Dakelh people
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The Dakelh (pronounced ) or Carrier are a First Nations Indigenous people living a large portion of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The Dakelh also call themselves Yinka Dene ("the people on the land"), and the Babine-Witsuwitʼen-speaking bands prefer the equivalent Yinka Whutʼen ("the people on the land").
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- Dakelh
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- Communities living within the Dakelh language area
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- Canada (British Columbia)
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- English, Dakelh
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- Animism
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- Other Dene peoplesEspecially Wet'suwet'en, Babine, Tsilhqotʼin, and Sekani
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- Geography
- Culture
- [[Ethnobotany]]
- Plants used in cuisine
- Plants used medicinally
- History
- Salvage archaeology
- Language
- [[First Nations in Canada|Bands]]
- Tribal councils
- Synonymy
- Etymology of name
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The Dakelh (pronounced ) or Carrier are a First Nations Indigenous people living a large portion of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The Dakelh also call themselves Yinka Dene ("the people on the land"), and the Babine-Witsuwitʼen-speaking bands prefer the equivalent Yinka Whutʼen ("the people on the land").
The Dakelh people are a First Nations people of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, for whom Carrier has been a common English name derived from French explorers naming of the people. Dakelh people speak two related languages. One, Babine-Witsuwit'en is sometimes referred to as Northern Carrier. The other includes what are sometimes referred to as Central Carrier and Southern Carrier. They speak Witsuwitʼen or Babine/Nedut'en, dialects of the Babine-Witsuwitʼen language which, like its sister Dakelh language, is a part of the Central British Columbia branch of the Northern Athabaskan languages. They belong to the Northern Athabascan or Dene peoples (Dené is the common Athabaskan word for "people").
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