Tsiigehtchic
Sign in to saveTsiigehtchic ( ; "mouth of the iron river"), officially the Hamlet of Tsiigehtchic, is a Gwichʼin community located at the confluence of the Mackenzie and the Arctic Red Rivers, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community was formerly known as Arctic Red River, until 1 April 1994. The Gwichya Gwich'in First Nation is located in Tsiigehtchic.
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- Tsiigehtchic
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- Hamlet of Tsiigehtchic
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- Tsiigehtshik
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- Hamlet
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- The Church in Tsiigehtchic with the Arctic Red River and Mackenzie River in the background
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- Canada Northwest Territories#Canada
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- Canada
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- Northwest Territories
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- Inuvik Region
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- Mackenzie Delta
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- Region 1
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- Mayor
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- History
- Ancient history
- Late modern period and the first European contact
- Contemporary history
- Demographics
- Transportation
- Steppe bison carcass
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Tsiigehtchic ( ; "mouth of the iron river"), officially the Hamlet of Tsiigehtchic, is a Gwichʼin community located at the confluence of the Mackenzie and the Arctic Red Rivers, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community was formerly known as Arctic Red River, until 1 April 1994. The Gwichya Gwich'in First Nation is located in Tsiigehtchic.
== History == thumb|left|Large letters spelling out "Tsiigehtchic," visible from the Dempster Highway === Ancient history === Archaeology and oral history indicate that the flats below Tsiigehtchic have been used for the past 1,400 years by the Gwichyaa Gwichʼin, for various activities which were both commercial and recreational. The Gwich’in name for the flats is Łèth T’urh Kak (“on the mud flats”).