Sahtu

Sahtu

The Sahtú (or "North Slavey") are an Aboriginal peoples of Canada Dene people living in the vicinity of Great Bear Lake ("Sahtú", the source of their name), Northwest Territories, Canada. Other Sahtú communities include Deline, Northwest Territories, as well as Hare (K'ahshd Got'line District), Bear Lake (Déline District), and Mountain (Tulita District).

Ethnography

The Deline community of the Sahtú Dene experienced great loss during Canada's participation in the Manhattan Project. The need for radioactive materials, (such as radium), to create atomic weapons was met with the deposits found near the Great Bear Lake. The Sahtú Dene were hired to transport the ore containing radium from the Northwest Territories to be processed in Ontario or the United States. Since much of the uranium that existed in Europe was under Nazi control, the radium deposits in Canada were vital to the creation of the first atomic bombs. Unaware of the radiation's effects, the Sahtú Dene used "cloth sacks" to transport the ore. [http://www.deline.ca/community/uranium.html] Ultimately, the devastating effects of radiation poisoning impacted the Deline community severely. A 1999 documentary by Peter Blow entitled "Village of Widows" detailed the experiences of the Sahtú Dene.

Language

Sahtú speak the North Slavey language, which belongs to Northwestern Canada group of Northern Athabaskan languages.cite web |url=http://www.firstnationsseeker.ca/Sahtu.html |title=Sahtu North Slavey |accessdate=2007-10-15 |publisher=firstnationseeker.ca]

References

Further reading


* Auld, James and Robert Kershaw, Eds. "The Sahtu Atlas: Maps and Stories from the Sahtu Settlement Area in Canada's Northwest Territories". [Norman Wells, N.W.T.] : Sahtu GIS Project, 2005. ISBN 0973763000
* Blondin, George. "When the World Was New: Stories of the Sahtú Dene". Yellowknife, N.W.T., Canada: Outcrop, the Northern Publishers, 1990. ISBN 1919315217
* Canada. "Implementation Plan for the Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement". Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1993. ISBN 0662214226
* Kuhnlein, H V, et al. 1995. "DIETARY NUTRIENTS OF SAHTU DENE/METIS VARY BY FOOD SOURCE, SEASON AND AGE". "Ecology of Food and Nutrition". 34, no. 3: 183.
* Sahtu Heritage Places and Sites Joint Working Group. "Rakekée Gok'é Godi = Places We Take Care of". [Yellowknife, NWT?: Sahtu Heritage Places and Sites Joint Working Group] , 2000.

External links

* [http://www.sahtu.ca/index.html Official website: Sahtú Secretariat and Sahtú Dene Council]
* [http://wildlife1.usask.ca/Sahtu/images/nwtmap.jpg
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* [http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/agr/sahtu/sahmet_e.html Sahtú Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement]
* [http://www.srrb.nt.ca/ Sahtu Renewable Resources Board]
* [http://www.srrb.nt.ca/harstudy.html Study of Sahtu Dene and Metis hunters, trappers, and fishers]
* Photos:
** [http://www.srrb.nt.ca/photos/olsen/index.html 1999-2002] and [http://www.srrb.nt.ca/photos/simmons/index.html 1967-1973]
** [http://survivingcanada.resist.ca/image/tid/18 Tulita, Fort Norman, Sahtú Region]


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