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This section invites you to explore Tłı̨chǫ history through our voices. You will find stories and images showing how we lived, governed, and upheld responsibilities to the land and each other. Knowledge carried by Elders, families, and community continues today.

Trails of our Ancestors: Whati Trail

1998

Behchoko

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Trails of our Ancestors: Building a Nation

2002

Behchoko

For centuries the Tłı̨chǫ of the Northwest Territories have relied on an intimate knowledge of the land and its wildlife to survive. The Tłı̨chǫ lived in a yearly cycle of following traditional trails in birchbark canoes to the barren lands in the fall to harvest the caribou herd; and then...