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The Yellowknife settlement is considered to have been founded in 1934, [2] after gold was found in the area, although commercial activity in the present-day waterfront area did not begin until 1936. Yellowknife quickly became the centre of economic activity in the NWT, and was named the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967.
The historic Yellowknive tribe lived north and northeast of the Great Slave Lake (Tinde'e - "Great Lake") around the Yellowknife River and Yellowknife Bay (Wíílíídeh cho - "Inconnu River") and northward along the Coppermine River, northeast to the Back River (Thlewechodyeth or Thlew-ee-choh-desseth - "Great Fish River") [2] and east to the Thelon River. [3]
2008 – Yellowknife hosted the 18th Arctic Winter Games. 2009 – Yellowknife Online was established and started publishing regularly. [17] 2014 – Japanese tourist Atsumi Yoshikubo goes missing in late October after last being seen walking along the Ingraham Trail north of the city, attracting news coverage nationally and in her native country.
The Old Stope Association, a non-profit heritage society, was responsible for its operation in the 1970s–1980s, and today it is managed by the Wildcat Cafe Advisory Committee. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] In 1992, the cabin was declared a heritage site as an important old building in Yellowknife and the city took ownership. [ 2 ]
Tufa found in Nahanni National Park. The Nahanni National Park Reserve, sometimes known as "Headless Valley" or "Valley of The Headless Men" (after a series of unsolved historical deaths in the park), in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada (approximately 500 km (311 mi) west of Yellowknife), [4] protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region.
^B 2012 figure based on Yellowknife = 100 [5] Łutselkʼe ( / ˈ l ʊ t s ə l k eɪ / , Dëne Sųłıné Yatıé : [ɬutsʰɛɮk'ɛ] ; "place of the łutsel ", the cisco , [ 6 ] a type of small fish), also spelt Łutsël Kʼé , is a "designated authority" [ 7 ] in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories , Canada.
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Akaitcho (variants: Akaicho or Ekeicho; translation: "Big-Foot" or "Big-Feet"; meaning: "like a wolf with big paws, he can travel long distances over snow") (ca. 1786–1838) was a Copper Indian, and Chief of the Yellowknives.