Dogrib

To give you an idea of how the North has changed, in 1995, the first time we gave scholarships to the Dogrib First Nation, we could only find one post-secondary student to accept the aid.

The Ekati Diamond Mine - Success in Canada's North 2003

Eventually, the grand chief of the Dogrib First Nation began to say in public meetings: "We like your project and my people will benefit, but just make sure you look after the land, the water and the wildlife."

The Ekati Diamond Mine - Success in Canada's North 2003

One time, after a particularly heated discussion at a community consultation meeting in a Dogrib community, a local person came around selling t-shirts that said: "Diamonds are a Dogrib's best friend."

The Ekati Diamond Mine - Success in Canada's North 2003

Now the Dogrib Treaty 11 Council receives applications from 160 Dogrib post-secondary students a year for these scholarships.

The Ekati Diamond Mine - Success in Canada's North 2003

They are Athapaskans, linked ethnically, linguistically, and physiologically to tribes that still inhabit subarctic Canada and Alaska, peoples such as the Koyukon, the Tanana, the Dogrib, the Yellowknife, and the Chipewyan Indians.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

They are Athapaskans, linked ethnically, linguistically, and physiologically to tribes that still inhabit subarctic Canada and Alaska, peoples such as the Koyukon, the Tanana, the Dogrib, the Yellowknife, and the Chipewyan Indians.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

I was assured by Dr. Bouget that the Dogrib Tribe of which the chief was a member, was the purest tribe in Canada today.

The Mining Riddle of the Canadian Northwest 1933

Then Dogrib, an 'Slave, an' Yellow-knife brave, an 'Cree in his dinky canoe,

Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 1916

Dogrib Indians some 65 miles, found Musk-ox on May 10, and later saw many hundreds.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Dogrib dog entering the Yellow-knife or Chipewyan part of the camp is immediately set upon by all the residents.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903