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Origin Stories - Era overview
Dehcho - Zhamba Déja Outsmarts an Evil Family
Dëne Sųłıné - Hachoghe Fights Three Giant Beavers
Gwich’in - Atachùukąįį and the Giant Ch’ii Choo
Inuvialuit - The Legend Of The Great Flood
Sahtu - Yamǫ́rıa Marries a Beaver
Tłı̨chǫ - Sliding Hill
Wıı̀ledeh - Giant Beaver on the Yellowknife River
Long Ago - Era overview
Time Immemorial - Dene Night Sky
380 Million Years Ago - An Ancient Fish Trackway
13,650 Years Ago - Steppe Bison
2500 Years Ago - Kamik (Boot)
2400 Years Ago - Throwing Dart
2000 Years Ago - Sambaa K’e Archeology
500 Years Ago - Kuukpak
1700-1799 - Era overview
1714 - Thanadelthur
1760 - Northern Métis
1763 - The Royal Proclamation of 1763
1770s - War and Peace
1783 - The North West Company vs. HBC
1789 - Alexander Mackenzie
1800-1849 - Era overview
1800s - Trading Chiefs
1821 - Akaitcho Rescues Franklin
1825 - Hockey Night in Délı̨nę
1836 - Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier Lamoureux
1838 - The Trial of Baptiste Cadien
1850-1899 - Era overview
1850s - Life in Denendeh
1850s - Inuvialuit Lifeways
1858 - Missionaries Move North
1862 - Father Émile Petitot
1867 - NWT Mission Schools
1871 - ‘Emperor’ Firth
1880s - A Northern Transportation Revolution
1889 - American Commercial Whaling
1890s - Muskox Hide Trade
1893 - Hislop and Nagle Trading Company
1899 - Treaty 8
1900-1924 - Era overview
1900 - Johnny Berens, Riverboat Pilot
1902 - Kittigazuit
1903 - The North West Mounted Police
1905 - Qimnaq Klengenberg and the Mother Hubbard Parka
1910 - Special Constables and the Lost Patrol
1911 - McNeill’s Reindeer
1913 - The Dominion Land Survey
1915 - Patsy Klengenberg
1920 - Northern Oil
1921 - Aviation Comes North
1921 - The Trial and Hanging of Albert LeBeau
1921 - Treaty 11
1922 - Wood Buffalo National Park
1924 - Inuvialuit Schooners Move Fur
1925-1934 - Era overview
1927 - The Pine Point Discovery
1928 - Influenza Epidemic
1928 - Game Preserves and the Thelon Game Sanctuary
1929 - Inuvialuit Refuse Treaty
1929 - Wilfrid Reid ‘Wop’ May
1930 - Eldorado and the First Mining Rush
1931 - The Mad Trapper of Rat River
1934 - Yellowknife Gold
1935-1949 - Era overview
1935 - NWT Reindeer Herding
1936 - Chief Jimmy Bruneau
1937 - Fort Resolution Refuses Treaty
1938 - Women in a Mining Town
1939 - Northern Cat Trains
1940 - The Prophecy of Ayah
1942 - CANOL Project, World War II
1944 - W Tags
1946 - Charles Camsell Hospital
1946 - Military Operation Muskox
1947 - The Beaulieu Mine Bubble Bursts
1947 - Henry Busse, Photographer
1947 - The Canadian Rangers
1948 - Mackenzie Highway
1950-1964 - Era overview
1951 - June Helm: Northern Anthropologist
1954 - Building Inuvik
1954 - Distant Early Warning Line
1955 - Changing a School System
1956 - Ice Roads
1959 - First on the Yellowknife Highway
1959 - From Sled Dogs to Snowmobiles
1960 - Grandin College: Empowering Northern Leaders
1962 - Regina v. Sikyea
1963 - Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary
1964 - John Tetso (Tsetso) ‘Trapping is My Life’
1965-1974 - Era overview
1965 - Everett Klippert: A Fight for Justice
1966 - Indigenous Members Elected to Legislative Assembly
1966 - ‘I, Nuligak:’ An Inuvialuit Autobiography
1967 - Territorial Government Moves to the Northwest Territories
1968 - Métis Community on School Draw
1968 - Protest at Treaty Time
1969 - The Rise of Indigenous Political Organizations
1969 - GNWT Takes Control of Education
1969 - The Rise of Indigenous Women Leaders
1970 - The NWT Centennial
1970 - The First Arctic Winter Games
1972 - Anik A1
1973 - The Birth of Indigenous Land Claims
1974 - The Berger Inquiry
1975-1999 - Era overview
1978 - Cosmos 954 and Operation Morning Light
1979 - James (Jim) Jerome
1981 - The Mooseskin Boat Project
1984 - Inuvialuit Land Claim
1984 - Ulukhaktok votes to stay with the NWT
1987 - Pope John Paul II Visits Fort Simpson
1991 - Diamond Discovery
1991 - Ndilǫ, ‘the End of the Island’
1992 - Giant Mine Tragedy
1992 - Gwich’in Land Claim
1994 - Sahtu Land Claim
1999 - The Division of NWT and Nunavut
2000 to present - Era overview
2001 - Sarah Simon: ‘An Intense Kindness of Heart’
2001 - National Indigenous Peoples Day
2004 - Yellowknife Gold Mining: The End of an Era
2005 - Tłı̨chǫ Self Government Agreement
2005 - First Same-Sex Marriage in the NWT
2010 - Arctic Mosque
2012 - The Deh Cho Bridge
2014 - Devolution NWT
2020 - The COVID-19 Pandemic
2021 - Reclaiming the Land

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