Dé-lı̨nę | Deline First Nation
Community Profile
- The Deline First Nation is an Indigenous community located in the Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories, with a rich history of traditional land use, hunting, and cultural preservation.
- Last Updated 2025-04-23 18:40:13 UTC
- Name: Deline First Nation (ISC Code: 754)
- Former Names: Fort Franklin First Nation
- Band Style: Dene First Nation
- Cultural Area: Mackenzie River Valley, Northwest Territories
- Indigenous Language: North Slavey (Sahchu)
- Number of Registered Members: 1133
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 07/27/2026
- CHIEF: Not Applicable
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:5
- GEORGINA DOLPHUS
- RAYMOND TANETON
- JONAS MODESTE
- LEONARD KENNY
- CHRISTOPHER YUKON
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.deline.ca
- PHONE NUMBER: (867) 589-8100
- FAX NUMBER: (867) 589-8101
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 156, DELINE, NT
- EMAILS:
- Councillor GEORGINA DOLPHUS:
- Councillor RAYMOND TANETON:
- Councillor JONAS MODESTE:
- Councillor LEONARD KENNY:
- Councillor CHRISTOPHER YUKON:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band Financial Statements
- 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2004 - Deline First Nation20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Deline First Nation20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Deline First Nation20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Deline First Nation20012002.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 8505
FORT FRANKLIN SETTLEMENT
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- Encompasses region around Great Bear Lake
- Historically nomadic hunting territories
- Includes portions of Sahtu Settlement Area
- Key areas include lands around Deline and Great Bear Lake
- Traditional hunting and fishing grounds crucial to community survival
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Baker Boy headlines a deadly line up of First Nations musical artivists at BLAKTIVISM 2024 concert as part of ALWAYS LIVE
- First Indigenous-led biosphere reserve in the world featured in new Canadian TV series
- Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day throughout the Bow Valley
- Sahtu Got'ine (Bearlake)
- ‘Our Voices Will Be Heard’: BLAKTIVISM Is Back to Celebrate First Nations Music
- Canada’s First UNESCO International Biosphere North of 60
- Guardians of a Vast Lake, and a Refuge for Humanity (Published 2017)
- New initiative to promote cross-cultural artistic collaboration
- These Indigenous women are reshaping Canada’s tourism industry
- Finalists announced for 2024 Indigenous Voices Awards
- Announcing the recipients of the 2023 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards
- Quaker Canada Collaborates on a Breakfast Bar Makeover in Délı̨ne, NWT, the Birthplace of Hockey
- Alicia Elliott, Brandi Bird among 2024 IVA recipients
- Deline, N.W.T., has territory's 1st Indigenous/public self-government
- Three days of celebration start today in Délįnę after passing historic self-government agreement
- The long road to clean power for First Nations communities
- Deline set to launch historic self-government, 20 years in the making
- Baker Boy to Headline BLACKTIVISM: A Night of First Nations Musical Activism
- Indigenous guardians reclaim the land
- Voters head to the polls on self-government deal in Northern Canadian community – Eye on the Arctic
- Kyle Bayha — more to come
- The Songs of Change: music for International Women's Day
- 'We were very fortunate': Deline's negotiation team emerges intact after 20 years
- Deline self-government agrees to mine cleanup plan
- Creator and Jesus: A look into one of the north’s most spiritual communities
- New era underway in Deline as community begins self-government
- First Nations business plans to shake up music industry across the Pacific
- Self-care is focus of art exhibit featuring Indigenous artists at Toronto gallery
- Traplines and 'scat tours': Yukon communities talk cultural tourism
- Self-government primer: guide to Indigenous agreements in the NWT
- Survivors of 5 N.W.T. Indian Residential School can apply for $10K in compensation
- George Blondin: Author wrote about the importance of medicine power
- Sahtu Dene and Métis sign self-governance agreement in principle, a 1st for Métis in Canada
- 'He was a visionary'; former Sahtu chief negotiator and educator George Cleary remembered
- Natives worked unprotected in uranium mine
- Deline Braves finish 3rd in 40th-annual Yukon hockey tournament
- Indigenous Contemporary Music Program opens
- Documentary chronicles how Canada’s role in the atomic bomb affected an indigenous community
- Headlined by Baker Boy, BLAKTIVISM brings First Nations icons together for a night of art and song
- Yothu Yindi and Deline Briscoe on ‘Blak beauty, Blak voices’ and BLAKTIVISM
