Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Wood Buffalo National Park' has mentioned 'Region' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
---|---|
This region has been inhabited by human cultures since the end of the last ice age. | WIKI |
Aboriginal peoples in this region have followed variations on the subarctic lifeway, based around hunting, fishing, and gathering. | WIKI |
Situated at the junction of three major rivers used as canoe routes for trade: the Athabasca, Peace and Slave rivers, the region that later was defined as the national park was well travelled by indigenous peoples for millennia. | WIKI |
In recorded times, the Dane-zaa (historically called the "Beaver tribe"), the Chipewyan people, the South Slavey (Dene Thaxcaxbc), and Woods Cree people are known to have inhabited the region, where they sometimes competed for resources and trade. | WIKI |
Sometime after 1781, when a smallpox epidemic decimated the region, the Dene and Cree made a peace treaty at Peace Point through a ceremonial pipe ceremony. | WIKI |
This is the origin of the name of the Peace River that flows through the region: the river was used to define a boundary between the Dane-zaa to the North and the Cree to the South. | WIKI |
Explorer Peter Pond is believed to have passed through the region in 1785, likely the first European to do so, followed by Alexander Mackenzie three years later. | WIKI |
The Mxc3xa9tis people, descendants initially of European traders and indigenous women, developed as another major ethnic group in the region. | WIKI |
After nearly another century of domination by the Hudson's Bay Company, Canada purchased the company's claim to the region. | WIKI |
Hunting and trapping remained the dominant industry in this region well into the twentieth century, and are still vital to many of its inhabitants. | WIKI |