Chipewyan people

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The Chipewyan people, also known as Dene Suline, are an Indigenous Dene group of northern Canada traditionally living in the subarctic regions of the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Chipewyan people canonical 6
Chipewyan 5
Chipewyan (Dene) people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
Dene people
First Nations people
Indigenous people
alsoKnownAs Dene Suline
Denesuline
Denésoliné
linked to: Dene
country Canada
culturalPractice drumming
oral tradition
seasonal migration
storytelling
traditional hunting ceremonies
environment boreal forest
tundra-forest transition zone
governedBy band councils
tribal councils
historicalContact European fur traders
Hudson's Bay Company
language Chipewyan language
linked to: Chipewyan
languageFamily Na-Dene language family
linked to: Na-Dene

Northern Athabaskan languages
linguisticFamily Athabaskan peoples
linked to: Athabascan peoples

Na-Dene peoples
linked to: Na-Dene
partOf Dene peoples
populationRegion Northern Alberta
linked to: northern Alberta

Northern Manitoba
Northern Saskatchewan
Northwest Territories
recognizedAs First Nations in Canada
linked to: First Nations
relatedEthnicGroup Cree people
linked to: Cree

Dogrib people
Slavey people
Yellowknives Dene
linked to: Dene peoples
religion Christianity
traditional Indigenous spirituality
traditionalRegion Alberta
Manitoba
Northwest Territories
Saskatchewan
Subarctic
traditionalSubsistence caribou hunting
fishing
gathering wild plants
trapping
treatyRelationship Numbered Treaties
Treaty 10
Treaty 5
Treaty 8

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dene Suline spokenBy Chipewyan people
subject linked to: Dene Suline (Chipewyan)
Dene peoples hasSubgroup Chipewyan people
Matonabbee ethnicGroup Chipewyan
linked to: Chipewyan people
Matonabbee tribalAffiliation Chipewyan
linked to: Chipewyan people
Dënesųłiné selfDesignationOf Chipewyan people
Slavey people relatedEthnicGroup Chipewyan people
Fort Chipewyan, Alberta namedAfter Chipewyan people
Fort Chipewyan, Alberta ethnicGroup Chipewyan (Dene) people
linked to: Chipewyan people
Western Canadian Subarctic traditionalTerritoryOf Chipewyan (Dënesųłiné) people
linked to: Chipewyan people
Dene Suline language spokenBy Chipewyan people
Dené Suliné hasEthnonym Chipewyan
linked to: Chipewyan people
Dane-zaa relatedEthnicGroup Chipewyan
linked to: Chipewyan people
First Nations in Alberta hasEthnicGroup Chipewyan
linked to: Chipewyan people