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Vollowkiiifo, the lattei’ meted out the same treatment to the unoffend- 
inf>’ Slave, ])oj>rib, and Hare. The Dogrib massacred some of them 
towards the end of the eighteenth centuryd but the check was short- 
lived, for in 1789 Mackenzie and his co-traders met some Yellowknife 
Indians north of Great Slave lake within the territories of the Dogrib 
and Slave, and from 1800 onward a banrl that hunted north of Great 
Hear lake aufl trarled at Old Fort Franklin was carrying off wa)men 
from Slave, Dogrib. and Hare.- In 1823 the Dogril) turned again, 
and this time crushed the Yellowknife completely.’* The remnant 
then retreated to tlie northeast corner of Great Slave lake and amal- 
gamated witli the Chipewyan.* To-day they trade at Resolution, 
but they number only about 150, and have so far lost their former 
pride and independence that they prefer to be included among the 
Ghipewyan. Mooney estimates their original population at 430.’’* 
SLAVPl 
If we may trust Mackenzie’s account, the Slave*’ Indians were 
neighbour’s of the Heaver in the early eighteenth centur’y, inhabiting 
Athabaska lake, Slave river, and the western half of Great Slave 
lake. When the Gree invaded this region they retr-eated clown the 
Mackenzie river, and at the end of the century occupied a broad 
stretch of country })ehind both banks of that river from its outlet 
at Gi’eat Slave lake to Norman, the basin of the lower Liard and 
the west end of Great Slave lake. They had the reputation of being 
a jieaceable, inoffensive peojile, although they treacherously massacred 
many Nahani Indiatts of the upper Liard and drove the I'ernainder 
into the mountains, then, a little later, destroyed a tr’ading post at 
Fort Nelson. Surrounding tribes seldom ventured to attack them, 
attributing to them gi’eat skill in witchcraft. 
Unlike the (diipewyan, the Slave never ventured out on the 
barren grounds, but dung to the forests and the river banks, hunting 
the woodland caribou and the moose. They organized no communal 
drives and built no pounds, since the woodland caribou and the moose 
Ulcni'ne: Op. cit,, ji, 2(10. 
2 Kfith, til .Ma.ssoii; Op. cit.. mt. ii, p. 106 f. 
3 Rack: Oii, cit., p. 4.57 f ; Kiclianlstiti : Op. cit,. Vdl. ii, ]>. 14 t. 
■* One or two fniuilics .scon to litivc I'ouikI rclUcii' with llic Hare. Cf. I’laiiklin, .^ic .Iiphn: “ Xnt- 
rativp of the Second Ex]iC(lilioii to the .'shore.s of the Polar Sea, in the Ycais 1S25-26-27,” p. 64 
(London, 1828). 
3j\li)oncy; Op. cit., ji. 26. 
•' 'I'his name, otien inndifii'd to .Sln\'i'.v, t.o\'cn to tlicni oiii of contcrii|it liy the Cree. 
