Timeline of Stories
- 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
- 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