This Chip-ah-wan Nation is located in primarily the Northwest Territories but is also partially in Nunavut and northeastern Alberta. It covers 480,000 sq. km., or 185,329 sq. mi. It is situated just east of Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake. As you can tell by the pronounciation of Chipewyan, the nation does have a Chippewa population. Chipewyan is pronounced as either Chip-ah-wan, or Chip-ah-why-yan. Both pronounciations of Chipewyan are used in Canada. The Chipewyan people are supposedly Athabascan but are really an admixture of Anishinabe and Athabascan. It was the Seven Fires Prophecy which led Anishinabe ogimak to send their soldiers up into that area (the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon) in the 18th, 19th, and the 20th centuries. The name Chip-ah-wan signifies an obvious cover-up is in place. And the use of the Anishinabe syllabic writing system among the Athabascan peoples, again signifies a cover-up is in place. The land claims process is still ongoing for the Akaitcho Territory, which is better known as the Akaitcho Process.
The Athabascan Chipewyan were likely brought back under Anishinabe control in the 18th century or early 19th century, after years of brutal Anishinabe assaults launched against the Chipewyan people, to force them to adhere to an Indian resistence against the invading whites. Though the whites claim no Anishinabe people are native to the Northwest Territories and Alaska, Nunavut, and Yukon, but we know better. In the late 18th century the whites were forcing their way into the McKenzie River Delta region. It is well known that the Anishinabe people were already living in the McKenzie River Delta region, before the first whites showed up around 1770. At that time (1770) the prophecy driven Anishinabe soldiers, were laying a path of destruction from probably the northern shores of Hudson Bay, all the way to eastern Alaska.
They learned in the late 17th century that the whites were using Hudson Bay to barter with the Athabascan Indians and Inuit Indians. They knew from prophecy that they had to defend Indian land from the invading whites. That meant forcing those Indian peoples who refused to obey their demands to try and stop the whites from doing what they knew they would do, into a subjugated position in which they could control them. Unfortunately, the Athabascan Indians and Inuit Indians, learned the hard way that what the Anishinabe ogimak explained to them was correct. After the whites commenced to pay regular visits to the McKenzie River Delta region, they launched devastating plague warfare assaults on the Indians. It is estimated that the Athabascan Indian population from the western shores of Hudson Bay to the Rocky Mountains west of Edmonton, to the Arctic Ocean to the north, was higher than 250,000 in 1750. Even now the population of the Athabascan Indians from the Rocky Mountains to Hudson Bay, is only a fraction of their former population. On the other hand, the Anishinabe people are very numerous. Perhaps numbering well over 500,000 in Canada alone. Their population is higher because of the Seven Fires Prophecy. It is very important for Athabascan Indians and Inuit Indians of the present time, to seriously take the warnings in the Seven Fires Prophecy. Their ancestors did not. Don't be played by the whites.
On the map below is an area in the Northwest Territories which has yet to have land claims settled. It covers most of the Northwest Territories, excepting the northwest part where the Dogrib (Dehcho), Gwich'in, and Sahtu land claims have been settled. In the east is the Akaitcho. In the west and southwest the Southern Slavey land claim. The whites will not allow the Chipewyan people to continue to own the entire 480,000 sq. km., or 185,329 sq. mi. What will occur is an action which will greatly reduce the remaining land the Chipewyan people own now. They will allow the Chipewyan people the opportunity to fish, hunt, and trap on the land for a certain amount of time before stabbing them in the back. They will leave them with little land. They will not allow the Chipewyan people the opportunity to exploit their lands resources. That is the goal of the settlement the whites will only accept. Of course, Chipewyan ogimak will demand that the entire 480,000 sq. km., or 185,329 sq. mi., be set aside as their nation. Their demands will not be accepted by the whites. If the whites refuse to acknowledge that the Chipewyan people own the entire 480,000 sq. km., or 185,329 sq. mi., their ogimak (leaders) must refuse to negotiate with the whites.
There is another group of Indians who are united with the Chipewyan people who are the Yellowknife people. White historians claim that the Yellowknife people are also Athabascan but most likely they are descended from the Anishinabek who were led by ogima Yellow Quill. In the late 19th century, ogima Yellow Quill acted as a Moses like leader, and commenced to order his soldiers to lead a great many Anishinabek up towards the north, from southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. One of his principle ogimak, was ogima Kinistin. Both Anishinabe ogimak forced their way up into the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, where they merged with an earlier population of Anishinabek who had long lived there. More Anishinabek from the Alberta and British Columbia region, also were forced by the Seven Fires Prophecy to flee up to the Nothwest Territories and Yukon, in the late 19th century. During World War II, the whites hired out many of the Indians of the Northwest Territories to work carrying radium which is used in the process of making atomic weapons. It led to many of the native Indians succumbing to early deaths. That is probably why the Indian population in the Northwest Territories is now so low, or the whites are not being honest about the Indian population of the Northwest Territories. The six Chipewyan and Yellowknife First Nations (it includes the city of Fort Smith) which make up the population of the Akaitcho Territory, are as follows:
Fort Resolution - Deninu Kue - Population is 839
Detah & Ndilo - Yellowknifes - Population is 1,362
Fort Smith - Population is 1,460
Fort Resolution - Lutsel K'e - Population is 713
Fort Smith - Salt River - Population is 868
Fort Smith - Smith's Landing - Population is 868
