Dettah
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Dettah sometimes spelled incorrectly as Detah, is a First Nations community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located just southeast of the capital of Yellowknife, it is a drive from that city by ice road across the north arm of Great Slave Lake in winter or a drive via the Ingraham Trail, year-round. The name T'é?ehdaá means 'Burnt Point' in the Wíílíídeh dialect and was simplified to Dettah when non-Indigenous people could not pronounce it. The place was a common fishing spot for the Tetsǫ́tʼine (Yellowknives) people and is home to nearly 200 Indigenous people.
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- Locality
- Dettah
- Region
- Northwest Territories
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 0
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- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Northwest Territories
- Population
- 219
- Area
- 1.34
- Elevation
- 179
- Image
- Dettah sign.jpg
- Dialing code
- 867
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- Dettah
- postal code
- X1A
- native label
- Tʼèɂehdaà
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Dettah sometimes spelled incorrectly as Detah, is a First Nations community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located just southeast of the capital of Yellowknife, it is a drive from that city by ice road across the north arm of Great Slave Lake in winter or a drive via the Ingraham Trail, year-round. The name T'é?ehdaá means 'Burnt Point' in the Wíílíídeh dialect and was simplified to Dettah when non-Indigenous people could not pronounce it. The place was a common fishing spot for the Tetsǫ́tʼine (Yellowknives) people and is home to nearly 200 Indigenous people.
== Demographics == In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Dettah recorded a population of 192 living in 79 of its 85 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 219. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dettah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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