Talk:Dene

message: A demographic distribution map would be nice 132.205.44.134 23:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A map of the Denendeh is around, not in the way it's used as a synonym for the NWT, but the whole sweep of Dene territory; this article needs expansion to reflect "the other Dene", as t he Athapaskan peoples in BC all consider themselves Dene; long story, I'll have to find the article about it rather than recap; if ther's not alrady I'll add a link to the Navajo Nation, as the "Southern Dene", basically....Skookum1 (talk) 04:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: I've fixed up the syntax of this recent addition and also added a fact tag, since I can't confirm the numbers. According to StatsCan, the 2006 population of La Loche is 2,340, of which 2,225 aboriginal. Looking at the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, La Loche is the main reserve of the Clearwater River Dene nation. However, looking at the entry for the Clearwater Dene, it shows membership of 1,418 people, with 619 on reserve. 
Even adding 619 + 2,225 doesn't get close to "estimated to be over 6000 people, 95% of which are Dene". I can follow the 95% -aboriginal- figure from the town itself, but I can't work out the 6000 people, nor the Dene population (although I could easily accept that all the census-identified aboriginals identify as Dene people). Without those numbers, it's also hard to confirm the "largest population" claim, although if the 2,225 people in-town are Dene, plus the 619 on-reserve, it would indeed seem to be the largest. Anyway, needs some research! Franamax (talk) 03:20, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  La Loche - Dene population 

message: There's an article discussing the broader meaning of Dene i.e. including groups such as the Tshilhqot'in, Tahltan, Gwich'in and Dineh/Navajo which I thought I'd linked on this page; must have put it somewhere else maybe on a particular article's talkpage, I'll have to hunt for it.  It discussed the southward migration of the Dineh and other peoples.  Also re the lede's treanslation of "Dene", while that may be the etymology my understanding is that the conventional meaning is "people" and the components of the various tribe names ending in -t'in, -ch'in, -tan and so on are used in that context.Skookum1 (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Additions to ethnography list

message: The etymology of "de-ne" as meaning "flow-mother.earth" seems to disagree with the linguistic sources I've seen. The name for the broader group of languages the Dene speak (Na-Dene) is a coinage based on words from, respectively, Eyak/Tlingit and Dene languages meaning "person/people". The citation provided here reeks of folk etymology. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na-Dene_languages#The_name , which has a more definite citation. The fact that Navajo "dine" also means "people" (they're related languages) seems to support the source I'm (indirectly) providing rather than the one given here. Vaaarr (talk) 18:22, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed it.  Be bold and you can fix things too! Benwing (talk) 09:12, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology of "Dene"

message: My impression of the meaning of denedeh is that it simply means my homeland or my country (the present or historical territory of a group of Dene). The upper Churchill River would be the denedeh (homeland) of the Dene population living there. The eastern area of Lake Athabasca would be another and so on. Denedeh can be also be used to mean the "homeland" of all Dene (which would include Dene Metis and Dene First Nations)......Kayoty 18:55, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Dene and Denedeh

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message: If the Dene were at one time enslaved by their neighbors the Cree people (a fact that is discussed in several other related Wikipedia articles), why isn't this mentioned even a single time in the current version of this article? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 02:43, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I would guess it's because there's no history section at all in the article yet. If this is mentioned in other articles, presumably with reliable sources, then it sounds like something you could use to enhance this article. Go ahead and be WP:BOLD. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:01, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slavery