Everything about Tli Cho totally explained
The
Tłįchǫ First Nation, formerly known as the
Dogrib, are a
Dene Aboriginal Canadian people living in the
Northwest Territories (NWT),
Canada.
On
August 25 2003, they signed a
land claims agreement, also called Tłįchǫ, as the
Tlicho Government, with the
Government of Canada. The agreement will cede a area between
Great Bear Lake and
Great Slave Lake in the NWT to Tłįchǫ ownership. The territory includes the communities of
Behchoko,
Gamèti,
Wekweeti and
Whatì along with
Diavik Diamond Mine and
Ekati Diamond Mine.
The Tłįchǫ will have their own legislative bodies in the area's four communities, of which the
chiefs must be Tłįchǫ, though anyone may run for councillor and vote. The legislatures will have, among other authorities, the power to collect taxes, levy resource royalties, which currently go to the federal government, and control hunting, fishing and industrial development.
The Tłįchǫ will also receive payments of $152 million over 15 years and annual payments of approximately $3.5 million.
The federal government will retain control of
criminal law, as it does across Canada, and the NWT will control services such as health care and education.
This land-claims process took twenty years to conclude. A similar process with the
Inuit in the NWT brought about the creation of the new territory of
Nunavut. Though Tłįchǫ won't be a separate territory, the extent of its powers has invited comparisons both with the birth of Nunavut and with the creation of the NWT government in 1967.
The Tłįchǫ or
Dogrib language belongs to the
Athabaskan languages which are part of the
Na-Dené languages family.
The writer
Richard Van Camp, author of
The Lesser Blessed, is a member of this nation from
Fort Smith, NWT.
The artist
James Wedzin is a member of this nation from Behchoko, Northwest Territories.
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