Wikibooks: Canadian History/The People of the Lands/Chipewyan

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Hudson Bay; Hudson; Great Slave Lake; Parkland; Chipewyan; inuit; inuits; Lake Athabasca; Tundra
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_History/The_People_of_the_Lands/Chipewyan

= Overview = Chipewyan comes from a Cree term meaning ‘pointed skins ’ but they called themselves ‘Dene’ which means people. They speak a language which belongs to a branch the northeastern Athapaskan language family. Their ancestors were the Taltheilei. = Fur trade = Before the Europeans’ arrival t...