Dé-lı̨nę | Deline First Nation

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.

POPULATION

1,138

Rank #292 nationally

GEOGRAPHY

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Rank #587 nationally

BAND COUNCIL TERM

07/27/2026

Term Expiration

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Community Profile

Overview

Last Updated 2025-06-18 11:37:11 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

1138

Band Website

http://www.deline.ca

Phone Number

(867) 589-8100

Fax Number

(867) 589-8101

Address

PO BOX 156, DELINE, NT

General Email

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Band Council

Governance Type

Not Applicable

Chief

Not Applicable

Term Expires

07/27/2026

Number of Council Members

GEORGINA DOLPHUS

Councillor

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RAYMOND TANETON

Councillor

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JONAS MODESTE

Councillor

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LEONARD KENNY

Councillor

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CHRISTOPHER YUKON

Councillor

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Administrative Contacts

Financial Overview

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Band Financial Statements

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Band Council Remuneration

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Band Owned Corporations

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Laws, Bylaws, and Codes

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Intergovernmental Agreements

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Active Court Cases

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Location Map

Reserves

ISC Code: 8505
FORT FRANKLIN SETTLEMENT
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Media Reports

Ociciwan supporting Indigenous emerging artists with exhibition

BLAKTIVISM returns: Yothu Yindi leads lineup of living legends responding to Black Lives Matter through music

Yellowknife hockey fans delight in NHL charity game

The power of music sustaining Indigenous languages

Indigenous artists have united to create a moving song in memory of the late Cassius Turvey - ABC listen

Tłegǫ́hłı̨ Got'įnę in Norman Wells, N.W.T. nears self-government

Announcing the recipients of the 2023 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards

Sahtu elders asking communities to hold fire feeding ceremony on New Year's Day

First Nations and Pacific Islander artists set for new Sidney Myer Music Bowl events

N.W.T. MLAs 'dishonoured' relationship by excluding Deline from meeting

Bill Erasmus re-elected Dene National Chief at Deline assembly

Délın̨ę set to inaugurate historic self-government in the Northwest Territories

Wawu means spirit

The 2022 Telstra NATSIAAs, and a farewell to Uncle Archie Roach

BLEACH* Festival presents First Light

After COVID hiatus, 2022 Dene National Assembly provides attendees a chance to reconnect

Alberta's Beaver Hills, Great Bear Lake in N.W.T., join UNESCO biosphere network

Bluenose-East caribou hunt tags divided among First Nations, Métis

Sahtu Dene buy Norman Wells, N.W.T., hotel

DOBBY, Emily Wurramara, Kee'ahn, DRMNGNOW and more feature on song honouring the late Cassius Turvey

How history continues to impact Canada’s First Nations, interview with Walter Bayha – Indigenous, the Other Story

'Honorary Chief for Life': Bill Erasmus celebrated at Dene meeting

‘Significant step towards reconciliation:’ N.W.T. introduces bill to implement UNDRIP

3 days of celebration start today in Délįnę after passing historic self-government agreement

King Stingray to headline BLAKTIVISM concert as part of ALWAYS LIVE

Haisla revitalization with bison burgers on the side, and the Hill comes alive with the sound of SOCAN

Pacific Islander and First Nations artists are taking over Live at the Bowl next month

Project Moose Hide teaches Deline youth traditional skills

Pride Parade grand marshal presents Indigenous fine art exhibit

Creating an economy in the North: Can tourism save this town? – Eye on the Arctic

From the CBC archives: 'Deline and the bomb'

TABLE 1 . Comparison of traditional and scientific knowledge styles...

After 30-year quest, music anthropologist puts Deline songs on paper

Our Bubu: Protecting the Daintree

Pacific and First Nations Takeover at LIVE AT THE BOWL

'We'll speak for the lake': Deline celebrates UNESCO biosphere reserve designation

'The birthplace of hockey:' Hockey Night in Canada to feature Délı̨nę, N.W.T.

