In Indigenous Americans groups, R-M173 is the most common haplogroup after the various Q-M242, especially in North America in Ojibwe people at 79%, Chipewyan 62%, Seminole 50%, Cherokee 47%, Dogrib 40% and Papago 38%.
It is most certain however that in 1789, Alexander Mackenzie initiated a period of trade with the Yellowknives Dene and Dogrib Dene and instructed his assistant, Mr. Leroux, to start a trading post at this location.
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Explorer Samuel Hearne was the first to encounter Dogrib-speaking people while crossing the barren lands north of Great Slave Lake in 1772.
The government of the Northwest Territories then adopted an Official Languages Act in the same year that recognized eight official provincial languages, Inuktitut (which includes Inuvialuktun and Inuinnaqtun), Awokanak or Slavey, Dogrib, Chipewyan, Cree, Gwichʼin, English and French.
Lurie’s research specialties are ethnohistory, action anthropology and museology; her areal focus is on North American Indians, especially the Ho-Chunk (aka Winnebago) and the Dogrib (Taicho) of the Canadian NWT; and the comparative study of territorial minorities.