TLILNGCHADINNE INDIANS IN CANADA

THESE FOLKS ARE CALLED "DOG FLANK PEOPLE". THEY ARE ATHAPASCAN MEMBERS. THEY LIVE ON THE SEAL RIVER. THEY DID NOT TRADE WITH THE FRENCH, BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE HOSTILE MASKEGON. THEY LIVED INLAND EAST OF COPPERMINE RIVER. THEY LEFT THEIR HOMELAND SINCE THE CREE PUSHED THEM OUT.

THE TRIBE ORIGINATED FROM THE UNION OF A SUPERNATURAL DOG MAN WITH A TINNE WOMAN AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF COPPER. A TATSANOTTINE WOMAN LIVED WITH HER TWO BROTHERS. THE STORY GOES ON TO TELL THAT A HANDSOME MAN CAME BY THEIR DWELLING AND TOOK THE WOMAN FOR HIS WIFE. SHE AWOKE IN THE MIDDLE OF OF HER WEDDING NIGHT AND FOUND HER HUSBAND GONE, BUT HEARD AN ANIMAL CRUNCHING BONES. THE SAME THING HAPPENED THE NEXT NIGHT. THEY LIGHTED TORCHES BUT FOUND NO ANIMALS. THEY HURLED A STONE AXE INTO THE NOISE CORNER, THEN THEY HEARD A CRY OF AGONY AND FOUND A GREAT BLACK DOG TWITCHING IN THE DEATH THROWS. BECAUSE THE WOMAN HAD MARRIED A DOG-MAN SHE GAVE FORTH A LITTER OF PUPPIES AND SHE KEPT THEM IN A BAG. ONE DAY THE DOGS BECAME CHILDREN AS SOON AS THEY REACHED THE LIGHT.

TWO BOYS AND TWO GIRLS WERE KEPT IN DAYLIGHT WERE KEPT IN DAYLIGHT AND THEY BECAME THE PROGENITORS OF THE THLINGCHADINE. THEY PRIMARILY HAVE AN ADJOINING TRIBE- TATSANOTTINE- WHOSE LANDS EXTEND TO THE COPPERMINE RIVER. THEY PRIMARILY EAT REINDEER. THEY TREAT THEIR WOMEN AND DOGS WITH MORE KINDNESS. THE FATHER LOSES HIS NAME ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD. OTHER TRIBES OF THIS GROUP HAVE THE SAME CUSTOM, BUT THESE PEOPLE CHANGE THE NAME AFTER THE BIRTH OF EVERY CHILD. IN 1900 THEIR POPULATION WAS ABOUT 1000.


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