| In 1715 an expedition under William Stewart of the HBC was made into Chipewyan territory. |
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| Only a handful of people still speak Chipewyan fluently, he says, and those under 45 have only a sketchy knowledge of the language at best. |
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| Some sports will also take place in Fort Chipewyan, a small isolated Cree community a 30-minute flight from Fort McMurray. |
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| Knight decided the Chipewyans would come to Hudson's Bay trading posts only if the Cree and Chipewyan were at peace. |
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| Though many Chipewyan people are bilingual in Chippewa or Cree, it is actually not related to those languages at all. |
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| Jenny Flett of Fort Chipewyan earned the respect and the love of the entire community. |
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| Yesterday when we were in Fort Chipewyan, we heard about the massive drop in the water levels of Lake Athabasca. |
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| Further investigation is required to evaluate if there is a risk posed by living in Fort Chipewyan. |
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| The Dogribs and other Athapaskan tribes no longer had to send their furs through Chipewyan middlemen or travel long distances to Hudson Bay to trade. |
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| We join Chief Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation tribe for dinner. |
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| In language and culture patterns the Yellowknife were almost identical to the Chipewyan, who were given to robbing and oppressing them. |
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| It was my obligation in Fort Chipewyan to simply document what I was finding. |
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| How much release, how much concentration, and how much of that material will go downstream to communities like Fort Chipewyan? |
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| Has there been any consultation with the people of Fort Chipewyan about that undue alarm and what it has caused them? |
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| I'd like to say in passing how affected we were by our visit yesterday afternoon to Fort Chipewyan. |
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| He was sent by Health Canada to represent the community of Fort Chipewyan and to take care of our health. |
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| Instead, small bands of Chipewyans set themselves up as middlemen or traders themselves, and acted as the means of exchanging European products for Chipewyan furs. |
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| Chipewyan is spoken by around 4000 native people in Northern Canada today. |
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| Treeline is one of the few facilities that replaces the motors on its boats every year, and its registered Chipewyan and Cree guides are among the country's best. |
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| When Dr. O'Connor raised undue alarm for indicating the health issues in Fort Chipewyan were a cause for concern, he was slapped with four charges. |
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| The community of Fort Chipewyan still heavily exercises our treaty right, our inherent right to the land and to the water resources we are surrounded by. |
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| Some of the members opposite are trying to suggest that perhaps the high and growing disease rates in Fort Chipewyan are because of bad habits, smoking, high diabetes from eating inappropriate foods. |
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| Elders from Fort McKay and Fort Chipewyan have participated in tours of the project site, where they learned more about the project and had an opportunity to discuss concerns, including access to the lease area for trapping. |
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| The chief enemies of the Dogrib were the Cree, Chipewyan, and Yellowknife. |
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| We have established advisory committees with the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Mikesew Cree First Nation as well as an elders council with the Fort McKay First Nation. |
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| The remains of Chipewyan and European trappers' cabins, and 100 year old grave sites marked by picket fences on top of eskers, reflect more recent occupation. |
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| The Chipewyan Prairie First Nation recognized a need in the community regarding the nutritional requirements and basic care of the children in the community which is why the Milk and Diaper Voucher project was established. |
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| The big concern that I'm sure you heard yesterday in Fort Chipewyan is that some of the cancer rates noted in the community are attributed to some of the compounds, which are at least in part the result of mining activity. |
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| Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan Nation said the LARP provides little protection for caribou in the region. |
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| At the heart of this issue is the tailings ponds that have been discussed at length today, the seepage from those tailings ponds and its impact on the health of downstream communities such as Fort Chipewyan. |
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| As you go from the Fort McMurray end at the bottom to the Fort Chipewyan end at the top, the little side panels represent the various tributaries. |
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| I go up and down the river all the way to Fort Chipewyan. |
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| Other large languages of the phylum are Western Apache, spoken in western Arizona, and the Chipewyan dialects of the Northwest Territories in Canada. |
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| It comes out from the Athabasca River into Lake Athabasca, which in turn goes downstream from there, where it passes through the community of Fort Chipewyan. |
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| I'm only saying that the documentation from science and the illnesses that these toxins can cause may purely coincidentally correspond with what I documented in Fort Chipewyan. |
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