Tl'azt'en

The Tl’azt’enne, “people at the end of the lake,” belong to the country around Stuart and Trembleur lakes. Their Dakelh-speaking communities travelled by water between the lakes and their connecting rivers. In warmer months people gathered to catch and prepare salmon, pick berries and hunt; in winter smaller family groups fished through the ice and hunted. A matrilineal clan system and the balhats, or potlatch, governed important community affairs.