Tulita

Tulita means “where the waters meet”: here the Great Bear River flows into the Deh Cho, or Mackenzie. Dene travellers camped at the confluence opposite Bear Rock, a great limestone outcrop important in their stories. The Bear River leads east to Sahtú, Great Bear Lake, and its hunting and fishing places. The North West Company established a fur-trading post in the region in the early nineteenth century, drawing on this established crossroads.