie and Liard rivers, and other neighbouring riverine and forest areas. Their name, Awokanak, or Slave, was given them by the Cree, who plundered and often enslaved numbers of them, and this name became the familiar one used by the French and English, for the Slave had a general reputation for timidity or pacifism, whether deserved or not)
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Wikipedia description:
The Slavey (also Awokanak, Slave, and South Slavey) are a First Nations group of Indigenous peoples in Canada. They speak the Slavey language, a part of the Athabaskan languages. Part of the Dene people, their homelands are in the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories, northeastern British Columbia, and northwestern Alberta.
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