Tłı̨chǫ seek Yellowknife land recognition, a move opposed by YKDFN – Cabin Radio
August 29, 2022
The Tłı̨chǫ Government wants Yellowknife land acknowledgements to include a reference to the Tłı̨chǫ, a suggestion the Yellowknives Dene First Nation says is “an overreach.”
In a news release late last week, the Tłı̨chǫ Government asserted that land acknowledgements in the city should recognize “Yellowknife is part of Mǫwhì Gogha Dè Nı̨ı̨tłèè, the traditional territory of the Tłı̨chǫ.”
The Tłı̨chǫ argue that the area set out by Chief Monfwi during the signing of Treaty 11 in 1921, as recounted by an Elder during the Berger Inquiry some half a century later, included “a land boundary starting from Fort Providence, all along the Mackenzie River, right up to Great Bear Lake, then across to Contwoyto Lake … Snowdrift, along the Great Slave Lake, back to Fort Providence.”
