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Tlicho

Tłı̨chǫ
Dogrib tipis.jpg
Tłįchǫ tipis c. 1900.
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Tłı̨chǫ, English
Religion
Christianity, Animism
Related ethnic groups
Yellowknives, Dënesųłiné, Sahtu

The Tłı̨chǫ (IPA: [tɬʰĩtʃʰõ], English pronunciation: /təˈlɪ/) people, sometimes spelled Tlicho and also known as the Dogrib, are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The name Dogrib is an English adaptation of their own name, Tłı̨chǫ Done (or Thlingchadinne) - “Dog-Flank People”, referring to their fabled descent from a supernatural dog-man. Like their Dene neighbours they called themselves oft simply Done ("person", "human") or Done Do ("People, i.e. Dene People"). The Tłı̨chǫ's land is known as Ndé (or , Dèe or ). On the 1682 Franquelin map, Dogrib was recorded as "Alimousp[i]goiak" (from Cree Alimospikayak, "Dog-Flanks").

There are now six settlements with Dogrib populations or mostly of Dogrib background: Behchoko (formerly Rae-Edzo), Whatì (Lac la Martre), Gamèti (Rae Lakes), Wekweeti (Snare Lake), Dettah, and N'Dilo (Rainbow Valley) (a subcommunity of Yellowknife, known by the Tłįchǫ as Somba K'e – "where the money is").


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