Editing Slavey (section)

===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.