The Akaitcho Territory Government is a
First Nations
First Nations or first peoples may refer to:
* Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area.
Indigenous groups
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**First Natio ...
organization representing the
Dene
The Dene people () are an Aboriginal peoples in Canada, indigenous group of First Nations in Canada, First Nations who inhabit the northern Boreal forest of Canada, boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languag ...
people of the
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...
, Canada.
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Members
The Akaitcho Territory Government consists of the following:
*Deninu Kųę́ First Nation
The Deninu Kųę́ First Nation is a Dene First Nations band government in the Northwest Territories. The band is headquartered in the community of Fort Resolution.
The Deninu Kųę́ First Nation belongs to the Akaitcho Territory Government and ...
- Fort Resolution
Fort Resolution (''Denı́nu Kų́ę́'' (pronounced "deh-nih-noo-kwenh") "moose island place") is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community is situated at the mouth of the Slave River, on the shores o ...
* Łutsël K'é Dene First Nation - Lutselk'e
*Salt River First Nation
The Salt River First Nation is a Dene First Nations band government in the Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-Wes ...
- Fort Smith
*Smith's Landing First Nation
Smith's Landing First Nation ( chp, Tthëbátthı́ dënesųłı̨ne) is a band government headquartered at Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. Members of the band call themselves, in the Dene Suline language
Chipewyan or Denesuline ( ...
- Fort Smith
*Yellowknives Dene First Nation
The Yellowknives Dene First Nation is a band government in the Northwest Territories. It represents the Yellowknives people, namesake of the territorial capital Yellowknife. Its membership primarily resides in two communities: Ndilǫ, bordering t ...
- Dettah
Dettah, sometimes, incorrectly, as ''Detah'', is a First Nations community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located just southeast of the capital of Yellowknife, it is a drive from that city by ice road across the ...
and Ndilǫ
Ndilǫ is a First Nations community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The small Dene community is located on the edge of Yellowknife on the tip of Latham Island. It had a population of approximately 321 people in 201 ...
, both adjacent to Yellowknife
Yellowknife (; Dogrib: ) is the capital, largest community, and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the ...
References
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Politics of the Northwest Territories
First Nations in the Northwest Territories
South Slave Region
North Slave Region
Government of the Northwest Territories
First Nations tribal councils