Editing Slavey (section)

==Name==
===Cree exonym "slave"===
''Slavey'' or just ''Slave'' is a translation of Awokanak,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Slave {{!}} African-American, Abolitionists, Emancipation {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Slave-people |access-date=2023-10-03 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> the name given to ''Dene'' by the [[Cree]] "who sometimes raided and enslaved their less aggressive northern {{sic|neighbors}}".<ref>Waldman, Carl (2006). [https://books.google.com/books?id=WxomdGVLjZ0C&pg=PA275 Facts on File Library of American History - Encyclopedia of Native American tribes]. Infobase Publishing. p. 275. {{ISBN|9781438110103}}.</ref><ref>Pritzker, Barry (2000). [https://books.google.com/books?id=uiCWatRVT0gC&pg=PA512 A Native American encyclopedia : history, culture, and peoples]. Oxford University Press. p. 512. {{ISBN|9780195138979}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/slave-language-reclamation-1.5423252|title=Yellowknife hotel with 'slave' in name stokes conversation on reclaiming Indigenous names}}</ref> The names of the [[Slave River]], [[Lesser Slave River]], [[Great Slave Lake]], and [[Lesser Slave Lake]] all derive from this [[Cree]] name. ''Esclaves'' remains incorporated in the French names of these geographical features, since the French traded with the Cree before the English did. The people now called ''Slavey'' in English were not necessarily taken as slaves in that period.

===Dehcho autonym===
The name Slavey is seldom used by the people themselves, who call themselves ''Dene.'' Indigenous [[ethnonym]]s for South Slavey people and language are ''Dehcho'', '''''Deh Cho Dene''''' ("[[Mackenzie River]] People") or ''[[Dene Tha' First Nation|Dene Tha]]''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Rice, Sally |year=2009 |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/~srice/pubs/TSL_CH06.pdf |contribution=Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions |editor=Newman, J. |title=The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking |pages=109–152 |location=Amsterdam, NL; Philadelphia, PA |publisher=John Benjamins}} Contemporary, indigenous ethnonyms for some of the Athapaskan languages represented in this paper are given in parentheses after the term likely to be more common in the traditional linguistic and anthropological literature: Babine (Witsuwit'en), Chipewyan (Dene Sųłiné), Navajo (Diné), Sarcee / Sarsi (Tsuu T'ina) South Slavey (Dehcho or Dene Tha), North Slave (Sahtu).</ref>

Though most [[Athabaskan languages|Athabaskan]] peoples call themselves ''Dene'', those in the Northwest Territories tend to use it for their particular group specifically. However, the northern Slavey are also known in English as the [[Sahtu|Sahtú]], while the southern band are known as the Deh Cho.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dehcho.org |title=Dehcho First Nation}}</ref>