thaidene-nene

Thaidene Nene

Thaidene Nene (the Land of the Ancestors) is a proposed protected area of approximately 33,500 km2 around and beyond the shores of the East Arm of Great Slave Lake. This area has been the homeland and sacred place of the Lutsel K’e Denesuline for thousands of years, and it is an ecologically-significant cultural landscape with rich wildlife populations and unique geography.