Chipewyan

The Chipewyan (Denésoliné or Dënesųłiné – "People of the barrens") are an aboriginal Dene people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group, whose ancestors were the peoples who left the archaeological traces of the Taltheilei Shale Tradition. They are part of the Northern Athabascan group of peoples. They were located generally in Western Canada.