- Kaiit, Birdz and Fred Leone added to BLAKTIVISM lineup
- Deline, N.W.T., close to self-government
- Deline leader to receive U of A's 'highest honour'
- 'Beside myself': Yellowknife woman wins $55 million Lotto Max jackpot
- Free concert: a musical celebration
- $6K to $166K: N.W.T. chiefs salaries vary widely
- Sacred Water Circle growing
- King Stingray to headline BLAKTIVISM concert as part of ALWAYS LIVE
- Nunavut meetings could seal the fate of Canada's barrenground caribou
- First Nations Arts and Culture Awards 2025
- Canada’s Uranium Highway: Victims and Perpetrators
- Deline Indigenous gov excluded from meeting with new MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories
- «Northerners’ dreams are dying,» says premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories as he issues «red alert»
- Northern entrepreneurship program focuses on Indigenous languages
- The truth behind the boy in the picture
- $25M for Gwich'in homes, infrastructure 'just a start', says grand chief
- Colonial history in action: Aurora College adult teaching students take part in blanket exercise
- 'Beside myself': Yellowknife woman wins $55 million Lotto Max jackpot
- ‘Significant step towards reconciliation:’ N.W.T. introduces bill to implement UNDRIP
- Natural Resource Canada funds 11 bioenergy projects
- Dene Nation (organization)
- Creating an economy in a small northern town: Spotlight Deline – Eye on the Arctic
- Traditional stories and songlines reimagined with a jazz and classical fusion on Palm Island
- Child protection must include First Nations: Paulina Roche
- Deline voters head to the polls on self-government deal
- First Nations creatives to headline at Vivid Sydney
- Yukon Native Hockey Tournament cancelled due to COVID for third straight year
- It sounds like family: 10 years of Black Arm Band
- 'The birthplace of hockey:' Hockey Night in Canada to feature Délı̨nę, N.W.T.
- 'We'll speak for the lake': Deline celebrates UNESCO biosphere reserve designation
- Pacific and First Nations Takeover at LIVE AT THE BOWL
- Our Bubu: Protecting the Daintree
- After 30-year quest, music anthropologist puts Deline songs on paper
- TABLE 1 . Comparison of traditional and scientific knowledge styles...
- From the CBC archives: 'Deline and the bomb'
- Creating an economy in the North: Can tourism save this town? – Eye on the Arctic
- Pride Parade grand marshal presents Indigenous fine art exhibit
- Project Moose Hide teaches Deline youth traditional skills
- Pacific Islander and First Nations artists are taking over Live at the Bowl next month
- Haisla revitalization with bison burgers on the side, and the Hill comes alive with the sound of SOCAN
- King Stingray to headline BLAKTIVISM concert as part of ALWAYS LIVE
- 3 days of celebration start today in Délįnę after passing historic self-government agreement
- After COVID hiatus, 2022 Dene National Assembly provides attendees a chance to reconnect
- BLEACH* Festival presents First Light
- The 2022 Telstra NATSIAAs, and a farewell to Uncle Archie Roach
- Wawu means spirit
- ‘Significant step towards reconciliation:’ N.W.T. introduces bill to implement UNDRIP
- 'Honorary Chief for Life': Bill Erasmus celebrated at Dene meeting
- How history continues to impact Canada’s First Nations, interview with Walter Bayha – Indigenous, the Other Story
- DOBBY, Emily Wurramara, Kee'ahn, DRMNGNOW and more feature on song honouring the late Cassius Turvey
- Sahtu Dene buy Norman Wells, N.W.T., hotel
- Bluenose-East caribou hunt tags divided among First Nations, Métis
- Alberta's Beaver Hills, Great Bear Lake in N.W.T., join UNESCO biosphere network
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Indigenous Digital Technologies. The Taicho and Yelloknives Dene's Web-Site and Cultural Online Archives
- What the border divides: settler geographies and the making of the Northwest Territories
- … THEM 'OUT': EURO‐CANADIAN CARTOGRAPHY AND THE APPROPRIATION OF THE NUXALK AND TS'ILHQOT 'IN FIRST NATIONS'TERRITORIES, 1793–1916
- MINING DENENDEH: A DENE NATION PERSPECTIVE ON COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPACTS OF MINING.
- The nutritional health of the First Nations and Métis of the Northwest Territories: A review of current knowledge and gaps
- Debwewin journey: A methodology and model of knowing
- Putting the 'Last-Mile'First: Re-framing Broadband Development in First Nations and Inuit Communities December 2010 This report is based on a study …
- Constitutional law from a First Nation perspective: Self-government and the royal proclamation
- From Dene Kedǝ to Dene Ts' ı̨lı̨
- A study in institution building for dene governance in the Canadian north: a history of the development of the dene national office
- Towards a Culturally-Sustainable Indigenous Tourism Model: The Destination Deline Pilot Project
- Indigenous Peoples of Northwest of Territories
Expert Analysis