Tsiigehtchic

Tsiigehtchic (/ˈtsiːɡɛtʃɪk/ TSEE-getch-ik; "mouth of the iron river"), officially the Hamlet of Tsiigehtchic,[3] is a Gwich'in community located at the confluence of the Mackenzie and the Arctic Red Rivers, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

However, only 5 people said that an Indigenous language (Gwich’in) was their mother tongue.

The ferry stops at Tsiigehtchic, on the eastern bank of the Arctic Red River, and on the southwestern and northeastern banks of the Mackenzie River, connecting the two legs of the Dempster Highway.

In early September 2007, near Tsiigehtchic, local resident Shane Van Loon discovered a carcass of a steppe bison, which was radiocarbon dated to c. 13,650 cal BP.

[17] This carcass appears to represent the first Pleistocene mummified soft tissue remains from the glaciated regions of northern Canada.

Tsiigehtchic from the Dempster Highway , looking towards Inuvik
Large letters spelling out "Tsiigehtchic," visible from the Dempster Highway.