The Sahtú peoples live in Colville Lake, Deline, Fort Good Hope, Norman Wells and Tulita which form the Sahtu Region of the NWT.

The K’ahsho Got’ine (Hare(skin) Dene) are now centred in Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake.

The Sahtú Dene were hired to transport the ore containing radium from the Northwest Territories to be processed in Ontario or the United States.

Since much of the uranium that existed in Europe was under Nazi control, the radium deposits in Canada were vital to the creation of the first atomic bombs.

The level of exposure to uranium ore without modern safety standards is expected to cause a small number of excess cancer deaths.