Trails of our Ancestors: Building a Nation

Trails of our Ancestors: Building a Nation

2002
Behchoko

Ancestors, Timeline, Traditional Knowledge

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 heading below the tree-line for the long northern winter until the warmth and life of spring returns."

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