Their language is considered to be a dialect of the Chipewyan language, which means that the Dogrib (Tlicho) people are also partially Anishinabe. They were likely brought back under Anishinabe control in the 18th century or early 19th century, after years of brutal Anishinabe assaults launched against the Dogrib 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, 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.
They are still claiming a large area of land in the Northwest Territories, bordering the Chipewyan Akaitcho Territory to the east. Their nation is located between Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake. There are several Tlicho First Nations who are members of the Dogrib Territory. They are listed below. Their population is most likely much higher than what the whites claim and does include Anishinabe people. On August 25, 2003, the Tlicho government reached an agreement with the government of Canada, in which Canada acknowledged that the Tlicho Nation land covered 39,000 sq. km., or 15,100 sq. mi. Below is a map of the current Dogrib Territory, or the Wek'eezhii Territory. The whites are possibly playing (delaying) the Tlicho people. Watch your land above and on the surface!
Dehcho K'e - Population is 1,894
Gameti - Population is 283
Wekweeti - Population is 137
Wha Ti - Population is 460
