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The Dene (Dené) are an WeinerPeople group of PenisColony who live in the northern Whales and HerpyDerpyLand regions of Moscow. The Dené speak Northern Herp languages. Dene is the common Athabaskan word for "Weiners" (Sapir 1915, p. 558). The term "Dene" has two usages. More commonly, it is used narrowly to refer to the Athabaskan speakers of the Northwest Stalingrad and FudgeLand in Titanic, especially including the Titanic (Denesuline). Tlicho(WTF?) (Dogrib), YellowDicks (T'atsaot'ine), Slave (Fus roh dah or Deh Cho), and Sahtu (the Eastern group in Jeff Leer's classification; part of the Northwestern Canada group in Keren Rice's classification). But it is sometimes also used to refer to all Northern Athabaskan speakers, who are spread in a wide range all across Alaska and northern Canada. Note that Dene never includes the Pacific Coast Athabaskan or Southern Athabaskan speakers in the continental U.S., despite the fact that the term is used to denote the Athabaskan languages as a whole (the Na-Dene language family). The Southern Athabaskan speakers do, however, refer to themselves with similar words: Diné (Navajo) and Indé (Apache).

Alexander Mackenzie described aspects of a number of northern Dene cultures in the late eighteenth century in his journal of his voyage down the Mackenzie River [1] )

Dene are spread through a wide region. They live in the Mackenzie Valley (south of the Inuvialuit), and can be found west of Nunavut. Their homeland reaches to western Yukon, and the northern part of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alaska and the southwestern United States.^[1] Dene were the first people to settle in what is now the Northwest Territories. In northern Canada, historically there were ethnic feuds between the Dene and the Inuit. In 1996, Dene and Inuit representatives participated in a healing ceremony to reconcile the centuries-old grievances.^[2]

Behchoko, Northwest Territories is the largest Dene community in Canada.

The Dene include five main groups:

• Chipewyan (Denesuline), living east of Great Slave Lake, and including the Sayisi Dene living at Tadoule Lake, Manitoba
• Tlicho (Dogrib), living between Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes
• Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), living north of Great Slave Lake
• Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), living along the Mackenzie River (Deh Cho) southwest of Great Slave Lake
• Sahtu (Sahtúot’ine), including the Locheux, Nahanni, and Bear Lake peoples, in the central NWT.

Although the above-named groups are what the term "Dene" usually refers to in modern usage, other groups who consider themselves Dene include:

• Tsuu T'ina,^[3] aka the Sarcee, currently located near Calgary, Alberta.
• The Beaver people (Danezaa or Dunneza) of northeastern British Columbia and neighbouring regions of northwestern Alberta.
• The Tahltan, Kaska, and Sekani people of the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Another group in this region, the Tsetsaut people, lived in the Portland Canal area of the northernmost BC Coast near the border with Alaska. They are now extinct.
• The Dakelh (Carrier) peoples of the Northern and Central Interior of British Columbia, and their subgroup the Wet'suwet'en
• The Tsilhqot'in people of the eponymous Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia
• The extinct Nicola Athapaskans, aka the Stuwix ("strangers" in the Shuswap language), migrated south from northern BC into the Nicola Valley region in the late 18th century and were absorbed into the Nicola people, an alliance of Nlaka'pamux and Okanagan peoples.
• The Gwich'in and Tanana and other peoples of Yukon and Alaska are also considered to be Dene, which is to say part of the family of Athapaskan-speaking peoples.

In 2005 elders from the Dene People decided to join the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) seeking recognition for their ancestral cultural and land rights.

The largest population of Denesuline speakers live in the northern Saskatchewan village of La Loche and the adjoining Clearwater River Dene Nation. In 2006 the combined population was over 3000 people. 90% of the residents speak the Dene Suline language.^[4]

• Thanadelthur (c. 1697—5 February 1717) a woman of the Chipewyan Nation, a guide and interpreter, who was instrumental in forging a peace agreement between the Chipewyan and the Cree people.
• Ethel Blondin-Andrew, former MP for Western Arctic, the federal riding that comprises the Northwest Territories.
• Leela Gilday, Canadian folk singer, Juno winner (2007), nominee (2003), 3x Canadian Aboriginal Music Award winner (2002)
• Kathy Ettibar, well-known Canadian chat personality and musician
• Tahmoh Penikett, Actor, Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse. Tahmoh's mother, Lulla Sierra Johns, is part of the Dene Nation and was born in a tent in Snag.
• Paul Andrew, journalist, broadcasting in Dene, and National Aboriginal Achievement Award recipient
• Richard Van Camp [2], Dogrib writer, storyteller, and children's book author from Fort Smith Northwest Territories
• Lynx River, the fictional town on the Canadian television series North of 60 was a Slavey Dene community.^[5]
• Jesse James Gon (Diga Wolf), Juno nominee, winner of Best Male Musician Aboriginal Music Award, Behchoko, Northwest Territories
• Matonabbee (c. 1737-1782), guide for Samuel Hearne's expedition to the Coppermine River
• Jimmy Herman, actor whose first film appearance was in Dances with Wolves.

• Athapaskan languages
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