Answer 2: Dene is a word from your language that means 'the people'. And when they started to talk to Judge Berger, they had always been called Indians, that's called a colonial term. It was imposed on people here in the north by government and by outsiders. As they started to listen to their own stories in a public way, over and over again during the Berger Inquiry, they started to feel more comfortable using their own language and using the word from their own language, which is Dene.

And that's why, I think anyways, why the Dene Nation changed its name from the Indian Brotherhood to Dene because they wanted people to know who they were from their own language rather than from foreign language.