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on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, approximately 400 km (250 mi) south of the
Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife
River. Yellowknife and its surrounding water bodies were named after the local
Yellowknives Dene First Nation, who made tools from regional copper deposits. The
current population is ethnically mixed. Of the eleven official languages of the
Northwest Territories, five are spoken in significant numbers in Yellowknife: Dene
Suline, Dogrib, South and North Slavey, English, and French. In the Dogrib language,
the city is known as Somba K'e ("where the money is").
Yellowknife was first settled in 1935, after gold had been found in the area;
Yellowknife soon became the centre of economic activity in the NWT, and became
the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967. As gold production began to wane,
Yellowknife shifted from being a mining town to being a centre of government
services in the 1980s
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