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[4] [5] [6] The Tlicho Community Government Act (TCGA), enacted in 2004, also considers community governments as municipal corporations alongside charter communities, cities, hamlets, towns and villages. [7] Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories and its only city, while Fort Simpson is its only village.
Self government, Community Government of Wekweètì [35] Yes North Slave [35] Region 3: 129 −8.5% Whatì: Lac La Martre, January 1, 1996 marten lake Self government, Community Government of Whatì [36] Yes North Slave [36] Region 3: 470
Governance of each community differs, some are run under various types of First Nations control, while others are designated as a city, town, village or hamlet, but most communities are municipal corporations. [58] [60] Yellowknife is the largest community and has the largest number of Aboriginal peoples, 4,520 (23.4%) people. [61]
Yellowknife [a] is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
Yellowknives Dene First Nation (they identify as Wíílíídeh dene, aka Inconnu River People (Yellowknife River). Communities: Dettah, Ndilǫ, and Yellowknife. Wíílíídeh, a dialect spoken in the communities of Dettah and Ndilǫ, developed from intermarriage between Yellowknives and Tłı̨chǫ peoples) [6] [7]
Comprises the western half of North Slave Region, excluding the city of Yellowknife. Lands directly owned by the Tłįchǫ government are one continuous block in the centre of the region. The region is also called Wekʼèezhìı for the purpose of the water board. Tulita District Sahtu Region Yamoria Community Secretariat / Tulita Dene First Nation
Dettah, [pronunciation?] sometimes spelled incorrectly as Detah, [6] is a First Nations [7] community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.Located just southeast of the capital of Yellowknife, it is a 6.5 km (4.0 mi) drive from that city by ice road across the north arm of Great Slave Lake in winter or a 27 km (17 mi) drive via the Ingraham Trail, year-round.
It is the most populous of the five regions, with a population of almost 23,000. According to Municipal and Community Affairs the region consists of eight communities with the regional office situated in Yellowknife and a sub-office in Behchokǫ̀. [1] With the exception of Yellowknife, the communities are predominantly First Nations.