Sahtu

The Sahtú, also called the North Slavey and once known to Europeans as the Hare or Hareskin Indians, are a Dene people of the Northern Athabaskan language family, part of the wider Na-Dene grouping. They take their name from Sahtú, the Great Bear Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, and call themselves Ɂehdzo Got’ı̨ne, the Trap People. They comprise the Hare Dene, Bear Lake Dene and Mountain Dene.

They lived by hunting caribou and moose, fishing and trapping, moving seasonally between hunting grounds. Their first sustained contact with outsiders came through the fur trade: Alexander Mackenzie descended the river later named after him in 1789.

Fort Good Hope was founded as a trading post in 1805, drawing the Sahtú into the networks of the North West Company and later the Hudson's Bay Company.