Akaitcho First Nations to form working group to decide new name for Great Slave Lake – CBC
Dec 02, 2025
First Nations have long wanted to drop the N.W.T. lake’s ‘colonial name’
Akaitcho First Nations in the N.W.T. have decided to work together toward the renaming of Great Slave Lake.
Last week, at this year’s annual general assembly of the Akaitcho Territory Government, which was held in Fort Resolution, they decided to create a working group to select a new name that the Łutsel K’e Dene First Nation, the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation and the Yellowknives Dene First Nation can agree on.
“The name Great Slave Lake, it doesn’t sit well with our traditional name,” said Ndilǫ Chief Fred Sangris of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. “It’s a colonial name.”
