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Stewardship
Things that people do to help a spe-
cies stay healthy or help it recover.
Examples: teaching people good
hunting practices to reduce wound-
ing animals, or posting signs asking
people to avoid trampling a Whoop-
ing Crane nesting area.
dahsį
́
į godí hek’ǝ́
ts’edí (S,
D) t’ahsı̨
gódı, gúdı gha
bek’ǝ́
ts’ǝ́
dı (KG)
Taking care of living
things; acting as stew-
ards.
Taking care of living
things to keep them
living.
Threatened
Status of a species that might be
gone from the NWT in our chil-
dren’s lifetimes.
łǝ́
lak’óonǫ xae kúhyǝ wı́
le
ade gha sǫ
́
ǫnı̨
(S, D)
lı́
la horeno xaı egúhyǝ́
behúle ragudı (KG)
Might disappear within
100 years.
Threats (risk
factors)
Things that could decrease the
numbers of a species. Example:
pesticide use in the 1960s caused
problems with the eggs of Pere-
grine Falcons. It was a threat to
Peregrine Falcons.
ası́
̨
ı̨
t’a gogha horı́
la (S, D)
yerı ghare beghǫ Ɂagudǝdı
(KG)
What is giving them a
hard time; what is put-
ting them at risk.
Traditional
Knowledge
Knowledge held by Aboriginal
people that has been passed down
through the generations
denewa hǝ́
(S, D)
neh k’e dene ts’ı̨
lı̨
ghare
yerı hots’enıhshǫ (KG)
Dene knowledge.
Dene knowledge from
living on the land.
Tree(s)
dechı̨
(S, D)
deshı̨
(KG)
Any tree.
Wolverine
nǫ
́
gha (S, D, KG)
Wolverine.
Woodland
Caribou
(boreal
population)
tǫdzı (S, D, KG)
Boreal forest woodland
caribou.
Woodland
Caribou
(northern
mountain
population)
shúhta ɂepę
́
(S)
shúhta ɂekwé
̨
(D)
shúhta ɂedǝ́
(KG)
Mountain woodland
caribou.
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