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Origin Stories - Era overview Dehcho - Zhamba Déja Outsmarts an Evil Family Dëne Sųłıné - Hachoghe Fights Three Giant Beavers Gwich’in - Atachùukąįį and the Giant Ch’ii Choo Inuvialuit - The Legend Of The Great Flood Sahtu - Yamǫ́rıa Marries a Beaver Tłı̨chǫ - Sliding Hill Wıı̀ledeh - Giant Beaver on the Yellowknife River

Long Ago - Era overview Time Immemorial - Dene Night Sky 380 Million Years Ago - An Ancient Fish Trackway 13,650 Years Ago - Steppe Bison 2500 Years Ago - Kamik (Boot) 2400 Years Ago - Throwing Dart 2000 Years Ago - Sambaa K’e Archeology 500 Years Ago - Kuukpak

1700-1799 - Era overview 1714 - Thanadelthur 1760 - Northern Métis 1763 - The Royal Proclamation of 1763 1770s - War and Peace 1783 - The North West Company vs. HBC 1789 - Alexander Mackenzie

1800-1849 - Era overview 1800s - Trading Chiefs 1821 - Akaitcho Rescues Franklin 1825 - Hockey Night in Délı̨nę 1836 - Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier Lamoureux 1838 - The Trial of Baptiste Cadien

1850-1899 - Era overview 1850s - Life in Denendeh 1850s - Inuvialuit Lifeways 1858 - Missionaries Move North 1862 - Father Émile Petitot 1867 - NWT Mission Schools 1871 - ‘Emperor’ Firth 1880s - A Northern Transportation Revolution 1889 - American Commercial Whaling 1890s - Muskox Hide Trade 1893 - Hislop and Nagle Trading Company 1899 - Treaty 8

1900-1924 - Era overview 1900 - Johnny Berens, Riverboat Pilot 1902 - Kittigazuit 1903 - The North West Mounted Police 1905 - Qimnaq Klengenberg and the Mother Hubbard Parka 1910 - Special Constables and the Lost Patrol 1911 - McNeill’s Reindeer 1913 - The Dominion Land Survey 1915 - Patsy Klengenberg 1920 - Northern Oil 1921 - Aviation Comes North 1921 - The Trial and Hanging of Albert LeBeau 1921 - Treaty 11 1922 - Wood Buffalo National Park 1924 - Inuvialuit Schooners Move Fur

1925-1934 - Era overview 1927 - The Pine Point Discovery 1928 - Influenza Epidemic 1928 - Game Preserves and the Thelon Game Sanctuary 1929 - Inuvialuit Refuse Treaty 1929 - Wilfrid Reid ‘Wop’ May  1930 - Eldorado and the First Mining Rush 1931 - The Mad Trapper of Rat River 1934 - Yellowknife Gold

1935-1949 - Era overview 1935 - NWT Reindeer Herding 1936 - Chief Jimmy Bruneau 1937 - Fort Resolution Refuses Treaty 1938 - Women in a Mining Town 1939 - Northern Cat Trains 1940 - The Prophecy of Ayah 1942 - CANOL Project, World War II 1944 - W Tags 1946 - Charles Camsell Hospital 1946 - Military Operation Muskox 1947 - The Beaulieu Mine Bubble Bursts 1947 - Henry Busse, Photographer 1947 - The Canadian Rangers 1948 - Mackenzie Highway

1950-1964 - Era overview 1951 - June Helm: Northern Anthropologist 1954 - Building Inuvik 1954 - Distant Early Warning Line 1955 - Changing a School System 1956 - Ice Roads 1959 - First on the Yellowknife Highway 1959 - From Sled Dogs to Snowmobiles 1960 - Grandin College: Empowering Northern Leaders 1962 - Regina v. Sikyea 1963 - Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary 1964 - John Tetso (Tsetso) ‘Trapping is My Life’

1965-1974 - Era overview 1965 - Everett Klippert: A Fight for Justice 1966 - Indigenous Members Elected to Legislative Assembly 1966 - ‘I, Nuligak:’ An Inuvialuit Autobiography 1967 - Territorial Government Moves to the Northwest Territories 1968 - Métis Community on School Draw 1968 - Protest at Treaty Time 1969 - The Rise of Indigenous Political Organizations 1969 - GNWT Takes Control of Education 1969 - The Rise of Indigenous Women Leaders 1970 - The NWT Centennial 1970 - The First Arctic Winter Games 1972 - Anik A1 1973 - The Birth of Indigenous Land Claims 1974 - The Berger Inquiry

1975-1999 - Era overview 1978 - Cosmos 954 and Operation Morning Light 1979 - James (Jim) Jerome 1981 - The Mooseskin Boat Project 1984 - Inuvialuit Land Claim 1984 - Ulukhaktok votes to stay with the NWT 1987 - Pope John Paul II Visits Fort Simpson 1991 - Diamond Discovery 1991 - Ndilǫ, ‘the End of the Island’ 1992 - Giant Mine Tragedy 1992 - Gwich’in Land Claim 1994 - Sahtu Land Claim 1999 - The Division of NWT and Nunavut

2000 to present - Era overview 2001 - Sarah Simon: ‘An Intense Kindness of Heart’ 2001 - National Indigenous Peoples Day 2004 - Yellowknife Gold Mining: The End of an Era 2005 - Tłı̨chǫ Self Government Agreement 2005 - First Same-Sex Marriage in the NWT 2010 - Arctic Mosque 2012 - The Deh Cho Bridge 2014 - Devolution NWT 2020 - The COVID-19 Pandemic 2021 - Reclaiming the Land