It sounds like family: 10 years of Black Arm Band

Yukon Native Hockey Tournament cancelled due to COVID for third straight year

First Nations creatives to headline at Vivid Sydney

Deline voters head to the polls on self-government deal

Child protection must include First Nations: Paulina Roche

Traditional stories and songlines reimagined with a jazz and classical fusion on Palm Island

Creating an economy in a small northern town: Spotlight Deline – Eye on the Arctic

Dene Nation (organization)

Natural Resource Canada funds 11 bioenergy projects

‘Significant step towards reconciliation:’ N.W.T. introduces bill to implement UNDRIP

'Beside myself': Yellowknife woman wins $55 million Lotto Max jackpot

Colonial history in action: Aurora College adult teaching students take part in blanket exercise

$25M for Gwich'in homes, infrastructure 'just a start', says grand chief

The truth behind the boy in the picture

Northern entrepreneurship program focuses on Indigenous languages

«Northerners’ dreams are dying,» says premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories as he issues «red alert»

Deline Indigenous gov excluded from meeting with new MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Canada’s Uranium Highway: Victims and Perpetrators

First Nations Arts and Culture Awards 2025

Nunavut meetings could seal the fate of Canada's barrenground caribou

Free concert: a musical celebration

Kaiit, Birdz and Fred Leone added to BLAKTIVISM lineup

'Beside myself': Yellowknife woman wins $55 million Lotto Max jackpot

King Stingray to headline BLAKTIVISM concert as part of ALWAYS LIVE

Sacred Water Circle growing

Yothu Yindi and Deline Briscoe on ‘Blak beauty, Blak voices’ and BLAKTIVISM

Headlined by Baker Boy, BLAKTIVISM brings First Nations icons together for a night of art and song

$6K to $166K: N.W.T. chiefs salaries vary widely

Indigenous Contemporary Music Program opens

Deline Braves finish 3rd in 40th-annual Yukon hockey tournament

Deline leader to receive U of A's 'highest honour'

Deline, N.W.T., close to self-government

Natives worked unprotected in uranium mine

Survivors of 5 N.W.T. Indian Residential School can apply for $10K in compensation

'He was a visionary'; former Sahtu chief negotiator and educator George Cleary remembered

Documentary chronicles how Canada’s role in the atomic bomb affected an indigenous community

Sahtu Dene and Métis sign self-governance agreement in principle, a 1st for Métis in Canada

Self-government primer: guide to Indigenous agreements in the NWT

George Blondin: Author wrote about the importance of medicine power

Voters head to the polls on self-government deal in Northern Canadian community – Eye on the Arctic

Creator and Jesus: A look into one of the north’s most spiritual communities

Deline self-government agrees to mine cleanup plan

Traplines and 'scat tours': Yukon communities talk cultural tourism

Self-care is focus of art exhibit featuring Indigenous artists at Toronto gallery

'We were very fortunate': Deline's negotiation team emerges intact after 20 years

Indigenous guardians reclaim the land

First Nations business plans to shake up music industry across the Pacific

The Songs of Change: music for International Women's Day

New era underway in Deline as community begins self-government

Baker Boy to Headline BLACKTIVISM: A Night of First Nations Musical Activism

Deline set to launch historic self-government, 20 years in the making

Kyle Bayha — more to come

The long road to clean power for First Nations communities

Quaker Canada Collaborates on a Breakfast Bar Makeover in Délı̨ne, NWT, the Birthplace of Hockey

Three days of celebration start today in Délįnę after passing historic self-government agreement

Announcing the recipients of the 2023 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards

Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day throughout the Bow Valley

Guardians of a Vast Lake, and a Refuge for Humanity (Published 2017)

First Indigenous-led biosphere reserve in the world featured in new Canadian TV series

Canada’s First UNESCO International Biosphere North of 60

Finalists announced for 2024 Indigenous Voices Awards

‘Our Voices Will Be Heard’: BLAKTIVISM Is Back to Celebrate First Nations Music

Deline, N.W.T., has territory's 1st Indigenous/public self-government

These Indigenous women are reshaping Canada’s tourism industry

Sahtu Got'ine (Bearlake)

Baker Boy headlines a deadly line up of First Nations musical artivists at BLAKTIVISM 2024 concert as part of ALWAYS LIVE

New initiative to promote cross-cultural artistic collaboration

Alicia Elliott, Brandi Bird among 2024 IVA recipients

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

Band Publications

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Third Party Reports

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